About HockeyFan 3.0

This sort of started out as an experiment with creating preferences on the fly, and turned out to be a rather good method for storing and showing jerseys from the database (for those people who like to have a lot of them to choose from). It's more convenient then JerseyCal and lets you exceed 31 and easily add and remove jerseys.

To explain things, on a simple level, all you do is enter the ID from the database of the jersey you want to add then hit the blue arrow button. If the jersey exists then it is shown semi-transparent in full size. (If not a white jersey with a question mark appears.) If you want to store and show the widget you simply hit the green plus button to have it added to your icon collection. If succesful the background will turn from black to white and the jersey will no longer be semi-transparent.

To show or remove jerseys simply click on an icon and select either "Delete" or "Display" from the menu that appears. In Dashboard the widget will flip to reveal the jersey, in Yahoo! Widgets everything but the jersey will slide out of view. To return to the main side simply click the arrow that appears when you mouse over the jersey.

Both widgets will check to see if you already have a jersey amongst your icons and insure that you don't get duplicates, if you enter an ID that already exists amongs them nothing will happen.

The Yahoo! Widgets version is built using an SQLite database (which is a godsend for things like this and recently became available in v4.0 of the engine). This means that your info is stored within the widget itself, which is why 2 icons appear when you first start the widget as an example (these you can delete...). You can actually transfer the widget between computer and even operating systems and all your icons will remain intact. It's a pretty nifty thing, and offers a lot of possibilites.

The dock in Yahoo! will take the form of the current jersey/last jersey you displayed when the widget is active. It differs from JerseyCal in that it has a keyhole appearance. This way you can tell the difference easily...

Both widgets actually record the number of times you have shown a jersey, not that this information is of any importance to anyone, but it was an interesting little tid bit to include. If anyone breaks a thousand I want screen shots...

Both the Yahoo! and the Dashboard version are available for downloading here:HockeyFan 3.0 Page,

Please let me know if you are experiencing any problems with this widget at all by using the comments section here, or by contacting me using the contact form located via the link in the menu at the top of the screen.

HockeyFan 3.0 Dashboard Beta

This was long long overdue, but I finally got the time to update HockeyFan. Essentially it works in the same principle as the old version, you simply time in any ID from the database (no 4 digit restrictions...) and you'll get a full size preview of the jersey. Clicking on the green plus button will put an icon of that jersey onto the widget. You can save as many as you want.

Whenever you want to view a particular jersey (or delete it from the widget) just click on the icon and up will come a menu allowing you to do either action. This is a fairly simple widget, which is sort of the point, it doesn't include any searching or top lists. It's mainly a way to just keep a bunch of your favorite players around for easy access. (Say, the entire line up of the current Flyers team...)

I can't with any certainty say that there aren't any bugs in this widget. I haven't had a lot of time to test it yet, but I figured I'd put it up for downloading and maybe some people could let me know if they find any strange behaviors.

The final release version is now available here: HockeyFan 3.0 Widget Page.

Please note that this is the Dashboard version, the Yahoo! version will be available soon...