Memories of rtorrent Google Desktop Widget

    imageI came across a couple of topics about torrent rocking and all kinds of remote control thereof ... And I suddenly remembered that about a year ago I had a short period of interest in widgets for Google Desktop. At the peak of this hobby, I wrote a small proof of concept: a widget for remote (via xmlrpc ) rtorrent control , which I had on an old typewriter. Now the fascination with widgets somehow passed, the old machine burned out, and I sowed the source code somewhere ... There was only a screenshot, like an old photo.

    Implementation details from my mind also almost all flew out ...

    I remember that I did everything in pure JavaScript and lamented that the Google users chose this language (and not Lua ^^ ') as the script for GD.

    I remember that I again paid a lot of attention to “RPC transparency” and threw (or tried to juggle?) JavaScript a small ( meta- ) framework that would translate method calls / read and write fields into the corresponding method call via XMLRPC.

    I remember that JavaScript and the Google Desktop Widget API seemed convenient enough to me.

    That's actually all the memories, so I won’t be able to write a big post ... But if someone is interested in this topic, I will try to find the source.

    Damn, where did the sorts go ...

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