where is siteping?

Published on December 13, 2005 By peterd In DesktopX

Hi

I'm looking for a widget or object called siteping that apparently pings an ip address and displays the response time. Apparently it comes with desktopx, but i can't find it in my installation.

Anyone have a link or copy?

TIA
Peter

Comments

rabidrobot

on Dec 13, 2005

Hmm. I don't know the exact widget you're thinking of. But if that's all you need it to do, you can make it easily.

Create a text file named myping.cmd:

@echo.

@color 07

@netstat -n

@echo.

@ping http://www.yahoo.com

@pause

Create a New DesktopX object. Change the Object Type to Shortcut from the General panel. Set the target as a myping.cmd --you can change the ping target in the text file.

peterd

on Dec 14, 2005

Thanx for the reply, but that's not what i was looking for

There WAS an widget/object that would ping an address and return the response time to the ping, in a graphical format. There are reviews of desktopx on the internet that even mention this object, but i can't find it. It's even mentioned in the online documentation https://www.stardock.com/products/desktopx/documentation/Tutorials/WMITut.html

Anyone?

Bichur

on Dec 14, 2005

i remember something like that, just can't find it.

_Martin_

on Dec 15, 2005

Not got DesktopX to hand, but the following script should do this for a text object:

Sub Object_OnScriptEnter
Object.SetTimer 1,10000 ' Ping every 10 seconds
End Sub

Sub Object_OnTimer1
Object.Text = "Ping is: " & System.Ping("www.wincustomize.com") ' Change URL as appropriate
End Sub

peterd

on Dec 26, 2005

Thanks, i'll give it a try

aimzzz

on Jan 10, 2006

If you still are looking for a litle pinger that shows Reply time in msec, here is an Object Dock docklet:

Pinglet http://www.dockex.com/?pageId=docklets#details

Requires SysStats, which can be downloaded from the same site

You have to change the IP address in the script-- the default doesn't appear to work...

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