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Some more statusboard work

(posted at 2009-07-20 23:11:34 UTC)

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Now I've actually bothered to write a (QXmlStreamReader-based) XML parser for StatusBoard, it's switched to an XML configuration file. Unfortunately, I've not yet updated the documentation, but it's got a few new features:

• Separation of tests from display units
• User-defined layout (within a grid)
• User-defined commands for rendering

To clarify the latter: StatusBoard can now take any input file, do some variable substitutions, call a command to turn it into a picture, and display the picture. For an example, the following contrived example uses dot (from graphviz) to make a graph; this would be more useful/shiny with a larger and more realistic network graph - I might put up a screenshot of it on our work network tomorrow.

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