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notification of server status via tray icon? Dev info needed

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I was bored, so I've written a little tool that sits in the system tray and displays the server status. Green = up, red = down, gray = unknown. The tool gets its information by polling the http://www.startrekonline.com/support site every 30 seconds.

It's useful to those people who don't want to keep refreshing their browser or are doing something entirely non browser related while waiting for the STO servers to come up.

But before I post the sourcecode, I'd like to know from a Dev if it's okay with them for a third party app to poll their website periodically, and if it's also okay if the sourcecode was made public.

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Some head@wall kind of typo fixed
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    I was bored, so I've written a little tool stat sits in the system tray and displays the server status. Green = up, red = down, gray = unknown. The tool gets its information by polling the http://www.startrekonline.com/support site every 30 seconds.

    It's useful to those people who don't want to keep refreshing their browser or are doing something entirely non browser related while waiting for the STO servers to come up.

    But before I post the sourcecode, I'd like to know from a Dev if it's okay with them for a third party app to poll their website periodically, and if it's also okay if the sourcecode was made public.

    im sure yu mean well maybe contact support directly and find out if they could implement it some how into the download however unless cryptic looks it over and officially ok's it i would say i wouldnt download it just incase its a keylogger. like i said im sure your intentions are good but i'd rather be safe than sorry.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    It's 54 lines of pretty easily readable stuff, but I too want to be on the safe side. So without official word, I won't post a single bit.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Bump.
    /10char
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    please dev reply
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