### CHANGES ### --- version 16.1 ---
- in Edit menu, added New Page entry, renamed New entry to New Viewer - allowed page deletion through drop and drop from page tab into eraser, only if page is empty or if it is the last remaining page - when a new page is created, automatically open its tab label for editing, and display a short help text in message area - in preferences dialog box, added canvas pages section where use can choose if pages tabs are positioned on the top side or on the bottom side - viewers circulation using Tab and Shift-Tab keystrokes is now scoped to current page - when editing a page tab label, initially select all characters in entry ### README ### This is moodss (Modular Object Oriented Dynamic SpreadSheet) version 16.1. Moodss won in the Best System Admin Technology category (Tcl Tips and Tricks, Valuable Real World Programming Examples) at the O'Reilly Tcl/Tk 1999 Conference. Linux Magazine calls it a "lifesaver". Tucows gives it 5 stars (cows or penguins :-). Moodss is a modular application. It displays data described and updated in one or more modules, which can be specified in the command line or dynamically loaded or unloaded while the application is running. Data is originally displayed in tables. Graphical viewers (graph, bar, 3D pie charts, ...), summary tables (with current, average, minimum and maximum values) and free text viewers can be created from any number of table cells, originating from any of the displayed viewers. The display area can be extended by adding pages with notebook tabs. Thresholds can be set on any number of cells. Moomps (shipped with moodss) is a monitoring daemon which works using configuration files created by moodss. Thresholds, when crossed, create messages in the system log, and eventually trigger the sending of email alert messages. Specific modules can easily be developed in the Tcl, Perl and Python scripting languages or in C. A thorough and intuitive drag'n'drop scheme is used for most viewer editing tasks: creation, modification, type mutation, destruction, ... and thresholds creation. Table rows can be sorted in increasing or decreasing order by clicking on column titles. The current configuration (modules, tables and viewers geometry, ...) can be saved in a file at any time, and later loaded at the user's convenience, thus achieving a dashboard functionality. The module code is the link between the moodss core and the data to be displayed. All the specific code is kept in the module package. Since module data access is entirely customizable (through C code, Tcl, Perl, Python, HTTP, ...) and since several modules can be loaded at once, applications for moodss become limitless. For example, thoroughly monitor a dynamic web server on a single dashboard with graphs, using the Apache, MySQL, ODBC, cpustats, memstats, ... modules. If you have replicated servers, dynamically add them to your view, even load the snmp module on the fly and let your imagination take over... Along with a core trace module, arp, cpustats, diskstats, interrupts, kernmods, memstats, minimal, mounts, netdev, pci, ps, random, route, sensors, system modules for Linux, MySQL (myerrorlog, myhealth, myprocs, myquery, myreplication, mystatus, myvars), odbcquery, ping, snmp, snmptrap for UNIX, apache and apachex, Minimal and Random Perl modules, minipy and randpy Python modules are included. Running "wish moodss ps cpustats memstats" mimics the "top" application with a graphic edge and remote monitoring capability. Thorough help is provided through menus, widget tips, a message area, a module help window and a global help window with a complete HTML documentation. Moodss is multi-langual thanks to Tcl internationalization capabilities. So far only English and partially French are supported. Help with other languages will be very warmly welcomed. Development of moodss is continuing and as more features are added in future versions, backward module code compatibility will be maintained. I cannot thank the authors of the tkTable, BLT, MIME/SMTP and the HTML libraries enough for their great work. In order to run moodss, you need to install the following packages (unless you can use the rpm utility, see below): Tcl/Tk 8.3.1 or above, at (or at a mirror near you) http://dev.scriptics.com/ or ftp://ftp.scriptics.com/ the latest tkTable widget library at: http://tktable.sourceforge.net/ the latest BLT library at: ftp://tcltk.sourceforge.net/pub/tcltk/blt/ eventually the latest tclperl library for writing modules in Perl, or the latest tclpython library for writing modules in Python at: http://jfontain.free.fr/ (see the INSTALL file for complete instructions, for UNIX and also Windows platforms). You also have the option of using the moodss rpm file (also in my homepage), if you are using a Redhat Linux system (6.0 or above). You can find the required tcl, tk, tktable, blt, tcpperl and other rpms at: http://jfontain.free.fr/ Whether you like it (or hate it), please let me know. I would like to hear about bugs and improvements you would like to see. I will correct the bugs quickly, especially if you send me a test script (module code with a data trace would be best). ### you may find it now at my homepage: http://jfontain.free.fr/moodss-16.1.tar.bz2 http://jfontain.free.fr/moodss-16.1.zip http://jfontain.free.fr/moodss-16.1-1.i386.rpm http://jfontain.free.fr/moomps-1.4.1-1.i386.rpm http://jfontain.free.fr/moodss-16.1-1.spec Enjoy and please let me know what you think. -- Jean-Luc Fontaine mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jfontain.free.fr/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <mysql-unsubscribe-##L=##[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
