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iStat Pro replacement?

here is the improved version of the icon zepman posted earlier for those who want to update it (i removed the excess white around the edges and included a frame!! like most other widgets have).

edit: its still a bit larger than the other widget icons if anyone knows the correct dimensions please share them and ill fix this one. thanks.
 

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I bought iStat Menus before I found out about this fix but I'd still buy it again. Combining it with Bartender means not having to worry about your menubar getting cluttered.
 
My iStat Pro started acting weird yesterday. I have 2 internet connections that I use, 1 coming into my Mac, 1 leaving my Mac for my other devices (via internet sharing). For months, iStat Pro displayed both connections with their various speeds, IP addresses, etc. Last night, it just stopped one of them. Now it's only showing wifi instead of wifi and ethernet. No clue as to why, my iOS devices were getting internet just fine, my Airport Express was working perfectly. Very weird.
 
Puonti said:
That's not what fingerman was talking about. I had iStat Pro widget installed in my dashboard since who knows when, but when I looked at my /Library/Widgets folder where all the default widgets are, that's all it contained - default widgets. I had no idea where the package for iStat Pro widget was on my HDD. Spotlight couldn't find it. This was fingerman's dilemma, too.
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Yes, that *is* what fingerman was talking about.

OS X has three "library" folders.

-One is on the root level of your hard drive.

-One is inside the System folder.

-And the last one, the one where your user-specific files are, are inside Users/yourusername. However, starting with Lion, this folder is hidden by default. There are many ways to unhide it (temporarily or permanently.) You can Google for those. This is where your personally installed Widgets would be.
 
THX Buduls

Originally Posted by Buduls
Change "PID|$1" to "PID| $1" (Add space before $ sign)
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Works like a charm! :cool:
I didn't re-install the widget, but used the 'killall Dock' command in Terminal like 'kbmb' (few posts down) suggested

Great post & THX! :apple:
 
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Thanks for fix on the processes, it works fine now.

There's also a problem with showing the icons for disks other than the Macintosh HD and Recovery HD. Instead it shows just a question mark. Does anybody know of a fix for this?
 

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I have multiple drives and their (custom) icons are all showing up fine for me in the iStat Pro widget. No question marks. I did turn off display of the "Recovery HD" though, no need to see it...
 
kbmb said:
Ok, so after taking a look....it seems that for some reason, the background images used in the Tall bars for showing disk usage where positioned starting in the center, and wrapping around. This is what was causing the bars to look like they were doubled.

No idea why it started happening, but here's a solution to the CSS file to fix it. Not sure if some ML update will change this in the future, so use at your own risk. I'll repeat Budlus's instructions for finding the file:

1. Locate your widget, it will be under /Library/Widgets or ~/Library/Widgets
2. Right click it and select: "Show Package Contents"
3. Open core.css in some editor

4. Locate the block (for me it's starting on line 7) and add the following line in RED.

Code: 
.verticalbarbg {
	background-image:url(./images/common/bar_vertical_bg.png);
	width:8px;
	overflow:hidden;
        [B][COLOR="Red"]background-position: -4px 0;[/COLOR][/B]
}

5. Directly under this block, ADD the following CSS statement:

Code: 
[B].verticalbar {
	background-position: -4px 0;
}[/B]

By adding this statement to the core.css file, it will affect all colors for the widget.

6. You can either remove and re-add the widget, or just kill the Dock and restart Dashboard by going to terminal and entering: killall Dock

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-Kevin
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Thank you for this, the double bar thing was a bit of an irritation to me as well.

Just in case anyone isn't clear, this is what the final edits should look like (with the parts that you'll be adding in bold and blue):

Code: 
.barbg {
	background-image:url(./images/common/bar_horizontal_bg.png);
	height:8px;
	overflow:hidden;
}

.verticalbarbg {
	background-image:url(./images/common/bar_vertical_bg.png);
	width:8px;
	overflow:hidden;
[COLOR="Blue"][b]background-position: -4px 0;[/b][/COLOR]
}

[COLOR="Blue"][b].verticalbar {
	background-position: -4px 0;
}[/color][/b]

canvas {
	background-image:url(./images/common/graph_bg.png);
}

(Note that since I was editing in TextEdit the spacing on the "background-position" add-in isn't in line with everything else; it doesn't seem to make a difference, though.)

I use iStat Menus, but still rely on iStat Pro for some other information. Disappointing to hear that the makers aren't going to keep it updated... hopefully future OS X updates won't create problems that the community can't handle.

Thanks to buduls and kbmb for contributing these code fixes!
 
I love istat menu. I'm on 10.8.1. My issue is that it doesn't read my gpu memory usage correctly. It's completely maxed out.

Mac pro with 5770.
 
Fofer said:
Yes, that *is* what fingerman was talking about.

OS X has three "library" folders.

-One is on the root level of your hard drive.

-One is inside the System folder.

-And the last one, the one where your user-specific files are, are inside Users/yourusername. However, starting with Lion, this folder is hidden by default. There are many ways to unhide it (temporarily or permanently.) You can Google for those. This is where your personally installed Widgets would be.
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Thanks for the clarification, but are you sure only the personal library folder was hidden in Lion? Whichever folder I was looking in was definitely hidden, which would suggest it was the one under my username... but as I noted, it only contained the default widgets.
 
Buduls said:
It's easy to fix iStat Pro processes for Mountain Lion

Steps:

1. Locate your widget, it will be under /Library/Widgets or ~/Library/Widgets
2. Right click it and select: "Show Package Contents"
3. Open Wide.js or Tall.js file in some editor (Wide is for horizontal view, Tall for vertical)

4. Locate the line



Change "PID|$1" to "PID| $1" (Add space before $ sign)


5. Save the changes

6. remove widget and re-add it Dashboard, and it should be fixed
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Great fix. Thanks!
 
kbmb said:
Other than the double disk usage bars in the Tall format....I think it's back to working fine now with the Processes fix.
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Nah mate, the double bars are as expected. Mountain Lion turned on dual-core mode for drives. ;)

I'm actually surprised these guys updated iStat as long as they did, considering it wasn't a paid product. If they're going to abandon it, it'd be nice if they could put it up on github as an open source product.
 
Troneas said:
It's still a bit larger than the other widget icons if anyone knows the correct dimensions please share them and ill fix this one. thanks.
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I have now updated the icon so it should be about the same size as the others.
I don't know if it's ok to upload the complete app here. But since it's a free application and the support is dropped I will do that anyway.

I modified iStat Pro as buduls and kbmb described. Thanks both of you for contributing these code fixes!

I also applied buduls code fix to the iStat nano.

Both the complete applications and only the icons are attached below.
View attachment iStat Pro.zip
View attachment iStat nano.zip
View attachment Icons only.zip
 
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Awesome!! Thanks
Buduls said:
It's easy to fix iStat Pro processes for Mountain Lion

Steps:

1. Locate your widget, it will be under /Library/Widgets or ~/Library/Widgets
2. Right click it and select: "Show Package Contents"
3. Open Wide.js or Tall.js file in some editor (Wide is for horizontal view, Tall for vertical)

4. Locate the line



Change "PID|$1" to "PID| $1" (Add space before $ sign)


5. Save the changes

6. remove widget and re-add it Dashboard, and it should be fixed
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Has something changed recently with the latest update to Mountain Lion? the Network section of the Nano has the external IP of unknown. It was working fine with 10.8.2 itself.
 
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