My 3rd gadget for the 3rd milestone.

Our team just finished our 3rd gadget for our project, Stoplight, Monitor, and lately, the Gauge. The gauge gadget works like the other gadgets we've created but combines the different properties into one. The stoplight's thresholds and the monitor's Wattdepot implementation both find its way to the gauge's properties. The gauge displays Wattdepot energy related information using a user inputted host URL and a source and also uses the gauge visualization's option to add coloring to display threshold. Here is a screen shot of our gauge gadget.

Some of the new properties we've added on top of the previous version is the addition of the host URL field for the gadget settings, the data type and time stamp showing below the gauge, the units showing inside the gadget and the title on the gadget's heading. My job for the latest version is to implement the host url requirement and replace the data-type with the units that is shown within the gadget. I had to search for the right implementation from the visualization API in order to the add the units.

During our gauge development we didn't really have any problems it since my last post. I am still using Eclipse to edit the xml files. Other than that we didn't have any problems with the development of this gadget.

As for improvements, we are planning on adding basic error checking for the setting fields. We are also planning on making a better user experience by turning the host URL field into a drop down menu with the appropriate Wattdepot servers and do the same with the source list.
Our updated project host can be accessed here.