“Build a Dashboard Widget“, “Building Cocoa-Java Apps with Eclipse“, “Generic Java Types, Part 2” and “Creating a Windows DLL with Visual Basic“. Enjoy the weekend reading.
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Apparantly, because dashboard widgets are mainly like web pages, even Windows users can try them out in our web browsers, is that right?
I would like to see some Widgets, which I could try in my browser. There used to be a site like that, that put the Tiger widgets in the web, but it was taken down. If there are any legal widgets, which could be put on the web legally, I would like to try them.
>even Windows users can try them out in our web browsers, is that right?
No. Most of these widgets use some OSX hooks or direct unix command line apps. You will be able to render their gui with any web browser, but not actually have any functionality.
THis type of stub is needed more. I vote to make this a weekly article.
I fully agree. I really wish we had more development stuff on here instead of just the newest pics of distros using the same old KDE and Gnome.
This is solid practical stuff whicch makes a change from advocacy. VB6 is not trendy but in use everywhere. A nice change from hype!
Am I the only one who thinks widgets are a step back?
Just look at the sample given in the tutorial: Using CSS and HTML to layout the UI? JavaScript as glue code? And then you don’t even have such basic UI operations like support for resizing.
I don’t see how building a widget is supposed to be any easier than building the same application in InterfaceBuilder and Cocoa.
umm… how is it a step back again?
CSS and HTML is certainly a good way to make a GUI for an application taht will only render teh actualy graphic.
this is not a frigen cocoa application it is a webapp. it can use JS or any other scripting language used in web development and even connect to an actal program.
you really think taht having to make a full blown GUI app is better?