Creating Mac Widgets with Dashcode

Description

In over 100 pages, you will learn to create and use widgets using Dashcode. Widgets are simple, typically small applications for a specific purpose, such as a weather report, a calculator, a stock quote, and the like that reside on the Mac Dashboard. Building these before Dashcode was time consuming though not hard; but now, you can whip up a Widget fast. Creating Mac Widgets with Dashcode teaches you how.

* Updated for Mac OS X 10.5Leopard
* The fast and easy way to learn to build Widgets. You'll be building Widgets in an hour.
* Dashcode makes widget development simple. What you'll learn
* Basics of Dashcode development
* Using templates
* Using JavaScript for more complex Widgets
* Including user input in your Widget
* Using scripting with your Widget
* Importing data into your Widget Who this book is for

    Anyone interested in taking a shot at doing widgets. Widgets are easy and are quite popular, so there are a lot of hackers interested in doing it. Widgets can be built for a user's specific needs, and you don't need to be a programmer to do it.

    Table of Contents
* Widgets in a Hurry
* Widgets Without Worry: Using Dashcode
* Widget Templates: Thinking Out of the Box
* Super Widgets with a Little JavaScript
* Your Widgets: Over the Top

CONTENTS:

Chapter 1,Widgets in a Hurry

Chapter 2,Widgets Without Worry:Using Dashcode

Chapter 3,Widget Templates:Thinking Out of the Box