Dashboard Programming Guide
Apple has released the Dashboard Programming Guide for all you would be Widget workers out there. You can't beat the price, and it is even available for download in PDF format so you can refer to it when you don't have an internet connection (like while you're on a train speeding from Washington, DC to Philadelphia).This guide looks like it is chock full of information that will make creating widgets a breeze, in fact I just might try my hand at writing my own and document that process here at TUAW. Now, I just need to think of a good idea for a widget.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Tim O. said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
Hey, I want one to read email in. To show unread email with a list of subjects, so you can mark messages read and click on messages you want to read and it will open mail for you. This is one I really want.
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Mark O. said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
How 'bout a movie times widget? Sherlock's movies section seems to be broken.
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Chris said 3:36PM on 6-23-2005
There's a whole bunch more good stuff if you go back up the tree a little:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/AppleApplications/index.html
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Callum Alden said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
Just reading through this, reminding myself of all the hullabaloo around "Active Desktop". It used the same kind of backed (HTML CSS) , although it wasn't followed through to the Apple quality...
Hey, when adding widgets - do they do that sweeeeeet drop-in-a-puddle effect, as in the Keynote. (Sucker for detail) - Tiger's STILL in hte mail!
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bryan said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
a tv schedule widget would be good :)
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bryan said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
callum - my mac doesnt do that effect as the graphics card does not support core image :( really didnt expect that, my iMac isnt that old!
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Callum Alden said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
ah, well.... core-image. I've got a G3 900Mhz, so i'll just pretend to see the effect... and make a funny noise everytime it *should* happen.
*looks at door*
where is that delivery man?
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bryan said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
i have a g4 iMac 1ghz, one of the last G4 iMacs and it doesnt do any core image effects :(
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mathie said 12:46PM on 12-02-2005
The Dashboard Programming Guide is already handily sitting in your Xcode Developer Documentation - searching for 'Dashboard' will find it for you.
Hmm, apparently there's a documentation update available. In a 202MB disk image. Wouldn't it have been more efficient to do, say, 'diff' and provide an installer that ran 'cd /Developer; patch -p0 < difffile'?
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