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Dashboard Programming Guide

DashboardApple 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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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...
 

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mathie

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'?

May 05 2005 at 8:08 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
bryan

i have a g4 iMac 1ghz, one of the last G4 iMacs and it doesnt do any core image effects :(

May 01 2005 at 2:04 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Callum Alden

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?

May 01 2005 at 1:54 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
bryan

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!

May 01 2005 at 1:28 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
bryan

a tv schedule widget would be good :)

May 01 2005 at 11:03 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Callum Alden

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!

May 01 2005 at 9:33 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Chris

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

May 01 2005 at 5:00 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mark O.

How 'bout a movie times widget? Sherlock's movies section seems to be broken.

May 01 2005 at 1:25 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tim

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.

April 30 2005 at 10:39 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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