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Creating Mac Widgets with Dashcode (Firstpress)
Posted: June 17th, 2008, 6:56pm CEST

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In 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.
• Up to date with Leopard
• 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 is this book 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.