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Creating Mac Widgets with Dashcode
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In 98 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.
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