Creating Mac Widgets with Dashcode
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- نویسندگان : Chris Pappas, William Murray
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2008
- تعداد صفحه : 96
- شابک / ISBN : 1430209674
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 10.5 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 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.
Updated for Mac OS X 10.5 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 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.
