Creating Mac Widgets with Dashcode

On 01.28.10, In MAC, Programming, System, by
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.
  • 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
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. Download Here