Creating Mac Widgets with Dashcode (Firstpress)

This book will provide many of the development fundamentals you will need to be an active widget designer and creator. But, this book is only the beginning of what you can do with Dashcode! It’s all in the word: Dashcode. Dash for fast and code for what is being written. Dashcode, fast code. A little widget history The look and feel of a good Apple widget What widgets can and cannot do The problems with widgets More excitement coming What is Dashcode? Where is Dashcode and how is it installed? A quick look at Dashcode features Important Dashcode features and tools One template down, nine to go The countdown timer template The maps template The RSS and the daily feed templates The podcast template The photocast template The quartz composer template The video podcast template The gauge template Out of the box-not! 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.