Creating Mac Widgets With Dashcode

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. Table of Contents Widgets in a Hurry Widgets Without Worry: Using Dashcode Widget Templates: Thinking Out of the Box Super Widgets with a Little JavaScript Your Widgets: Over the Top

Create widgets and Web apps for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac OS X with Dashcode Dashcode is a software application that makes it quick and easy to create dashboard widgets and Web apps for Mac computers, iPhone, and iPad. Widgets and Web apps connect users with content from the Web such as Twitter feeds, movie showtimes, news updates, and more. Dashcode provides a library of graphic elements and standard code that you just drag-and-drop into your app, and this guide shows you how to use it to bring your idea to life. Learn to create, customize, and distribute your apps, even if you're a programming novice. Dashcode provides a quick and easy way to create dashboard and Web widgets for Apple devices This guide shows you how to use the built-in Dashcode tools, including graphical elements and functional code, to create Web apps using your data Learn to customize your app, add media, retrieve data from Web services for your app, and deploy your widgets Even if you're new to programming, you can learn to create and distribute widgets with Dashcode Dashcode For Dummies gets you up and running with this cool tool for creating unique Web apps and dashboard widgets.

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Design and create your own e-book using the groundbreaking iBooks Author app With Apple's iBooks Author app, you can create rich, interactive books for use on the iPad, and this new For Dummies handy portable guide shows you just how to do it. Whether you want to create textbooks, training materials, marketing reports, or awesome product manuals with dynamic content, this book takes you through the process. Plunge in, and you'll soon learn how to create an iPad e-book with all the bells and whistles, including video, interactive widgets, text, tables, figures, colors, cool fonts, and more. Helps educators, small publishers, trainers, authors, or entrepreneurs create their own e-books using the new iBooks Author software Covers the software as well as book-building basics, such as adding text, color, tables, and figures Shows you how to include dynamic content, like video, presentations, interactive widgets, charts, and web components Discusses publishing your iPad e-book to the iBookstore iBooks Author For Dummies is what you need to get your book off the ground and into the hands of readers in a hurry!

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The miniature web applications known as gadgets (or widgets) are a key component of the distributed web and an ideal way to publish your content far beyond the reach of your own web site. Packaging web content and functionality into a gadget enables it to be seen anywhere from iGoogle to the iPhone—wherever the user may be, on or off the traditional web. Everyone can access your content without having to visit your web site. This book is a practical guide to building gadgets that will work everywhere, from handheld devices to any site on the web. The core methodology is to develop a single code base that will run on all platforms, multiplying the syndication opportunities for maximum return on your development investment. Extending this approach is a technique of abstracting key API calls from the various gadget platforms into a single interface layer, implemented in the book as a compact JavaScript class, allowing your gadgets full access to every platform's power without your having to rewrite your code for each. Learn the key concepts for successfully syndicating web content via gadgets. Build platform-agnostic gadgets that run on all the major web portals. Deploy your gadgets to web-enabled handheld devices.