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Widget Central :: RE: Widgets refuse to load!

Author: marcintosh
Subject: Nevermind
Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 - 7:37 am (GMT -5)

I ended up creating a new account and the problem went away.

Widget Testing :: Help much appreciated

Author: newuser
Subject: Help much appreciated
Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 - 11:06 am (GMT -5)

Hi, br / br / I'm currently in my final year studying Computer Science. As part of my dissertation I am required to conduct a study evaluating a websites performance against leading competitors implementing an improved solution. br / br / Please could you test the widget I made: a href="http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/beta-services-currency-converter" target="_blank"http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/beta-services-currency-converter/a br / br / I also would be very grateful if you could spare a few minutes of your time by completing this questionnaire. Just click on this link, it will take you to the questionnaire: br / br / a href="http://www.surveybob.com/surveybob/s/37fd8107-4c5d-467c-b4ae-502a68e91743.html??" target="_blank"http://www.surveybob.com/surveybob/s/37fd8107-4c5d-467c-b4ae-502a68e91743.html??/a br / br / You help is much appreciated, br / Thank you,

Widget Central :: time tracking widget

Author: wilmr
Subject: time tracking widget
Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 - 9:52 am (GMT -5)

I'm looking for a time tracking widget but cant find anything suitable... br / br / I try to track my daily time spent online or with other applications. br / Ideally it would tell me also on which pages I spent most time.. (digg, reddit e.g.) but that would be an added plus. br / br / I could not find anything to my surprise.. br / br / Any ideas?? br / br / Thanks in advance for your replies.

Widget Central :: Widgets refuse to load!

Author: marcintosh
Subject: Widgets refuse to load!
Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 - 8:03 am (GMT -5)

I'm configuring some new Macs for work and I'm having trouble with widgets. The new Macs are late-2009 iMacs running Snow Leopard. I double-clicked a widget to install it, but I didn't get the Widget Installer window or the andquot;Delete or Keepandquot; dialog on the dashboard. The widgets show up in ~userLibraryWidgets, but when I try to run them I get an alert sound and Dashboard closes. Apple widgets run fine, but I'm having this problem with any other widget. Any ideas? br / br / Marcintosh

Widget Central :: RE: two copies of many widgets

Author: marcintosh
Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 - 7:48 am (GMT -5)

Duplicates sounds unusual to me. ~LibraryWidgets should contain all the Apple widgets that came with your MBP. They are common to all users, but you can't modify the contents of that folder. ~userLibraryWidgets should contain any widgets you've installed yourself. They would only work in that specific user account so you'd have to install them under each user. But that wouldn't account for the types of duplicates you describe. br / br / Copying the Apple widgets to the user folder would give the user permission to modify them. Perhaps someone did that.

Widget Central :: Popup default changes to 1st item in project after debug run

Author: kwhitmore43
Subject: Popup default changes to 1st item in project after debug run
Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 - 6:21 pm (GMT -5)

My widget has 2 popups that both are somehow changing their defaults every time the widget is quit in the dashcode debugger. br / br / span style="color: darkblue"span style="text-decoration: underline"span style="font-style: italic"Sequence:/span/span/span br / 1. I set both of the popups' defaults to options further down the list. br / br / 2. I then save the project and run it using the debugger. br / br / 3. Without changing the popup selections, I click another element that runs a script that retrieves the popup values using the .object.getValue() function. The values retrieved are always the first option's values, no matter what I select. br / br / 4. I then click the stop button in the debugger. br / br / 5. The inspector now shows the popups' defaults as being the first options. br / (Not 100% repeatable. I'm still trying to isolate the circumstances affect the repeatability.) br / br / 6. I look in the generated HTML and find no SELECT or OPTION elements. It's all generated on the fly, but I don't see where the option values and texts are stored in the project, so I can't identify whether it's actually saving the default indices I select in the inspector. br / br / Any help to debug this would be greatly appreciated.

Widget Development :: RE: Widget send data to Safari

Author: marcintosh
Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 - 7:58 am (GMT -5)

I agree with Hawkman, this is easier to implement in AppleScript. I'm not familiar with how to add an AppleScript to a widget, but I know it can be done. br / br / Of course, the latest version of Safari has auto fill and there are some great auto fill plug-ins for Firefox, so a widget may be redundant. br / br / I would also recommend a href="http://agilewebsolutions.com/products/1Password" target="_blank" class="postlink"1Password/a from Agile Solutions.

Widget Development :: RE: Widget send data to Safari

Author: Hawkman
Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 - 9:15 pm (GMT -5)

Well... You could write an Applescript for the widget to call, which runs some Javascript in Safari...

Widget Development :: RE: Widget send data to Safari

Author: wish1267
Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 - 12:17 pm (GMT -5)

Hello, thanks for the reply. I am asking a different question. andquot;Can a widget autofill a safari textfieldandquot;. Say my widge that I develop has a databse with Username andamp; password. Can I bring up my widget at the login of yahoo-mail or gmail or even my bank account website and autofill those fields ?

Widget Development :: RE: Widget send data to Safari

Author: marcintosh
Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 - 12:12 pm (GMT -5)

The Google widget doesn't work the way you think. The user types in a search term and the widget tacks that term onto Google's search URL and sends the whole URL to Safari (or your default browser). br / br / For example, if I type andquot;dashboardandquot; into the Google widget, the widget inserts my search term into this javascript br / br / /spantable width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"tr tdspan class="genmed"bCode:/b/span/td /tr tr td class="code"var url = andquot;httpand#58;//www.google.com/search?q=andquot; + value + andquot;andamp;ie=UTF-8andamp;oe=UTF-8andquot;;/td /tr/tablespan class="postbody" br / to get br / br / /spantable width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"tr tdspan class="genmed"bCode:/b/span/td /tr tr td class="code"var url = andquot;httpand#58;//www.google.com/search?q=dashboardandamp;ie=UTF-8andamp;oe=UTF-8andquot;;/td /tr/tablespan class="postbody" br / So the widget isn't sending data to a specific site, it's sending a specific site to the browser. br / br / If you go to the site you're working with and type in the sort of data you'd like to send, you should get the full URL of the results page with the search term included. You should be able to use that to build the javascript you need.

Widget Development :: RE: RSS Question

Author: erealpirate
Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 - 11:57 am (GMT -5)

Seems to be working for me .... here is how I did it. br / br / open dashcode br / highlight the link i your address bar br / drag it over onto the widget br / test run br / br / hope that helps.... br / br / one thing though the feed only shows the topics. br / you will have to click on the topic and view it from your web browser.

Widget Development :: RE: RSS Question

Author: marcintosh
Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 - 11:38 am (GMT -5)

That's not the correct feed. Try this a href="feed://feeds.feedburner.com/PixelGroovyFrontPage" target="_blank"feed://feeds.feedburner.com/PixelGroovyFrontPage/a

Widget Development :: RE: RSS Question

Author: erealpirate
Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 - 9:00 pm (GMT -5)

:EDIT: br / br / Im sorry I found it here as well br / br / a href="http://www.dashboardwidgets.com/showcase/details.php?wid=2315" target="_blank"http://www.dashboardwidgets.com/showcase/details.php?wid=2315/a

Widget Development :: RE: RSS Question

Author: erealpirate
Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 - 8:59 pm (GMT -5)

I think it is because its not an RSS feed .... I just tried and it wouldn't work for me either. br / br / Remember The RSS Feed Template if for RSS br / br / on another note .... you might try the Google Widget from Apple.com br / it syncs with google and displays it on the dashboard it might be a hassle but I think it might be the only work around with out going into to coding ( which im not all that good at ) br / br / hope this helps

Widget Central :: no install

Author: jarre
Subject: no install
Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 - 2:05 pm (GMT -5)

hi br / try to install this a href="http://www.dashboardwidgets.com/showcase/details.php?wid=1091" target="_blank"http://www.dashboardwidgets.com/showcase/details.php?wid=1091/a br / widget but get only a .dlc file i cant install br / br / wid. files from Apple work fine ! br / any Help ? br / br / thanks br / Jarre

Widget Central :: Open more than one URL ??

Author: erealpirate
Subject: Open more than one URL ??
Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 - 1:25 pm (GMT -5)

I am trying to make 2 tabs on the back of my widget each one would need to open a different website.... well I am kinda lost as to how to open more than one url. br / br / I have been using the clickonlink method to achieve this and it works on the front ( one url ) but when I try to set this up on the back it just changes the clickonlink html code to the the site ... not adding it to the other tab. br / br / Any help from you Pros out there would be greatly appreciated !

Widget Development :: Widget send data to Safari

Author: wish1267
Subject: Widget send data to Safari
Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 - 3:14 pm (GMT -5)

Can a widget collect some data, say the current time, and send it to an open website in safari? for example, say I have Google open, I use my widget, and it sends the time to the search field in Google...yes?no?

Widget Development :: RE: Created widgetplugin/bundle, now what? where to put it?

Author: wish1267
Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 - 3:12 pm (GMT -5)

Figured it out. Created a new project with DashCode, clicked on Widget Attributes and have begun development this way. It works fine.

Widget Development :: Created widgetplugin/bundle, now what? where to put it?

Author: wish1267
Subject: Created widgetplugin/bundle, now what? where to put it?
Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 - 12:28 pm (GMT -5)

I followed sample code to create a bundle that I changed to a widgetplugin extension via the build config. So I have that file, now where do I put it so my java/html can see it? br / br / I gave it a name: br / - (void) windowScriptObjectAvailable:(WebScriptObject *) windowScriptObject br / { br / [windowScriptObject setValue:self forKey:@andquot;testPluginandquot;]; br / NSLog(@andquot;Doneandquot;); br / } br / br / But in JavaScript it doesn't see it and my andquot;Alertsandquot;/NSLog calls don't go to the console. I guess JavaScript doesn't see my object (widgetplugin) yet, so how do i make it see it? br / br / In my HTML file I have this: br / andlt;htmlandgt; br / andlt;headandgt; br / andlt;script language=andquot;JavaScriptandquot;andgt; br / br / function someFunction() br / { br / alert(andquot;inside some functionandquot;);//this runs in Safari, nothing below runs after. br / if (testPlugin) br / { br / var temp = testPlugin.hello(); br / alert(temp); br / } br / alert(andquot;End some functionandquot;); br / } br / br / andlt;/scriptandgt; br / andlt;/headandgt; br / andlt;bodyandgt; br / andlt;input type=andquot;buttonandquot; size=andquot;20andquot; VALUE = andquot;some Functionandquot; onClick=andquot;someFunction()andquot;andgt; br / br / andlt;/bodyandgt; br / andlt;/htmlandgt; br / br / Where do I put it? What am I doing wrong? br / br / Thanks.

Widget Requests :: RE: Reboot to Windows Partition

Author: marcintosh
Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 - 11:44 am (GMT -5)

This seems like it could be implemented as a simple Automator action. I don't have a Windows capable machine, so I can't test it.

Widget Requests :: RE: SAC Rate Calculator

Author: vinyl
Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 - 2:13 am (GMT -5)

Is this the formula? br / br / (((Pb-Pe)/Pb)x((Pb/Pw)xV)/T)/((D/33)+1) br / br / Where: br / Pb = Beginning Pressure br / Pe = Ending Pressure br / Pw = Working Pressure of Tank br / V = Nominal Volume of Tank br / T = Time of Dive in Minutes br / D = Average depth of dive

Widget Requests :: RE: Credit card widget

Author: vinyl
Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 - 2:12 am (GMT -5)

This thing done allready? Doesnt seem like much of a challenge.. No idea why you would wan to have this as a widget but..

Widget Development :: RE: Doing a XMLHttpRequest

Author: vinyl
Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 - 2:10 am (GMT -5)

I solved this problem. br / br / Dont have code here, but will post my solution

Widget Development :: Doing a XMLHttpRequest

Author: vinyl
Subject: Doing a XMLHttpRequest
Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2009 - 9:20 am (GMT -5)

I am trying to get data from an URL into a textarea of my widget, just for basic testing. br / br / The request I am doing is this: br / /spantable width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"tr tdspan class="genmed"bCode:/b/span/td /tr tr td class="code" br / var Socket = new XMLHttpRequestand#40;and#41;; br / Socket.openand#40;andquot;GETandquot;, andquot;httpand#58;//api.rapidshare.com/cgi-bin/rsapi.cgiandquot;, trueand#41;; br / Socket.sendand#40;nulland#41;; br / document.getElementByIdand#40;'RapidshareDetails'and#41;.innerHTML = Socket.repsonseText; br / /td /tr/tablespan class="postbody" br / It should give back an error message since I didnt specify any details, the script can provide basic Rapidshare account details. br / br / However I cant get the response into my text area. I doesnt show up, but in the browser it does.. br / br / Any ideas?

Widget Development :: Parse Data from XML - (File) , evaluate()?

Author: verklixt
Subject: Parse Data from XML - (File) , evaluate()?
Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 - 3:19 am (GMT -5)

Hello, br / br / Im new on this board and already have some expirience in developing widgets on the yahoo engine. br / br / On the yahoo engine I had an method : XMLDOM.parse() and . evaluate() br / br / Do I have any possibillities to parse data from xml???

Widget Development :: RE: Widget refresh on click of F4 button

Author: Hawkman
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 - 12:39 pm (GMT -5)

Tie the refresh to widget.onshow. Modern versions of Dashcode already have a show() function defined, which is tied to that event.

Widget Development :: Widget refresh on click of F4 button

Author: debendra
Subject: Widget refresh on click of F4 button
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 - 5:26 am (GMT -5)

I am working on macOS machines.I have developed a dashboard widget. On pressing the F4 button I can see my widget , but the data inside the widget doesn't get refreshed. For refreshing the widget(data) I have to explicitly give command+R. But my requirement is to refresh the widget ,whenever I see the widget on clicking F4 button. br / Please provide solution for the same.

Widget Development :: How to save the preference of selected index

Author: bwolf99
Subject: How to save the preference of selected index
Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2009 - 6:03 am (GMT -5)

Hi! br / I have a problem with writing a code to save the preference of following situation: br / Here I have a select form: br / br / /spantable width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"tr tdspan class="genmed"bCode:/b/span/td /tr tr td class="code"andlt;label for=andquot;stream-qualityandquot; data-locale=andquot;streamQualityandquot;andgt;Stream qualityandlt;/labelandgt; br / andnbsp; andnbsp;andlt;select id=andquot;jumpandquot; onchange=andquot;revealand#40;thisand#41;;andquot; name=andquot;jumpandquot; andgt; br / andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andlt;option value=andquot;dewplayer256andquot;andgt;256 kbpsandlt;/optionandgt; br / andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andlt;option value=andquot;dewplayer128andquot;andgt;128 kbpsandlt;/optionandgt; br / andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andlt;option value=andquot;dewplayer32andquot;andgt;32 kbpsandlt;/optionandgt; br / andnbsp; andnbsp;andlt;/selectandgt;/td /tr/tablespan class="postbody" br / br / Here is javascriptand#058; br / br / /spantable width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"tr tdspan class="genmed"bCode:/b/span/td /tr tr td class="code"function revealand#40;menuand#41; and#123; br / andnbsp; andnbsp;andnbsp; andnbsp;andnbsp; andnbsp; br / andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp;forand#40;i=0;iandlt;menu.options.length;i++and#41; br / andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; ifand#40;menu.options.selectedIndex==iand#41; br / andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp;document.getElementByIdand#40;menu.optionsand#91;iand#93;.valueand#41;.style.display=''; br / andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; else br / andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp;document.getElementByIdand#40;menu.optionsand#91;iand#93;.valueand#41;.style.display='none'; br / and#125;/td /tr/tablespan class="postbody" br / br / I need that the option selected will be saved for next time I restart my widget. br / I wanted to do it with widget.setPreferenceForKey but I didnt know how to implement it in to my code. br / Thank you for helping me. br / Brano

Widget Testing :: First public release of Tunnelbana

Author: nbjorken
Subject: First public release of Tunnelbana
Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 - 12:41 am (GMT -5)

Hi everyone, br / br / I'm just about ready to make public my first Dashboard Widget ever. It's a nice display of real-time data for the entire Stockholm underground system. br / br / If you're in Stockholm (or just curious) please give it a go and let me know what I can improve! br / br / Download and usage instructions at a href="http://genoaswitness.es/tunnelbana.html" target="_blank"http://genoaswitness.es/tunnelbana.html/a br / br / img src="http://genoaswitness.es/tunnelbana.png" border="0" / br / br / -- Nik

Widget Development :: Flash Widget doesn't appear

Author: Flu
Subject: Flash Widget doesn't appear
Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 - 1:32 pm (GMT -5)

Hi everybody, br / br / i'm vainly trying to embed my simple Flash 9 file to my widget. br / I build the widget framework with dashcode and in whose testmode everything looks well. But when i build the dashboard release and install, only a black frame and the default-close button appears. br / My main.html looks like that: br / br / /spantable width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"tr tdspan class="genmed"bCode:/b/span/td /tr tr td class="code" br / andlt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC andquot;-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//ENandquot; andquot;httpand#58;//www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtdandquot;andgt; br / andlt;htmlandgt; br / andlt;headandgt; br / andnbsp; andnbsp; andlt;meta http-equiv=andquot;content-typeandquot; content=andquot;text/html; charset=utf-8andquot;andgt; br / andnbsp; andnbsp; andlt;link rel=andquot;stylesheetandquot; href=andquot;main.cssandquot;andgt; br / andnbsp; andnbsp; andlt;script type=andquot;text/javascriptandquot; src=andquot;localizedStrings.jsandquot; charset=andquot;utf-8andquot;andgt;andlt;/scriptandgt; br / andnbsp; andnbsp; andlt;script type=andquot;text/javascriptandquot; src=andquot;Parts/utilities.jsandquot; charset=andquot;utf-8andquot;andgt;andlt;/scriptandgt; br / andnbsp; andnbsp; andlt;script type=andquot;text/javascriptandquot; src=andquot;Parts/setup.jsandquot; charset=andquot;utf-8andquot;andgt;andlt;/scriptandgt; br / andnbsp; andnbsp; andlt;script type=andquot;text/javascriptandquot; src=andquot;Parts/Text.jsandquot; charset=andquot;utf-8andquot;andgt;andlt;/scriptandgt; br / andnbsp; andnbsp; andlt;script type=andquot;text/javascriptandquot; src=andquot;main.jsandquot; charset=andquot;utf-8andquot;andgt;andlt;/scriptandgt; br / andlt;/headandgt; br / andlt;body onload=andquot;loadand#40;and#41;;andquot; apple-part=andquot;com.apple.Dashcode.part.StackLayoutandquot;andgt; br / andnbsp; andnbsp; andlt;div id=andquot;frontandquot;andgt; br / andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andlt;object classid=andquot;clsidand#58;d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000andquot; codebase=andquot;httpand#58;//download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0andquot; type=andquot;application/x-shockwave-flashandquot; width=andquot;130andquot; height=andquot;400andquot; data=andquot;widget.swfandquot; id=andquot;objectandquot; style=andquot;andquot;andgt; br / andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andlt;param name=andquot;movieandquot; value=andquot;widget.swfandquot;andgt; br / andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andlt;param name=andquot;allowScriptAccessandquot; value=andquot;alwaysandquot;andgt; br / andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andlt;param name=andquot;qualityandquot; value=andquot;highandquot;andgt; br / andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andlt;param name=andquot;wmodeandquot; value=andquot;transparentandquot;andgt; br / andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andlt;embed src=andquot;widget.swfandquot; quality=andquot;highandquot; bgcolor=andquot;#ffffffandquot; width=andquot;130andquot; height=andquot;400andquot; name=andquot;krueger_widgetandquot; allowScriptAccess=andquot;alwaysandquot; type=andquot;application/x-shockwave-flashandquot; pluginspage=andquot;httpand#58;//www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayerandquot; /andgt; br / andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andnbsp; andlt;/objectandgt; br / andnbsp; andnbsp; andlt;/divandgt; br / andnbsp; andnbsp; andlt;div id=andquot;backandquot;andgt; br / andnbsp; andnbsp; andlt;/divandgt; br / andlt;/bodyandgt; br / andlt;/htmlandgt; br / br / /td /tr/tablespan class="postbody" br / br / Does anybody know, why the widget is only seen in the dashcode testmode and not in dashboard finally? br / br / ... sorry for my bad english img src="http://www.dashboardwidgets.com/forums/images/smiles/joy.png" alt="Smile" border="0" / br / br / Greets, br / br / Dennis