[getbacker]

Hi i am new to programming of dashboard widgets..I know that OpenUrl would open a URL .. but is there any way to retrieve only the contents of the file but not the actually page ?
Like if i am trying to access a RSS page..so instead of opening the page could i get the text content of the feed ??? anyhelp would be appreciatd

[Greenie]

Hi there,

to do what you want, you will have to use XmlHttpRequest. With this you can get any kind of data into your widget. Depending on the source you can either receive the data as xml (like an rss-feed for example) or as pure text. I would say that most of the widgets which display portions of websites are using XmlHttpRequest. And DashCode itself provides the rss-feed-example in which you can see how it is used. You should also be able to find more than enough tutorials on XmlHttpRequest on the net.