In 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.

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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 is this book 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.