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Re: The BBR IM Checker Widget
said by File Quit  :Is there anyway this can be used to check posts as well? i know the mozilla firefox extension can, but I have no clue on how Dashboard works. Good job guys! Apple says the dashboard philosophy is each widget should do one specialized thing, rather than risk becoming cluttered with becoming a "jack of all trades".
Oh, Apple also says I should include the following text whenever a widget is released:
"Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger is required. If you’re using Safari, click the download link. When the widget download is complete, show Dashboard, click the Plus sign to display the Widget Bar and click the widget’s icon in the Widget Bar to open it. If you’re using a browser other than Safari, click the download link. When the widget download is complete, unarchive it and place it in /Library/Widgets/ in your home folder. show Dashboard, click the Plus sign to display the Widget Bar and click the widget’s icon in the Widget Bar to open it."
If by "check posts" you mean check for replies to your posts, you can use this widget to do that already by simply choosing "Instant Message" for a reply notification to any of your posts.
That way you'll be updated via IM. This is how I tested the widget, by replying to myself over and over in »/dev/null. That is until a mod took my thread offline, LOL.
You can think of widgets themselves as tiny web pages. Rather than a compiled binary they're comprised of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. So basically anything you can do on a website, you can do with a widget, plus a little more thanks to some extensions to the code written by Apple.
You can actually view the source of any widget by right-clicking (or control-clicking) the widget in Finder and selecting 'Show package contents'. You can view the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files which make the widget run. Feel free to browse and see how it works... |
