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.
A fast read for people who probably would not spend 300 pages on this
You will be building widgets in an hour
Teaches Dashcode which is the best way to do widgets
Teaches you how to import data into your widget
From a basic introduction to integrating widgets using Mac scripts, you get it all in this little book
With the advent of Mac OSX Leopard and Dashcode, it has become very easy to write your own widgets (small programs that typically do one task). Even business people can write little programs to do things like graph sales that automatically update. So this book is written for all users who may want to create their own widgets. The topic can be covered in detail and so we will cover Javascript integration and using other Mac scripts to integrate widgets in applications.
William Murray
Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) design development modeling programming testing