Re: Webkit / Widget plugin help

Subject: Re: Webkit / Widget plugin help

From: Matt Drance <email@hidden>

Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 12:18:35 -0700

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Hi Jason,

Widget plugins rely on the informal WebScripting protocol, which is where a number of the required methods come from. ObjC is really the only path to take.

What functionality are you looking for that requires a plug-in? Perhaps it can be solved some other way if you don't want to get into objc.

(PS- there is a dashboard-dev list now where you can get help with plug-ins. It's really pretty trivial to write one of these even if you don't know Cocoa)

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Matt Drance

DTS Engineer

Java - Dashboard - Address Book

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On May 2, 2005, at 8:56 AM, Jason Lee wrote:

Hi all,

I'm trying to develop a widget for Dashboard and I've noticed that if one wants to build a plugin, it has to be in Objective-C. I don't think I'm going to delve into Obj-C anytime soon, so I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with bridging that Java 'gap'. I've read about the Java Bridge, but it's lean on details targeted for WebKit, which I'm pretty sure is what Dashboard uses (and makes sense as it appears the dashboard is prob reusing much of the Safari libs).

As per the widget tutorial/ref it states that a plugin must impl the following interface (for init):

- (id) initWithWebView:(WebView*)webview

So my question is if anyone knows how this would be expressed in Java - if it can be.

TIA and look fwd to any suggestions.

- jason
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