Widgetarium 1.0b4 Public Beta

Widgetarium is a full featured widget development IDE, designed to make writing & testing widgets easier and faster. It includes:

Syntax aware editor for _javascript_, HTML, and CSS.

Widget packager (even generates the Info.plist for you)

Dashboard emulator debugging environment - supports the widget properties/methods not found in Safari, including preferences, launchURL/Application, and system.

Can explicitly test all the various Widget handlers (blur, focus, etc...)

Emulator even has a "gray over desktop" appearance so you can verify that your shadows look good!

Emulator supports native plug-ins and font loading

Caps-lock will highlight here your apple-dashboard-region is

_javascript_ console to show you your errors (and a quick double click to go to the file and line where the error is)

DOM inspector for your widget (showing node properties, CSS styles, various other attributes)

Easy testing of localizations - just select what localization you want to test from a popup (so you can see all the localizations for Hello Welt) and go

Will create a new project from an existing widget, grabbing all the sources/images/etc.. and adding them to your project

Builds & runs all example widgets

This version adds a number of features and bug fixes, including:

"Panel Maker" which automatically generates the widget image (front and back, in your choice of color scheme, with several styles available)

New widget templates to make it even faster to create a new widget (including automatic support for flipping over "i" button for prefs, calculation of CloseBoxOffset to match the rounding of the corner, etc...).

Interactive _javascript_ console - so you can type and execute arbitrary _javascript_ commands that can directly manipulate & test your widget.

Automatically creates the InfoPlist.strings file when you create a new localization (and built in editor for it as well)

HTML function popup now shows DIVs and SPANs

This is a beta (and there's still some bugs), but is fairly stable and usable, and I need feedback/testing, so if you're interested:

http://projects.gandreas.com/widgetarium

Glenn Andreas email@hidden

<http://www.gandreas.com/> wicked fun!

Widgetarium | the quickest path to widgets