Re: Passing Arrays Between Widget and Plugin

Subject: Re: Passing Arrays Between Widget and Plugin

From: Tom Bunch <email@hidden>

Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 11:15:21 -0700

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Yes, it works fine. Um, I don't have a lot of time today (ADA submission deadline tomorrow!) to look at this. Here are a few things I've noticed:

This xCode project, well, it doesn't build a widget. Which brings me to my top Dashboard request for Apple: an xCode project template? It _does_ build a .widgetplugin.

You included a copy of JibbaJabba.wdgt wherein you've modified the value of the Plugin key in the Info.plist, but you haven't updated the .html to reference your own class. You probably also need to copy the .widgetplugin into the .wdgt.

I messed around with it that much and it will create an instance of your class, but the _javascript_ still doesn't recognize calls to it. And that's all the time I have...

Good luck! Sorry.

On May 11, 2005, at 5:43 PM, Mark Rakes wrote:

Tom (and everybody else!),

Have you actually been able to make this work? I've tried it a few
different ways/times, and always get a crash.

I've modified the "JibbaJabba" (SimplePlugin) example I got from dts to show
how I think it should work...can you (or someone) take a look and tell me
what mistake I'm making?

It's in a zip called ModSimplePlugin.zip at http://homepage.mac.com/mrakes/

Thanks in advance to any takers,
-mark

On May 10, 2005, at 10:25 PM, Tom Bunch wrote:

Yes. I suppose your NSArray is the result of a objC call? Supposing you've figured out how to call it already from _javascript_ (see these methods)

+ (NSString *)webScriptNameForSelector:(SEL)aSel;
+ (BOOL)isSelectorExcludedFromWebScript:(SEL)aSel;

you can do something like this:

var things = MyWidgetPlugin.someThings();
if (things) {
var thingCount = things.length;
for (var thingIndex = 0; thingIndex < thingCount; ++ thingIndex) {
var aThing = things[ thingIndex];
}

Does that help? Your plugin class just has an instance method like:

- (NSArray *)someThings;

-Tom

On May 10, 2005, at 1:19 PM, Stefan Hanshans wrote:

Is it possible to obtain an array (NSArray) from a widget plugin in _javascript_?

TIA

Stefan

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References:
	>Passing Arrays Between Widget and Plugin (From: Stefan Hanshans <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Passing Arrays Between Widget and Plugin (From: Tom Bunch <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Passing Arrays Between Widget and Plugin (From: Mark Rakes <email@hidden>)