Re: Dashboard - Applescripts in web pages?
Re: Dashboard - Applescripts in web pages?
- Subject: Re: Dashboard - Applescripts in web pages?
- From: "Timothy K. Wilkinson" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 10:10:02 -0400
Just found an answer to my own question.
http://www.dashboardwidgets.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=260
Apparently the answer is yes, you can run AppleScripts in widgets.
Tim Wilkinson
ITC-ACHS
University of Virginia
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> From: James Dessart <email@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 16:33:47 -0400
> To: email@hidden
> Subject: Re: Dashboard - Applescripts in web pages?
>
> On 4/25/05, Sander Tekelenburg <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Here's the documentation:
>> <http://developer.apple.com/macosx/tiger/dashboard.html>. A small reason for
>> hope appears to be buried in this: "[...] JavaScript [...] The widget object
>> gives you the ability to [...] Execute system commands, such as shell scripts
>> or command-line tools" In theory that might open a route to use AS. But
>> having to call AS from a shell, which in turn is called through javascript,
>> might not be such a great experience...
>
> My hope would be that, at the very least, there are hooks to call
> native methods, such as objective-C or plain C functions. Because for
> anyone who wants to do a widget with some serious backend work it'd be
> pretty inconvenient to have to write an executable to do the work, and
> have it return data only through stdout.
>
> We'll see on Friday, I guess.
>
> --
> James Dessart
> Blog: http://skwirl.net/
> Software dev. services: http://skwirl.com/
>
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