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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22Here's a mirror before it gets dugg.
http://www.plunder.com/-download-2953.htm - mark1372, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Is it really a secret if it's been floating around since October? See http://www.flickr.com/photos/chucker/sets/1281598/ for some more shots from last seven months ago.
- RyeBrye, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14I just played around with it for a few minutes. The program doesn't feel quite "final" - (I encountered a few bugs while playing with it) but it is certainly makes widget creation incredibly easy. I wonder when Apple will officially release it...
- mark1372, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Digg needs a "report spammer" button.
- zcreem, on 10/12/2007, -6/+18SiteAdvisor turns a very bright shade of red with the above link beware
http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/dr.ag?ref=safe&aff_id=0 - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13In case it does go away, I made a mirror:
http://www.bandwidthorbust.com/mirror/Dashcode.tar.bz2 - clifyt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10How much Javascript does one need to know for this sort of thing?
And can you use libraries such as the YahooUI or Prototype with it? I take it its just simple HTML / JS mixed with some proprietary Apple stuff (like Safari / Webkit's Canvas). I'm not that great at js, but I can muddle my way through if I need to -- and some of these new js toolkits make it almost a non-issue (if its possible).
I'm just upset I didn't bring my Powerbook today so that I could check this stuff out :-) - rspeed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10@ferrisb
Or just right(ctrl)-click on the widget package and select "Show Package Contents".
@geekThing
Wow. Just... wow. - l0ne, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Since they're HTML pages, you can use Yahoo! UI or Prototype with it if you want.
Uh, and the canvas is now in Firefox 1.5 too. - Nick_Circosta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8in a way... yes its drag and drop and easy to manage.. and it gives you a split view for code and visual... this is great
- Nick_Circosta, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9this is WICKED, just what ive been looking for cant wait till its out in final
- Dakk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I liked widgets when they were called Desk Accessories. Remember Desk Accessories in Mac OS 1.0 back in the 80's?
- viruz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9mirror, I'll keep it up for a gig or 2 the more it spreads, the least likely it will ever be lost and apple can't shut it down if it spreads all over.
http://www.pixpose.com/Dashcode.app.rar - rufo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Heh, I have it installed on my system - just like the post says, I bought a shiny new MBP from Apple and installed the Dev Tools.
Disc info:
Mac OS version 10.4.6
AHT version 3A107
Disc Version 1.3
2Z691-5381-A - ferrisb, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10"The only bad thing is now I can rip anyone's dashboard widget..."
You've always been able to do this - a widget is just a folder, with a .wdgt extension. Remove the extension, and it's cake to browse the contents of the widget. - greasyp, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9rasterbator: you could already do this anyway, a Dashboard widget is really not much more than a directory with HTML, Javascript and CSS files in it.
- Ryosen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I was able to get it, no problems. Thanks! Digg+
- tizz66, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7I'm an Apple fan and even I know Apple didn't pioneer widgets.
I also prefer having the widgets 'on-demand' rather than always on the desktop. It's easy to set up hot corners in OS X so getting your dashboard to show up is just a flick of the wrist. - manbergur, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7must - get - macbook - too bad i dont have endless reserves of money.. ahh well
- MostlyWrong, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Apple democratized the Lisa and introduced desk accessories in 1984.
This predates Konfabulator by maybe 18 years. See http://www.mac512.com/system10.htm - mark1372, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Why are you calling this accidental? Hardly. Info and screenshots of Dashcode have been around for a while.
- ambethia, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Fortunately for us, there's no such thing as 'intel compiled only'. It's either Universal or PPC.
- Angostura, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6"PUT THE MACINTOSH DOWN AND PLACE YOUR HANDS ON YOUR HEAD"
- Lutz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3ey come on... don't digg him down, do you digg down children longing for christmas as well? :)
- blugu64, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4@ Dakk
Sorry, didn't mean to come off that way. Pet Peeve of mine I guess. - vtwin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3You don't need to type this in the terminal for it to work...
Just drag the widget out of the DashBoard bar, hit the DashBoard key (F12 by default) and drop it on the desktop. - superrcat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Nice. I hope the next major release of Xcode uses the same type of interface elements, like combining interface design and code view.
- Zorlen, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5@silent1
Apple Desk Accessories existed long before Konfabulator. Konfabulator merely implemented Apple's idea on OS X before Apple got around to it. Check your facts before you reply. - geekdreams, on 10/12/2007, -7/+10@geekThing - click the article's title.
- musichris777, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3so yea, it crashed on me a couple times, and i finally sent an error report to apple. i thought to myself, should i really have done that?
- colonels1020, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This is awesome. I can't wait to make a widget!
And to answer your question, it is universal, so it should work on your iBook. - masterchief, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8if you want a widget on your desktop just type this into terminal
defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES
logout or restart and then when you drag your widget from the dashboard, press whatever key you use to open dahsboard and then drop it and it'll be on your desktop
http://www.thefifthrule.com - JohnnySoftware, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3You can get TONS of free information on programming the Mac - not to mention Xcode and sundry SDKs - over at http://developer.apple.com/
Apple's Xcode uses the famous Gnu C Compiler (GCC). So it produces fast, efficient code - and Apple doesn't have to waste its time maintaining a cutting edge C/C /Objective-C compiler. They can focus on the things that are unique to their platform environments. Just look at how many new OS versions and features they have come out with in the past 5 years. It seems to be working for them!
A very recent book on the subject of Mac development is "Beginning Xcode" (by James Bucanek, (c) 2006, published by wrox).
It covers a number of topics relating to directly Xcode - the standard/free IDE for the Mac. Objective-C, Cocoa, Carbon, AppleScript - you are supposed to learn elsewhere. The API stuff is very well covered the Apple Developer website - and in the copious online documentation bundle you can grab when you get the latest Xcode.
A nice book on AppleScript programming, if you want to do scripting on the Mac (it is _way_ powerful scripting), is: "AppleScript for Dummies". He covers the language, how to program in it, and what to use it for. A lot of programs under Mac OS X are scriptable, especially ones from Apple. He shows you how to program them. The whole book is written in tutorial fashion. It is not one of those half tutorial, half reference books. You will get plenty of reference material in Apple's documentation.
O'Reilly makes a decent book about Objective-C in the form of one of those ten dollar pocket-sized references. The main language for programming OS X, at least in Cocoa (the NS* API classes) is Objective-C. If you want to use an object-oriented framework on the Mac, you had better learn that.
Java runs on the Mac and at least up through JDK 1.4 you could call Cocoa stuff directly, via a semi-transparent adapter layer. I think it is still there in the the Mac version of JDK 1.5 (J5SE) but Apple has talked about phasing it out because apparently it is a maintenance headache for their engineering team.
Java programs run pretty well on the Macintosh. So does Ruby. You will frequently see screenshots, screencasts, and photos in programming books by these developers that were obviously taken on a Mac.
Eclipse IDE for Java (and now Ruby, etc.) runs fine on the Macintosh.
So does RadRails (www.RadRails.org), though you need to go look at the instructions a guy blogged about 5 months ago, cited in Apple's latest Ruby On Rails article, to get Ruby 1.8.4 and Ruby On Rails 1.1.2 (latest versions) installed (properly, ahem!) on your Mac.
The Apache Java and XML related software seems to work fine on the Macintosh. Of course, Apache 1.3 web server comes with the operating system. People might not know that, but it does.
In general, Macintosh programming tools are free from Apple, and many other sources. This tends to have a "snowball" effect and makes most software on the Macintosh very affordable. Which explains why so many developers using multiplatform languages have gravitated towards the Macintosh.
Before you go too wild buying Mac programming books, download the latest Xcode from Apple's site, and the documentation bundle if it is not included, and see what you got. Then decide what you want to do, and figure out what else you need.
Here are some links to some web pages that have some decent material about Objective-C on them:
http://digg.com/apple/Apple_Updates_Xcode_2.3_Developer_Tools#c1790570
Oh, and Xcode 2.3 just came out. - vtwin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2DashCode is HyperCard 2006! Native color support, at last!
The ironic thing is that HyperCard served as an inspiration for the World Wide Web. - windsok, on 10/12/2007, -6/+8thepiratebay.org
- powerbookguy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4the file is still there...I just downloaded it 10 seconds ago.
- chucker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Nope, it's Universal.
- thinkdifferent, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@ambethia
"Fortunately for us, there's no such thing as 'intel compiled only'. It's either Universal or PPC."
Not true. You can compile for PPC only, Intel only or Universal. However, it doesn't make any sense for a developer to compile for Intel only as the install base isn't that big yet for Intel macs. - buglord, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2if you're having problems with the mirrors, theres a torrent at tpb.org:
http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3489335 - shadedream, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Not to mention if they are on your desktop running at all times they are consuming resources at all times... once you put away the dashboard the widgets stop consuming processor time for the most part.
- iWorks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2There are no accidents... only sourcecode you don't yet have.
- mark1372, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I thought the "block user" button just hid that user's comments from whomever clicked it. Does it actually escalate to bannination if enough people click?
There's also somewhat a difference, IMHO, between a loser spammer douchebag and someone who may post controversial comments that some people may not want to see. A spammer needs to be banned immediately, just as a story can automatically be buried. It's an entirely different category of *****. - unkn0wn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I checked, and that is the exact same disc info as mine.
- blugu64, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3@Dakk
Ahh-hem....I think you mean System 1.0, it's only been called Mac OS since 7.6 - windsok, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1unkn0wn,
Can you post the details written on your Mac OS X install discs? such as Disk Version, build numbers etc, so others can check their own discs and see if they have the same - Angostura, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I would probably go here http://developer.apple.com/ and join the free 'online' version of Apple Developer Connection. It gives you access to developer-specific forums and a few other goodies, including online reference material. The guys in the forums there will probably be able to give specific info on the best books.
- dkedinger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I was able to make a countdown widget for a website I am designing that goes live in a couple of months in a few minutes.
- Ireland, on 10/29/2007, -4/+5It look easier to use, and clearer than Widgetarium, but I suppose it is form apple :)
- Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Anyone recommend a good soup-to-nuts book on developing for OS X? I've developed for Windows using VB, VC++, and Java, but I've never taken the plunge into OS X.. since I'm thinking of migrating my desktop over when the G5's successor comes along since I love my iBooks so much, It's probably time to take start plugging away.
- tizz66, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well if you want to write widgets, you just need to know Javascript and CSS pretty much. But if you mean application development, most are Objective-C and Cocoa, so look for books on that.
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