DashcodeTips – Developer Tips for Dashcode

Refreshing a Widget

To refresh a specific widget, click on the widget once, and hit Command + R. You’ll notice a very cool “swirl” effect, which almost looks like a hurricane on a radar screen. Every widget you refresh will perform this “swirl” action, and subsequently refresh the widget content. If you’re wondering what widget this was that(…)

Preinstalled Dashboard Widgets

Your computer has several Dashboard widgets already installed. To view them, swipe right with three or four fingers. Or press the Dashboard key or F12 key (Fn-F12 on portable keyboards). Widget How to use it Business Choose a business name from the search field’s pop-up menu, or type a category (such as “pizza”), and view(…)

Dashboard 2013/2014

Widgets used to be one of the hottest things in tech, and everyone had them, not just Macs. Google had Google Desktop on PCs, Yahoo bought out Konfabulator, one of the original widget engines, and Microsoft had the Sidebar Widgets in Windows Vista. Even KDE, one of the more popular Linux desktop environments, had their(…)

Build Web Apps

When you first launch Dashcode (the easiest way to launch it is through Spotlight), you will see that Dashcode has already created some templates for you to build your Web applications quickly (see Figure 1). Figure 1: The various templates provided by Dashcode The best way to learn is to select each template (other than(…)

Starting a Project

When you start a new project, you base it on a Dashcode template or, in the case of Dashboard widgets, you can also base it on an existing widget. A project encapsulates all the files and resources that Dashcode uses to build a widget or web application for you. This chapter discusses the options you(…)

Creating Mac Widgets with Dashcode

Widgets are simple, typically small applications for a specific purpose, such as a weather report, a calculator, a stock quote, and the like that reside on the Mac Dashboard. Building these before Dashcode was time consuming though not hard; but now, you can whip up a Widget fast. Creating Mac Widgets with Dashcode teaches you how. Full(…)

Dashboard Environment

Dashboard widgets provide an easy way for people to access important information and perform simple tasks without disturbing their work on the desktop. The Dashboard application, available in OS X v10.4 and later, provides the environment widgets run in and allows users to manage their widgets. This article introduces the Dashboard environment and explains how(…)

Dashcode Tutorial Videos

Dashcode 3.0 – An IDE to build HTML apps for iPad, iPhone and Safari from daniel wanja on Vimeo. Creating Safari Web Applications with Dashcode from Sarah Laiwala on Vimeo. How to Make a Hybrid iPhone App in 7 Minutes iPhone Development with Dashcode

User Interface

After you’ve started a project as discussed in “Starting a Project,” use Dashcode’s design tools to design the interface of the widget or web application. This chapter describes the canvas, the interface design area in Dashcode, and how to begin laying out an interface. It also discusses how to add Dashcode parts to your project and how(…)

Shortcuts for Dashboard

You can use these shortcuts to work with Dashboard and Dashboard widgets. Action Shortcut Show or hide Dashboard Dashboard keyIf your keyboard doesn’t have a Dashboard key, press F12 (Fn-F12 on a portable keyboard). Reload the current widget Command (⌘)-R Show or hide the widget bar Command (⌘)-Equal Sign (=) Scroll the widget bar Command(…)