mac dashboad

[Carl K]

Chris Mellon wrote:
> On Dec 21, 2007 3:25 PM, Carl K <carl at personnelware.com> wrote:
>> ianaré wrote:
>>> On Dec 21, 12:37 pm, Carl K <c... at personnelware.com> wrote:
>>>> How do I hang an app off the mac dashboard?
>>>>
>>>> The goal is a python version of Weatherbug.
>>>>
>>>> something like:
>>>> read xml data from a URL,
>>>> display some numbers,
>>>> mouse over shows more details
>>>>
>>>> Carl K
>>> What is the dashboard - is it anything like the taskbar in windows/
>>> Gnome? If it is, take a look at this:
>>>
>>> http://www.wxwidgets.org/manuals/2.6.3/wx_wxtaskbaricon.html
>> Yes.  But I don't want to rely on wx - trying to use just native mac python
>> (whatever they ship with)
>>
> 
> 
> Dashboard widgets are written using HTML and Javascript. They are
> rendered by a WebKit instance which, as far as I know, has no
> mechanism for Python scripting. Unless it does, you can't write a
> widget in Python, and even so you wouldn't use wx (or any other GUI
> toolkit) to do so - your display medium is HTML and the Canvas object.
> There's lots of articles on developer.apple.com about writing
> Dashboard widgets.

bah.  takes the fun out of it.

Thanks,
Carl K