June 8, 2005

MacDevCenter has published a two-part article explaining how to build powerful and interesting dashboard widgets for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. Dashboard widgets use HTML and a special set of JavaScript functions to access many features of the Mac OS X 10.4 operating system. Widgets can run any Unix command, interact with programs like iTunes, draw on the screen using the Quartz API, make use of Internet plugins, and more. This article includes several dashboard widget source code samples to get you started.

Here are the Links

The MacDevCenter Article (Part 1)

The MacDevCenter Article (Part 2)