mac dashboad

[Carl K]

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,
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Carl K

 

[ianaré]

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

 

[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)

Carl K

 

[Paul McNett]

Yes. But I don't want to rely on wx - trying to use just native mac python
(whatever they ship with)

Since OSX 10.4, Mac ships with wxPython installed.


Paul

 

[Chris Mellon]

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.

 

[Carl K]

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