My own Dashboard Widget

Friday, July 13, 2007

I wrote my first Dashboard Widget last night! I basically followed the Hello World tutorial, except instead of displaying the words “Hello World”, I put in something more useful for me: the symbols for Apple keyboard shortcuts and which keys they are. After using my Mac for so long, I still can’t remember what the symbols stand for. I can remember however the F12 key which brings up the Dashboard, so that’s why I wrote the widget.

Shortcuts Dashboard Widget

The hardest part was not the widget code itself but putting together some graphics that didn’t look like total crap next to the other widgets on the Dashboard:

Shortcuts widget icon

geeky

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1. yoshi United States said:

on Jul 14 2007 @ 12:21 AM

Nice! as long as I’ve been using mac, you’d think i’d remember too, but nope. I don’t remember much at all! tongue

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