Chris Mellon wrote: > On Dec 21, 2007 3:25 PM, Carl K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> ianaré wrote: >>> On Dec 21, 12:37 pm, Carl K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
