Creating a Dashboard Widget that uses a Plugin

The "Creating A Dashboard Widget that uses a Plugin" article that I wrote for MacTech is online.

Did you find the above information helpful? You will find a lot more information in my eBook "Programming Dashboard Widgets". The eBook describes how you can create Apple Dashboard Widgets using many programming languages including JavaScript, Perl, Objective-C, and PHP. You can buy it here.

Disadvantages of Widget plugins

• It is more difficult and time consuming to program a plugin for a functionality that is also supported by JavaScript.
  

• It is more difficult to debug a plugin.
  
• You have to learn Objective-C.
• You also have to learn Cocoa.

Did you find the above information helpful? You will find a lot more information in my eBook "Programming Dashboard Widgets". The eBook describes how you can create Apple Dashboard Widgets using many programming languages including JavaScript, Perl, Objective-C, and PHP. You can buy it here.

Advantages of Widget plugins

• Nobody can change your Widget plugin.
• You can create commercial Widgets.
• Your source code is hidden and more secure.
• You can do things that simply are not possible with JavaScript and the built-in Widget functions by using the Cocoa framework.

Did you find the above information helpful? You will find a lot more information in my eBook "Programming Dashboard Widgets". The eBook describes how you can create Apple Dashboard Widgets using many programming languages including JavaScript, Perl, Objective-C, and PHP. You can buy it here.