Simple dashboard application

Question

Hi all,

I am trying to have some fun with dashboard widgets, so I tried a simple application :

there will be a button over the widget which when clicked will open StackOverflow website in safari

To implement it, I tried this:

1. Created a custom dashboard widget.
2. Added a button to it from library.
3. Associated gotoStackOverflow handler with onclick event.
4. in body of function gotoStackOverflow, I wrote this code: window.open('http://stackoverflow.com/','Stackoverflow','width=400, height=300');

When I 'Run' the application I found no browser window appearing on click of the button.

Can anyone suggest me where I may be wrong or/ and some useful links to play with dashcode and dashboard widgets?

Thanks,

Miraaj

Answer 1

Your code runs fine, when I recreate it. Maybe you have pop-ups blocked in Safari?

Answer 2

have you added

<key>AllowNetworkAccess</key>
<true/>

to the plist? if not the outside world will not be available.

Answer 3

I have used following code to solve my problem:

function gotoStackOverflow(event)
{
    widget.openURL("http://stackoverflow.com/");
}

cheers... :)

Miraaj