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kjuvale
Hi,

Has anyone of you got your hands on the not so new Yahoo Widgets. They are like small applications that run on your desktop and can be anything from a digital clock to a game of Tic Tac Toe.
You just need to download the Yahoo Widget Engine from the following link :[url] http://widgets.yahoo.com/download/ [/url]. After that you can just download the widgets from the widget gallery : http://www.widgetgallery.com/ . I tried my hand on making some widgets as well. You need to porgram the widgets in XML and JScript. You can check out my widgets at : [url]http://www.widgetgallery.com/?author=4969 .[/url]
wumingsden
kjuvale wrote:
Hi,

Has anyone of you got your hands on the not so new Yahoo Widgets. They are like small applications that run on your desktop and can be anything from a digital clock to a game of Tic Tac Toe.
You just need to download the Yahoo Widget Engine from the following link :[url] http://widgets.yahoo.com/download/ [/url]. After that you can just download the widgets from the widget gallery : http://www.widgetgallery.com/ . I tried my hand on making some widgets as well. You need to porgram the widgets in XML and JScript. You can check out my widgets at : [url]http://www.widgetgallery.com/?author=4969 .[/url]


I have also made Widgets although I have not released them to Yahoo Konfabulator and nor to I plan to do so neither. Most of them however will be available form my website. I suggest for everybody that don't know much about XML, etc, to try there hand at making Widgets, you learn a great deal from messing around a bit.
inflamesbhs
Widgets are lovely and all, but the yahoo widget engine is a HUGE memory hog... I wouldn't personally advise anyone to use it.
wumingsden
inflamesbhs wrote:
Widgets are lovely and all, but the yahoo widget engine is a HUGE memory hog... I wouldn't personally advise anyone to use it.


I don't cosider it to be huge, maybe this is just me. Granted most widgets are really no use at all, they are good though if you want to customize your desktop.
IceCreamTruck
I just made a cool solar system widget, AstroTwister!

OK, the widget is in beta right now, so it's only for the really brave!! but it's running on my machine as I'm typing this, so the bugs aren't that bad.

BTW, it runs under yahoo widget engine 3.1.4 and I haven't tested it elsewhere, so have fun!!

Go here to download the latest version of the widget, and enjoy!!

Keep checking back as I'm developing new versions all the time!!
IceCreamTruck
My AstroTwister widget is now at version 1.5!!

Go here - to download the latest version and review bug fixes and new features.

I'm really proud of this widget!!
eznet
wumingsden wrote:
kjuvale wrote:
Hi,

Has anyone of you got your hands on the not so new Yahoo Widgets. They are like small applications that run on your desktop and can be anything from a digital clock to a game of Tic Tac Toe.
You just need to download the Yahoo Widget Engine from the following link :[url] http://widgets.yahoo.com/download/ [/url]. After that you can just download the widgets from the widget gallery : http://www.widgetgallery.com/ . I tried my hand on making some widgets as well. You need to porgram the widgets in XML and JScript. You can check out my widgets at : [url]http://www.widgetgallery.com/?author=4969 .[/url]


I have also made Widgets although I have not released them to Yahoo Konfabulator and nor to I plan to do so neither. Most of them however will be available form my website. I suggest for everybody that don't know much about XML, etc, to try there hand at making Widgets, you learn a great deal from messing around a bit.


How did you deploy the widgets? Are the Java and XML or another language? I tried your site but it did not seem to work.

inflamesbhs wrote:
Widgets are lovely and all, but the yahoo widget engine is a HUGE memory hog... I wouldn't personally advise anyone to use it.


I agree, it did seem to be quite the resource how but as is pointed out before its Java... Java always seems to run slow on my windoze install...slightly less so in linux....
IceCreamTruck
Yahoo! Widgets are XML and JavaScript. I think that Y!WE supports other scripting languages, but not as many as Google Gadgets does. Gadgets can be written in perl, javascript, visualbasic, java, but they all have to use XML as a display language.

code="XML Sample"
Code:

<WINDOW WIDTH=100 HEIGHT=100 NAME=LOL>
...<IMG />
...<TEXT />
...<WHATEVER />
</WINDOW>


If you are a developer then you should mess around with widgets. As was stated before...it really does help you learn these langauges, and its FUN!
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