Comments on: Using Flash in Dashboard widgets on Leopard

By: Smeadramp

Smeadramp — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:36:44 +0000

As newly registered user i just want to say hi to everyone else who uses this board :-)

By: Saravanan.B

Saravanan.B — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:56:15 +0000

HI Aral.. i am one of the great fans..
you are execellent..

Let me introduce..

I am flash developer.. i am intrested in creating flash widgets…how can we make our flash content as one that can be used by peoples in their website..

Any info will be useful for me thanks in advance..

By: Briskar

Briskar — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 21:54:41 +0000

Wow! I better upgrade to Leopard now :-)

By: Andreas

Andreas — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 01:50:41 +0000

This “Open in Dashboard” feature does not work at all for me. After selecting an area of a web page and clicking “Add”, the dashboard shows up all of a sudden, and… nothing happens! Absolutely nothing.

By: Nirth

Nirth — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 21:19:57 +0000

I wonder, is there any way to create ‘installable’ widgets with Flash?

By: Aral

Aral — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:15:47 +0000

Hi Steve,

My little bunny widget uses SWFObject and it worked for me :)

By: Steve James

Steve James — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 07:09:47 +0000

Wow! I forgot about that feature somewhere in my excitement of Leopard. I could be wrong, but this feature does not work as easy for SWFObject pieces as for hard coded Flash objects. You can still select the portion of the webpage almost as easily though!

By: James Urquhart

James Urquhart — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:16:31 +0000

I wonder what the memory usage is like with multiple flash widgets displayed in separate dashboard widgets?

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:37:36 +0000

I’ve been having an issue with widgets created this way not allowing get URLs. Has anyone else seen this or is it a known issue?

Also once you create a widget this way can you save it and send it to others. It seems to be trapped in dashboard at this point.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:04:22 +0000

Here’s something that’s just as cool (or maybe even cooler :o):

http://snippage.gabocorp.com/

(And since it’s “running on air’ it’s for Windows too ;))