[Ham-Mac] Dashboard Widgets

[Jack Brindle]

I haven't received the developer mailing yet with Tiger, so I haven't 
actually played with Dashboard yet. The demo I saw at MacWorld tends to 
make me think these things are a bit less useful than they could be. 
Unlike the old Desk Accessories of the original MacOS, it appears that 
all Dashboard widgets are displayed simultaneously, and when you switch 
to another app, they all disappear. Again, this was behavior from last 
January,  but if this is the case, I would much rather have a small 
application that does a job instead of a Dashboard widget. Yes, many of 
the widgets are really cool (OK, way, way cool from what I saw), but it 
appears to me that between the limitations and the relative ease 
(remember, I'm a developer) of creating small apps, why bother with 
widgets?

Now, can someone who actually has a copy of Tiger running set me 
straight as to how they actually perform?

On Apr 30, 2005, at 4:00 PM, Dick Kriss, AA5VU wrote:

> On 4/30/05 11:12 AM, "Stan Horzepa" <stanzepa at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> Anything hammy - I'm easy to please!
>
> If you are looking for more widgets go here:
>
> http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/dashboard/
>
> Nice to see they are all freeware items

-Jack Brindle, W6FB
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