Help Developing a Widget

Friday, June 2, 2006 by XDvir | Discussion: DesktopX Development

Hi,
I am trying DesktopX as development environment for a widget I would like to develop for internal use in our company.
The idea is to have a speedometer type of widget that is showing a number value from a web service.
Can anyone point me to an open widget I can have a look and see the way it was developed in order to learn from?

I have the garphics designed (Not that complecated) however, getting the pointer to actually move to a specific value and/or getting the value from the web service to the pointer is something I am struggling with. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Dvir
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ZubaZ
Reply #1 Friday, June 2, 2006 8:10 AM
How big a company? You might want to be sure you are in license complience before you go too far into this (see https://www.stardock.com/products/desktopx/purchase.asp). A widget requires DX to be running on every PC using it. A gadget requires DXPro to create.

I'd look at the Silica RSS reader that comes packaged with DX. It's well commented for pulling down structured web data.

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XDvir
Reply #2 Friday, June 2, 2006 10:50 AM
For sure I am going to purchase the product that will proove the ability of the development we want.

To your question, it's not a big company but the Gadget might grow to big community and that's just adds to the reasons to purchase.

For now I am only testing and would like to be sure the product can do it and I can do it with the product...

Thanks for your ref, but I would like to have something that only reads from about two webservices that I control their structure so it's not a matter of parsing the major problem I have is making the speedometter point to the right direction. Can you tip me on that?

Thanks,
Dvir

ZubaZ
Reply #3 Friday, June 2, 2006 1:25 PM
Can you tip me on that?


I'm not a developer, I just play one on TV.

I know just enough about .Net, SOAP, WDSL, and ActiveX to steer you in every direction but the right one. I get confused about what's consuming what and posting where.

Sorry, no help.

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