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Now that you understand how the widgets interoperate on the page, you can take it a step further and create a more complex situation.

A drop-down list at the bottom-left of the widget allows you to toggle between Line, Area, and Plot chart representations of the data.

As such, it provides a robust, easy-to-use widget to view, add, edit or delete del. icio. us bookmarks from within any PHP application.

The setup of our widget is now complete, and the program is ready to receive user events.

Customers have raved to us about this widget and some have even said it was the key factor in getting them to use Backpack.

You are now ready to incorporate your HTML form widget into the sample mashup application described in the Sample scenario section.

For a large number of widgets, this will quickly add up to a large footprint both in memory and JVM startup time.

After dragging something into one of these text boxes, you click the button next to it, and that something is turned into a widget.

If screens with many input fields do not line up properly, change the alignment on the Field widget to one of the values below.

IBM Mashup Center provides a ready-to-use widget for embedding HTML fragments in a mashup page.

With these preparations out of the way, you are now ready to build the custom HTML form widget.

Lijit is a combined search and statistics package for your blog rolled in to a widget that's easy to install.

You should be able to see that the myWeather widget displays weather information of the location (zip code), the Yahoo!

Create an additional widget on your Web-conferencing page to help automatically identify speakers to new members of your team.

They fill life with checklists, and try to crank out tasks as if they were widget machines.

When wiring an action for a widget, you can specify where you want users to see the results of the action.

To see how HATS uses the style sheets, display the settings for the widget definition of your choice.

Beyond the definition of a widget, what qualifies as a widget is being debated in marketing conference rooms around the world.

The new System Health widget monitors the health and status of your deployed integration modules, enabling you to quickly diagnose problems.

After installation of the engine will be able to run on this platform a variety of Widget tool.

Use a more subdued version of your color scheme on the back of the widget. This helps the user distinguish the widget's back from its front.

Having completed the design of a finite state machine in Part 1, you are ready to implement the FadingTooltip widget in JavaScript.

The next section starts you off by describing the sample scenario used to illustrate the features of the HTML form widget.

Now, all that needs to be done is use this widget in an HTML file to view the internationalized content, seen in Listing 7.

Contains the title of the widget and a few action buttons represented by icons (move widget, edit, refresh, help, and close).

Putting it all together, you get a widget that looks like that shown in Figure 2, ready for inclusion on an HTML page.

At this point, you add three new attributes to the existing ClickToCall widget declaration, as shown in Listing 4.

It will not be hard to implement these keyboard features, but it is difficult to tell screen readers the attributes of this widget.

"We have no competition. There's nobody else who's ever made a widget like this. "

This will also avoid that the widget converter and field validator get out of sync.

As a second example I'll show how you can create your own widget using the word-of-the-day feed on Wiktionary.

You are now ready to create the model for your widget.

Among the widgets available today, Yahoo has announced an eBay widget, a CBS Entertainment widget, and a MySpace widget.

When developing the UI for your RUI handler, another good practice is to use the Box widget to organize areas of your UI.

The default size of the widget should be small, but it should be able to expand if the task requires it.

In short, a gadget or widget is any mini-application that's easy to build, easy to deploy, and easy to consume.

The payload of an event carries messages that are sent between the sending widget and the receiving widget, as shown in Figure 1.

At the core of the problem in this widget, and in general, is determining which widget the action took place in.

Note that the presence of the android: id attribute enables the application to make reference to a specific widget within the layout.

The implementation of the action widget must include some specific events and functions for it to work with the container toolbar widget.

The widget developer has almost full control of the content displayed in the body of a Home page widget.

The account administrator for the tenant will have to approve the request using the Company widget in their Business Space.

You can sign up for an Adsense account and relevant adverts are shown where you place the widget on your site.

In the Send Widget dialog, enter the user ID jjames, along with a subject and a message, as shown in Figure 25, then click Submit.

The templatePath attribute tells Dojo that this widget is to use the specified HTML template for rendering.

The toolbar widget displays the configuration parameters of your widget while it is in the edit mode in a separate configuration panel.

Each precision cut building piece can be transformed into a tower, an animal, a widget, a masterpiece!

There's also widget tools for you to add your wishlist to your blog or personal website.

As such, it provides a robust, easy-to-use widget for any PHP application.

In the last part of this article, we covered a few advanced widget programming topics.

If your design has started to feel stale, spruce it up with a new template, widget, or plugin.

For my final example code on performance, take a look at the widget I talked about in the very first article in the series (see Resources).

Integrating the last designs -widget in the front page.

Each item you integrate has its own widget, or section, on your group overview page, as shown in Figure 19.

You should be able to add multiple instances of the same widget on the same page without any of the names overlapping.

Let's suppose you had a carousel widget and a photo gallery widget that you downloaded from different sites, and they both used jQuery.

If so, get that widget to the top of your design list and place it in highly visible areas of the site.

carousel: This widget is a rolling image viewer that customers can use to scroll through a list of items, each portrayed by a small graphic.

It simply provides the name of the widget as it appears in the toolbox menu and the location of the widget definition file (iWidget. xml).

As an example, the widget might have a Web table to update with the data representing rows in a database server.

At this point, there is no difference in the behavior of the widget to users.

Since Dojo lets you assign a target URL to a div container, we create a div that will reference our widget that we exposed as a resource.

Two of its major components are a graphical library called the Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) and a matching utility framework called JFace.

cadd is to be added to the child's widget allocation (width or height).

Anybody who grows a crop or carves a piece of wood into a sculpture or makes a widget will be creating wealth.

The wiring specified that the salesman ID is to be sent to the chart widget when a row is selected.

In Communities, widgets can be placed by the community owner in predefined placement areas on the Community page through the widget palette.

For those widgets that are in a toolbox catalog, the XML can be obtained from the extension. xml file attached to the widget document.

Once you fill out the form with your (second) blog's details, the new widget can be customized and deployed.

When configuring the widget, users can select which of the predictions to show (multiple predictions can be defined for a KPI).

While he explained that it's difficult to know why the Digg widget works better, he speculates it may be the sizing of the font used.

Tooltips defined with the FadingTooltip widget pop into and out of view, rather than fading in and out.

According to Wikipedia, a widget is "a placeholder name for an object or, more specifically, a mechanical or other manufactured device. "

So, in the insurance approval widget, only the company name field and control buttons are displayed.

Draft Manager - This widget enables authorized users to move draft projects into a released state.

If the going price of widgets is $10 and I buy a widget, it must be because that widget is worth more than $10 to me.

In this case, the ClickListener is called when your button is clicked and simply toggles the text in the label widget back and forth.

Doing so adds a line that loads the Tree widget, which allows you to use the widget in the content area of your code.

This widget is usually used internally by other widgets to generate dates.

Select a gadget, and click the button Add to your webpage, which directs you to the widget description page.

In a perfect world, each of the dialog boxes would have been implemented as a widget.

It's very easy to customize the tree images for the GWT Tree widget.

These properties could be size, color, whether or not the widget is visible, etc.

It would be nice to also have an embed option for the auditions , along with a voting option included in the widget.

The status of the service control points can be viewed through this widget as well.

You can create the subtask by selecting New from the actions menu for a task in the task information widget, as shown in Figure 3.

Although his comments were specific to a social media campaign, they are relevant to the widget decision as well.

This is really the goal of any widget you design, to make the addition and removal of the widget as simple as adding a class to it.

A widget can be accessed through the sidebar, launching it from Live Text or text selection, or adding it to composite applications.

It works great as a minimal DOM lib for any supported PhoneGap platform but it explicitly does not provide a widget framework.

Once a specific ticket is chosen from that menu, the related form elements appear in the body of the widget and the Action menu is enabled.

To support these scenarios, the Task Information widget has a new setting to accept the next available task, as shown in Figure 7.

Log into Business Space and navigate to a page where you want to put the sample widget.

Therefore it would be useful to develop a special field (and corresponding widget) that strips out disallowed HTML tags.

They are just beginning to roll out their feed commerce widgets across a network of partner blogs.

An earlier version said Forbes. com would not seek widget sponsors other than Visa, which is not the case.

If the elements are not signed by the server, iNotes users are not able to browse the widgets catalog.

Now add a Line Edit widget from the Inputs list and click on the 'enabled' property in the bottom left panel to disable it.

While this page consists of a number of different widgets, we'll look at the itemDetails widget shown at the bottom in Figure 6.

Widget: A widget is a portable set of code that can be installed and executed within the HTML-based Web page without compilation.

As you can see in Listings 3 and 4, we have implemented a simple widget and small set of stand-alone functions.

The Service Monitor widget monitors service response times and throughput in a graphic chart, as shown in Figure 17.

The title that you enter is displayed in the title bar of the widget; for instance, the title can be Google Date Time.

List-oriented viewers will implement the structured viewer, where the content maps to the widget item in a structured (listed) manner.

As mentioned in a previous step, the SFM business space widget and the SFM coordinator application must be installed on the same server.

A hand-sketched prototype is low-fidelity in look, compared to a prototype that uses the same widget set as the finished implementation.

A widget can trigger events and metadata that describes event types associated with it, allowing for dynamic content on the page.

The widget is very easy to use - set the cities and add widget to the home screen and you are done!

The above is the syntax to call the submit function defined in the widget's JavaScript file.

You MUST have created widgets in the past and MUST be able to show examples of your desktop widget work!

The TreeItem widget will also be used to help create sub-trees and position pop-up windows.

Without getting too deeply into the details of the GWT widget set, this code creates a button and a label.

Some of the widgets include a countdown timer, a weather widget, and a flickr widget.

The properties of these documents are specified in the payload, and these properties are populated in the Content List widget.

Encapsulation is needed to allow several instances of the same widget to be open on the page without resource clashes.

Lotus Widget Factory generates fixed-height widgets that might result in a vertical scroll bar on your deployment.

This article assumes that you are already familiar with building mashups and feeds as well as the basics of writing a widget.

Similarly, to set a widget to its disabled style, use the "Disable Widget(s)" action.

This widget is a simple composite that allows its child to be shown or hidden (i. e. , collapsed or expanded).

Note that the SFM coordinator app MUST be installed on the same server as the SFM business space widget will be installed on.

If you are planning on building a widget or getting one for your site, there are a number of great websites to get you started.

At the top of the page is an In-basket widget, which shows all of the tasks assigned to this engineer.

Label item. This is a separate widget on the form similar to a field or to a pop-up list.

The ECM step completion widget is responsible for communicating with other ECM widgets and with the process engine REST services.

The ID of the place for which you want the statistics is held as an attribute on the widget.

Select the option Add another widget at the bottom right of the page.

To set a menu item to its selected style, use the "Set Widget(s) to Selected State" action.

Identifies the category to which this widget belongs.

The Content List widget displays the documents that are retrieved by the store search, as shown in Figure 18.

The implementer can operate on the widget's DOM structure at this point.

There are no restrictions on the technologies used for the server-side code of the widget.

It also provides links to the profile pages of those connections as a part of the widget.

You will use this as a basis for a new search results display widget, as shown in Listing 14.

Let's say that as a user of the Widget class, you don't know whether the accessors have value or reference semantics.

The widget created in this section fetches a list of podcasts recorded by IBM developerWorks and available through a standard RSS feed.

JFace viewers are abstractions built atop SWT (standard widget toolkit) widgets (see Resources for a good SWT reference).

As you can see, SWF took a different approach with this widget.

You can also go on to the next tab to select a YouTube video for creating a mashup directly in the pop up widget.

Finally, take care in specifying host component and widget settings for your particular host application.

A section is a GUI widget or a composite containing a group of widgets that maps to one or to multiple properties.

After wiring two widgets together, use the insurance approval widget as a controller to save, close, and complete a work item.

The Bluecard widget takes advantage of this popularity by automatically providing contextual employee information.

Returns scripts associated with widget. This is an advanced feature that would not be commonly used.

Unfortunately, the widget does not support an -orient attribute; ProgressBars are always oriented horizontally.

We opted for a series of radio buttons, one for each format, and these can be added by dragging the Radio Button widget from the palette.

The sample provided with this article displays Key Performance Indicator (KPI) historical data in a Flex widget deployed in Business Space.

Widget makers say the collection of users' Web-browsing activity is an unintended side effect of how the tools work.

Also it describes the application method of each kind of interface models, including the class designer and control widget toolbox.

The type sample. ScoreWidget is the custom dojo widget used for subscription and display purposes.

jQuery Calendar Widget Plugin is a simple jQuery Calendar Widget Plugin with a month view.

The line in the KPI History and Prediction widget shows the historical trend and possible future trends of a given KPI.

So, enter the DOH and its facility for handling widget testing in browsers as well as synchronous function testing.

To store this widget, create a table called student with fields corresponding to the set of information identified in the list above.

A special widget has been created that builders can include in their SA to provide such a link.

The new KPI History and Prediction widget provides a time-based chart for analysis of the history data.

In fact, our Widget class above could have been declared to be a trait.

Simply click the Info button on the widget to flip it over and access its settings, then click again to turn it back around.

Mr McCombe thinks these are better opportunities than in trying to make a cheaper widget.

The user interface is very close to the one shown in figure 2, except that you need to select the option Upload a Widget Package.

Let's take a look at an example change role event to understand how to leverage it to build a role selector widget.

Annotations can be added to any widget on the wireframe.

A new function to display the widget is placed at the bottom of the script.

If you want to see the widgets in action, you need to download some extra applications if you don't already have them installed.

The parameter to this widget is a boolean variable, which in this case is called noReviews.

Vista gadgets are small applications that reside on your computer desktop offering information and services from your computer and the web.

Tap the widget to display full screen version of pictures of your children, friends, kids, pets, babies, holidays, etc.

ScoreWidget. js is the dojo widget used for subscribing to channels and displaying the results.

If they don't add up to 100, I display an error indication to the user that they haven't used the widget correctly.

The only thing left to do now is to make some changes to the theme so that the user has a way to display the widget.

GetJar provides a Web-based widget which can be pasted onto mobile websites or Facebook pages to point visitors to the hosted app at GetJar.

The Gauge widget can be used to create dynamically self-updating graphical displays and dashboards.

Enter the Decorator pattern, which can add a capability uniformly to any Widget.

To create a widget package, use a command-line compressed file utility to create the compressed file archive as shown in Listing 5.

It provides a place for the globalized title and description information about each widget in the WAR file.

In this way, we enabled our widget classes to be used for testing either Java or HTML applications.

The W3C "Widget Packaging and Configuration" specification is an emerging specification for configuring, packaging, and deploying widgets.

As with any software available on the Internet, make sure you trust the source before you download and install a widget on your computer.

Copy the store search URL and paste it into the configuration window in the Content List widget, as shown in Figure 17.

The rest of this article focuses on designing the FadingTooltip widget as a finite state machine.

SWT, the widget library, is one of these.

If the element for the widget specifies an unsupported target, then the output is displayed in a Lotus iNotes tab panel.

This step involves putting a wrapping around the widget and giving it the class lotusDialogBorder and max-width and width attributes.

SliderBar and ProgressBar- Both of these widgets currently require the use of a global timer, which has performance implications.

I can provide sample of widget look and feel and any other additional info in PM.

They look a little like a spring, and you can add either a vertical or horizontal spacer from the widget palette.

On your My widgets page, click the down arrow to the right of the Twitter widget title bar, and click Edit.

Also, all widgets now use the same settings, you no longer have to modify the settings in each widget individually.

All the necessary materials to deploy the Place Statistics widget are contained in the EAR file supplied with this article.

Currently, the most interesting one here is the Google widget, which allows you to very easily search Google and add a link to the wave.

Each element represents a type of widget that will be placed into a cell at runtime.

There are also a ton of skins available for your widget, so make sure to check out the official blog and find one that suits your fancy.

This article has taken you through the basic steps of constructing a widget, including dynamic event registration and server communication.

Line 6: We make this widget publically available, meaning that everyone using the system can use the widget as well.

The step processor page reflects the ECM step completion widget being hidden from the displayed page, as shown in Figure 7.

Lotus Widget Factory is an integrated development environment (IDE) for creating dynamic custom widgets.

buildRendering: This method is called when it's time to produce rendering for the widget.

SWT is a widget set and graphics library integrated with the native window system, but with an OS-independent API.

It is available as part of the complete widget package that you can download from the appropriate link in the Resources section.

As in many Web applications, I wished to create an interface widget in a fixed position on the screen.

In business space, you can send a widget to another user in an ad-hoc workflow as a human task.

The Step Processor page displays the insurance approval widget and the step completion widget side by side, as shown in Figure 5.

Use a data mashup to transform the order information feed to the format the chart widgets needs, as shown in Figure 6.

When creating your own page or modifying an existing page, you can add in your own widget, selecting from a list as shown in Figure 4.

Why would a Linux or even a Windows developer want to use Eclipse, as opposed to one of the GUI widget toolboxes?

The JavaScript files usually contain code written by the widget developer and defining the behavior and logic of the widget.

Resizing doesn't drag the object itself, but it does drag a corner of the object as well as the resize widget, if any.

There may be situations where you need to wrap DIV or SPAN containers around to a form widget to access it from your CSS stylesheets.

The function switches over the specific code paths that are needed for the different widget types.

So, the next logical feature to add to a Widget is a description.

Lotus Widget Factory automatically generates the source code of your widget based on the model that you put together in the tool.

A widget displays content for a section of a business space page.

Then, I installed the files on my site and added a link to the SWF widget on the HTML page, as shown in Listing 1.

The widget ties into your device's calendar to show up to 4 upcoming entries right there on your homescreen.

You have active widgets on the homepage. You have notifications, which show up in the device's status bar.

By wrapping complex Rational Functional Tester API code into methods in widget classes, we have made manual coding of scripts much easier.

These widgets can be visible for rendering the user interface or hidden for performing background processing.

When this method is invoked from the widget code, the items (name-value pairs) are persisted across the user session.

But HTML has no inherent capability to know that, say, Item No. JG1896 is an Acme widget with a retail price of $9. 95.

The widget enables authorized users to add, delete, and update calendar information, as shown in Figure 1.

Is not the actual SWT widget , nor does it try to hide the SWT widget from you .

Inserts a widget into a cell of a table.

You can create advanced, rich text-based UIs by perfectly combining the Dojo Tree widget with a REST-based data store.

In GUI programming we often want a change in one widget to be notified to another widget.

However, you need to make the widget look like an organization (tree node), instead of like an employee (tree leaf).

Copy the hyperlink into the content list widget configuration panel, as shown in Figure 12.

In the example in Listing 4, note how the HTML is structured, as anyone wanting to use this widget will have to match it.

The only question that remains is whether people will buy a new TV just for the widgets?

The shape of a Flow Shape widget can be changed by right clicking and using the "Edit Flow Shape" submenu.

The idea here is to consider every widget on a panel, and actually the entire panel itself, as an independent JavaScript object.

The CheckBox widget also covers the RadioButton widget; there is no need to import additional code for a radio button.

WebSphere Integration Developer selects the best-fitting Dojo widget for each field of the business object, depending on data type.

He immediately uses the BGTerm Finder widget to look up the term and edit it in real time to correct its definition.

Configure the ECM Widgets In-basket widget to show the new in-basket widget by setting the application space name, as shown in Figure 9.

You can use a report widget to view a line chart report of transaction status, as shown in Figure 8.

To close Address Book in Dashboard, press the Option key and move the pointer over the widget, then click the close ( "X" ) button.

This is inevitably followed by requests for a name of a widget, or where others could acquire a particular background image.

You'll begin your object prototype with the state variables from Part 1 that the widget will need, as shown in Listing 2.

The second widget shows the headlines from The New York Times RSS feed, which gets its data with the YQL shown in Listing 4.

Regardless of what the widget is, its definition requires a consistent set of information.

Its value is a widget object that defines the content to be displayed within the window below the title and menu bars.

As shown in Figure 5, the Customized Widget Project dialog shows the names of the files under the "Select a file" heading.

On the "Stock to Watch" widget, a Forbes. com personal finance editor offers daily suggestions and details their best stock of the day.

There are already a few Yahoo! TV widgets available now and several more have been announced as coming soon.

Select Hide in the configuration menu of the step completion widget, as shown in Figure 6.

If your custom action widget requires configuration, include configurable attributes and an edit mode.

Mouse Down Style: This style is applied when the user clicks down on a widget.

The Task Information widget shows the task, including the response comments, as shown in Figure 28.

The widget will take streams of news info and some statistics from a application server and send to the desktop widget of a client.

Listing 3 shows that this widget can receive an event named receiveData, which triggers the function handleData.

This widget displays your recent photos. Photos refresh automatically every hour. Don't forget to save your settings.