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Dashcode lets you quickly and easily build elegant and compelling Dashboard widgets.
Created to meet the need of widget developers, Dashcode combines powerful visual layout tools with a code editor, debugger, and comprehensive package management into a world-class integrated development environment.
It lets you easily and quickly create powerful and useful widgets for yourself, your organization, or even for distribution to the world.
From the start, Dashboard widgets were designed to be easy to develop. They use the familiar and widely used Web technologies of HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.
Because of the use of standard Web technologies, it's possible to develop a widget using only a text editor, such as TextEdit. However, very few developers are well-versed in creating both great graphical artwork and smoothly functioning code.
As well, it became apparent that the process of packing up a widget and tracking down bugs takes too much time when using just a text editor.
Dashcode was created to address all of these issues.
It takes care of packaging so that you don't have to create a widget's bundle by hand.
It provides a test runtime with a built-in debugger that's a click away so that you don't have to deploy your widget into Dashboard to test it.
And, it provides rich library of graphic elements for you to use to give your widget a compelling design. These features let you focus on making cool, unique, and polished widgets.

Dashcode in Mavericks:

Option 1:

In Finder right click on Dashcode app
Click Show Application Contents
Open Contents directory
Open Info.plist with TextEdit

Now modify the bundle identifier:

<key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
<string>com.apple.Dashcode</string>

to

<key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
<string>com.apple.DashcodeLegacy</string>

Done.

You can now open Dashcode without any Terminal tricks.

Option 2:

Go to your Applications folder, right click (ctrl click) on the Dashcode app,

click Show Package Contents

and in there go to the MacOS folder.

Click the “Dashcode” terminal application in that folder.

Dashcode should now launch… along with a terminal window, you have to wait a bit.

That’s it… it should work… you still get the horrible cross sign on the app though. And it might ask for your permission to access you Contacts and everything else.

Note 1: You can drag this terminal app to the desktop to create an alias directly to it, this way you get a faster way to launch it.

Note 2: To close the app, first quit Dashcode, then quit the Terminal app.



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This is very useful... thanks for this...

Wow. I am falling in love with Dashcode and am really finding it cool to handle. There is so much that will help you to keep out of “trouble” and the tips and tricks here are awesome!! Just started trying to build some simple widgets using Dashboard and I must say its coming out well!!

Hi There,

Thanks for sharing this post. I am using Mac OS and I really love dashcode. It makes everything so convenient.

Thanks.
John

hello there friends,
You,everyone knows everything or some of this doing of what is really the actual work of this widget talking about here..!! Please can you give me an explanations guys..Because I don`t know what is it in here..hahaha..And I know this is very interesting stuff and cool to do it..But how guys ..??

Good tips, thanks for sharing!

Very interesting post, I'm currently at college studying Web technologies, i find it very interesting.

Thanks

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