My First Dashcode Widget
So it turns out that Steve Job’s famous reality distortion field was at work again when he first talk about the ease of use of dashcode. From a cursory glance at it, to do anything even remotely out of the field of the templates still requires you to learn java, or is it javascript?
It is very powerful, don’t get me wrong, but as someone who cant program in the relevant languages, and has no artistic bones in his body, I was only able to create a simple widget to display the RSS feed from this blog. Many of the components are drag-and-drop, so more playing may allow me to create a widget with a field on the back that allows the entering of a feed URL, only time will tell.
dwerg85 20:00 on January 25, 2007 Permalink |
So how did you get dashcode to show the wordpress feed? It only throws a null value error here.
Apparently it will work just fine if the feed is clearly defined as an .xml file tho (like say digg.com’s feed).
Jonathan Dann 20:07 on January 25, 2007 Permalink |
Hi dwerg85!
All I did was go to the “workflow steps” on the pane on the left of the screen. There’s one that says “Provide an RSS feed”, click the arrow and you the main window changes to the widget properties screen. One of the fields says “Feed URL”, into which I pasted
feed://jonathandann.wordpress.com/feed/
Hope this helps!