Monday, November 3, 2008

Gadget Designer

Gadget Designer is a tool, an IDE or Integrated Development Environment for creating a Google Desktop gadget. The tool will help you build a desktop gadget and provide a WYSIWYG for the UI and instead of running it in the sidebar you can use the tool to directly run it in the tool. The Gadget designer comes with the SDK.

Using the tool is better than working in Worpad. The most value about the tool is probably that you can run the Gadget directly with the program, that will safe you some time. Not all the times are the Gadget designer compatible to run your gadget or even render your UI, one example could be when you are using an element. And soon you'll have to write most of it's functionality in code mode. There are improvements to be made but it's very nice anyhow that you'll get a designer tool with your SDK.

Another nice thing about the tool is that you can debug your gadget while it's running. Using a trace method write this "gadget.debug.trace(string)". That will show a trace message in the console and when you have debug console active.

Desktop Gadget Designer

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