A new and improved Google Desktop Gadget Designer is out, with a couple of major new features. The Designer editor now includes autocompletion support and function call tips for the Google Desktop Gadget API and the JavaScript language.You can start a…
A new and improved Google Desktop Gadget Designer is out, with a couple of major new features. The Designer editor now includes autocompletion support and function call tips for the Google Desktop Gadget API and the JavaScript language.
You can start autocompletion by typing the “.” key or pressing Ctrl+Space. A list appears that displays objects, methods, properties, events, and constants to choose from, along with visual indicators to help you distinguish between them. Non-object related variables and functions are also dynamically recognized as you type them, and you’ll see autocompletion suggestions based on your current scope. The following screenshot shows how Designer displays autocompletion suggestions for view object properties and methods that start with “s”.
Call tips display function prototypes and short descriptions. They appear when you type an opening brace “(” or press Shift+Space. The following screenshot shows the call tip for the view.setInterval() method.
We sincerely hope that these new features will save you a lot of time while developing gadgets, making it that much more fun to bring your ideas to life. Please download the latest SDK and try out the new Gadget Designer.
Posted by Paneendra Ba, Software Engineer (Google Desktop Team)
Google Desktop has active ambassadors all over the world who have successfully held programming contests and seminars at their schools.As a stepping stone for bigger events, we held IIT Google Desktop Developer Challenge II at Informatics Institute of …
Google Desktop has active ambassadors all over the world who have successfully held programming contests and seminars at their schools.As a stepping stone for bigger events, we held IIT Google Desktop Developer Challenge II at Informatics Institute of …
In the past few weeks, we launched the YouTube, Calendar, and Google Docs gadgets, making them open source from the very beginning. We also wrote a short story on the Google Open Source blog about our experiences with these projects and how open sourci…
In the past few weeks, we launched the YouTube, Calendar, and Google Docs gadgets, making them open source from the very beginning. We also wrote a short story on the Google Open Source blog about our experiences with these projects and how open sourci…
We hope everyone had a great holiday season and enjoyed exchanging gifts with loved ones. The lucky ones among us may have been bestowed a 2009 wall calendar for the new year.If not, don’t feel bad — you can always use the brand new Calendar gadget t…
We hope everyone had a great holiday season and enjoyed exchanging gifts with loved ones. The lucky ones among us may have been bestowed a 2009 wall calendar for the new year.
If not, don’t feel bad — you can always use the brand new Calendar gadget to keep track of your Google Calendar events. This new gadget works on the Linux, Windows, and Mac versions of Desktop gadgets, and it supports all Google Accounts, including Google Apps accounts. Check out the official announcement on the Gmail blog.
The Calendar gadget doesn’t come with scenic shots of exotic locations, but it does have a day view mode so you can see what day it is at a glance.
Please try it out and let us know what you think.
Happy new year from the Google Desktop team!
Posted by James Yum, Developer Programs Engineer
The 0.10.4 release of Google Gadgets for Linux is out, with optimized performance and memory consumption, as well as many bug fixes. To install or upgrade your copy of Google Gadgets for Linux, just download and install the binaries for your platform.T…
The 0.10.4 release of Google Gadgets for Linux is out, with optimized performance and memory consumption, as well as many bug fixes. To install or upgrade your copy of Google Gadgets for Linux, just download and install the binaries for your platform.T…
We just released a neat little gadget that helps you find and open your Google Docs documents. And if you want to upload files to Google Docs, just drag them into the gadget. Please check out the announcement on the Google Docs blog.This gadget has bee…
We just released a neat little gadget that helps you find and open your Google Docs documents. And if you want to upload files to Google Docs, just drag them into the gadget. Please check out the announcement on the Google Docs blog.This gadget has bee…
‘Tis the season for new Desktop gadgets to help you celebrate the winter holidays. Here’s a guide to the some of the most recent additions.Snowmanby Benjamin SchirmerEvery desktop needs a snowman. To switch accessories, just click the part you want to …
‘Tis the season for new Desktop gadgets to help you celebrate the winter holidays. Here’s a guide to the some of the most recent additions.Snowmanby Benjamin SchirmerEvery desktop needs a snowman. To switch accessories, just click the part you want to …
The Google Desktop team is pleased to release a YouTube gadget for Google Desktop. It plays YouTube videos right inside the gadget and shows a feed of the day’s most popular videos. Please check out the official announcement on the YouTube blog.Watchin…