#DROBO DASHBOARD MAC OS CURRENT VERSION MAC OS X#
Mac OS X v10.5 "Leopard" includes an application called Dashcode, which is a more user-friendly way of creating widgets. More complex widgets may also include a Cocoa widget plugin (for platform-specific functionality), one or more JavaScript files (for text scrolling, preferences, etc.) or multiple images (for personalized select menus or buttons). Once all of these files are in the root of a directory, it is given a name and the extension ".wdgt", and then it can be opened up in Dashboard as a widget. The icon that is displayed in the menu bar.The background image of the widget, in PNG format.
After loading, the widget is ready for use. New widgets can be opened, via an icon bar on the bottom of the layer, by dragging a widget icon out into the layer. Like application windows, they can be moved around, rearranged, deleted, and recreated (so that more than one of the same Widget is open at the same time, possibly with different settings). When Dashboard is activated, the user's desktop is dimmed and widgets appear in the foreground. Alternatively, the user can invoke Dashboard by moving the cursor into a preassigned hot corner, by pressing a hot key, or mouse button, any of which can be set to the user's preference.
First introduced in Tiger, it is a semi-transparent layer that is invisible to the user unless activated by clicking its icon in the Dock. Dashboardĭashboard widgets running under Mac OS X 10.7 Lionĭashboard is an application for Apple's Mac OS X operating systems, used for hosting mini-applications known as widgets.
#DROBO DASHBOARD MAC OS CURRENT VERSION SOFTWARE#
For articles about dashboard software in general, see Dashboard (disambiguation). This article is about Apple's Dashboard software.