Creating a widget that shows youtube movies

Question

Hi All,
I'm trieing to create a captivate widget, usein widgetfactory, that can play youtube content in my project. So far I've succeeded in creating an AS3 script that loads a youtube move and places it on the stage. Here's a part of the code i use in stagemode:
override protected function initiate():void {
   super.initiate();
   WidgetDebugger.debug("MainStage class");
   r = new myRect();
   r.addEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, myInit);
   addChild(r);
  public function myInit(e:Event):void {
   p = new youTubePlayer();
   addChild(p);
my idea was to add r as a movieclip to the stage and add p, the youtube player, to it as a child. When i run this as a standalone swf it works. But when i try to load the youtube movie into a widget nothing shows up. Anyone any ideas? Or someone who can point me to a site where i can find more information about creating widgets using widgetfactory (Allready looked at CPGURU an WidgetKing).
Thanks,
Dennis

Answer 1

Xcode is not really meant for building widgets. Widgets are built primarily with html, css and javascript. You can code them by hand or you can get a copy of the recently released "Dashcode" beta.
Dashcode is a development tool specifically for building widgets. It is supposed to be released along with Leopard but Apple recently released a beta that's supposed to run in Tiger (I haven't tried it yet). If you've signed up for a free online developer account at Apple Developer Connection you can logon and download the beta.
Steve
PS - by the way, if you go to Apple Developer Connection and do a search for "widget" you'll get some hits on Dashboard tutorials and programming guides (these are not geared toward "Dashcode" and should be useful even if you're handcoding your widget)