Dashboard widget issue

since installing Leopard I cannot seem to get widgets to work properly if they load at all. Sometimes some of them work, but it seems to be luck of the draw.

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Hi. I recently upgraded from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion. Under SL, I had an OS X widget that was a web clipping of a streaming mpeg image being produced by a Linksys/Cisco WVC54GCA web camera. When I brought up the dashboard, the OS would start streaming the data from the mpeg filename, which looks like "hostname.com/img/video.mjpeg".
After upgrading to Mountain Lion, I noted that the widget never fully loads, indefinitely displaying a "Loading Clip..." mesasge. After deleting and re-adding, I can still get as far as adding the web clipping to the dashboard at the right dimensions, but there's no content.
Unfortunately the camera unit doesn't provide for the display of HTTP access logs, so I can't see if there's an issue there, but my understanding is that if I can display the image in a Safari browser, it should work just fine in Dashboard too. (I did make sure that, where needed, the username/password for accessing the video are included in the URL.)
I did sniff the network traffic between my system and the camera host, and show that video traffic starts flowing between the two as soon as the widget is brought up. So, it's almost like the widget doesn't know when to stop "loading" and start "displaying," perhaps because the HTTP request is never truly "done."
Can anyone speculate if something may have changed in Mountain Lion affecting the ability of web clipping widgets to display streaming video?
Thanks,
Chris

Hi James
I have exactly the same problem with the same "Loading clip" then blank. I have been trying a lot of stuff to get this working, but haven't had the chance of sniffing the network traffic as you have done. By reading what you said about the traffic seems to be flowing without the picure being displayed makes me even more puzzled by this. I never had a streaming video while I were using Snow Leopard, but I had a still-image, as I also do now in Mountain Lion. I recently began to research for a way to display the video.cgi MIME image that my camera produces, and I've also concluded that this should be an easy task for the dashboard web clip function; the video does display in safari after all.
I suspect that our cameras uses the same built in webserver solution written by a "Steven Wu". Cheap webcameras frequently uses his script with MJPEG (stream of JPEG pictures) to avoid the expensive licenses of using other video codecs.
I read this a bit down at this site: http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/articles/Everyone-Loves-Babies-Webcams-and-M otion-Detection
Have you come any closer in your research?
I have started to think that maybe I have to write a dashboard widget on my own to accomplish this.
trelements

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Hi Experts,
I have installed the SAP B1 integration component and establish the connection of B1D1 and JDBC connection with company database and clicked on Test connection and it runs successfully.But when clicked on Dashboard Widget from General Settings->Cockpit-click on checkbox of Enable Dashboard Widget then it gives error "Install SAP Business One Integration Service before enabling Dashboard widget."
Please give me solution asap.
Regards
SUbhradip

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Dashboard widget to open PDF in ibook

I am in the beginning process of creating an iBook with iBook Author and need a bit of help if this is even possible. I need to make a dashboard widget using Dashcode that will download a PDF within the widget itself and have it open in iBooks. I have already used HTML to access the PDF in this way but want it to open in iBooks because it will read thr PDF better. Any idea how I can build this concept in Dashcode as a widget. Thanks for all!

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Flash in Mac OSX dashboard widgets

We're at a dead-end!
We've successfully integrated remote flash into a dashboard
widget. Actualy, making the flash remote, and changing all click
events to onRollOver is the only way to do it (that we've found).
And this works *great* for navigation inside a flash movie.
The problems come when trying to link out of that movie to launch a
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does. We've tried sending a java call back to a function in
dashboard's local HTML that triggers the appropriate
widget/javascript function -- and that's what throws the security
error.
Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated.

are you trying to simply get a safari page to open or are you
trying to get a page to appear inside the dashboard?
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If you want it to always use the java callback as it does in
most widgets, it may be more of an OSX issue. You may want to check
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privledges you need to grant flash access to the same rights or
privs other widgets already have.

How to update a previously submitted, selling Dashboard Widget?

did neither find a way to upload a new dashboard widget nor to update an existing one.. any advise or hint is appreciated!
Thank you.

Thanks for posting... I'm experiencing the same thing, it's nice to know I'm not going crazy.
I've periodically attempted to update my widget in the past year... It's free, I make no money from it, and neither does Apple, but it's not about me or Apple, it's about the people who want to use the app, and learn how to play the piano.
I've invested a few hours attempting to move forwards on this issue, and if it's truely not possible... then that seems like a large shortfall in customer service; it's not just the developers wasting time, it's the customers looking for the products.
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8.81 B1iC error when enabling Dashboard Widget

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In the B1 client when enabling the Dashboards (Cockpit -> General Settings -> Enable Dashboard Widget) I get the following error in red at the bottom of the screen (and in the client message log):
Install SAP Business One Integration Service before enabling the dashboard widget Message ID = 1290000001
I have a clean install of 8.81 PL00 and the Integration Component, company database is a new a demo database (SBODemoAU).
The B1iC install created the correct SLD and I have tested the B1DI & JDBC connections and both report successful connections.
There is also a successful message in the Integration Framework message log for trigger object 1210000008 which I believe from the doco and previous versions that this is the Dashboard deployment to the Bizstore.
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From an earlier post about port 8443, here is an extract from my C:\Program Files (x86)\SAP\SAP Business One Integration\B1iServer\Tomcat\conf\server.xml
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<Connector port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1" connectionTimeout="20000" redirectPort="8443" enableLookups="false" server=" "/>
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Dashboard widgets vanish after recent security update

I just updated my 12" iBook G4 with the most recent security update, and now my Dashboard widgets vanish on load. I've tried repairing permissions and deleting both the dashboard prefs and DashboardCache. I've killed and rekilled the Dock process which handles Dashboard, and rebooted, and the darn widgets still vanish.
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Some games lately can push graphic cards further and harder.
Check PC graphic/game forums to see if you can find a relationship.
No way in Mac OS to regulate or control gpu fan, monitor temp (?) or other things all taken for granted on PC and Windows.
SmcFanControl 2.2.x - at least you can boost 3 of the system fans and change the default and set profiles for work loads. Try a "game profile" of 1500 rpm.
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When you system crashes, or before there is a software update, by all means ---
CLONE YOUR SYSTEM / RUN DISK WARRIOR (don't rely on just Apple DU First Aid)
Easy to blame an update for a pre-existing issue that was present.
And always have a backup you can boot from of older version of OS X (even 10.6.3).
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Big BUG in Translation Dashboard Widget, please fixed it!

The Translation Widget using SYSTRAN language Translation Service, but now the translation not works in "English-Simplified Chinese" and "English-Traditional Chinese". When translate English words to Chinese, it can not show Chinese text, and when translate Chinese to English, it shows "undefined" error.
The bug appears in Tiger/Leopard's Translation Dashboard Widget.

..."When translate English words to Chinese, it can not show Chinese text, and when translate Chinese to English, it shows "undefined" error."...
..."The bug appears in Tiger/Leopard's Translation Dashboard Widget."...
Out of curiosity, how did you determine the 10.4/10.5 aspect of the reproducibility of the problem?
On my 10.5.7 system, I don't seem to be experiencing the issue -- I don't read any form of Chinese so I can't say for certain, but with the usual round trip uncertainties, I more or less get back to where I started from. For example:
English: "The bug appears in Tiger/Leopard's Translation Dashboard Widget."
Simplified Han: "臭虫出现于老虎或豹子的转换控制板小部件"
English: "The bug appears in the tiger or leopard's conversion control panel small part."
English: "The bug appears in Tiger/Leopard's Translation Dashboard Widget."
Traditional Han: "臭蟲出現於老虎或豹子的轉換控制板小部件。"
English: "The bug appears in the tiger or leopard's conversion control panel small part."
Simplified Han: "臭虫出现于老虎或豹子的转换控制面板小的部分。"
English: "The bug appears in the tiger or leopard's switching control kneading board small part."
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Album art work dashboard widget for PC

hi
Does anyone know where i can down load Album art work dashboard widget for PC
Rod Dohrman

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Dashboard/Widget freeze~unresponsive

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I've run the utilities~repair Launch Services, Repair Permisssions, Scripts, etc.
No other issues~everything else cruising just fine~I guess if I knew how to read Console messages I could figure something out..

Hi again Mr:
Glad all is well!
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I know it can be done since there is a checkbox in the widget attributes that says "Allow External File Access".
can anyone help me out here?
Thanks

You need to define the AllowFileAccessOutsideOfWidget key to Yes.
You also need to define the AllowFullAccess key.
You may also need to define the AllowSystem key (to Yes of course).
Mihalis.
PS. If you cannot find any other documentation please check http://widgetbook.blogspot.com.

Dashboard Widget causes error and I can't get dashboard to stay open - how do I find the file to delete?

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Sorry didn't realise you were an Apple Newbie!
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Now you can type the text ~/Library/Widgets into the box. The Tilde character is next to the left Shift key (Press and hold the Shift key and then press the ~ key.
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How do you copy a website html to paste into an iWeb 09 html snippet? Is there a copy command in the Safari browser like when you clip a snippet to make a Dashboard widget? That would be too easy. Do I need some other software for copying the html?

Photog Dog wrote:
How do you copy a website html to paste into an iWeb 09 html snippet?
Drag your pointer over the embed code so that it is all highlighted in blue. Then do ⌘C to copy it and then paste it into iWeb's HTML Snippet window by doing ⌘V.
Is there a copy command in the Safari browser like when you clip a snippet to make a Dashboard widget?
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Do I need some other software for copying the html?
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