igoogle gadget example

[westor]

I'd like to inspire you to use qooxdoo to write gadgets for igoogle and other environments.
I wrote a little gadget, displaying actual events, like concerts, fairs and others from my project at http://event-4all.org/ - you can double click an entry and if it's an event from an online ticket service, you can buy tickets.
This gadget was developed in qooxdoo 0.7.4.
You can define a filter; this one is saved at my server and assigned to your specials gadget instance every time you come back. And you can use the search field to enter search text without hitting return.

The link to add the gadget to your igoogle page is:
http://fusion.google.com/add?source=atgs&moduleurl=http%3A//www.event-4all.org/gadgets/e4a.xml
and the gadget definition is:
http://www.event-4all.org/gadgets/e4a.xml

I had to make a small change in the php backend to make sure the rpc-calls are working: The domain check was removed, because there is a google proxy in the middle.
Some resource images are not found at this time, because the url in the browser is e.g. http://www.google.com/ig/resource/qx/widget/Windows/table/selectColumnOrder.png - would be nice to get a tip, how and where I have to define an absolute resource directory...

For those, who like this gadget: stay tuned, I will add more ticket data in the future.
At this time it's only working in igoogle with saving of the filter values. If some people will like it, I can port it to open social (for use in the next orcut version etc.) and other environments, like pageflakes etc.
Every hint is welcome. The gadget is not yet submitted to the directory, I will do it soon.

[Andreas Ecker-2]

Hi Torsten,

this is pretty cool, having a qooxdoo application integrated nicely into
iGoogle. :-)

> I'd like to inspire you to use qooxdoo to write gadgets for igoogle and other
> environments.

Wouldn't it be great to start a contribution on Google Gadgets in
qooxdoo-contrib? People could collaborate and help each other figuring
out gadget-specific stuff. A basic sample that doesn't require a backend
could for instance be kinda qooxdoo link list. Maybe we come up with a
more advanced sample as well...

Anyway, let me know what you think. It would be great to share your
know-how to get more people started with Google gadgets, ;-)

Andreas



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[westor]

Hi Andreas, thank you for feedback.
Yes, I think, it could be interesting for someone else to share experiences with gadget developement.
Because I'm under pressure I will nor be able to be very active in organizing the contribution. I have no experience with qooxdoo-contrib. But I can give some edge facts and input from my tests and practice, if you like.
Creating a gadget from an existing application is really simple :-)
Torsten

Andreas Ecker-2 wrote:

Hi Torsten,

this is pretty cool, having a qooxdoo application integrated nicely into
iGoogle. :-)

> I'd like to inspire you to use qooxdoo to write gadgets for igoogle and other
> environments.

Wouldn't it be great to start a contribution on Google Gadgets in
qooxdoo-contrib? People could collaborate and help each other figuring
out gadget-specific stuff. A basic sample that doesn't require a backend
could for instance be kinda qooxdoo link list. Maybe we come up with a
more advanced sample as well...

Anyway, let me know what you think. It would be great to share your
know-how to get more people started with Google gadgets, ;-)

Andreas



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