EGadget Plugin

Google Gadgets Eclipse plugin

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Overview

EGadget Plugin is ued to integrate any Google Gadget into your Eclipse environment.

Features

  • Integrated your favorite Google Gadget into your favorite Eclipse IDE
  • Built-in three Google Gadget views:Google Calender, Google Talk, Google Map
  • Allow user to customize each Google Gadget (such as size, color) by modify plugin.xml
  • You can add any favorite Google Gadget by adding one extension in the plugin.xml
  • Distributing useful Google Gadgets along with you Eclipse application

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Installer

Downloads

1.0.0 M1

File Size Release Date
EGadget Plugin 1.0.0 M1 6,922 bytes 2007-04-13

FAQ

  • Q:How to customize one Google Gadget in Eclipse. such as the size and color?

    • You can modify the gadget size by directly updating width and height defined in the 'gadgetInfo url' section of plugin.xml Or you can go to Google Gadgets to get a customized url, the paste the url here.

    Please notice, when pasting the url got from Google, you need to remove the 'javascript' tag

  • Q:How to integrate new Google Gadget

    • A:First, define a new View with a name and id you want. Keep the class name as "com.eobjectsoft.egadget.views.GadgetView" and view category as "com.eobjectsoft.egadget"

    Then, define a gadgetViewConfig extension. Within that extension, the view id should be the new view id you just defined. The "gadgetInfo url" should be the url you got from Google Gadgets, but without 'javascript' tag.

    Please reference the Google Calender Gadget as an example in the plugin.xml

  • Q:How to define the default location of my Google Calender View

    • A:The only way to define default location is using Prespective. Please reference to Eclipse document on how to setup Prespective. Each Google Gadget from EGadget plugin has a ViewID defined in the plugin.xml. You can use that view ID during setup initial location & size of that view.

    Todo

  • Allow user to customize gadget, such as size and color from Eclipse Preference page?
  • Support Gadgets from other vendor, such as Yahoo Gadgets?
  • Support offline mode?

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