web widgets on the widgipedia

Some days ago, widgipedia announced the opening of their new section: web widgets.

We have promised that we'd create the ultimate widgets resource, so today we've taken one step closer to this goal by merging the two worlds: desktop widgets AND web widgets are all together at Widgipedia.

as some of my web widgets were not compatible with widgetbox, I gave them a try on widgipedia and luckily for me they all work like a charm!
So far I have uploaded three of them:

- Add to bloglines flash button
- Add to delicious flash button
- Add to netvibes flash button

So, if you are looking for some cool web widgets, you can also visit the widgipedia and if you have any request, comment, suggestion, idea, etc. I'm happy to read it.

salut!

widgets: yeah, I changed my mind...

more than a month ago, I wrote "My widgets on widgetbox" where I said I wouldn't write about my widgets on this blog anymore.

Well, actually I changed my mind as I have decided to continue writing about them and is because of many reasons:
- Feedback: I can get feedback, comments, suggestions and requests
- QA: To test them and to see how they look like when published on a blog
- Incompatibility: Some of the widgets I've done or updated are not compatible with widgetbox
- Promotion: I want my widgets to be used by other people so I need to let people know about them
- Personal: To use my blog :P (writing is a good habit and specially for me as English is not my mother tongue...)

so, to catch up I will write a short list of the web widgets I've done and I haven't mentioned here:
- Mini del.icio.us hotlist: shows hotlist from the del.icio.us homepage
- Flash Date Calendar: simple flash calendar with digital clock
- Firefox Digital Clock: firefox download counter and digital clock
- Digital Time and Date: simple digital clock and date (74 subscriptions so far)
- Flash web counter: website visits counter (123 subscriptions so far)

So far, I have submited 9 web widgets to widgetbox and all of them are doing well; I have many more ideas but haven't got the time but from now on, I will continue writing about them here on my blog.

Salut!

Free add to del.icio.us Flash button

I've changed the actionscript on my "add to del.icio.us" flash movie so now it takes the title and the web address from where the flash movie is embedded into.
For example, if you go to http://tinosrestaurant.co.uk you can see that they have embedded my "add to del.icio.us" flash button and when clicking it, it opens the usual "tag this page" pop-up window from del.icio.us...
If you want to put it on any of your websites, just add the following script where you want the button to be shown:

<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" id="delicious" width="100" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0" height="50" align="middle">

<param value="always" name="allowScriptAccess"/>
<param value="http://overloadstudios.co.uk/ewa/delicious.swf" name="movie"/><param value="high" name="quality"/><param value="transparent" name="wmode"/><embed pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" quality="high" allowscriptaccess="always" align="middle" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="50" src="http://overloadstudios.co.uk/ewa/delicious.swf" width="100" wmode="transparent" name="delicious"/>
</embed></object>

If in case you want to create your own flash del.icio.us button, follow the instructions on my previous post.

Flash add to del.icio.us

The usual way to have the "add to del.icio.us" option on a website is using html calling a pop-up window with the "post" page from del.icio.us passing a couple of variables to help filling in the form.

Using flash is the same, is just a matter of calling a pop-up and passing the value of the variables...
As you can see on the example on the right side of my blog, when pressing the del.icio.us flash button, it opens the "post" page with two text boxes already filled.

What I did is:
- Created a button on the stage with instance name "add2delicious" and on another layer put the following actionscript:

add2delicious.onPress = function() {
getURL("javascript:void(window.open
('http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://overloadstudios.blogspot.com
&title=Ernesto Quezada s Blog','popup','toolbar=no,
location=no,status=no,menubar=no, scrollbars=no,resizable=no,
width=700,height=400'))");
};

- Publish your swf for flash player 7 as for flash player 8 the pop-up just doesn't work;
and that's it!
I had to take out the single quote in "Ernesto Quezada's Blog" as the single quote is a restricted character on this script.

Salut!