Desktop Widgets
For those who want to run your favorite widget on the desktop, we have created Desktop Toolbar 2.0 with a special widget feature. Now you can equip your branded desktop toolbar with an array of Flash-driven widgets.
Run widgets on the desktop and they will not disappear when you close the browser. As long as your branded desktop toolbar is installed, Widgets will remain available from the desktop. You will appreciate the new convenience of launching widgets quickly from the desktop and independence from browsers.
Flash driven desktop widgets launch from desktop toolbar buttons to deliver Flash, video and interactive animation, and other media presentations.
Widgets are very popular as mini-applications that deliver useful website services to the desktop. Their presence in your desktop toolbar will certainly attract users and help diversify your toolbar configurations.
Desktop widgets are launched from the desktop toolbar menu list. Widgets will open on the desktop and continue to work until you close them. You freely control and manage your widgets via toolbar buttons, to open, close and add new widgets to the desktop.
How to include desktop Widgets
Flash widgets can be incorporated into desktop toolbar using flash windows mechanism. Desktop toolbar use this mechanism to display flash-designed windows.
You may define Flash Window in <WEBJUMP> tag as follows :
<WEBJUMP name="newcommand1" href=http://yourdeskbar/somepage.html newbrowserwindow=flash_window" flash_type="system_flash_window"/>
And define your parameters for this Flash-window as :
<FLASHWINDOW type="system_editrss" flash_height = "278" flash_width="366" browser_height="214" browser_width="335" browser_cx="10" browser_cy="35" flash_src="system.swf" tool_width="330" tool_height="16" tool_src="toolbar_editrss.html" tool_cx="14" tool_cy="6" tool_font="transparent" tool_transparent_color="#F9F9F9"/>
This way, it will act as a Widget that can show Flash animations, Videos, On-Line Weather, Stock Quotes, Real-Time News,etc.