Widget object is undefined in Dashcode

I'm using Dashcode for a mobile Safari web application and from the documentation (https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/AppleApplications/Conceptual/Dashcode_UserGuide/Contents/Resources/en.lproj/MakingaWidgetwithDashcode/MakingaWidgetwithDashcode.html), it appears that I should be able to access an object called "widget".

However, when I tried, I get the error message saying that widget is undefined. I've also tried "window开发者_运维技巧.widget" and it gives me the same error.

What's going on?

I'd like to make a text in my application a clickable link to open a URL using openURL (like the example given at the URL above).

You use widget.xxx to access things inside and outside you widget. So to access curl and the Mac and get some data from Yahoo you do as follows

var yahoorate = widget.system("/usr/bin/curl 'http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=EUR" + interim0 + "=X&f=l1'", null).outputString;

to get a preference key value, stored in the widgets plist when you install on a mac

globalPreferenceValue = widget.preferenceForKey(null, "your-key");

i think in the question ask (below) we are checking to see if we are in a widget and then preparing a transition to the back of the widget.

if (window.widget) {
    widget.prepareForTransition("ToBack");
}

this is how i set a preference so it is stored between system reboots (you use a get preference to retrieve them)

widget.setPreferenceForKey(2,"ratePrecision");

and this is how you create a link to open in a browser not the widget

<a onclick=" + "widget.openURL('http://www.wf.com/private/?ID=636');" + "><span id=company-info>click here</span></a>

These are all rel working examples from widgets i have built. Hope it helps. I found it useful to download widgets that performed similar functions to ones i wanted and then as well as installing them opening them as projects, you can import, and then you can see all the code.

Ok, this worked...hope it will help someone else...

window.location = "http://www.apple.com";