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Packing and deploying your Opera Widget
By Opera Software · Tuesday, February 9, 2010 3
When your widget is finished, what remains is to deploy it, and make it available for all to see. This article explains how. Read more…
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Creating your first Opera widget
By Opera Software · Tuesday, February 9, 2010 3
Everyone's gotta start somewhere...this article gives you a detailed step by step guide to creating, packaging and distributing an Opera Widget, complete with CSS styling and dynamic JavaScript behavior! Note that this is an update of the "Your first widget" article we had up here previously. Read more…
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Debugging widgets using Opera Dragonfly and the Widget Emulator
By Hans S. Tømmerholt · Tuesday, February 9, 2010 1
Debugging Opera widgets is a breeze if you use Opera Dragonfly together with the Widget emulator. This article shows you how. Read more…
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Widget Emulator
By Opera Software · Tuesday, February 9, 2010 6
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Remote debugging of widgets on mobile devices
By Hans S. Tømmerholt · Tuesday, February 9, 2010 3
This article shows you how to debug widgets running on your mobile phone. Using Opera Dragonfly, you can view, stop and step into code in widgets running on the device from the desktop instance. Read more…
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Widget icon tutorial
By Christian Magnus Sinding-Larsen · Tuesday, February 9, 2010 14
Want your widgets looking great, regardless of the device resolution they are being run at? In this aticle, Christian Magnus Sinding-Larsen reveals some top tips on creating flawless Opera Widget icon sets that will work well on multiple device resolutions - including icon templates, creating the icons in a graphics package, and including them in your widgets when complete. Read more…
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Widget control buttons
By Hans S. Tømmerholt · Tuesday, February 9, 2010 1
Widget control buttons ensure that a consistent set of basic controls – Move, context menu, Minimize and Close – are available in all widgets in “Widget” mode. See the top-right of Figure 1 for an idea of what they look like. Read more…
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Optimizing widget graphics for mobile and devices
By Andreas Bovens · Tuesday, February 9, 2010 6
In this article we will explore a few simple techniques that will help you optimize the graphics inside your Opera widgets for mobile phones and other devices with limited resources. Read more…