Applets with APIs (for scripting)

[Leo Franchi]

On 12 Dec 2008, at 18:37, Casey Link wrote:

> Hey guys,
>
> I targeted this one at William, cause I figured he might know the most
> about it (though peter might be able to help too). How difficult would
> it be to create applets that had public interfaces, so scripts could
> interact with them?
>
> Here is just one use case:
> An applet which displays info about the artist like the wikipedia
> applet, but can aggregate different sources. Perhaps the applet ships
> with wikipedia and last.fm bio support. Someone could write a script
> that adds relevant news (say from mtv music news) to the applet.

This is exactly how the lyrics applet works. Check out context/ 
LyricsManager and the LyricsEngine, as well as the AmarokLyrics script  
stuff.

leo


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