Developing widget application

Widget applications can be Flash applications or any Desktop applications. It’s recommended that your application makes a query like

http://[your_site]/ray/XML.php?action=getWidgetCode&widget=[widget_name]

at start-up for protection from unauthorized use. The result of this query can look like this:

<ray>
<result status="success" code="[your_widget_unique_code]" license="[license]"/>
</ray>

You should make a unique code verification in your widget application.

Desktop applications development is up to you. Here you just need to provide the community or any multimedia features for users and provide a connection with Web-Server via XMLS application and assume the following requirements:

At initial startup of desktop application it should make the query like

http://[your_site]/ray/XML.php?action=getSettingValue&widget=[widget_name]&file=main&key=status.

The result of this query can look like this:

<ray>
<result value="enabled" status="success"/>
</ray>

The “value” attribute can be one of the following: “enabled”, “disabled”, “not installed”. For any case except “enabled” your application shouldn’t run and should alert the respective error.

Flash applications have some requirements:

1. Every flash application should be described in “inc/constants.inc.php” file;

2. If your application requires any variables they should be also defined in the “inc/constants.inc.php” file. Besides these variables “module”(your widget system name) and “url”(Ray XML Server Url) will be passed to your application. These two variables are needed to form proper queries to XMLS like

“[url]?module=[module]&action=[some_action]”;

3. All Flash applications are loaded into the global container(global/app/holder.swf), so if your Flash application is resizable you should use the “_root.setSize(width:Number, height:Number)” method in your application, that is called on every Stage resizing event. To know the current application size you can call “_root.getSize():Object” method, which will return the object with “width” and “height” properties.

Your Flash application shouldn’t refer to the Stage object for resizing listening.

Please look through demo widgets 1-3 to see examples.