+ + The WRTKit tutorials guide you through the process of using the WRTKit user + interface toolkit to build widgets. Even if you're familiar with widget + development or a veteran HTML, CSS and JavaSCript developer, these tutorials + will probably be useful to you as they focus on using the WRTKit to create + and manage the user interface. +
+ ++ + There are three tutorials all in all and in each one we will take a look at one + of the examples that are included with the WRTKit SDK. +
+ ++ + The first one is a gentle start where we will create the classic "Hello World" + application but using the WRTKit for the user interface. This is a good starting + point because it covers the basics of using the WRTKit, how to organize files, + how to initialize the user interface toolkit, and such topics. +
+ ++ + The next tutorial is an actual useful widget: an RSS Reader. As with all WRTKit + tutorials we will focus on the user interface portion of this widget, but you + will also learn how to integrate a WRTKit -based user interface with data that + has been pulled in using AJAX. Feel free to use this example widget as a basis + for your own RSS Reader. +
+ ++ + In the third tutorial we'll create create a widget called "Travel Companion" + in order to learn how to use the WRTKit to build complex widgets with multiple + views, showing complex custom content, using timers to automatically update + views in the background, as well as how to separate the user interface code from + the back-end logic code and data. Since the tutorial is about how to use the + WRTKit we will not actually create any real back-end logic but rather use a + mock back-end that will give us data that looks real but is actually hard-coded. +
+ ++ + If you want you can complete the widget to make it work against actual data + sources on the Internet. Since the user interface is entirely separated from + the back-end logic you should be able to do this without touching any of the + user interface code! +
+ ++ + When you go through the tutorials it could be a good idea to have your code + editor open so that you can inspect the example widget code as you read about + it. We will be talking a lot about the various classes and methods in the WRTKit + so having the + +WRTKit API Reference + open is probably also a good idea. +
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