Catching up... advice needed

[graham samuel]

Hi folks

I have been out of the loop since some time in May and I find it's 
impossible to catch up with the back numbers of the Digest of this list 
(I have **hundreds** of unread digests!). I'm thinking of starting a 
little project and wonder if anyone has any advice. Take these as 
newbie questions - I can't believe how fast the world of Runtime 
Revolution is moving!

Apple has a very useful internet application called iCal which allows 
one to construct a calendar and display it - IMHO the clever bits are:

1) the calendar can be updated from different computers (well, if 
you're a dotMac member) and all the machines will be kept in sync.

2) other people interested in the calendar can get it in read-only form 
using a web browser.

Great stuff, but what lets the thing down badly is its printing 
capability. Basically if you print say a month of appointments, the app 
may or may not show all of them on the printout; even if you take a 
screen shot and print that, there's no guarantee that all the events in 
the period will actually be shown on it... I understand that the app 
has been revised for Tiger (I haven't seen this yet) but that printing 
is still a headache.

It appears that Apple is using an established standard for the files 
for this app. The terms 'webDAV' and '.ics' spring to mind, and the 
format is in the public domain somewhere. So using RunRev, one could 
write an improved iCal calendar printer, and it could be 
cross-platform. My question is, does anyone know if this has already 
been done?

While I'm asking about Apple technologies, is it possible to write 
Dashboard Widgets for OSX Tiger using RunRev? Somebody must know.

TIA

Graham
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Graham Samuel / The Living Fossil Co. / UK and France