Move a widget to the menu bar or dashboard?

[hakr]

I have a "screenshot" widget I'd like to move permanently to either the menu bar at the top of my screen or, alternately, to the dashboard. I'd like the widget to reside in either of those places so that when I want to use it, I don't have to open up the (what I consider silly) widget bar.

Suggestions?

Thanks!

 

[Osarkon]

Are we on Windows or OS X here? Only there's no widget bar in OS X, and it would already be on the dashboard?

 

[hakr]

Are we on Windows or OS X here? Only there's no widget bar in OS X, and it would already be on the dashboard?

Whoops...I mean move the widget to the menu bar or the dock... sorry!

 

[Osarkon]

Not too sure about getting one onto the menu bar or dock, but there is a simple way of getting it onto the desktop if that's of any help?

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050422172929402

 

[miles01110]

I'm pretty sure you can't. You could try putting it on your desktop though.

 

[xUKHCx]

You can place widgets in the dock however when you click on them it launches Dashboard so the only advantage it would have is that it launches with that widget in focus. To do so you have to navigate to /Library/Widgets/ or /Users/username//Library/Widgets/ and then you can drag which widget you want to the right hand side of the dock just by the trash.

You can move the widget to the desktop however it is a little annoying. Instructions here

You can not place widgets in the menubar. These are totally different types of applications.

What are you trying to do with this screenshot widget?

There are a number of shortcuts that perform screenshots in OSX that are handy

cmd+shift+3= Whole screen shot
cmd+shift+4= Selection screen shot
cmd+shift+4+ spacebar= Window screen shot

Or alternatively there is the application "Grab" which is in your utilities folder