We have implemented a new (optional) way of exposing the syndication panel.  You will now have the ability to show destination sites for your widget on the front of your widget.  A menu bar can be aligned to the top or bottom of your widget to show these locations.  The benefit of this menu bar is that it allows one less click, and can show the most important destinations (as you choose) up front.  Implementing this feature is very easy -- once your widget is initialized, you simply call widget.syndication.initOverlay(), as shown below:

import yourminis.api.IWidget var widget:IWidget; addEventListener("widget-loaded",onWidgetLoaded); function onWidgetLoaded(evt:Event) { widget.initWidget(100,100,0x000000); widget.syndication.initOverlay("facebook","bebo","myspace"); }

As you can see, you can pass in a list of strings for destinations that you want to appear on the menu. Here is a full list of the possible strings you can use:

"addcontent" //copy embed code "aim" //AIM pages "bebo" //bebo.com "blogger" //blogger.com "desktop" //Adobe AIR "facebook" //facebook.com "freewebs" //webs.com "friendster" //friendster.com "google" //Google Start Page "hi5" //hi5.com "live" //live.com "mac" //Mac Dashboard "myaol" //myAOL "myspace" //myspace.com "netvibes" //netvibes.com "pageflakes" //pageflakes.com "sendtofriend" //Email to Friend "typepad" //typepad.com "vista" //Vista Sidebar "yahoo" //Yahoo Widgets

If you would like to customize the appearance and alignment of this component, you can call widget.syndication.styleOverlay(), as show below:

import yourminis.api.IWidget var widget:IWidget; addEventListener("widget-loaded",onWidgetLoaded); function onWidgetLoaded(evt:Event) { widget.initWidget(100,100,0x000000); widget.syndication.initOverlay("facebook","bebo","myspace"); widget.syndication.styleOverlay( true, //alignToTop:Boolean=false -- if true, component is aligned to top true, //autoHide:Boolean=false -- if true, component only appears on mouseover 0xFF0000, //backgroundColor:uint=0 -- color of component background 0x00FF00, //outlineColor:uint=0 -- color of component outline 0.5, //backgroundAlpha:Number=0.9 -- alpha value of component background null //textFormat:TextFormat=null -- TextFormat of component text ); }

That's it! You can view an example of the "Sliver" syndication panel here.