New gadget teaser

Here's a little preview of something I'm just about done with. It's pretty self explanatory. It's a screensaver gadget that will allow you to select a screensaver to display. Here's a screenshot of it using the ribbons screensaver from Vista.

http://blogs.msdn.com/photos/markhsch/picture1718045.aspx

-Mark




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New gadget teaser

  • Chester03

    Quite a good idea there. I guess you could either display "pretty" screensavers or useful ones, like the slideshow screensaver would be good with it's transition effects. Will you be able to undock it and have it bigger As that would be cool.

  • Robert3234

    Hmmm, I can't seem to get my gadget to pass mouse messages to the sidebar host. This means I can't move the gadget and the close/settings tab doesn't show up when I hover over with the mouse. Anyone else see this when using a C# UserControl based gadget

  • Brant Yin

    By using a UserControl class, you've taken over most of the events. Putting a dropshadow border around it is your simplest option to get the settings to show.

    As for passing mouse events back, so drag is possible. I'm not sure it's possible, unless there's a way to cancel event handling in a usercontrol class. You could try canceling then onmousedown event, but I doubt it will have the desired result:

    protected override void OnMouseDown (MouseEventArgs e) {
    e.Cancel = true
    }

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