can't "build" a valid gadget file!!! UGH!

can't "build" a valid gadget file!!! UGH!

• olapdummy

  I thought maybe my gadget.xml file was saved with the wrong encoding so I re-saved it as UTF-8. I still get the same errors.
  

• Andrea Lattuada

  Here is what I think is the final fix. I was finally able to upload a valid gadget to Microsoft. (Still pending approval).

  1. Create the widget
  2. Compress the widget as a foo.cab file
  3. Rename foo.cab to foo.zip
  4. Microsoft will rename foo.zip to foo.gadget

  That should do it for a valid file. I'll let you know if Microsoft rejects it again

  
  

• Henry_Yang

  I am zipping the files, not a directory of files

  is that wrong

  
  

• chunkai

  Get this, I used AlphaZip to ZIP the folder instead of CAB it and renamed to gadget and the install wouldn't work.

  CAB works, ZIP doesn't.

  So how do I upload to Microsoft They require a zip upload, but the zip upload won't install. I guess I will zip the cab file and hope they accept it.

  
  

• Speedie

  Well, Microsoft rejected it again.

  They said they couldn't unzip my "zip" file that was actually a cab. They will not accept a cab file even though it is a valid file. You  MUST upload a zip file. I built the cab and renamed it zip thinking it would be a good work around, nothing to do with being sneaky.

  I'll try WinZip next and hope it works.

  
  

• Sahus

  I was having the same problems. Went through a lot of things in this thread, until I figured out that I had some empty files.

  When I initially started the gadget, I assumed I was going to use flyout.htm, settings.htm and some others but didn't, in the end.

  Once I'd removed all empty files, using Send To Compressed Folder worked a treat.

  Still get the Unsigned notification, but at least it works :)

  
  

• sveroa

  I downloaded AlphaZip and compressed the files into a cabinet file instead of a zip, then I renamed it to a gadget file and the install works fine.

  Something is wrong with using "Compressed Zipped Folders."

  
  

• tovarish

  >>>>>>>> ToddOS <<<<<<<<

  Are you willing to zip it for me

  
  

• Noah Hambayi

  I just tried it with WinZip and added files 1 at a time.

  I got the same error, not a valid gadget package.

  CAB works, ZIP doesn't

  
  

• BlueTeck

  I'll forward this thread to one of the gallery folks, hopefully they will comment here.
  

• Bigmo

  That was one of my posts.

  I'm still getting a ~00019 at the end of my folder. And I am NOT zipping a gadget folder, I am zipping all the files in the archive.

  Also, I've noticed that when it does this it won't write any files after the letter g. Meaning that all filenames that start with an "I-Z" aren't unzipped into the folder. So, I thought that maybe I had a corrupt file in the Gs or Hs. (ie. gadget.xml)

  I remade the file structure to use an en-US folder and the install worked without alerting me of an invalid gadget file BUT STILL appended a ~0019 at the end of the folder name. If I delete that, the gadget works.

  My gadget file:

  foofoofoo.gadget
  [----------images
  [----------- foo1.jpg
  [----------- foo2.jpg
  [----------- foo3.jpg
  [----------foo.css
  [----------foo.html
  [----------gadget.xml
  [----------foo2.html
  [----------foo3.html
  [----------icon.png
  [----------logo.png

  Once I figure this out, I'm going to write a gadget builder gadget that packs the .gadget file. This is crazy doing it by hand and guessing.

  
  

• Terryd68

  If you're going to compress as a cab, you can still name the gadget "foo.gadget" directly. In fact naming a .cab as a .zip is a little sneaky and could lead to other problems.

  As for zipping as ZIP, I use WinZip. I haven't tried with "native" zip folder support, so it's quite possible that there's something different between WinZip and Vista's ability to zip files natively. I suggest you download and use winzip, as I've had no problems submitting gadgets zipped that way.

  Of course, cab is a valid compression method, so whatever works.

  
  

• RainyDayz

  voxan, take a look at the last part of this thread -- http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=1290390&SiteID=1

  Are you zipping up your entire gadget folder, or just the files and directories below it Meaning, if you were to manually unzip your file, would you end up with a directory like "foo.gadget" and then gadget.xml under that, or would you immediately get gadget.xml wherever you unzipped

  
  

• IraMaster

  by the way, I've used the native Vista ZIP ('compressed folder') support all the time to create gadgets, without problem. Unless your OS configuration is somehow different than mine, I would not expect that to be causing this problem.
  
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