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• jitendra badkas Passing parameters to my gadget

  Sorry if this has been asked before, but I couldn't find any info on it. I would like my gadgets to interact with each other. E.g., when clicking on a link inside one gadget, it refreshes the another gadget (or the whole page), and the clicked URL can be passed to another gadget to show relevant content. Is that at all possible If yes, here can I find the documents (or examples) to do that Thanks! BTW, I tried to refresh the whole page through javascript in my gadget, but it generate some "access denied" error and does not redirect at all. I assume it was intentionally block, right Unfortunately, there is no supported technique for cross-gadget communication. Gadgets must be self-co ...Show All

• Will Merydith Gadget behavior on spaces vs live.com?

  I am still working on my first gadget and noticed things work really different on live.com compared to spaces. If you want to load what I have so far and see what I mean, the manifest can be found at http://www.incendy.com/MyRSS/rssgadget3.xml Basically the css is very different and also the function that rebuilds the list does not really work on Spaces and you have to manually refresh the page to get the new feed. Just curious if others have experienced this and have advice on what I should be doing differently. The function getfeed gets called but the content seems to be cached on Spaces where it works fine on live.com! Some bits: Yes, CSS is different between live.com, gallery's preview, a ...Show All

• FreddieCode PEP CPU Utilization

  I'm finding myself unable to achieve 100% utilization on all threads of the PEP (pepworker.exe). I have created our own in house PEP manager to facilitate the current process of executing pepworker.exe on all the workers and it is pretty elegant. Further, I'm taking snapshots every second of the CPU utilization, RAM usage and any swap in use. The following link is a snapshot of the workers: http://img465.imageshack.us/img465/8909/vc1cpusfi9.jpg I must ask though, is everyone else's results similar to mine Is anyone pegging their VC-1 workers Please use the private PEP forums for any PEP discussions; this public forum is for HDi. If you don't have a login, please let me know. Thanks. ...Show All

• Neftali Reyes sidebar for xp?

  I used vista for a few days and liked its eye-candy graphics very much. The problem was its too much for my system config and have to retreat back to XP. Is there any possible solution to enjoy same features like gadgets/sidebar/minimized tile etc in XP regards sumit dagar http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=968873&SiteID=1 Andy http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=968873&SiteID=1 Andy so no sidebar for XP :( ...Show All

• gendai Authoring software

  Hi guys.  Please excuse my more basic question that is not about advanced content. I have a SD DVD I need to convert to HD DVD.  I've used the now defunct DVD Maestro to do all my authoring and I am proficient with it.  I need a tool, preferably XP compatible, that will allow me to do some HD DVD authoring with that level of flexibility.  The only thing I know of is Scenarist and that may be a stretch for my pocketbook. Are there any other options   It is important that the authoring process does not do any recompression of the content. Thanks, Scott The jumpstart package is the first and cheapest place to start. Hope you can get a hold of HD source material instead ...Show All

• redneon audio/video streaming with .net framework 3 ?

  Hello Friends, I wanna develop an application of video conferencing using .net framework 3. For that i wanna know is the .net framework 3.0 supports audio and video streaming If yes then how Thanks in advance. Nehal. Hi Becky I have read that one but i am not getting what exactly you had wrote there. Please tell me how can i do this. Do you have any tutorials or ebooks those can guide me Waiting for your replya. Thanks, neha. hi nehal, i have the same question. Can u please let me know if u get any information revelant to this. Thanks I just answered this same question on a previo ...Show All

• kevinj Missing thumbnails on gallery.live.com

  I seem to notice a lot of Gadgets on the galley.live.com page don't get their thumbnail image displayed (mine doesn't seem to show up about 80% of the time). Anyone have any insight into this issue Hi nadasurf2 (et al). I just verified that this has been fixed for the ones that had known problems. If you do see any additional issues with this please feel free to respond. Thanks! Chris: Here's mine which often doesn't show: http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx li=0bb51a58-ad01-456d-ad0c-295368c51104&l=1 Here are some others I've noticed do not show often: http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx li=d5567ccb-f64b-4614-8144-7846231b6fc0&l=1 http://gallery. ...Show All

• Chris Fink Full screen mode for HDi Sim ?

  I want to take some screen grabs of my menu system for a client...is there a full screen mode for HDi Sim If not that would be a nice feature to add. I didn't tell you this, but try running it with "-full" as a command-line or "-fullwindow". YMMV. You can check all the other commands by appending -h "....\HDDVDSimulator\HDiSim.exe" -h ...Show All

• ManishS Dynamic content from my personal site.

  Are there any good tutorials on doing this I want a small icon of my site on the side bar that when clicked opens in a window that lists recent activity on message boards and other dynamic content from my sites DB... Amature here so bare with my ignorance..:) Thanks in advance... Chris Thanks for all the input...I will get right on the suggested methods and see what comes of it... Chris I can't tell for sure what you want, but it sounds like you want a sidebar gadget, here is the link for that forum http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx ForumID=1063&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• CostasZ HTML form in gadget submits to new window. How can I stop this?

  Hi all, I'm new to sidebar gadgets as well as Windows Vista. I'm a web developer, coming from Windows 2000 Pro, where I had a small php-based form that kept track of my hours. In Windows 2000 I was able to add it to my desktop fairly easily with "Active Desktop". It is proving to be somewhat more difficult with Vista Sidebar Gadgets. I was able to create the gadget, and the php form now displays. To do this, I created the .gadget folder in my User directory, then in the html file in that folder, I created an iframe with a source pointing to the php file in my localhost webserver directory. So that's my background... Anyway, when I try to submit the form, instead of reloading the gadget, it opens the form in a new window. This occurs even w ...Show All

• Peng Liang bug reporting

  An easy one today... where is the right place to report bugs On here is a good place. Or, report them on the known bugs list and I'll document it and create a Repro for MS. ...Show All

• sqldummy Problem with animation

  I tried to move div element with a button from one point in another. I use following code: document.getElementById('playButtonDiv').style.animateProperty("x", "0px;350px", 3); <div id="playButtonDiv" style:position="absolute" style:x="0px" style:y="0px" style:width="60px" style:height="60px"> <button id="playButton" style:width="60px" style:height="60px" style:backgroundImage="url( 'Images/PlayButton.png' )" style:contentWidth="scale-to-fit" style:contentHeight="scale-to-fit"></button> </div> I see that animation isn't smooth. How can I do smooth animation ...Show All

• Lorry Craig s

  Hi. I'm sending "dummy sample" when there are no data to send from source. butRequestSample() come buck so quickly and keeps spining until data are ready. It's really waste of CPU power. What should I do to stop this I'm trying to build something like a LiveTV player. Thanks. Kasumi. I'm guessing that you have an MFT downstream of the Media Source that interprets these dummy samples as "no data". If you give this "no data" sample a duration, then your MFT can just produce that duration's worth of silence (audio) or repeated frames (video) and return MF_E_TRANSFORM_NEED_MORE_INPUT from ProcessOutput only when those have been exhausted. This will keep MF ...Show All

• ming_68 How to program gadgets with vb.net

  can you program gadgets like any other application are there any special requirements Gadgets are developed using DHTML and script instead of VB.NET or C#. I think you'd find our development overful helpful. Thanks, Brian Thats a great response. i understand the purpose of the gadget now is for simple applications that will display relatively static data. do you know if gadgets have the full functionality of an html page i wonder why it would not be setup to point the gadget to a URL instead of only a local page. do they intend to display mostly local content Hi Brian, Just started a new sidebar gadget referring to ...Show All

• Rocco Mastrangelo Playing H.264 files on Windows Media PLayer 11 on Vista

  I am not sure if this is the right forum for this question. I would like to play a H.264 video file on Vista. I have installed PowerDVD 7.0 on the system. In XP, Windows Media PLayer 10 uses the PowerDVD to play the video file. On Vista Windows Media PLayer 11 shows an error message that the correct codec is not found, but still plays the video. But it does not seem to be using DirectX as I am not able to create a graph using Graphedit. I want to be able to play the H.264 through DirectX on Vista. Or is there any other way to do this Thanks, CACUSer Questions about WMP belong in the WMP newsgroup: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/community/newsgroups/WindowsMedia/default.mspx dg=microsoft.public.windowsmedia.pl ...Show All