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Jais-Jeff Using Settings to Choose Color of Gadget
I have a simple gadget where I have 4 different color .png bachground colors. The default is red and I want a user to be able to enter settings and choose the background color. I think I'm close, but if someone could give some pointers, I would really appreciate it. You see the bold else If I add and remove that by hand, I can change the color and then change the color back after I remove it. Any thoughts looking at the code I am a beginner, so any help is once again very moch appreciated. <html xmlns=" http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml "> <head> <title>Settings</title> <script type='text/javascript' src="js\Settings.js"></script> <script> System.Gadget.onSettingsClosin ...Show All
Six iHD Simulators/Emulators
Right now I am using the MSFTs iHDSim. It works ok, but has limitations as has been discussed around here. So what are the other options now and in the near future Is MSFT planning on a beefed up release of iHDSim I found the following list posted elsewhere. Is this it for now I work in a remote office and do not have access to my team's Sonic suite. I don't do any video/audio encoding, I just need to test my markup and functionality. CyberLink PowerDVD/HD DVD CyberLink www.cyberlink.com PowerDVD will initially be offered only as an OEM product, bundled with next-gen DVD drives. Later in 2006, it will become available as a standalone product. WinDVD HD DVD InterVideo www.intervideo.com WinDVD HD ...Show All
mdschwarz Larger sized Videos not playing
I have been using several 700 kbps video files to run all my demos. I then swapped in a larger video, 1280 x 720 with a 5000 kbps video stream. None of the larger videos will render in the iHDSimm. I've tried making the aperature bigger - still not rendering. These new video files are around 25MB each. Could it be a resource problem Unfortunately iHDSim is not meant to be a video playback application (it's an interactivity simulator) so it doesn't do any kind of optimisation / acceleration for video. Larger files are unlikely to play unless you have incredibly beefy hardware. ...Show All
ScottPGlover TIMING :Using "inherit" for an animated property and more
I have two questions: 1. Can "inherit" or "auto" be used for an animated property, If yes then, Does "style" inheritance occurs from the loaded DOM or the live DOM 2. For style properties which have Initial="auto" and inherited="true". Does it mean that the default value is inherited from the parent element Thanks in advance Yes, if the spec says you can use "inherit" or "auto" and it is animatable then you can set it to that value. Style inheritence is from the current "live" value. Huumm...interesting...But I think no content author one would do that. Chapter 7.5.2.4.3.2 and the tables 7.5.2.4.3.2-1 - 7.5.2.4.3.2.-4 have information on values which are returned by AnimatedProper ...Show All
CyberPl Installing gadget from a link
Hello, I have a .gadget file on my server and want users to be able to click, download, and install the gadget. When the link is clicked in IE7, it's seen as a .zip file and opens as a folder on download. How can I get it to offer the option of installing to the sidebar on download Thanks, TY I finally got this working. Add this to your Apache conf file: AddType application/x-windows-gadget .gadget Ty I'm also very interested in this answer For my gadget I check an external XML file for the current version available. If a newer one is available, I put a link on the gadget that the user can click to download the newer version. But right now, I get somethi ...Show All
Jassim Rahma Which culture?
Hi, which culture settings influences the decision which locale will sidebar choose I have czech format set, czech location and czech system locale (for non-Unicodes) in regional and language options, however, the sidebar still chooses the en-us version of gadget. Vista UI is english of course. The .Net framework returns System.Globalization.CultureInfo base {object}: object CurrentCulture: {cs-CZ} CurrentUICulture: {en-US} InstalledUICulture: {en-US} InvariantCulture: {} What should I change to test my gadget localization Thanks Edit: PS: Is there any way how to determine from within gadget code ...Show All
chris6804 Colorfull Drawing
I thought I'll share this demo with everyone, it displays colorfull random lines on the screen Place in markup: <object type="application/x-graphic" id="theimage" style:position="absolute" style:x="0px" style:y="0px" style:width="1920px" style:height="1080px"> <param name="width" value="1920" /> <param name="height" value="1080" /> </object> Place in script: //define variables var x,y,cr,cg,cb,col,p1,p2,pen,obj1; //set timer var timer=createTimer("00:00:00:05",1,randomline); timer.enabled=true; //define functions function randomline(){ x=Math.round(Math.random()*1920); y=Math.rou ...Show All
justindhas Markup <text> tag
I have seen a reference to a <text> tag, but have not seen any implementation of it. I believe it could be related to the content area of XMU, but it does not seem to appear under anything related to the schema iHD.xml. Is anyone aware of this tag, or is it a tag that does not exist in markup thank you. Use <p> or <span> The XML DOM has a node type "Text" that represents text data. There isn't any text tag in the schemas so... i think it doesn't exist ...Show All
FreddieCode What is the correct way to ignore RequestSample()?
Hi. I'm making source that has multipule output stream. What should I do when I received RequestSample() for stream1 but stream1 isn't ready to send sample If I wait for stream1 to be ready RequestSample() for stream0 will not be called until stream1 return RequestSample() and cause deadlock in source. If I return RequestSample() without sending any sample by not calling QueueEventWithIUnknown(). It will cause topology to stop. My topology is like this. source->videoDecoderMFT->EVR ->audioDecoderMFT->SAR Thanks. kasumi. RequestSample is expected to turn around pretty quickly. If your Media Source knows that it does not have a sample for Stream1, then it should ...Show All
Ricky Tan - MSFT iHDSim catastrophic failure
Just wanted to report a strange bahaviour of iHDSim when having specified multiple audio languages for a title. WORKING: <TrackNavigationList> <VideoTrack track="1" /> <AudioTrack track="1" langcode="en:00" description="English 2.0" /> <AudioTrack track="2" langcode="de:00" description="German 2.0" /> </TrackNavigationList> NOT WORKING: <TrackNavigationList> <VideoTrack track="1" /> <AudioTrack track="1" langcode="de:00" description="German 2.0" /> <AudioTrack track="2" langcode="en:00" description="English 2.0" / ...Show All
Carl Daniel Bug #30 begin/endTransition can hang a Gadget, if the body size isn't changed.
Bug #30 begin/endTransition can hang a Gadget, if the body size isn't changed. Added to the known bugs list . This is actually a bug that was reported to MS in July 2006, but it was never resolved due to the lack of a simple Repro. There's a Repro and a Workaround. ...Show All
RufusLDK Where's the "Add to Space" button
Hi, I have uploaded my first web gadget, called A, onto the library. Everything worked fine. There's a bug in A. Then I edit A, upload a new zip file. A change to "pending approval". This morning, I logged in my gallery and I see 2 versions of A. The old A: with a bug in it, there are 2 buttons when I browse to it "Add to live" and "Add to space" The new A: there is only 1 button when I browse to it "Add to live". Where is the button "Add to space" in this case Is there any wrong step that I did during upload And the edit gadget functionality is not supposed to overwrite the old one (keep 2 version as I stated above) Thanks Bao Nguyen. Hi albidochon, Not s ...Show All
USJOHN "Access is Deined" error on IE7, but works fine on IE6
My gadget needs to contact two URLs to retrieve XML content (not SOAP, just URLs that return XML). The first one is internal URL (not accessible from public) and I used {proxy:"none"} when creating network request; the second URL is public and I used {proxy:"generic"}. The gadgets is uploaded onlto galleryd.live-int.com, During test, everything seems fine when I use IE6 on an internal PC (of course with the trusted site and cross-domain settings changed). However, when I switch to an IE7 (on Vista) internal machine, even after changing the settings, it kept giving "Access is denied" error. I also tried adding the regedit trick found on the old forum, but it didn't help: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\M ...Show All
HabibRazak Can i upload to live gallery ...
can i upload to the live gallery my gadget if it has a exe embedded into it or will they reject it Hi Thomas. We will allow gadgets on the site that have EXE or DLLs, but we (or the end user) may not always have access to the additional programs or DLLs that are used or needed if distributed seperately. Ideally, if something is not available to the gadget it should fail gracefully. Thanks. Err didn't know i had 2 accounts oops Yeah could do i hope theres a api for it :) Thanks Chris :) Good question, wonder if they have issues with DLL's too. In fact, perhaps someone from MS could explain ...Show All
evolutionv111 How to create button in Script
Hi there, I created a basic markup file with a simple div element like this: <div id="container" /> How can I create a new button, change lets say id and style:x and add it to the container from script Cheers, Gunnar In general, structural changes to the DOM will require a re-load via document.load . First you add the node using the W3C DOM APIs, then you reload the document. Something like this: var CORE_NS = " http://www.dvdforum.org/2005/ihd " ; var STYLE_NS = "http://www.dvdforum.org/2005/ihd#style" ; var btn = document.createElementNS(CORE_NS, "button" ); btn.setAttribute( "id" , "dynamic" ); btn.setAttributeNS(ST ...Show All