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AndrewAPlus This is not a valid gadget package!! grr!
hey, So i finished creating my gadget, i use winzip to zip it up to mygadget.gadget and then double click to install... However it just says: This is not a valid gadget package The gadget works if i move the folder to the windows gadget directory! Does anyone know how to fix this problem Regards Hi nickwilliams , This could be the same problem i'm having I made a gadget -- submited it to gallery, and they accepted it, it worked fine, 100 people downloaded it. I then decided to update it a little, all i added was the following line in the code.js file: System.Gadget.background = "url(bgB.png)"; I pack it back up, no changes to the gadget.xml or page.html (which basicly ...Show All
adamroof Taking Screen Snapshots
Is anyone aware of a way to take screen captures of the video and save those to the player storage for later viewing Just got it to work! Pretty cool feature. How to do it is a bit unusual, you first have to capture a "screenshot" to the filecache then copy the .cvi file from the filecache to the p. storage then copy it from the p.storage back into the filecache and then use some line to display it on screen. Using SACA's emulator for testing. BTW, if you want to view the cvi file: rename it to .raw open it in photoshop, enter for width and size 1920x1080 (or an other size if you have scaled it). However the picture is displayed in gray, maybe someone knows of a way to display .cvi images correctly ...Show All
Penicillin How to use IMFVideoMixerBitmap?
I write a small DirectShow app: want to play video and paint static picture on it. I follow the steps: 1.use EVR DS filter to RenderFile() and IMediaControl::Run()-> no problem, can play video normally. 2.use IMFVideoDisplayControl::GetVideoWindow() to get video window handle -> I can get. 3.use IMFGetService::GetService() to get IMFVideoMixerBitmap -> return S_OK. 4.call IMFVideoMixerBitmap::SetAlphaBitmap() -> return S_OK. But on the video window, there is no static bitmap! Why Do I lose some steps MSDN sample: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/ms701866.aspx One Topics: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ ShowPost.aspx PostID=577394&SiteID=1 What are you using the HWND for For you ...Show All
Andrew Buyan mouseover event when using addImageObject
Is there any way to set a mouseover event for a g:image, if it is added using backgroundId.addImageObject Well I have made a workaround by using a completely transparent .png that overlays the bgid.images and mapping clickable areas to it. Kind of long-winded, but it works and I'm still able to display part-transparent images beneath it. Unfortunately not, <g:background> doesn't support events. <g:image> does support events, but it will only be of use if you don't have a transparent background. It seems to be working fine so far. The only thing I have noticed, is the mouseout events don't always seem to trigger. ...Show All
Peter Mackay More complex samples from Microsoft, any ETA?
Hi Microsoft, I (and I'm sure everybody in this forum) am waiting for the more complex (and close to real iHD apps) samples from you. Do you have any ETA Thanks, -k Hi Sammaz, What changes you made after "small debugging" Can you give me a clue Greetings ds After some small debugging you can play them on any hd-dvd player. Xpath Variables are an awesome way to code HDi. Debugging is funny though because the Microsoft Validator doesn't parse the .js for the Xpath stuff and the Sonic Simulator Trace.exe gives this error: "This.getcurrentmenu() is NULL" line 130 pos 5 in architecture.js Plays fine in my 360 HD-DVD player and in the HD-A1 though. ...Show All
AntonX Flyout Flicker
I encountered the problem described here: http://microsoftgadgets.com/forums/7638/ShowPost.aspx They say that's not supposed to happen. But it does! Is it possible that this is a display driver problem The problem seems much less severe when the gadget has a <g:background ...> element. Help! My flyout flicker is awfully ugly. Bruce, do you see the flicker we're on about You should see it "Asteroids" that I sent last week - it only occurs when I use begin/endTransition, which is only done when it's in a docked state. I'd love to know how to fix it, as all my Gadgets suffer from it! I haven't had a chance to look at your repro yet, but its on my li ...Show All
Vaassu Some "Bug" in the gadget installation.
Hello, sorry if this here is the wrong forum, but there is no other place for this, except some vista->general newsgroups, therefore I post this here and in the vista newsgroup. I can't install gadgets! I visit the gallery website, find some interesting gadgets and click on download Result => the gadget is stored as "GADGET_NAME[1].gadget.~0000" in "C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar\Gadgets" but NOT added to the sidebar and I can't find it in the "sidebar folder" when I click on the "+" sign. Now I must: 1)Open this folder and rename GADGET_NAME[1].gadget.~0000 to GADGET_NAME.Gadget 2)rename the subfolder en-US to de-DE 3)open and close the sidebar If this th ...Show All
tarponboy11 Force user to the Settings UI window
I have a gadget that requires some user settings before it can function. I'd like to check the settings and if they are blank, say something like "Click here to change settings". Then when the user clicked the link, I would like to open the settings window just as if the user clicked the little wrench icon. Right now all I can do is tell them to click the little wrench thingie and hope that they know that that means. Unless I'm overlooking something in the Sidebar Gadget Object Model , I don't see a function for this. Does one exist It would be nice to have a System.Gadget.Settings.show() function to launch the settings UI. Donavon Sorry, but this is not supported. It's a better user experience to pic ...Show All
RayDMS XML Parser Performance..
Does anyone have any relationship data between XML Parsing (using the built in spec Parser) and specific CES devices We are looking for data based on the parsing and handling the parsed xml stream, such as dynamically creating menus, pop up messages, dynamic playlist navigation, game engine datasets etc. Our SAX implementation and DOM implementations are multi-format compatible but we are looking to verify performance at this time before giving up on the built in spec parser. Any one doing this kind of dynamic work already and willing to share their experiences Thanks, Denny B. I would recommend you try very hard to use the built-in one. Using your own could lead to poor performnace issues when loading large DOMs (ei ...Show All
AdrianWoods Layout for gadget
If I would like to create a layout with a navigation bar on the top for access to 3 different areas/panel of the gadget .... how Can I do this I hope you can help me! Hello Sarah , Go to this post : http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=1037876&SiteID=1 The answer is given by Toddos ; Oeil de moscou hi, sarah, you can test your manifest here : http://test.livegadgets.net/gadgets/TestPlatform/testpages.htm m=http://my_serveur_url/directory/manifest.xml where my_serveur_url is what it means and the directory where you upload your gadget's files. albidochon ToddOs wrote: simple available right now. For now, pick your way through the ...Show All
John K&#228;ll&#233;n Yamaha 724 sound card driver?
Hi! I have a Yamaha YMF-724 sound card. I use Vista RC1 Is there any working driver for it I tried some Win XP drivers but doesn't work... "Windows found driver software for your device but encountered an error while attempt to install it: YAMAHA DS-XG PCI Audio CODEC (WDM) The system cannot find the file specified." Is there any solution contact me at alishazib_402@hotmail.com . I have working drivers 100% gaurranteed of 724. see U later Thanks! The b) solution is working! Somehow it's a bit more quiet than in XP, but working! :) (maybe the volume settings scale differs) This isn't really the right forum for driver ...Show All
eric02 What's Your Fav?
i Though i'd put this here as i am lazy and it's 6am and i've not yet been to bed. BUT the point of this is, what's your favorite sidebare gadget, what version of windows is it used for and, well, where did you get it, My favorite 2 were ones i recently lost and don't remeber where to get them but anyway, one told me my wireless signal strength and additional info, the other was a cpu/memory meter for dual core pc's. both were great, no i'm off to find them again... ...Show All
Charlie Audritsh Dynamic change of media type in an existing topology
As I wrote before, I'm implementing a MFT that among other things also performs scaling. SO, now, with the RC1 it looks like the format change passes correctly and I get renegotiation over the media type in the MFT. On the other hand, on the player it doesn't seems to affect. When I use IMFVideoDisplayControl::GetNativeVideoSize(), the size is the same as it was when I created the topology, though, since the type was changed in the MFT I see a small part of the scaled video on the same size of video window. Is it possible to change the size (the media type) of the renderer dynamically or should I recreate the topology and if I should, how (from the beginning ) Thanks!! Haim Hi I tried t ...Show All
swiftdc Hot to contact a user
I'm developing a gadget for a Web site. This gadget has to let user serarch a string using the site searh and opening the web browser for display the results. I've do all, but the sarch must not to be done if the string is less than 3 character. Is there a way to warn a user if he enters a string that type javascript alert doesn't work, and i was thinking if it is possible to use a balloon tip!!! Thanks all Luca If you follow the link I posted above, it states "Displays text in a pop-up message box." So, a hyperlink will show as text without the link. Thank you for the answer. I try to use a shell popup, coping the code from the link you give me but... It say ...Show All
NorCis Help me about rendering audio from IWMReaderCallback::OnSample using DirectSound
I need to play the PCM audio date from IWMReaderCallback::OnSample, when I use " waveOutXXX " it can work,but when I try to change volume with " waveOutSetVolume " , system wave volume is changed,this is not what I want . I wish to change the volume of wave date by operation before I play it with " waveOutXXX " , but I can not find the arithmetic, so I changed to use " DirectSound " to play it, the volume can be controled as expected, but even more worse thing happened, when first data block from "OnSample" arrived, I fill it to " DirectSoundBuffer " ( use Stream buffer),and begin to play it, for example: the length of the first data block is 14000, but when I try to fill the seco ...Show All