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• Antioch Microsoft Bob

  How do I get this older software to work with XP I grabbed the Gateway edition of Bob, and it ran immediately on XP SP2 without any trouble at all, no compatibility mode needed or anything. I did have all sorts of weird junk installed on both PCs I tried, so maybe that had something to do with it. Anyway, I reckon if Bob was updated to be a proper XP application, with the following extra features: Your own decorations and application launcher pictures, and views and rooms and... essentially, completely customizable, including putting your own apps in as "proper" Bob apps, with Bob splash screens, and such. Room transitions, so if you click the trap door in your attic, it actuall ...Show All

• Mantorok MIDI message

  Is there any plan in MF for MIDI messages as a supported Media type Thanks No, MIDI is not natively supported by MF in Windows Vista. However, it should be possible for you to add support for it if that's what you want to do; you'd have to write your own MF components to handle it (see the documentation for Media Sources, Media Foundation Transforms, and Media Sinks). ...Show All

• prad_kav Starting Focus Stuck

  I set my top button to focused()=true on startup - the intention is to have one button start with focus. However in the iHDSim, I cannot nav away from this button. If I do not set focused(), then no buttons have focus, however I can click on one and then get proper navigation. <button id="AUDIO01" style="BTN_AUDIO_01" class="BTN_PLAY BTN_FOCUS" state:focused="true" /> Should be <button id="AUDIO01" style="BTN_AUDIO_01" class="BTN_PLAY BTN_FOCUS" focused="true" /> or <button id="AUDIO01" style="BTN_AUDIO_01" class="BTN_PLAY BTN_FOCUS" focus="true" /> Try both... I will lo ...Show All

• Tomys JavaScript on protected and non-protected disk

  Hello, I visited this forum already some time ago and I did read a thread that said that not all JavaScript commands do work on a non-protected disk (so a disk without AACS). I searched the forum, but was not able to find it back. Can anybody shed some light on this Is it true and if so, which commands are affected Thanks in advance for any info ! So to recap it: with an AACS protected disc it is possible to stream an unencrypted EVOB from a network location The AACS rules are complicated, and this is not really the correct forum to discuss them. You can have unencrypted S-EVOBs on the network, but right now all advanced content (XML, script, PNG, etc.) must be AACS ...Show All

• DalekDAW Mixing rate sink and rateless sink on a tee node

  I modified the WavSinkSample and inserted a tee node so I could also add an Audio Renderer output node. When I do this, the topology starts playing just fine. But it ends as soon as the WavSink finishes writing the wave file. Is this the intended behavior I would have expected the topology to stop when all output nodes are done processing samples. I tried a bunch of workarounds: - Changing the order in which I connect the nodes. - Set MF_TOPONODE_RATELESS to 0 on the WavSink output node. - Set MF_TOPONODE_PRIMARYOUTPUT to 0 (index of the audio renderer) on the tee node. - Set MF_TOPONODE_DISCARDABLE on the tee node for all secondary node. But none of these worked. Is there any ways to accomplish when I want or is this a bug Also, I tri ...Show All

• g-spot-web Does anyone have a gadget for Spaces that displays a static custom number?

  (Warning: I'm not a developer; well not anymore.) In essence, it could read from a file on my desktop, or I could type in a number and it would display it as a dollar amount on my windows live page. Think of it as a custom stock ticker only for a stock who's price I want to type in each day. If you know of this (or are so frustrated by my silly post that you want to write this), please let me know where I might find this gadget. Thanks, Brian ...Show All

• Karl Erickson Test end of video

  Hi, I'm new at media player. I'd like to know is there any way (or events) to test the video clip is finished playing. Thanks Hi Ying, You're asking about Windows Media Player, not Media Foundation (the new multimedia platform for Windows Vista), so try posting your question here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/community/newsgroups/WindowsMedia/default.mspx dg=microsoft.public.windowsmedia.player&lang=en&cr=US Becky ...Show All

• Ather. I need help.

  I tried making a sidebar gadget recently. I used codes from JavaScriptKit.com to do so. Everything went well untill I tested it out on my computer.  A screen popped up saying "This is not a valid gadget packet." I'm pretty new to creating gadgets, so what does this mean, and could someone help me make it real Here's my code: <body>The Date is:<script> /*Current date script credit: JavaScript Kit ( www.javascriptkit.com ) Over 200+ free scripts here! */ var mydate=new Date() var year=mydate.getYear() if (year < 1000) year+=1900 var day=mydate.getDay() var month=mydate.getMonth() var daym=mydate.getDate() if (daym<10) daym="0"+daym var dayarray=new Array("Sunday","Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday"," ...Show All

• Galbatronix Creating an Avi with C++

  I'm using the new Visual C++ Express and want to create a simple Avi file from a series of existing images. I found some sample source code including functions such as CreateAvi(), but do not know which libraries are needed to compile and link. Will I need to download an SDK Which one Thanks for the help. To write an AVI file, you'll need DirectShow. If you're running the Windows Vista Beta2 and want to use the Beta 2 Windows SDK, you can get it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx familyid=13F8E273-F5EA-4B7B-B022-97755838DB94&displaylang=en If you're looking for the Platform SDK for earlier versions of the OS (like XP), get it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details ...Show All

• Colin T. Eventhandler "controller_key_down"

  Hi, i have a problem with the eventhanlder "controller_key_down". I write following function, but when i press the Key "1" nothing happen. I also tryed other keys, but it doesnt work. Can someone help me with this problem function handleEvent(evt) { switch (evt.key) { case VK_1: Player.playlist.titles["robots"].chapters[1].jump("00:00:00:00",false); break; } } application.addEventListener("controller_key_down",handleEvent,true); Try using 0x31 instead of VK_1 I'm having a similar issue using your code from the BareBones menu. You mentioned something in the blog post about USB keyboards. ...Show All

• Igor Solodovnikov How to draw the outlining?

  In our application, we want to have pictures that the user, as they drag their mouse over, have a semi-transparent highlight around the picture, then if they click on the picture, have a less transparent highlight around the picture. The Gadget Gallery in Vista does exactly what we are looking for. Does anyone have any code samples/ideas Thanks! Thanks, but the example uses the Transparency to actually doing the glass effect, but Vista RTM got rid of the Transparency option. :( This is actually nothing to do with Gadgets, but I'll help you out. You need to use WPF and pull Aero into the window for the glass effect. Have a look at Adam Nathan's blog , which discusses how ...Show All

• .net sukbir Scaling with Media Foundation transform

  Hi I'm trying to write a transform that among other things does scaling. To Test it I'm using the PlaybackFX from the Media Foundation samples. The problem I encountered in is that in the transfrom filter it looks like the other parts of the topology is ok with the scaling (I'm getting SetOutputType() with the scaled size), but in the player it doesn't seem like working. I tried to get the video size using IMFVideoDisplayControl::GetNativeVideoSize() and I'm getting the original size before the scaling (the MSDN describe this function as a way to get the size prior to any stretching by the video renderer, so I expected it to be the scaled size). I also tried to set the video size to the output size of the ...Show All

• RabinLin Does iHDSim Support WMAs?

  I am trying to test some audio only Titles. Can I use wmas and rename them as maps Probably not -- best thing to do is just try it out :-) No, this won't work. iHDSim is hard-coded to do WMVs. I did, it didn't work. But I wasn't sure if it was a versioning thing or not. My WMAs are old. ...Show All

• olloemre restart gadget

  hi every one any one know a code to restart a gadget or force an array to be readed from the file not from the memory please reply fast thanks Assuming this is for a live.com gadget (since you posted in the web gadget section), you shouldn't be reading "files" (no access to disk). If you're having a problem with RSS or XML feeds returning the same data when they shouldn't, you're probably running into Live.com's caching mechanism. There are ways to get around this, but they're not recommended (simplest is to add random numbers to your URL, since live.com caches based on the URL string -- ie, if your feed is " http://www.example.com/something.rss ", you could try " http://www.example.com/som ...Show All

• MrOctree Example installation on local PC

  I can’t to install and view the gadget examples in live.com My steps are: Click on Add Gadgets Click on Advanced In the URL I've inserted http://localhost/HelloWorldGadget/HelloWorldGadget.xml I click on the "install" button but in the gadget area I obtain: There was an error loading the Gadget's resources. Where is the problem Thanks I've executed the same steps of yesterday and now it's work... I've not make changes... stange!! Thanks for help me! Did you add *.live.com and *.start.com to your Trusted Sites zone Did you modify the "Access data sources across domains" security setting for the Trusted Sites zone There's a small bug in the SDK that tells you to do that for ...Show All