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• tchen777 Problem getting XML through network/proxy

  Hi, I was following the "Gadget Developer's Guide" to create a simple one that gets XML from my machine and render it as HTML,  The XML is exactly the htmlcontent.xml in the guide, and I tested the URL works fine, the response on GET request looks like: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Length: 418 Content-Type: text/xml Last-Modified: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:26:31 GMT Accept-Ranges: bytes ETag: "6e595436e41ec71:36c" Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 03:22:43 GMT Connection: close     < xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" >     <XmlContentDoc>         <Content type="html">        &nb ...Show All

• DavidR100 iHDSim 0.2 ERROR (E000000005) & ERROR (E070000012)

  Hello All I have a problem with iHDSim 0.2. I have working HD-DVD project for iHDsim 0.1. But under iHDSim it doesn't work. I see errors: - <Title> Using xml:base: file:///dvddisc/ADV_OBJ/ Attribute: titleNumber="2" Attribute: titleDuration="00:00:23:00" Attribute: id="Main" Attribute: displayName="DvdOne Demo" Attribute: onEnd="Main" ERROR (E070000012): Element ApplicationSegment cannot appear in its current position (Element: Title, Line: 14, Col: 10) + <ScheduledControlList> - <ScheduledControlList> | Using xml:base: file:///dvddisc/ADV_OBJ/ | + <PauseAt> | - <PauseAt> | | Using xml:base: file:///dvddisc/ADV_OBJ/ | | Attribute: ti ...Show All

• tmiller3 aquiring IDirect3DDeviceManager9 interface from within a Media Player Plug-ins

  I would like to develop a media player add-ins for vista to control a custom functionality exposed by a display driver (dxva 2.0 decode extention). To do that, I need access to IDirect3DDeviceManager9 interface from within the plug-in compoent. Is it possiable to aquire this interface from with in the plug-in component How Gotcha. Unfortunately, though, if you need this to happen when playing back in WMP (as opposed to a playback application over which you have more control), I'm not thinking of any way to get a non-decoder MFT to see the D3D manager. The reason is that, since WMP is the application and you'd just be supplying the MFT, there's no way to get the MFT involved in any way other than the ...Show All

• PrashantAtlanta How can I hide picture in DIV?

  I have following problem: I write DIV tag in XMU file: <div id='animation' style:position="absolute" style:x="0%" style:y="0%" style:width="20%" style:height="20%" style:backgroundColor="rgba(255, 0, 0, 220)" style:opacity="0.86" style:backgroundImage="url('Pages/pic.jpg')" style:contentWidth="scale-to-fit" style:contentHeight="scale-to-fit" >.... </div> By default "style:backgroundFrame" attribute equal "0" and I see "Pic.jpg" picture. I tried to set style:backgroundFrame at "-1" and "1000" but I anyway see picture. How can I hide picture in DIV without remove (or change ...Show All

• Keith Kiedrowski How to install a gadget

  I'm trying to pack a gadget into a product installation. After copy my gadget to programfiles/windows sidebar/shared gadgets/ , users can see the gadget in the gadgets panel, but how can i add my gadget to the sidebar automaticly Modify settings.ini Your exe doesn't work on my computer (Vista Ultimate RTM simplified chinese version)... Just like Stanimir Stoyanov said. If it could run, a security dialog will popup, is it Is there anyway to install a gadget silently You can't auto add it to the Sidebar. MS would prefer the users to do that. However, a while back I wrote an article on the subject and compiled an EXE to do it, as this functionality would be necessary if you were deploying Gadgets centrally through MSI's etc. ...Show All

• Fritzenhammer Microsoft Gallery Blunder

  6 hours ago, MS authorised an update to the ebay sidebar tool, taking it back to a previous release (that doesn't work now!) D'oh! Why did you do that, Microsoft WHY! You took it back from version 1.221 to version 1.2. It doesn't make any sense, because I certainly haven't submitted anything for well over a week now. Please can you acknowledge the new submission I made to take it back to 1.221 Thanks Andy Hi Andy. It looks like the latest is on the site now. Is that the correct one Thanks. Hi Chris, thanks for the response. I only keep the latest version, the version I'm working on, on my laptop (which is where I upload from). So when I had v1.221 on here, I wouldn't have had v1.2. I was posting a few updates quite c ...Show All

• Jeanet HD DVD Simulator on laptop

  I was trying the HD DVD Simulator on a laptop it runs but when any sample is loaded it doesn't display anything. Could it be that the simulator doesn't work on a (low) resolution of 1024x768 I'll bet it is your video card. I tried running HDiSim on two not so new laptops with no luck (right after the Sim was released).  The window would open up but nothing would play.  I bought a new laptop with a current generation video card and it runs great. Check how much video RAM you have (via DXDiag). My laptop has a paltry 16M of VRAM, which means iHDSim only works when the window is really small (resize the window before loading a playlist). The error handling/reporting when vram expires is, um ...Show All

• iortizvictory About the method of loading Original Sink.

  Hi all! Please give me some pieces of advice on  how  to serialize Original Sink to MIG Process.   Because the method of making general IMFActivate doesn't exist, IMFActivate for original Sink cannot be made. I would like you to teach the way of serializing original Sink to MIG Process.   My Best Regards. Thank you for your answer. 1.----> May I return My MediaSink object when IMFActivate::Activate() is called And, though I don't have any more data for IMFActivate, Should I implement IPersistStream::Load() and Save() In the last answer, you advised me that the two methods were options, so ...Show All

• Ofir Epstein embedding and updating content

  Hello, 2 questions: 1. What is the downside of embedding a web page as a gadget In my case Im trying to convert what is originally a web page into a gadget. Is there any reason why I shouldn't just embed a modified web page 2. Im trying to write a simple gadget that contains links, when clicking a link I want to change the displayed information on the gadget. Ive looked at the Quote of the Day example, but that code is a bit over my head... does anyone have an easy to comprehend example (in short I want to be able to make links that doesn't link to a new page but instead changes the information inside of the gadget) I 'd suggest that you put your different contents in different divs. Like with ...Show All

• Tryin2Bgood Extracting DVD video

  Hi everyone! I'm trying to write application to work with dvd disks recorded with camcoder. Its quite simple all i want it to do is to save save selected chapter to disk and encode it. To make it more convenient encoding will be done in 2 steps : copy selected chapter/title to the disk encode file in backgroup thread or even by service And here is the problem - i need copying to be performed as fast as possible, but using DVDNavigator i couldnt do that - when i tried PlayForward with high speed but i get a rapid clip. I also tried SetSyncSource(null) but i get empty file. Does anyone have any idea about how to do that Set the clock to NULL using the IMediaFilter::SetSyncSource method on the DirectShow filter grap ...Show All

• Ogulcank Query About page clock behaviour

  Hi to all, I have a doubt about the behaviour of page when the document.load() API is called. As far as I know, whatever changes have taken place on the markup page, all gets reflected when the document.load() is called, but does it also mean that the "page clock" gets reset. In one of my scenario, I am passing the event at the -- select=//body begin="1s" dur="1s" event=foo -- and in the script, I am calling document.load(). Will the page clock gets reset everytime it encounters document.load() and so the event will get fired continuously Please clarify this doubt. Thanks in advance Azaz Hi, Thanks for the reply. But the behaviour in MS simulator is different. It does not reset the "page" clo ...Show All

• Jan Ku&amp;#269;era Preventing a focus sound from playing on start

  Any ideas on a slick way to prevent the focus sound from playing on start when you have a button that starts with the focus I'm managing focus sound like so: <g id="ButtonFocus"> <set style:backgroundFrame="1" /> <event name="PlayFocusSound" /> </g> function playFocusSound() { Player.audio.effect.play('file:///dvddisc/ADV_OBJ/main.aca/focus.wav', 1, function focusSoundCallback(status){}); } Can you please post as a new thread (since this is a new question ). Thanks Why write code to do something the sytem will do for you :-) Could you elaborate on how you would actually play the sound via an object in markup I was under the impression that system (ie player ...Show All

• vtortola Must MediaSource implement Service Interfaces? (like IMFRateControl etc.)

  In other words: - Are all these Service Interfaces optional for MediaSource - Or some of interfaces are obligatory My MediaSource plays ok audio stream, but I got event with error E_NOINTERFACE while playing video stream. None of the services are required for the Media Source to work in a plain old playback situation. The fact that you're getting E_NOINTERFACE probably means that there's a required interface that you're not QueryInterface'ing for. I would set a breakpoint in QueryInterface where you return E_NOINTERFACE and see what the IID is that MF seems to expect (of course, you will probably get a lot of QueryInterfaces for optional interfaces... The final one that you get is probably the one yo ...Show All

• Vicky Z HD DVD Jumpstart v0.2 now available!

  The latest release of the HD DVD Interactivity Jumpstart kit is available from the same download location, linked to from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/forpros/hddvd/default.aspx . Please note that this release relies on some components installed by Media Player 11 and Internet Explorer 7 , which are both still in beta. As with all pre-release software, you should not install this on mission-critical machines. An on-line programming guide is also available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/HDDVDATK/htm/hddvdprogrammingguide.asp . Thanks Peter, glad I randomly decided to check this discussion board. The new iHDSim seems much more stable than the prior verison and markup-driven a ...Show All

• heavenlycharmus Slideshow Flickr gadget: works both online/offline

  I would like to see a Flickr slideshow gadget that has two states, online and off. 1. When online a users would either a) have their widget log into their account and start streaming new/old/all photo's from 'favs', b) stream photo's from a select list of RSS feeds or c) stream photo's from desired tags 2. When offline (this happens a lot to laptop users) instead of the gadget remaining black it would seamlessly switch to HDD images streaming either: a) by folder or b) by tags I think this would be a solid gadget, anyone fancy making it. No of course I can't code, I'm just an ideas man. Ta, Samuel, UK ...Show All