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• Helen999888 call a WebService or .Net App to send e-mails

  Can I call a WebService or a .Net Application to send e-mails from within the Gadget Or maybe submit some data to a web site without opening Internet Explorer The other question has already been posted by another user by haven't been answered.. can I drop files to the Gadget and get its info Jonathan, can you tell me how can I call another application (such a command line app or a web app on the internet) but without opening any windows You can't with the standard Gadget API. If you don't want windows poping up, either write your own, or download a freeware SMTP ActiveX COM. You can, if you want to code them. The easiest solution would be to call a command line eMail client, such ...Show All

• csdevnewb Help - Movie maker

  I've been having problems recently with it everytime i load it up it comes up with an error "Windows Movie Maker has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." and the file that it says are included in the error form are "C:\DOCUME~1\Midna\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER070e.dir00\moviemk.exe.mdmp C:\DOCUME~1\Midna\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER070e.dir00\appcompat.txt" I have tried multiple times reinstalling it, does anyone know how to fix this problem thanks! Try posting your question here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/community/newsgroups/WindowsMedia/default.mspx dg=microsoft.public.windowsxp.moviemaker&lang=en&cr=US WHAT IS THE ANSWER ...Show All

• ilkerrr Testing and Debugging

  Hi all, I am trying to debug my .js file in VS 2005. I followed all the steps mentioned in SDK (atleat 10 times). But the program never pauses at the breakpoint when I load the gadget. Am I missing something in this process..Please suggest... Thanks Are you sure your gadget is getting to the code where you're trying to break Try tossing in some alert() statements to see if they get fired. If the code's not getting called, obviously it's not going to break. I don't really like the SDK's section on testing and debugging, so here are some modifications to what's provided in there: You don't need to enable debugging for "Other". That just allows you to debug in applicatio ...Show All

• Jason Jaegers Detecting Gadget visibility / screen saver & power saving state

  Is there anyway to detect if a gadget is visible or covered by other applications or if the screen saver / display power saver is on I'm creating kind of a slide show gadget which will download images from an external server and it's wasting of server bandwidth to keep downloading the images when the gadget isn't shown so I need some ways to detect when the gadget should be suspended. Perhaps Bruce or Brian at Microsoft can explain if the event fires when the screen saver is active. It would make sense, as strictly speaking it isn't visible! Hmm, seems that the visibilityChanged-event is launched either with the screen saver or the power save at least every now and t ...Show All

• Cyanide13 Question about audio fingerprinting

  hi, The only information I can find about Audio Fingerprinting is in WM10 it is done using metadata and in WM11 it is waveform fingerprinting. I have tested that and its working fine. But is there any literature on fingerprinting and is there any API for fingerprinting (finding id3 tag, album art based on waveform fingerprint) Thanks, kalyan This forum focuses primarily on Media Foundation, which is the new multimedia platform for Windows Vista. Since your question has to do with the Windows Media Player, you might want to try posting it to the Windows Media Player newsgroup, which you can get to from here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/community/newsgroups/WindowsMedia/default.mspx d=1 Becky Audio Fingerp ...Show All

• mpswaim sonic error

  Hi, i'm getting this runtime error when i try to emulate a project: abnormal program termination. The debugging last lines utility say: XPath: Begin expression '//button[state:focused()=true() and style:backgroundColor()='rgba(206,241,255,255)']' became TRUE. ApplicationMgr: Removed all applications. I have archiving and multiplexing turned off, when i don't use script in the advanced content emulation of video is no problem. To bad iHDsim doesn't play (multiplexed) hd video files. There is nothing wrong with that XPath expression... Can you narrow down the error to a specific action Can you use Diagnostics.trace to find out approximately where the error is happening Neverrmind I ...Show All

• jCarlisle 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 You need to add the .gadget extension to your MIME types on your server :) If you administrate it using HSPComplete or CPanel, this is quite easy to do. Andy I just used application/gadget gadget Not too sure if you need the . in the extension. ...Show All

• Jonesj3599 Rendering problems of the gadgets (mainly the height)

  About the ccs problems, the problems rendering the height of the gadgets in Live Spaces. Maybe is not just that the problem... I have noticed that if I right click the gadget and I refresh the start.com service which starts the gadget, the gadget is rendered always in the right way. This happens with any gadget... So probably it is a problem of the page loading event or of the start.com service processing all the requests. ciao The only gadget I seen not rendered correctly on your screen where it cuts it off is the metrowebcam gadget. I think this might be the one your talking about. Since it's an iframe, you're pretty much stuck with keeping it to a vertical max height of 250px. If you go beyond that it will ra ...Show All

• DaveKStl Extending Classes in HDi - not working in Emulator

  We're seeing some weird behavior on the Toshiba Emulator. Object oriented javascript runs well in HDi - you can have multiple extensions of a class and they act as expected. However when this script was run in the Emulator all extended classes act like the very last class loaded. So for example if a Food class is extended to veggie, fruit and grain; in they Emulator they all act like the grain class (assuming it was the last one loaded). Am I missing something in the ECMA spec that prohibits object oriented javascript No, right now I am adding the initialize methods to the classes after I create them with Class.create (see example below). I was under the impression that the HD-DVD implementation of ECMAScript didn't allow built-in ...Show All

• allison_h Sidebar gadget and IE interaction

  I'm having this problem between the sidebar gadget and IE: For example when I log in on YouTube with IE it reminds me logged in but when I try to access YouTube from my sidebar gadget I'm not logged in any more. But if I debug the gadget on the IE it works. Does anyone know why is this happening and how to solve Simplified, what I want to do is log in on IE and use this "login" on my sidebar gadget. Is this possible If you're using a form with POST to login from your sidebar gadget, it won't work. Gadgets can't POST to web pages through IE. Andy Yeah, asking people to disable "security" isn't an option. Bummer. Ty This is part of the ...Show All

• Kusok Disabling all Selectable Elements

  I want to disable all buttons at once from script. What is the best way to do this Can I pass an xpath expression like so: document[class('foo')] What is the best method for disabling Setting state:enabled to false Peter can you point me to a good online jscript reference that would for example detail the method evaluateXPath Or if you do just want buttons, then the select would be "//button" If you don't want a cue , but really want it in script, then do an evaluateXPath("//button", document) and then loop through the resulting nodeList and set everyone's state.enabled to false. Ah, ok that makes sense. My jscript bookmarks were not turning up anything on evaluateXPath ;) Thanks Peter I belie ...Show All

• chionhhm 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 ! " I did read that binary files must be AACS protected if the disc is AACS protected in order to receive them from a network location. This is a major hurdle Studios, and for the rest of the world, it makes "dynamic" disc really difficult. "  - No, it is just a case where the original author has to maintain the remote file system since he is the one wh ...Show All

• wBob Gadget developer needed

  Hi, I'm looking for a developer to port a Google gadget to Live.com platform. Anybody interested just drop me a line at corp@auctioncontact.net Thanks, Alex You can simply add you're google gadget to you're personal live page already! Live supports google gadgets. Just click: Add stuff > advanced options and enter the url of the google xml file manually. Yes, I'm aware of that. But I'm would like this gadget to be available in the gallery for others to use. Thanks, Alex ...Show All

• RickGaribay.NET backgroundImage parameters

  The CSS used in iHD seems to be a bit different than CSS2.0. First question: Does the HD specification cover style syntax and definitions Second question (and example of my confusion): One of the samples posted to these forums includes a backgroundImage assignment with multiple items. I'm guessing this is to define different images per state. style:backgroundImage="url('BUTTON_T1_0.PNG') url('BUTTON_T1_1.PNG')" What is the signature for this style declaration Thanks. You're right, I did get a DOM exception for that line. I thought it was an issue with the default node and my lack of experience using xpath ;) Thanks Peter. I'll try it on my production machine when I get a chance. So in the code below, how ar ...Show All

• dtorg1955 Adding iHD Definitions to VS 2005

  I decided to make the switch from Eclipse to VS 2005. I'm new to VS 2005 and am wondering if anyone could give me the steps to get 'iHD' intellisense configured. I imagine it is just a matter of pointing to the xsds http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=652683&SiteID=1 ...Show All