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• Thibaud Display external URL

  Good morning, i would like to display an external webpage in my sidebar gadget. Unfortunately it doesn't work. Are there any limitations Thanks in advance. Martin That's what i was looking for. Thanks! Use IFrame check this thread: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=1049562&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• Gafrage Gadget Piracy

  Vista hasnt been out for long but we are already seeing a big issue relating to gadgets which is piracy. I have already seen probably 5 examples of people taking someone elses gadget, making a few changes and re-releasing it. I have been developing widgets/gadgets for Mac OS X and Yahoo Widget Engine for 2 years now and i dont think i can even think of 5 similar cases in that time. As far as im concerned unless a gadget specifically states that you may modify and re-release it then those people are breaking copyrights. Just because you can view the source of a gadget that does not mean it should be considered open source in a typical sense. I've released more then 25 widgets/gadgets over the past 2 years and ive never had a proble ...Show All

• Aarontt Remote encoder dies

  We are using the windows media encoder sdk to create and administrate remotely multiple instances of windows media encoder through a web service, in a way which is very similar to the Microsoft Remote Administration sample. Everything works perfectly: the encoder is created and configured, it starts, stops and so on. But after a quite short period of time, usually less than one hour, the instance of windows media encoder just disappears. After having read something about it in this thread http://tinyurl.com/y5nvsx , we've been trying with no success to solve the problem by instantiating both the agent and the encoder using a dll wrapper written in C++. Any suggestions Has anybody encountered the same problem and found a ...Show All

• RDH123 WM/Picture in ASF Extended Content Description object

  I've some trouble to understand how data in WM/Picture is encoded. In the specification it says it should be compatible with the tag APIC from the ID3-spec. But when I add a picture to a file with Windows Media Player and opens the file in a hexeditor it seems not. From APIC in ID3-spec: Text encoding $xx MIME type <text string> $00 Picture type $xx Description <text string according to encoding> $00 (00) Picture data <binary data> WM/Picture data from a hexeditor (sorry for the formatting): 57 00 4D 00 W M 2F 00 50 00 69 00 63 00 74 00 75 00 72 00 65 00 / P i c t u r e 00 00 01 00 9A 6F 00 69 6F 00 00 69 00 6D 00 61 . .o io i m a 00 67 00 65 00 ...Show All

• Tablet 007 Xbox HD-DVD not playing HD DVD's

  My son who is in the army and has little time asked me to write this. I bought for him for Chirstmas a HD-DVD player for his 360 he installed it and it will play DVD's but when he puts in the King Kong it will stop after the titles or not play at all. He took the one I sent him back and got another one and it's the same problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Westpointdad@hotmail.com Although this is not strictly within the scope of this forum, I'll try to help. Has he tried a different HD disc than King Kong (To rule out a defective disc) Can it play ANY HD at all (To rule out failure of the blue-laser in the drive) Ask him to make sure he uses the usb cable that came with the drive. Also ask i ...Show All

• BobInIndy HTC files with gadgets?

  I have been reading about consuming web services with javascript and it seems every example uses an htc file to accomplish this. Does this work the same way with gadgets I tried searching the forum but no results for htc. If anyone has an example that does this I would really appreciate it! Thanks in advance! Ok, I figured it out.. I didn't realize that any private members could not be used with web services! By removing the get return sequence and just setting the public string values it works perfectly! ok, it seems I am on the wrong path here:) I am not familiar with Web Services, javascript or dom so gadget development is really just a learnign experience for me beca ...Show All

• JinFan iHD Specification

  Is there somewhere I can find detailed information on each method, parameter, object, etc for iHD Yes, I'll see you on Tuesday (although I won't be speaking until Wednesday). anyone got the info for it Im in LA so it shouldnt be too hard to find. Awesome...it will be great to get together! Im signed up for Tues,and Wed. Thanks Peter, thats what I figured. By any chance are you going to be going to the HD DVD Professionals Workshop in LA next Tuesday In the HD DVD spec... which unfortunately will cost you $5,000 since it is licensed by the DVD FLLC. See http://www.dvdfllc.co.jp/hd_dvd/hd_what.html#howtos for more info I'll also be there. I ...Show All

• etcheverrjc Standard DVD

  Is it planned to create a tool that can convert existing standart DVD content to hd-dvd application, that declares the same list of video titles and chapters You could create a dual-format DVD. Put your DVD Video stuff in the VIDEO_TS folder and put your HD DVD content in the appropriate HVDVD_TS and ADV_OBJ folders. As long as the file system is UDF 1.02 and the media is DVD-5 or -9 this disc will run on regular DVD Video players and the Toshiba HD DVD player. Note: This disc does conform with the DVD Video spec. but not with the latest HD DVD specification. HD DVD supports "Standard Content" which is basically the same as normal DVD but with hi-def video an ...Show All

• volleynerd Correct Timer Code?

  I am having trouble getting the timer function to work. Everytime it is called on while in the player, it crashes the player. Is this formatted correctly var cbfnAudio = function() { //Animate Menu Code would be here myTitleTimer.enabled = false; }; var myTitleTimer = application.createTimer("00:00:01",1,cbfnAudio); myTitleTimer.enabled = true; Will do Peter. Thanks for the help Peter. I will try the autoReset call on Monday when I am back in the office. The variable is currently local. I will also move that to global to avoid any further issues. The cbfnAudio function is more complicated, but that was tested and working before the timer function wa ...Show All

• Shihan wmp app ... filtering song menu question

  Hi All, I'm developing a media player using WMP activex control. The idea here is to integrate the media library into an ipod-style menu filtering system, within this .NET GUI app i'm building. So, the user would see a large list box with a list of songs and be able to filter it in a hierarchy. example: audio -> playlists -> (list all playlists here) -> (songs in the specific playlist here) audio -> artists -> (list all artists here) -> (all songs specific to that artist here) etc. Any ideas on how to save the state of the previous list So, the user can go back to from all songs in a specific playlist, back to the list of playlists available. I'm thinking the best way to do this is using a stack method ... but if there ar ...Show All

• BeguiledFoil How to get pop up Jscript errors on a gadget?

  In IE7 if you uncheck the disable Jscript errors option in the Advanced Internet Options dialogue, you get popup errors. I know the same is possible for a gadget. The method I know is to use VS2005 and attach a debugger to the gadget process. However I'm not running VS2005 on Vista (too many horror stories of fellow developers) and I've been using VWD. Is there some way to enable Jscript popup errors for the gadget on its own, or failing that via VWD Chris Use VS2005 with SP1 on Vista, and disable the Internet Option for "Disable Script Debugging (Other)". It'll be just fine for debugging JS files, although HTML files won't load in the debugger due to an underlying IE issue. Bri ...Show All

• Harish1 Dynamic Metafiles

  I'm looking to stream dynamically generated WVX metafiles. For instance, the metafile would contain a playlist that does this: 1. plays a 30 second clip (commercial) 2. plays a selected movie The only way i have found to do this is to create individual metafiles for each movie. is there a way to send a variable such as movie location to link it to the file on the mms:// server Thanks, Jonathan Try posting your question here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/community/newsgroups/WindowsMedia/default.mspx dg=microsoft.public.windowsmedia.server&lang=en&cr=US ...Show All

• dyowee Cannot Create Directshow Player

  Everytime i attempt to stream videos on websites i get an errors mgs saying. "Cannot Create Directshow Player. When i Frist bought this computer i didnt have a problem but now..this happens.. Any help would be greatfull i had the same problem while i was accessing a certain website to streaming video.I roll back the windows media player. Every thing is ok now.So i will suggest you to roll back your media player and install the latest driret x.Hope it works for you. Since this forum is for Media Foundation (the new multimedia platform for Windows Vista), you'll probably have better luck posting this question elsewhere. You might want to try this newsgroup: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/wi ...Show All

• NoEgo 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 Perhaps your issues only apply to the Script Debugger I've never had any of the problems you've mentioned when using Visual Studio 2005 as the debugging environment (you should be able to use one of the Visual Studio Express SKUs as well, which would give you a free alternative to Microsoft Script Debugger). As for "break on next statement", I've never really found that to be useful. What I do instead is load the page, attach th ...Show All

• AdrianLester XMLHttpRequest not behaving itself in gadgets

  I have encountered some slightly strange behaviour, and I'm wondering if it is related to the fact it is in a gadget, or if it is for some other reason. Basically I have an XML HttpRequest object created as follows: var xmlHttpRequestObject = null; ... xmlHttpRequestObject = GetXMLHTTP(); // function to create object xmlHttpRequestObject.onreadystatechange = getData; xmlHttpRequestObject.open( "get" , "http://www.myurl.com./myfile. xml" , false ); xmlHttpRequestObject.send(); and the call back function as follows: function getData() { if (xmlHttpRequestObject.readyState == 4) { if (xmlHttpRequestObject.status == 200) { xmlData = xmlHttpRequestObject .responseXML; ...Show All