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edsela Windows window project
While experimenting I made this windows like window you can see a picture of it on my blog, it would be great if other people could join in and make things like the menubar, alert window, etc. Best to keep it all markup without using pictures makes it easier to share. < xml version="1.0" > <!-- http://techgen.spaces.live.com --> <root xml:lang="en" xmlns=" http://www.dvdforum.org/2005/ihd " xmlns:style=" http://www.dvdforum.org/2005/ihd#style " xmlns:state=" http://www.dvdforum.org/2005/ihd#state " xmlns:xsi=" http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance " > <head> <styling> <style select="id('window')" style:backgroundCo ...Show All
john82 Debug Help with Simple Animation
I trying to debug a small problem. I cannot get the animation to activate. I'm missing something simple. MARKUP < xml version="1.0" > <root xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.dvdforum.org/2005/ihd" xmlns:state="http://www.dvdforum.org/2005/ihd#state" xmlns:style="http://www.dvdforum.org/2005/ihd#style" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.dvdforum.org/2005/ihd http://www.dvdforum.org/2005/ihd/iHD.xsd"> <head> <styling> <style id="BACKGROUND" style:position="absolute" style:backgroundFrame="0" style:backgroundImage="url('bg_main.jpg') ...Show All
Praksh windows media player C# codeing
Hi I have two different sound card in my computer, how can i change the defult sound card for media player object in C#. Tanks Hi Amir, This forum focuses on Media Foundation, which is the new multimedia platform for Windows Vista. Since you're asking a Windows Media Player question, I'd encourage you to try posting your question on the Windows Media Player newsgroup: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/community/newsgroups/WindowsMedia/default.mspx dg=microsoft.public.windowsmedia.player&lang=en&cr=US Thanks, and good luck! Becky ...Show All
clint 2 How to loop the button animation
How to loop the button animation as long as it is focused My xml works only for when the menu gets focused, but not continuous animating. </defs> <animate id="set_focus" style:backgroundFrame="1;2;3;4;5"/> </defs> <cue begin="id('AddiContent')[state:focused()=true()]" end="id('AddiContent')[state:focused()=false()]" dur="1s" use="set_focus" fill="hold" /> <button id="WinterTour" state:focused="true" style:position="absolute" style:x="1124px" style:y="436px" style:width="556px" style:height="42px" style:backgroundImage ="url('B1_Normal_N001.png') url('B1_Select_ ...Show All
barkingdog Looking for sample javascript (not vbscript) to access WMI Objects
Specifically, I'm trying to get the readyboost parameters: "ReadyBoost Cache", "Total read bytes/sec" Thanks Peter Kellner http://peterkellner.net ASP.NET, MVP You'll be after "Win32_PerfFormattedData_EmdCache_ReadyBoostCache.TotalreadbytesPersec". But you won't be able to read this without Elevated Admin rights, so it's going to be pretty useless! Here's the code: var oWMI = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!//./root/cimv2"); var cItems = oWMI.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_PerfFormattedData_EmdCache_ReadyBoostCache"); var cItem = new Enumerator(cItems); for (; !cItem.atEnd(); cItem.moveNext()) { var cacheSize = cItem.item().Bytescached; var totalRe ...Show All
GaryMcC track stream duration
Hi, I want to track the duration of streamed data to a media player by a MS media server. Using the playlist->getsimpletime is not valid for on-demand(player requesting specific media file or broadcast). Is there a posisbility using media service sdk 9 to be able to achieve the same I woudl prefer a generic solution. Would it make sense to write a event notification plugin , that listens to WMS_connect and wms_play events Thanks 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
KennyABC Flash movies
Hi all, is it possible to embedd a Flash movie in a Sidebar gadged As Jonathan mentions, I believe the latest version of Flash fixes those DEP issues, and should work fine with the sidebar. Does anyone know if there are any workarounds to get flash to work without crashing sidebar If not do you forsee sidebar and Flash ever playing nicely together regardless of who is to blame There are so many cool apps built in Flash that would scale to sidebar, just thinking of flashlite/phone apps for one. Thanks It is, through an IFrame - but it will probably crash Sidebar. Flash suffers from a lot of buffer overruns, which cause DEP to close Sidebar. Sun Java suffers the sam ...Show All
barkingdog Problem opening flash object on Vista 64-bit
I posted a gadget that opens a flash object on the flyout window. I tested and works fine on Windows Vista 32-bit but one of the guys who downloaded it told me that the flash object doesn't open on the 64-bit version of Vista, but when he open the same flash object from internet explorer 7 it works. Thanks in advance for any tip to fix this problem. ...Show All
Xythe Creating GOOD graphics for gadgets...
I use Adobe Photoshop to make my images and I was wondering what other people use. I think the images in the MSFT gadgets look cool, but I'm not even close to knowing how to make such good looking images. The code is only part of it right, many of the custom gadgets I see have kind of a crappy look. Ok, this includes mine too.. as I said, I want to learn.. So what's a good site to learn how to make 3d or Vista type images Would someone suggest another tool than Adobe Or, if Adobe is good, then any tips, tricks, links to make cool images Thanks! Thanks for all the replies and I will take a look at the other products suggested. Thanks for both replies. Sounds like I have the proper tool, but just need to learn it some more ...Show All
Mach1 Animating Width and Height
My guess is that to animate and images width and height (as in shrink or grow the image), I need to display it as an object and then manipulate contentWidth/contentHeight. Is that correct Are there other ways to do this Thanks. You can also just specify scale-to-fit for those two properties and then animate width and height as per normal. Yes. The signature for this method is described on page Z304. Although not described very well at all :( I did a bunch of testing. I get it now. The first method is stretching the image but within the boundaries of the image's original width and height. By scale-to-fit you mean declare both width and height as auto the ",4) " at the end...is that 4 seconds ...Show All
nhaas optimization settings in for windows media
Hi All, I had come across the optimization setting to be made for windows media in case of using IPTV under the section http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms836775.aspx .. however i am not able to get the pathHKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\NetShow\Player\General in the platformbuilder i am using i.e platform builder for windows mobile 5.0 In case i wish to make a similar optimization for WinMobile 5.0 ,where do i make them. Thanks and Regards, You might try posting your question to the Windows Media Devices newsgroup: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/community/newsgroups/WindowsMedia/default.mspx dg=microsoft.public.windowsmedia.devices&l ...Show All
incognito79 vista Drivers for YMF724, YMF740, YMF744, YMF754 needed
driver for this card needed will any support & I don't know. Try picking up all available Windows Updates and if that doesn't work, visit the vendor's website and try to get the driver from there. Ok, Ok, but it dosen`t work if I get them from XP ... couse my YAMAHA LEGACY DRIVER can not start, only the native one is working but my sound card isn`t installed ... I don`t want to get a new one ... i like this ... why I bought this windows ... answer: XP driver works usually getting it to Vista: a) Either upgrade XP with working sound to Vista and the driver gets automatically picked up by Vista b) Install XP, go to system properties and find out the de ...Show All
The_magament RTM version of Windows Media Player 11 is incompatible with HDiSim
Just a quick note that the final release version of WMP 11 causes video playback to stop working in the HDiSim Beta. If you have already downloaded the beta of WMP 11, avoid upgrading to the RTM version if you also want to run HDiSim. Obviously you should upgrade to the RTM version on all your mission-critical machines that don't have HDiSim on them, but nobody is running beta software on their production machines, are they :-) Go to http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download/AllDownloads.aspx and under version choose Player 11 Beta Or you can also give http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,63730-order,1-page,1-c,alldownloads/description.html RSS=RSS a try I have two machines (one laptop, one desktop) w ...Show All
XNA Rockstar Rotated Text Or Image on Movie
My purpose is to display rotated text or image on the running movie. For that I have used windows media player control in .net. I add the AxWindowsMediaPlayer (Windows Media player Control) on my form and set dock properties to fill. And put the Label and set the BackColor to Transparent. But instead of displaying the movie as background its displays the BackColor of the form. I want the background movie run in background and display the rotated text amd image on that without background color of the text and image. Thanks in advance. Try posting your question here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsm ...Show All
freddieb Sidebar gadgets outside the sidebar?
Hi guys, I'm interested on building some gadgets and I'd like to know a couple of info about this specific type. 1) Can they exist outside the sidebar In this case, can they know their position in the stage 2) Can they communicate to each other I had a look to the API and I couldn't find so much information about these topics. Any info will be very appreciated. Thanks, chr Don't use files whatever you do - as you say, it's far too slow. Use the registry. Write to your own key under HKEY_CURRENT_USER, it uses next to no CPU time. var oShell = new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell"); ... oShell.RegWrite("HKCU\\Software\\MyGadget", "some text", "REG_SZ&quo ...Show All