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• Andre's Gadget for spaces only ?

  We're writing a gadget with setprefererce, the behaviour of the gadget on spaces is good,but on live.com it doesn't work. The gadget isn't even intended for live.com because it has no usefull function over there. I thought I saw once a gadget that gives a message 'not intended for live.com' when you press add to live.com does anybody know how to deal with this issue Ergo what kind of code should be added, I suppose in the *.js Thanks in advance. You can put specific code in to display a message that it's not intended for live.com using the p_args.onDashboard = true. What that is true.. then display the sorry page that it's not intended for live.com Thanks for the fast ...Show All

• Dylan Smith Please help: "Interface Not Registered"

  I am computer illiterate and i'm trying to get help from microsoft and i know it's supposed to be free when you buy something but they're trying to charge me 30$ for one call or something... I know that someone (flecki ) already posted something about this error, but whatever they were talking about was way over my head and i don't think it was the same problem and i couldn't find any miscellanious board that i could post this in so this was the closest i could think of. I'm sorry. All I want is to burn a cd on a new laptop from dell. I'm trying to use windows media player and burn music that i've ripped off my cd's onto a CD-R. When I first put in a blank a CD it tells me that all of the songs i want to put on will not fit. So I ...Show All

• Tylerk Sound card driver causes blue screen

  I just don't know where to report, but i got beta for find and report bugs, so i do so. I installed driver for my creative sbpci 128 having ensoniq chipset, it works fine except if it is not disabled at boot vistabeta2 got blue screen, and reboot, if i disable sound card in safe mode, it boots fine, and if the sound card is enabled after boot it works, but i have to disable it before shutdown if i install my sounblaster audigy 2 ZS drivers (the vista beta ones from creative) then it causes my computer to go into sleep mode every ten seconds. take the card out and uninstall and the pc is happy again. I have the same problem with my creative sound blaster 5.1 soundcard. Microsoft update gets the drivers for it in ...Show All

• SidharthMalhotra mouseover event when using addImageObject

  Is there any way to set a mouseover event for a g:image, if it is added using backgroundId.addImageObject Sorry, I have proposed this solution previously, there's even some source code on here somewhere. You need to ensure that the region below the clickable area is partially opaque though, ~90% or less off the top of my head. If it's completely transparent the mouse events don't fire. Well I have made a workaround by using a completely transparent .png that overlays the bgid.images and mapping clickable areas to it. Kind of long-winded, but it works and I'm still able to display part-transparent images beneath it. It seems to be worki ...Show All

• Alex Dresko (MVP wannabe) No sound with Windows Vista

  I have a Dell Inspiron E1705. I just downloaded Vista Beta and love it. Except for hot having any sound. My speaker volume is up and not muted. All updates are complete. I did a driver update and it gave an up to date message. Any suggestions Thank you for your time, BD Hi, I am having the same problem can yu let me know if you have found a way round it, cheers This isn't really the right forum for this question. I'd recommend trying the Windows Media Player newsgroup, since this is more of an end-user question: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/community/newsgroups/WindowsMedia/default.mspx dg=microsoft.public.windowsmedia.player&lang=en&cr=US I'm going to guess, th ...Show All

• tattoo AACS protection has been hacked

  I don't like to be the party pooper but I heard the news today that the AACS copy protection  for HD DVD has been hacked. I'm completely pro HD DVD, so I don't like this news one bit . Could this mean a serious threat to HD DVD already BD uses AACS too so I hope it's just a matter of (little) time, so BOTH formats are back to square one. Hopefully the HD DVD specs can still be reviewed to fix this problem... http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php t=119871 http://www.youtube.com/watch v=_oZGYb92isE This is not the forum to discuss AACS. Nevertheless, as Andy has said AACS was not hacked . There is no change to AACS. I affraid by last information about AACS hack. Now they know when they ca ...Show All

• William Kirchhoff 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

• JohnReid Side Scrolling Chapter Menu

  I'm trying to create a side scrolling chapter menu and was wondering if anyone has solved this riddle script side. Basically I want to scroll through chapter images using left and right arrow buttons, so the menu would start like this: < #1 #2 #3 > Then by clicking on the right arrow button it would then look like this: < #4 #5 #6 > And so on. The version I have built simply replaces the images (#1 replaced with #4, #2 replaced with #5 and so on). But I would love to make them scroll so the new images come in as if they are all on the track moving left and right. I did try to solve the problem be creating on long block of all the chapter images, masked behind a div that was only big enough to show th ...Show All

• IamManick IMFTransform::SetOutputType is never called.

  I`m trying to buld MFT but I can't set collect type that caller accepts. Caller just keeps calling IMFTransform::GetOutputCurrentType and IMFTransform::GetOutputAvailableType over and over again. What kind of types should I set just setting GUID of MF_MT_MAJOR_TYPE and MF_MT_SUBTYPE ok accoding to Media Foundation Transform document p.2 Sequence OfEvents "10. Caller calls GetOutputAvailableType iteratively on every output stream until the caller either exhausts the available types for that stream or finds one it likes. If the transform returns E_NOTIMPL, it moves on to setting the output types (step 11). (optional)" I tryed retruning E_NOTIMPL form GetOutputAvailableType but keeps going back to step 9. ...Show All

• THURST80 Blu-ray

  Does it bring bad luck to ask this on this forum :) Anyone knows of documentation or sites about BD-J mode, HDMV is a bit limited. Do you know which player supports BD-J and ethernet connection thx mikeret Peter Torr - MSFT wrote: Speed and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen from Fox have BD-J support, but apparently they don't work very well on the Samsung player. I believe they work OK on the PLAYSTATION 3 and I'm not sure about the other players. [Added] Descent from Lionsgate also has BD-J, but fails to play in most players. I've checked out Descent from Lionsgate and it seems to work perfectly fine on PS3, I must say it's one of the most ...Show All

• 1nsane Problem in Accessing the element by using their IDs.

  Hello to Everybody, It's really good to be here. Got to know so many things One question is troubling me a lot, it is : Can't we access an element by using their id to set some values to it's attributes through script twice in an application Scenario : I made a markup page and filled some values to some of element's attribute using script on markup page loading. First time, it went well and all values were filled, but when I linked this page from some other page, the values didn't get filled and in some application it gave an error that the element ( whose attribute I tried to access ) is null. The clock in the markup page is 'page' clock. So please tell whether this action of mine is valid or there is some problem with the simulator. Tha ...Show All

• Insignia Application Deactivation : Doubt on iHD Sim Behaviour

  I hav a scenario ::::: APP_FOO is active. step1) Script ( through DOMCORE API) changes the BUTTON from "red" to "blue" step2) Script deactivates the current app APP_FOO ( which contains the BUTTON ) step3) Script activates another app . ....later we activate APP_FOO again . Now guess the color of BUTTON Result on ihdSim: BUTTON is red DOUBT : Should not it be blue ..since the script changed the loaded DOM Or does deactivation implies flushing out changes on a) LIVE DOM b) LOADED DOM c) BOTH offcourse if answer is c) then iHDSim behaves nice and correctly. Yes, you have killed the application.   Peter ...Show All

• robinjam Gadget creep

  Just an observation, but... Has anyone else noticed that Gadgets move of their own accord when Sidebar loads For instance, if Sidebar is closed by DEP, Gadgets randomly creep to the left when it restarts. Then there's the order on the Sidebar itself. If you shutdown/restart or exit and reload Sidebar, the attached Gadget order changes occasionally. nope but i have had them overlap each other once. think it was my code Just a thought, would the number of pixels 'drifted' bear any relation to the screen resolution Just wondering whether the sidebar scales dynamically to the screen and could therefore have varying drift between setups. There is a known bug where ...Show All

• Jinno 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

• jan3784 Problems with two transparent background-images

  I am currently trying to get a new gadget working but there is still one problem left. In my gadget I am using a transparent png-file as the gadget's background. In the content area I placed a <div> also using a png-file with transparency. In those parts of the gadget where the two transparent areas are overlapping, I get a pink border. Is there any solution for this issue Thanks for your help! Just change the size of the Gadget via: gback.height = x; gback.width = x; If you post the code, I'll recode it for you. Not sure if this will help you but I have been reworking a Digital Clock and I wanted some of the themes for it to be transparent, layeri ...Show All