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• b-man Silently running an external program from a gadget

  Is there any way to run a program silently from a gadget and collect its output The only way I know of for running a porgram is System.Shell.execute, but this flashes the cmd window quickly (this is a CLI exe) and I don't see a way to get the output of the program. I am currently accomplishing the same thing by using Wscript and objShell.Run, sending the output to a text file, and then reading the text file. Just wondering if there is a better way. Does jscript allow you to launch a program silently This unfortunately pops up the cmd window momentarily, just like System.Shell.execute Try this var WshShell = new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell"); var e ...Show All

• outcast1881 Passing parameters to my gadget

  Sorry if this has been asked before, but I couldn't find any info on it. I would like my gadgets to interact with each other. E.g., when clicking on a link inside one gadget, it refreshes the another gadget (or the whole page), and the clicked URL can be passed to another gadget to show relevant content. Is that at all possible If yes, here can I find the documents (or examples) to do that Thanks! BTW, I tried to refresh the whole page through javascript in my gadget, but it generate some "access denied" error and does not redirect at all. I assume it was intentionally block, right Unfortunately, there is no supported technique for cross-gadget communication. Gadgets must be self-co ...Show All

• Narayanan_N_852dc7 What are “content elements” and “block element” described in spec?

  Hi, all I want know what are “content elements” and “block element” which are used in spec 7.6 Which element defined in Table 7.5.3-1 are they I encounter lots of problem when I try to render style markup. Can you give me a help Thank u! This may not be all that helpful if you're not conversant with HTML wordage, but block elements are <div> and <p> (always) and <button>, <input> and <object> when used in a block manner. (A block manner pretty much means "not inside a <p> or <span>") All the elements in 7.5.3-1 are "content" elements. If you can describe your problem a little more, perhaps we can be of ...Show All

• LeoXue Missing or Invisible Sidebar Gadgets

  Not exactly sure when or why but now my Sidebar is completely empty. When I add new gadgets to the SIdebar they simply do not show up. Is this due to some update I received that had an adverse effect on the sidebar area thanks Carline D. Long Jr. It could be a corrupt settings.ini file (%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar\settings.ini). It gradually corrupts over time and ends up with partial stubs of Gadgets in it. Since Vista went RTM, I've had to recreate mine 3 times. Looking at mine now, I have 5 corrupt entries in it. Try exiting Sidebar and rename settings.ini, Sidebar should recreate it when you load it again. So you know what the corrupt entries look like, her ...Show All

• RG1234 VMR9 Renderless with YUV Mixer mode black screen issue

  Hi all, I render video (TV or DVD) on Vista with VMR9 Renderless (Basic or D3D Scene) and with YUV Mixer mode, video display black; On XP, it works well. If I disable YUV Mixer mode, it will display normal, does Vista not support YUV Mixer mode Who can tell me the reason Thanks in advance! Regards, Zhiquan We suspect that this is a driver issue. Someone here will be investigating this soon. The following are the platform and test result, let me know if other questions, thanks.   Platform One:   CPU: Intel 2.80GHz   Mainboard: i965   Memory:1G MB   VGA   1. ATI X1600 Pro     Result: It has no image when playback DVD an ...Show All

• Linlin425872 OT: Suggestions about gallery.live.com

  Several things stand out about this site, now that people are starting to use it. So, here's some suggestions: Implement some sort of language filtering. Although I have nothing against the use of non-English and think it's actually commendable than MS allowing it, I would rather filter out Gadgets that are of no use to me. Alternatively allow multiple languages in the Gadget description, or some form of language translation. Improve Gadget images. It would be great if you could attach screenshots, as well as the 100x100 icon. Do something about Gadget spam. "Vamos Strip Player" springs to mind, I'd hate to think how many times it's posted. Remove the 1000 character limit on the description field, and allow it to be rich text ...Show All

• Todor Todorov Sidebar language and C/C++ is it possible?

  I have an idea for gadget, but I need to read files binary. So it looks I could make my gadget using C/C++ becouse HTML doesn's have such possibility but I am not sure is it possible to implement C/C++ in my gadget development. I would realy thankful if someone would explane how to develop gadget using C/C++ Thank you both If you write your C++ code as an ActiveX object, you can embed the object in your HTML and access the functionality through Javascript. I believe there are some examples of this in previous posts on this forum. -SANDY Have a look at this post, and follow the links to Bruce's How To documentation ...Show All

• Michael Morton displaying a graphic using timecode in markup

  My markup is such to display a graphic during feature play... <timing clock="page"> <seq> <cue select="id('Survivor')" begin="00:01:00:00" end="00:01:10:00"> <set style:opacity="1"/> </cue> </seq> </timing> </head> <body> <div id="funCaptions" style:position="absolute" > <object id="Survivor" type="image/png" style:width="582px" style:height="323px" style:x="1250px" style:y="350px" style:position="absolute" style:anchor="startBefore" style:displayAlign="center" style:opacity=&q ...Show All

• nodoutt 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

• joss1974 Dima's Digital Clock w/ new features

  Well since I have been hard at work on this for the last several weeks, looking for some feed back: please see this thread for more info :) http://www.aeroxp.org/board/index.php showtopic=7627&st=0#entry86032 Short & sweet of it is, took an already made gadget & reworked it with the features I and a few others wanted in it while still giving full credit to original author for the work they put into it, hey it's a nice gadget, gotta give credit where credit is due. Anyway, I appreciate any feedback... ahh... constructive feedback I mean, thanks in advance :) ...Show All

• SQLChamp how can i transfer audio streams from my own application to any other software without a physical cable?

  Hi, I would like to send a streambuffer (wav file) to line-in (microphone). Is it possible The idea seems quite simple: |sound.wav|-> stream -> LINE_IN The idea is to transfer audio streams from my own application to any other software without a physical cable. Can you help me Alex Try posting your question here: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx ForumID=351&SiteID=1 ...Show All

• Ananda Ganesh OT: Suggestions about gallery.live.com

  Several things stand out about this site, now that people are starting to use it. So, here's some suggestions: Implement some sort of language filtering. Although I have nothing against the use of non-English and think it's actually commendable than MS allowing it, I would rather filter out Gadgets that are of no use to me. Alternatively allow multiple languages in the Gadget description, or some form of language translation. Improve Gadget images. It would be great if you could attach screenshots, as well as the 100x100 icon. Do something about Gadget spam. "Vamos Strip Player" springs to mind, I'd hate to think how many times it's posted. Remove the 1000 character limit on the description field, and allow it to be rich text ...Show All

• Philipp Lamp rss feed

  Is there a gadget somewhere that gets a rss feed from a site I enter and updates itself The "Feed Headlines" Gadget that comes with Vista. Just subscribe to the feed in IE. Here is a simple gadget which takesh the RSS feed from dilbert website http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/DailyDilbert.asp ...Show All

• Luke R Production Method for Released HD-DVDs

  I'm curious, have all the currently released HD-DVDs been produced using SACA (Sonic) If not then what are the other tools The titles that are currently out from Warner, Universal, and Paramount were created with Toshiba tools. I work at a post production facility. It is my understanding that Toshiba only provided their muxing tool to a handful of Authoring houses; why I'm not sure. It's even difficult to get your hands on the Toshiba emulator. Ironically, Toshiba recently decided to sell their emulators through Sonic. I'm not sure why Toshiba is acting in such constrast to Sony. Sony rolls out the red carpet on Authoring tools. They understand the format war and want to guide as many Authoring fac ...Show All

• scoobystuck Open Setting.htm in Gadget.htm.. dont support that in API?

  i want open Setting frame in Gadget.htm gadget be opened in everywhere by "System.Gadget.show == true" API but setting is not. so.. i want know how cant i open setting frame in gadget(or everywhere in code). plz anwser above~ gentle man~~ sorry about my short english You can't programmatically open the Settings page. If you needed that functionality, use a Flyout instead. ...Show All