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• arsonist changing a flyout's size

  I'm having an issue with changing the size of a flyout. The size changes, but the window appears slightly lighter than it should be (i.e. everything is slightly grayed out) and nothing appears "active" (i.e. events don't seems to be fireing). Once I click anywhere in the flyout, the color goes back to normal and controls events go back to normal. I thought I was going something wrong. Then I tried the same thing with the stocks gadget. To reproduce: Hover over te gadget and click Add a stock symbol In the flyout, click Show stock symbol Notice that the black seems gray and hovering over the stocks have no effect. Is this a known Sidebar bug Is there a workaround that I can do in my code If not I may have to rethink ...Show All

• WilfridB Flyout to the front?

  I have a gadget that navigates through a set of XML documents via next/previous buttons. Some of these documents link to a first page with windows media player attached to play an associated video, while some link to a second page which doesn't contain a video. You can navigate backwards and forwards through these pages of the first type, without trouble, but when you click on a link which jumps to the second page, from the first, then you lose the "focus" (I say focus warily, because I realise that actually losing focus would mean that the flyout would close, which it doesn't). What happens is that the sidebar gadget has the focus, and you have to click on the flyout twice (the first time regains focus, &n ...Show All

• Beginer user Getting Absolute Positioning from Photoshop into my Markup.

  I receieved alot of art elements today and I am trying to find a good way to position all of the items in the Photoshop .psd in my markup. Is there a way to have photoshop tell me the absolute position of items in a .psd relative to the whole document How is everyone translating from .psd to markup accurately Up untill now I have just been eyeballing it but I would like a good formula to go forward with. Thanx all! Spent most of the day developing a system for this...it works very well and will improve my authoring speed. Basically you use Imageready to define "Slices" You make up,over,down states for them and then you export as XHTML and it gives you the perfect cuts and a .txt with all of the absolute coordinate data. So for eve ...Show All

• ranger28 What ever happend to the old gadgets from Microsoft ?

  Today i was going through an old video which was basically showing the sidebar development team. The video had some cool gadgets in it like the wmp11 gadget, a gadget which showed emails etc. I just wanted to know does Microsoft plan to release them to the public Those are prototype gadgets not built using current technologies - DHTML, therefore wouldn't work with current sidebar, as far as I know. I personally really like the spinning media gadget. It could probably be done using DHTML, but not sure most processors could handle javascript doing that kind of work therfore not very practical. http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx postid=128231 ^ thats the video. There are a few cool ga ...Show All

• pappascd How to Save User Preferences on Spaces?

  Can someone explain to me how to save user preferences on Spaces or point me to some instructions If there is a way to determine whether a gadget is on Spaces or Live, that would be good to know too so that I can hide the preference link in Spaces view mode. I got one of my gadgets to save user preferences on Live but it's not working on Spaces. Thanks Your gadget preferences are not visible in author mode until the next time you load that gadget in author mode. (refresh, etc...) I think I see why I got confused. The preferences just aren't visible until you go to view mode. There is also a bug in my gadget that occurs in Firefox. Thanks ...Show All

• Kouroshd video zoom

  I'm working on a small function that zooms the video (with optional panning) but using the code below doesn't seem to work, any tips addEventListener("controller_key_down",keyPressed,true); function keyPressed(evt) { Player.video.main.changeLayout(0,0,Player.createVideoScale(1,2),0,0,1920,1080,"00:00:00:00"); } The above code should have changed the video on any key press. This code should zoom the video out i.e. assuming the video is 1920x1080 you will see it half-sized in the top left corner of the aperture. (I assume the aperture is also 1920x1080). If the video is other sizes, then ihdsim will get it wrong in various ways. I'd check the key handler is running ...Show All

• dcroman Can i upload to live gallery ...

  can i upload to the live gallery my gadget if it has a exe embedded into it or will they reject it Cool cool I think i will upload the Messenger Gadget soon then :P Err didn't know i had 2 accounts oops Yeah could do i hope theres a api for it :) btw, your messenger gadget looks great. any plans on making an AIM one Thanks Chris :) Good question, wonder if they have issues with DLL's too. In fact, perhaps someone from MS could explain what the approval process actually is - does someone just virus check the Gadget and confirm it does wh ...Show All

• dr.acv Pause\Play on 1 button on my popup menu

  I have a popup that I want to have 1 button that is "pause" when he movie is playing but after pressed it turns into a play button...I know how to animate its state so that it shows "play\pause" graphics but in my script I need to know a good if\then command for this button. Case "menu_1" player.playlist.pause(); thats what it is right now and it pauses the video and switches to the "play" graphic for the button...just need a good if\then script for Case "menu_1" Thanx in advance! Or without the use of a variable: function pauseHandler() {     try     {         if (Player.playlist.playState == Player.playlist.PLAYS ...Show All

• Tomas Galvez Reading binary files

  Hello, I need to read out a binary file in my Gadget. In this forum, I asked before, how I can read out files in general. Now I've got the next problem The whole code for reading the file looks like this: var oFSO = new ActiveXObject('Scripting.FileSystemObject'); var fTmp = oFSO.OpenTextFile(filename, 1, false, 0); var content = fTmp.ReadAll(); fTmp.Close(); var byteString = ""; for(i = 0; i < content.length; i++) { byteString = byteString + hex(content.charCodeAt(i)); } ..................... function hex(a) { return Number(a).toString(16); } I need a String that contains the file in this form: "AABBCC66339953AB..." I need it for sending it to a XML RPC. But I'm not able to figure it out. It works in general. B ...Show All

• Ceres629 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 Andy thanks for the answer. I'm login on IE and then I send a GET request from the gadget, but I debug a little more and found that the problem occurs not only in the sidebar but in IE7 on Windows Vista too. The weird thing is that it works fine when I test it on IE7 on Windows X ...Show All

• hasfad 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. Yes. The signature for this method is described on page Z304. Although not described very well at all :( By scale-to-fit you mean declare both width and height as auto No; set contentWidth="scale-to-fit" and contentHeight="scale-to-fit" . Then whatever you set width and height to, the backgroundImage will stretch / shrink to fit it. 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 ...Show All

• Newt.Net CheckBox list and user settings

  Hi! I would like create a gadget with a listbox, a user can check some items and in the further user acceses I should know the items selected (by each users) for run particular URL ... How can I do this Bye Sounds like you need to use the preference methods (getPreference, setPreference, deletePreference) on the Module class . These allow you to save and retrieve a bit of data per gadget, so you could save the state of your listbox and reload that the next time the gadget runs. More info can be found in the SDK . ...Show All

• KitRangers Playing sounds from markup

  How would one go about playing sounds in markup Specifically, I want to trigger audio from a focused state without passing an event to script. I understand that I can create a wav object, but how is the object sent to Player.audio.effect in markup Thanks! Audio is played by setting the style:display attribute to "auto" . When it is "none" , the sound will not play. So you have something like: < object id = " MenuSound " type = " audio/x-wav " src = " file:///dvddisc/ADV_OBJ/ding.wav " style:display = " none " /> And then: < cue select = " id('MenuSound') " begin = " id('foo')[state: ...Show All

• Sveind validation

  elem = document.createElement(tagName); I am not appending this 'elem' in markup document 1) The above document is a markup document. So, is it necessary to create an element with tagName(like div, p, timing....) mentioned in schema or can we use any user tagName 2) Will there be validation with schema for those elements and attributes created(not appended) at run time 3) If i append any element(that is not mentioned in schema) at run time, what will happen Thanks in advance Thanks peter. My doubt is whether we can create a element with any tagName (elem=document.createElement("yyy")). I am not appending this element(elem) anywhere in document. Is this also a invalid one ...Show All

• DQM IFrame Sample

  Thanks tod ToddOs, my module has now been submitted and it's working ... The 10 downloads I got so far don't really compare well to the 15,000 hits I get from G**gle per day, but what the hell, at least I'm learning :) Anyway, since the script appears to work well, I think it could potentially be useful to others as well. Here are the individual files, which have to be packaged into a ZIP file for submission. This will load an iframe from http://www.tapper-ware.net/patience/live/patience.htm , resize it to width=100% and height=224px ==== gadget.xml: ==== < xml version="1.0" > <rss version="2.0" xmlns:binding=" http://www.live.com "> <channel> <title>Solitaire / Patience</title> <descri ...Show All