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• art1976 Difference between Primary Video Set and Secondary Video Set?

  As per spec, Substitute Audio Video in Secondary Video set is for substitution of Main Audio/Video in the corresponding Primary Video set . Why is this sort of substitution required. Can any one expalin the necessity of this substitution in real time HDDVD movie discs. ok.Thanks. I'm clear with secondary audio (in substituteAudioVideo). Can u pls explain about secondary video Another difference: Primary EVOBs must come from the shiny disc. Secondary EVOBs can come from disc, ps or network. Secondary audio video clips can contain SubVideo or SubAudio tracks. SubVideo/SubVideo is an audio/video track in addtion to the main audio/video track. Sample application: A ...Show All

• Magos294963 XPath Declaration Returning 0 Elements

  I'm trying to end when any button in the div (id 'TRY') is actioned.  BUt my syntax must be wrong because 0 elements are returned. end="//div[@id='TRY']//button[state:actioned()]" <div id="TRY" style="BUTTON_TRAY"> <div> <button id="BTN_TRY_LF_ARW" style="BUTTON_LF_ARROW" /> </div> <div id="SCN_SLDR" style="SCENE_SLIDER"> <button id="BTN_POS_01" style="BUTTON_SCENE_POSITION1" /> <button id="BTN_POS_02" style="BUTTON_SCENE_POSITION2" /> <button id="BTN_POS_03" style="BUTTON_SCENE_POSITION3" /> <button id="BTN_POS_04" style="BUTTON_SCENE_POSITION4" /> <button id="BTN_POS_05" style="BUTTON_SCENE_POSITION5" /> <button id="BTN_POS_06" style="BUTTON_SCENE_PO ...Show All

• Nan Tu Developing in a directory

  Hello, I read that you can develop a gadget from a xxx.gadget directory instead of rezipping on every change. How does this work I can't get the directory recognized as anything but a directory. Thanks, Ty I find it a bit scary to develop directly in the "C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar\Gadgets\" folder. An inadvertent right-click on the gadget in the gallery and selecting Uninstall will wipe out all of your source code. I develop in the "Documents\Visual Studio 2005\WebSites\<ProjectName>" folder and have a make.bat file that processes my JavaScript source, builds a "C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar\G ...Show All

• RostaB Gadget with remote html src??

  Is it possible that in the gadget.xml file to set the html src as a html page hosted remotely I have a site that is hosted remotely and is all html a jscript and would like to just point my gadget at it. I am almost positive you cannot do this for security purposes. The primary HTML needs to reside in the .gadget file on the client machine (along with the XML manifest). One possibility (I haven't tried this, but who knows) is to have the HTML in the gadget redirect to your file. Another way might be to be creative in the way that a XHttpRequest to your site and conveniently embed the contents of your remote HTML page into the gadget. Just a couple of suggestions. No, as it has to be a loca ...Show All

• Smacker Harry Potter Countdown

  Could someone please create a gadget to countdonw the time untill thre release if Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows You can do it yourself if you like http://markitup.com/Posts/Post.aspx postId=6a78b631-5933-4a1a-bfaa-8702943a2c55 I created a Gadget to countdown to the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows for myself and have now uploaded it. You can get the gadget from here: http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx li=bbf66262-b7e3-4186-9346-13bc17ebba54&l=1 It countdowns to my own location's Release time by default (Victoria, Australia) however the time can be changed in the settings. ...Show All

• Gwyn Williams WMP 11

  When I click on the burn tab in wmp 11 the icon in the top right hand corner comes up and says 'connect a burner and restart the player'. I have a dvd/cd burner attached already that works with every other program I have (eg Roxio, Creative, Musicmatch etc). In tthe devices tab in options the dvd burner shows up ok. ANy ideas why I can't burn Same problem Try posting your question here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/community/newsgroups/WindowsMedia/default.mspx dg=microsoft.public.windowsmedia.player&lang=en&cr=US hi everyone Iam having the same problem as Barry anyone have a solution cheers. ...Show All

• skuehner Trouble adding sample to live.com

  Ok, so I have followed the starting guide (http://microsoftgadgets.com/livesdk/docs/default.htm) up to the point were I test the sample helloworld in my browser. It seems to recognise that something is there as it seems to open a HelloWorld RSS feed with two empty untitled articles!! Not sure whether this was normal behaviour I continued through the guide and tried to add the sample gadget to live.com. Unfortunately, instead of adding the gadget to My Stuff, I am left in the normal view with no gadgets added. Am I missing a vital step or have the rules of engagement been changed ! Any help greatly appreciated. Are you running your gadget from localhost If so, did you follow the IE setup steps to add *.l ...Show All

• David Ing How to handle device lost with D3DDeviceManager ?

  Hi, all: How to handle device lost with D3DDeviceManager If device lost is happend, how to notify other modules to free and re-create hw resource with D3DDeviceManager Thanks Besides opening a new handle and retrieving a new D3D device when TestDevice fails, upstream components do not need to do anything special to handle device loss. What you identify in 1 & 2 is handled under the covers so that the upstream component does not need to do anything special. This posting is provided AS IS with no warranties and confers no rights. Thanks Becky ^_^: So each component must return "S_OK" when device lost. Is it right And I still have two questions: 1) when device lost, a decoder which outputs DXVA2 buffers. ...Show All

• Nick Tompson How can I access a local database (.mdb) in gadgets?

  can i use vbscript Yes, or JavaScript, as in the example I gave on this thread . damm i was going to say create a "ADODB.Connection" too must keep i eye on here :P ...Show All

• curtKauf How do we reference Sidebar properly? (IP/Trademark)

  Which one is correct WindowsR Sidebar Windows Vista Sidebar None of the above Brian, Thanks for the reply, we'll use Windows Vista Sidebar until otherwise told. Can you pass a note to the IP/TM team to update the following resource http://www.microsoft.com/library/toolbar/3.0/trademarks/en-us.mspx Thanks, Rafael The product name of "Sidebar" isn't trademarked or registered, so I don't think it will ever appear on that page. Brian Good question! We have an article on the User Experience guidelines at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa974179.aspx , and at the very end we make mention of how to refer to gadgets ...Show All

• Anatoly 01 How to submit a gadget questions?

  It says that all the files need to be zipped together and that the manifest needs to reference the relative value of the js and css files. Does there have to be a folder structure or could I just zip the gadget.xml, gadget.css and gadget.rs files and have the manifest as so "in bold below" < xml version="1.0" > <rss version="2.0" xmlns:binding=" http://www.live.com "> <channel> <!-- Specifies the name of your Gadget --> <title>My Interesting Photos</title> <!-- Gives a short description of your Gadget --> <description>A gadget to display your six most popular flickr photos.</description> <!-- Specifies the default locale for y ...Show All

• GusBraga Question about chapter change event

  I appended following code to standard "Chapters" project (in main.js): Diagnostics.listeners.add("file"); Diagnostics.trace.autoFlush = true; addEventListener("chapter", ChapterChangeEvent, false); function ChapterChangeEvent(evt) { Diagnostics.trace.writeLine("Old Chapter:" + evt.oldValue, "", 1); Diagnostics.trace.writeLine("New Chapter:" + evt.newValue, "", 1); Diagnostics.trace.writeLine("---", "", 1); } After I ran demo project and clicked only by "Chapter 2", "Chapter 3" buttons. In result I see following log file: Old Chapter:0 New Chapter:0 --- Old Chapter:0 New Chapter:1 --- Old Chapter:1 New Chapter:0 -- ...Show All

• bslim Dll inside gadget

  hi every body how can i use a dll inside the gadget code and if it is required to regsiter the dll please any one know answer reply thanks Fathi S. Elashery Microsoft provide the include library in the DirectX SDK , so yes. Thanks for the help. Very informative. Is it possible to create an ActiveX control with C# instead of VB6 Thanks in advance Firstly, you need to package the DLL inside the Gadget, then you need to register it manually during the Gadget startup to HKCU. If you can, it's also good practice to remove it once you've finished with it so you don't leave rogue registry entries. Unfortunately, Gadgets don't have a "close" or "unloa ...Show All

• Syed Junaid The 'priority' attribute is not declared.

  In the samples and my own tests I get the error: ERROR: Invalid attribute "priority" at row 13, char 36: The 'priority' attribute is not declared. When running the validator. Is this a bug in the validator Here's line 13 for example: <PlaylistApplication description="Test" language="en" src="file:///dvddisc/ADV_OBJ/Manifest.xmf"> 13 <PlaylistApplicationResource priority="1" multiplexed="false" size="500000" src="file:///dvddisc/ADV_OBJ/Manifest.xmf" /> <PlaylistApplicationResource multiplexed="false" priority="1" size="500000" src="file:///dvddisc/ADV_OBJ/Script.js" /> <PlaylistApplic ...Show All

• danadanny Windows Calendar

  I see that there are a few references for the Windows Sidebar (which I am also guessing is the Vista gadgets), but I see there are references for items such as contacts, cpu, folder, timezone, and others. Are there any plans for doing calendar references I just install Vista, and I love the Windows calendar. Works good with subscriptions, but I would like to be able to have a gadget to display the events for the day without having to open the program. Similar to the contacts. Thanks, Jamie What I am really looking for is a way to integrate Windows Calendar with the gadgets. I'm not sure if what you are suggesting will work that way. I'm hoping bigtime that they ...Show All