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• rod 001 Bug#24 - Gadget may never appear on the sidebar

  I've added bug#24 to the known bugs list : It's an issue I found several months ago and have already reported to MS, but I've only just got around to finding the problem, the workaround and creating a Repro for MS. It's basically another timing issue, which causes Sidebar to get into a locked state taking 100% CPU: Bug# 24: Gadget may never appear on the sidebar if you have overlayed RGB transparent images and are updating the screen too often. Thanks again for taking the time to provide these detailed repros. ...Show All

• BuddhaBoy Download and unzip a file from a Gadget ?

  Hi, My gadget needs to download (via HTTP) a zip file and unzip it. This file contains information so local search can be done on client side. In Dashboard/Yahoo we have curl and unzip unix utilities to easily achieve that with some simple system call. How can you do that with Microsoft Gadgets Thanks in advance, I'm very curious about how to download binary files from internet to local in pure javascript... I have no idea. I don't think MS's ZIP is exposed via COM, so you'd have to either include a command line based extractor in the Gadget, or write a COM wrapper DLL around MS's ZIP. Your best bet is to get a free command line extractor, like 7-Zip and use it's 7z.exe command line EXE, which yo ...Show All

• Christopher Bennage How do I play samples?

  I am unable to play the samples (included in the HD Jumpstart download) with the emulator. I've tried using both open disc and open path to launch the DAT file. When I use open disc is says unable to parse/read the DAT file. When I use open path I get no message, but the emulator screen resizes slightly and stays blank. For Open Disc you probably need to select one level up ie the directory above ADV_OBJ. For the blank screen, run DXDiag, click on "Display 1" and make sure "DirectDraw Acceleration" is enabled. If problems persist please tell us the video card youn are using. Hello, I've exactly the same problem. My graphic card is a NVIDIA QUADRO FX1400. The directX version is OK. What can i do ...Show All

• ritzratz center the gadget in the modules in the spaces live com

  hi everybody, I have a little problem whith the center tag. I want my gadget to be centered in the module, and I use the CSS file to do this. As that did not function, i tried to use a global div whith a .style.align='center'; as well in the CSS file than in the js file.......still don't work, my gadget is sticked on the left side.... My js and CSS syntax is correct, so so....it's here for the manifest ( http://albidochon.free.fr/jeu1/gadget.xml ) i tried, and it works, but I think it's not the best.... : .albidochon_gadgetfran1_jeu1 .Divglobal {     position:relative;     top:0px;     left:18%;     height:250px;     width:250px;   ...Show All

• johnny_no1_boy Way cool ideas!

  Here are a couple of ideas for if you're wanting to make a gadget but no creativity spark is going off: A gadget that you drag files to it then push Burn and it burns the files onto CD A newspaper "reader" that displays headlines from the newspaper website's RSS feeds of your choice. Make a configuration window so you can choose your city's paper. MiniNet, an Internet Explorer window in your sidebar. a MyEbay Viewer. Shows your watch list, highest bid on list, won list, outbid list. (I think I've seen this before, but i don't know.) Quotes (they have this for Live.com, but not sidebars) Word of the day (same reason as #5) Have fun!   Eiran wrote: a M ...Show All

• CSharpShooter severe memory leak

  hi, i am not sure where to post this but thought this might be a good place since it is rrelated to media. i downloaded the windows media 9.5 sdk and was playing around with the example that plays audio files. it leaks severely, like half a gig in abour 4 hours. documentation states that the api will allocate and release memory. clearly it is not releasing memory. has anyone used this sdk here is what i want to do, stream audio via the internet and save it to an .asf file to be played later. i have it all working nicely except for the huge leak during playback and a small one during recording. can the media foundation development kit do this for me thanks, scott thanks becky, i did use the sample as ...Show All

• Gmorken Animation not holding.

  I implemented a menu tray that raises and lowers. It worked in the first version of the iHDSim, but in the new version the menu tray raises and then disappears. Then the lower tray button key assignment will make the tray appear again and then lower. Why is the tray not staying visible <style id="BUTTON_TRAY" style:backgroundImage="url('MENU/BTN_TRAY.png')" style:position="absolute" style:x="190px" style:y="720px" style:width="900px" style:height="200px" /> <!-- effects for raising and lowering menu tray --> <g id="RaiseTray"> <animate style:y="720px;520px" /> </g> <g id="LowerTray"> <ani ...Show All

• Tryin2Bgood Gadget/flyout communication

  I have an object instance in the main gadget. When I open the the flyout, it needs access to the active instance in the main gadget. Possible Thanks, Ty Jonathan Abbott wrote: Most Gadgets wouldn't work if they didn't exist. Have you checked if other Gadgets work Use of "window.location.reload" will cause the System namespace to fail. What error do you get if you wrap the code in a try/catch not sure what you mean by Most Gadgets wouldn't work if they didn't exist. as for try/catch i get no error, its like js isnt even running, should i post all the code Sorry to keep on answering my own questions, I have fo ...Show All

• Steveinbeloit Shared memory reading by gadget

  Hi All, Is it possible to access to shared memory by gadget Do you know any implementation/sample gadget/projects that uses shared memory (storing some data by process for example, and reading and displaying this info by the gadget). Thanks When I tried to write to registry for the first time where the registry key does not exist yet I think writing to registry failed. Only after I created an entry manually it is successful. Is there a way to make sure that if it does not exist you can create the key There is some program that monitors 5 or 6 parameters of computer - voltage, temperature, rpm of coolers. This program stores information in shared memory by structure: struct MyArea { float temps[10]; float v ...Show All

• Martin Moe All-in-One XML Web Gadget?

  I have just developed a special ATOM feed that really needs to be rendered in a Gadget in order to be best viewed -- the inline HTML must be viewable when someone "subscribes" to the feed, so I easily developed a Google Gadget, which was easy. Everything was inline, maintainable in one XML document. When I explored the Live Gadgets, it seems to me that all the examples in the SDK call external documents: html, CSS, and JavaScript. Is there anyway one can write a Live.com Web Gadget all-in-one The ATOM feed is very simple, all of the content being held within the [CDATA[...]] wrapper. The same thing with the Google Gadget: < xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" > < Module > ...Show All

• Daikoku Starting Focus Stuck

  I set my top button to focused()=true on startup - the intention is to have one button start with focus. However in the iHDSim, I cannot nav away from this button. If I do not set focused(), then no buttons have focus, however I can click on one and then get proper navigation. Ya I did that in the markup, but as I said the focus won't move off that button. I thought perhaps I had misunderstood something. I'll go back and look over my markup and make sure no timing elements are conflicing. I can't think why else that would stick the focus. If I don't set a starting focus things navigate fine, once I use the mouse to get focus somewhere. I'm not sure what is going wrong. At one point I thought it was the USB keyboard. Basically ...Show All

• yanivpinhas Question about doing changing focus and navigation in one tick

  Dear All, I encountered a situation which caused much trouble to us...: Assume there are 3 buttons: Top1, Top2 and Bottom1, Top2's navLeft is set to Top1, and Bottom1's navLeft is set to Bottom1 (it self). When the focus is at Bottom1, and the user pressed left key, there is a keydown callback function in java script, which will catch the left key and set focus to Top2 by using setProperty() function. But the java script did not call stopPropagation() to stop this key down event to the markup. So when the user actually pressed left key on Bottom1, the js engine will set the focused element to Top2, and then in the markup handler the left key event is processed, then the focused element is set to Top1. All these actions are ...Show All

• Douglas McClean 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 All other things aside, please stop using "M$" to refer to Microsoft as it is unprofessional. Some studio use only Memory Tech software (with verification tool, emulator,...). I think Toshiba don't want to develop more his tool (not sell, no new release, ...). But I think some company like Nero (there is some people from this company on this forum) will do more (Standard Content is ready, High Profil will be optimized). I think the futur of HD DVD is "iHD" with H264 codec on DVD disc (can play on all good PC with DVD Rom drive). With H264 codec it is possible to save 30%-45% of bitrate ...Show All

• cbpd86 ActiveX for Sidebar best practices

  I am interested in further exploring the possibilities of using/developing an ActiveX object for use in a Sidebar gadget but havent done anything like this before. What are the best ways of proceeding with this Can i use Visual Studio 2005 to create an ActiveX object i tried using ATL project, i was able to compile it but not to register it Thanks for your responses; to clarify I have formatted my Vista system just in case, I use Visual Studio 2005 and follow Bruce’s Tutorial Part1 and Part2 I compile the DLL and use regsvr32 TestActiveX.dll in the command prompt (Running all as Admin) I get notification that the DLL is registered successfully. Next I use the following HTML: <HTML> < ...Show All

• cuberice drop shadow?

  Hi, I am creating a gadget that will have a height that can very, (it will contain a list, and the length of the list dictates the height of the gadget) and I would like to know how i can achieve a drop shadow for the gadget. I can add a dropshadow to the png file that is used for the background of the body, this would work if it was a fixed size. Since I need the height to grow, this won't work. So I have tried setting the background image to a transparent png file and added a table to the html that has a top png, middle png and bottom png as backgrounds in the table cells, these pngs have transparent dropshadows. When it renders, what should be transparent on the pngs in the table, it shows up pink. Any help/info/advice would be ...Show All