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• Wahl04 windows media player C# codeing

  Hi I have two different sound card in my computer, how can i change the defult sound card for media player object in C#. Tanks Hi Amir, This forum focuses on Media Foundation, which is the new multimedia platform for Windows Vista. Since you're asking a Windows Media Player question, I'd encourage you to try posting your question on the Windows Media Player newsgroup: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/community/newsgroups/WindowsMedia/default.mspx dg=microsoft.public.windowsmedia.player&lang=en&cr=US Thanks, and good luck! Becky ...Show All

• mistry_bhavin using webservices in a gadget

  Hi, Has anyone have an example of using a web service in a gadget Thanks in advance, rudgr I don't think writing your ebay.com developer keys into the gadget is such a good idea. Anyone looking through your code would instantly have access to eBay's API using your allocated calls. Andy Thanks for the reply, I'm looking for a SOAP example. Thanks again, Rutger great, thanks! Thank you niko. I quickly read the articles you suggested, but I was wondering whether it is allowed to call a web service on another domain from within the side bar gadget Thanks again. Are you looking for one that ut ...Show All

• xlordt Gadget behavior on spaces vs live.com?

  I am still working on my first gadget and noticed things work really different on live.com compared to spaces. If you want to load what I have so far and see what I mean, the manifest can be found at http://www.incendy.com/MyRSS/rssgadget3.xml Basically the css is very different and also the function that rebuilds the list does not really work on Spaces and you have to manually refresh the page to get the new feed. Just curious if others have experienced this and have advice on what I should be doing differently. The function getfeed gets called but the content seems to be cached on Spaces where it works fine on live.com! Hi! Thanks for your example code ToddOs! It helped me a lot. But still I hav ...Show All

• abc0918 Advanced Content Playback on HD-A1

  Hi All, I am having trouble getting an advanced content application to play once burned on a DVD-R and inserted into the Toshiba HD-A1 HD DVD player. Video and audio play fine using this method, but once the advanced content object is reached the player stops playback and gives an error. Does anyone have any advice on this We have tried the samples posted here and we get the same results. Thanks. I got a little farther with the Advanced Content. The player recognizes that the disc is authored as Advanced; hint my receiver, hooked up via optical, switches to DTS. I then get the error code 0x4094c501. The player does not lookup so I am able to eject the disc. I have tried authoring the disc both with just plain MPEG2 files and ...Show All

• tornin2 created gadget. not in list.

  I built a BASIC gadget from the step by step process on the MS site...it is in the directory and all files are in place, however, it is not on the gadget list when I go to add gadget... Do I have to go through an install process for the gadget and if so how would I do that Not sure what I missed. Thanks, Chris I spent an hour trying to make that example gadget.xml work from the technet site and it was fruitless. Modifying one in the C:\Program Files\windows sidebar\Gadgets\ folder worked like a charm. Thanks for the fix! Its tough to say based on that info. Can you give us your directory structure, which files are in which directory, and the contents of your gadget.xml file ...Show All

• zabrucewayne Slider

  can i make a slider in the sidebar gadget I am using this one http://webfx.eae.net/dhtml/slider/slider.html and it looks fine in the settings window What is a slider exactly If it's what I think you mean, ie your own scroll bar. Then yes, just use onmouseclick to trigger dragging over your scrollbar graphic and onmousemove to track the mouse position. ...Show All

• Проничкин Can I determine if the screen saver is active?

  i have been playing around with a weather gadget and I would like it to stop refreshing if the screen saver is active. Can this be done Can I determine that the screen saver is active from my Javascript code Chris Thanks Bruce... Much appreciated. chris No problem - we use these on the inbox gadgets; for example, we turn off the clock when its not visible, to save cycles spent calculating graphic rotations. System.Gadget.visible and System.Gadget.visibilityChanged ...Show All

• Christopher Bennage IWMDMProgress

  When using IWMDMStorageControl3->Insert3 the function takes a parameter of callback type IWMDMProgress witch can't be initiated by using the standard QueryInterface method. The WMDM SDK says that a DLL called ProgressHelper should be used and they also include the source it in the WMDM SDK. The problem is that this DLL must be registered with RegSvr32 because its a COM object witch registers a interface called IWMDMProgressHelper. Using this kind of approach is ratter hard because we have to include and register this DLL in our distribution. The question is : Can we use the IWMDMProgress interface somehow without using a separate DLL file Since you're asking a WMDM question, try posting your ques ...Show All

• Babak Farahani Maximum size of settings window?

  Is there a limit to how large the settings dialog can be displayed as Anything in the CSS that's bigger than about 400 by 300 currently doesn't get displayed, it just gets cropped to that. Well the content of the dialog is displayed still but it goes off the limits of the dialog... Is this the case, or am I missing a meta-setting which is over-riding my style sheet or setting the wrong element (I'm setting the size of <body>) Chris I'm listening .  There's definately a restriction on the Settings size. As for stylesheets, yes, it's a known bug. You need to set the size and background manually, there's a few other issues I discussed in this thread . You can read more here ...Show All

• freddieb Background/Start Menu

  I'm having trouble understanding how to set up a basic start menu, which goes away when video is selected (I have the spec now so feel free to refer me to specific sections/pages). Maybe I am going about this wrong but basically I have defined title 1 as not having any video asset. So at start no video plays. Instead you see a background image ("BACKGROUND") and a little menu panel ("TRAY"): <styling> <style id="BTNSTYLE" style:position="absolute" style:backgroundFrame="0" style:width="88px" style:height="88px" style:y="5px" style:x="5px"/> <style id="TRAYTEXT" style:position="absolu ...Show All

• Troy Lundin Using one Button to open and close menu

  I'm trying to change my menu trays to open and close with the menu button. The problem is I cannot think of a way in markup, to end one of the actions properly. I thought about just making a class that is set to either open or close. Any ideas <timing clock="page"> <defs> <!-- Effects for opening and closing main menu. --> <animate id="OpenMenu" style:x="-450px;0px" /> <animate id="CloseMenu" style:x="0px;-450px" /> <set id="Hide" style:display="none" /> <set id="Show" style:display="auto" /> </defs> <par> <seq begin="(id('BTN_MENU')[state: ...Show All

• ykgreene Yamaha YMF753 Sound Card - Vista Driver

  I just upgraded my computer to Vista Ultimate. After running the diagnostics I was told I would not have any problems with my Sound Card. Once the install was complete, I do not have a driver that will work. I have a Yamaha YMF753 sound card. I have been searching the net for a Vista driver for a few hours... any help would be appreciated. Thanks MikeC Originally I did a clean install of Windows Vista. Unfortunately I could not get several of the drivers to install this way. I reinstalled my computers original recovery discs and then did an upgrade to Vista. Vista picked up all of the necessary drivers and it is now working properly. Thanks for all the help! I have a Toshiba Satellite 5105 -S501 laptop with the ...Show All

• Whoisit No network port on my Samsung BRD Player....HD-DVD Wins!

  Network streaming videos and content make HD-DVD the obvious winner,,,my samsung BR-Disc player has no network port...So does that mean that none of these cool features will be usable on BRD (I havent gotten into BRD authoring yet) Blu-ray players are not required to support networking. Just because the Blu-ray players don't have a network port on them, yet, doesn't mean that hd dvd wins I think there isn't yet a winner of this "Hd battle" but things shall be much clearer at the beginning of 2007. Really That seems very . . . odd.  Especially for what is essentially a java powered appliance. ...Show All

• Alexey Rokhin Opacity in Sidebar Gadget

  I'm facing a problem, when setting opacity in Sidebar Gadget. Gadget gets the opacity, but it has purple background instead of it's parent (body) background. Web Gadget is working correctly by setting the alpha filter, but Sidebar Gadget is not displayed correctly - no matter whether I'm using oObj.style.filter = "alpha(opacity=[int value])"; or System.Gadget.opacity = [int value] . there's a way to use transparency in gadgets with the <g:background /> but that request some tweak : you'll need 3 pictures : your transparent background a totally black transparent picture (same size as your gadget) a totally white transparent picutre (same size as your gadget) then use it like this : < g:background sr ...Show All

• BIG S 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