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• jackline Flash movies

  Hi all, is it possible to embedd a Flash movie in a Sidebar gadged Does anyone know if there are any workarounds to get flash to work without crashing sidebar If not do you forsee sidebar and Flash ever playing nicely together regardless of who is to blame There are so many cool apps built in Flash that would scale to sidebar, just thinking of flashlite/phone apps for one. Thanks I've just downloaded and confirmed this version of flash player is working as it should when in use with sidebar. Thank you Jonathan and Bruce for letting me know! Let the games begin! As Jonathan mentions, I believe the latest version of Flash fixes those DEP issues, and should work fine with the sidebar. ...Show All

• NozFx 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

• kgkidd Basic Gadget Codes?

  I've been looking all around the net for an understandable guide to making gadgets. So far, I've found nothing. Does anyone know a good guide, or could post the basic codes I need and files I need to create do u download a tutorial sidebar gadget there exist a base gadget (vemEmptyShell Gadget). http://microsoftgadgets.com/Build/SidebarTutorial.zip thats is very useful to me to learning base of sidebar gadget. good luck. Look at other Gadgets is your best way of learning. And use the Sidebar reference for the details on all the Methods etc. Start with something simple, like displaying an image from a website, so you can figure out all the Gadget specific code - the XML and gadget.html ...Show All

• Audrey Won Mutl-input and multi-output

  Hello: I am writing a media source that output 2 streams. One is a video stream and another is a audio stream. When start play, I got a error code from session get event (MEError, E_FAIL -> no any meanful information). But if I Deselect any one stream, another stream will play normally. so what is the problem about this issue About other similar issue. I write a MFT which accept two streams from 2 media sources and then output a single stream to audiorenderer. After set topology and play it, I got a error about "not support topology". I don't know what is the problem It is caused by 2 media sources or multi-input MFT Thanks About your Media Source... A Media Source with multiple streams should wo ...Show All

• Carl Peto unsetProperty and state

  This has come up a couple of times, so I decided to blog about it (and include a little demo app). The fun is yours to be had at http://blogs.msdn.com/ptorr/archive/2006/09/08/746678.aspx ...Show All

• ZergaKilla Network activity monitor ?

  Hi, I'm looking for a network activity monitor gadget but I can't find any !! I only found NetMonitor and NetActivity but I can't even install them. Any ideas thx   Jonathan Abbott wrote: If you can wait a day or two, I'll have a Gadget that works without all this fuss. I've just coded the DLL to read the NIC info, and am doing the Gadget side as we speak. great, where will you post it once it's ready By the way, I copied manually the files of the gadget to C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar\Gadgets\ and now it seems to work. NetActivity will only work if Sidebar is running elevated as Administrator. So you'll need to exit Sidebar and manually run it as A ...Show All

• Xinhai Li people spamming live gallery ratings and down rating not mensioning any names (BAMKEE)

  Iv'e noticed that a couple of people are creating sidebar, live and myspace gadgets and spamming other gadget search tags with their own email addresses and gadgets and stuff. These people are also Down rating other live, myspace and sidebar gadgets to get their gadgets to the top of the lists. one person in particular is Bamkee who posted 3 gadgets almost identical and had 5 star average out of 20 ratings before he had even had 20 downloads. See for yourself: http://gallery.live.com/Author.aspx a=46ba5aeb-394c-4346-a7dd-e06825791322&l=1 This causes problems for people with genuine ratings. Me and my brother developed a sidebar gadget for ebay which has been downloaded 5100 times since november and had 56 genuine ratings until ...Show All

• AlbertG Additional requirements for a WMP plugin on Vista 64?

  I have a WMP plugin (as a DMO) that works with Media Player 10 and 11 on Windows XP and Vista (32-bit). That same DMO does not work on Vista 64-bit. My DMO registers with IWMPMediaPluginRegistrar::WMPRegisterPlayerPlugin() and ThreadingModel = 'Both'. () My plugin will support IEEE_FLOAT as well as PCM audio, but it does not appear to get the chance. I usually see my DMO loaded into multiple processes on Vista 32, and the rendering always occurs in an MFPMP.exe process. I do not ever see my DMO getting loaded into the MFPMP.exe process on Vista 64, and I suspect that is where the audio rendering is occurring since I do see an MFPMP.exe process starting when audio playback starts. What more do I need to do to get my DMO picked-u ...Show All

• Vipin-kartik Access to DOM model

  I described JavaScript & XMU files in playlist (and manifest): <ApplicationResource loadingBegin="00:00:00:00" priority="1" src=" file:///dvddisc/ADV_OBJ/main.js " multiplexed="false" /> <ApplicationResource loadingBegin="00:00:00:00" priority="1" src=" file:///dvddisc/ADV_OBJ/main.xmu " multiplexed="false" /> When iHDSim start to executing JS, he can't access to XMU DOM model from JS file (Example: document.getElementById('Button') return "Unable to evaluate the expression."). After what ev ...Show All

• sameach File upload with Sidebar Gadget

  Is there any possible way to upload a file through a gadget I am creating a gadget that takes a word document or .txt file as input, post that to our servers and then we display information to you every day based on that information through the gadget. (the user gets a infoId that will give them their own customized info) Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks. Thor. You can manipulate the local file system. You can read a file to upload via XMLHttpRequest, using an FSO binary stream. If you want to allow the user to select a file, use System.Shell.chooseFile. Combining the two: var adTypeBinary = 1; var cfItem = System.Shell.chooseFile(true, "Word Files:*.doc:Text Files:*.txt::", "", ""); if (cfItem.path != "") { oStre ...Show All

• wtrn VS 2005 for Gadget development?

  Hello, I am confused. We have an elegant tool for program development, VS 2005, but it seems that we cannot use it for Gadget development. It is hard to understand why the Gadget development team did not use VS 2005 as the way to create Gadgets. There are Express versions of VS 2005, so even beginners can use VS 2005. Is there a way to create Gadgets using VS 2005 Thanks Tom Cool thanks, i just went to download that, and wondered why it was going so slow, its a 3.7GB Download! Just got the full March Orcas CTP and it does indeed have better javascript intellisense. Ill see how useful it is on my next gadget :) I use it to edit the files, but it's not ...Show All

• Vinod Sa Loading Resources

  After I installed the newer iHDSimulator none of my projects would load. I get a resource load error and have to Ctrl+Alt+Del and kill the app. I ran the validator and it doesn't find any of my resource files. So I thought maybe this is a good time to start loading from and ACA. I've read the spec, and looked at HD-DVD release titles and have noticed that some titles load resources from an ACA by declaring it as an ApplicationResource and others load from a TitleResource. First question: what is the difference In both examples they seem to be using it to load per Title. Second question, why is my playlist no validating properly on resource load ### Playlist ### <Playlist xmlns="http://www.dvdforum.org/2005/HDDVDVideo/Playlist" xmlns:x ...Show All

• Barron Gillon Pixel Fractions??

  I saw this code in another team's demo: animateProperty("height","1123.2px;1144.8px",8); I'm not a video guy but you cannot display pixels in fractions right I think Flash lets you define pixels in fractions but I thought those were rounded up in the browser. Yeah that looks like bad code... it isn't spec compliant. Don't do that :-) I guess if you put something like this in your script players will ignore it. If you try to have pixel fractions in your markup your file won't be valid when you check against the schemas. ...Show All

• bilalso unsetProperty()

  One of the suggestions the Toshiba folks made to my comp 5 code was to, "call unsetProperty() for each set to state.value in script to avoid global state side-effect" So for instance: document.FOO.state.unsetProrpety("value"); document.FOO.state.value = "true"; I read V17-104 but don't really understand the what unsetProperty does and why it is necessary before setting a propert. " State properties hold their value when unset, unlike style properties which when unset revert to the the current value from markup. So you don't necessarily want to be in the habit of unsetting style properties... just state ones." Ahhh, ok thanks Scott. Very helpful. Scott, you almost have it correct ...Show All

• Sundaar About IMFOutputTrustAuthority::SetPolicy.

  I'm sure that the output of IMFOutputTrustAuthority::SetPolicy() is Ticket information. So I have two questions about Ticket. 1.What kind of information should SetPolicy() output as Ticket 2.What is the purpose of Ticket in ITA My best regards. Thank you. Supporting tickets in ITAs/OTAs is optional; your protection system need not do it at all. The goal of tickets is to provide protection for the policy object. It can be used by the ITA to verify that the OTA did in fact read whatever parameters were supposed to have been on the Policy Object. The exact format of the ticket is entirely up to the protection system, but here's the general idea: The ticket generated by the OTA will ty ...Show All