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• mattdawg 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! It looks like Flickr uses a different "media" namespace than Soapbo ...Show All

• JacobRonnie How to add Vritual Earth API in the Live.com Gadget?

  Hi, Is there any way to add Vritual Earth API to Live.com Gadget It seems failure if writing "<script src="http://dev.virtualearth.net/mapcontrol/v4/mapcontrol.js"></script> " in the gadget content. Thanks Shawn Clark - MSFT wrote: Yeah, it might be boring and lame but it works. Everyone's gadgets are going to be in an iFrame anyways. I work at MS and they won't even let me do inline gadgets! I'm very happy that he was able to get the VE map control to work inside a gadget natively. I banged my head on that for a day or so until I gave up on it. I work at MS as well, and while there are processes in place to get authorization for an inl ...Show All

• Barry-ELX Problems with XBOX 360 HD DVD Player

  I continue to run into issues with the xbox 360 hd dvd player every time I insert an hd concert dvd. I do not have any issues with the hd movies but have had issues with every concert inserted. Does anyone know of a solution For testing DVD-R Advanced Content, nothing beats the xbox360 HD-DVD drive...it boots my test discs in 2 seconds vs. the HD-XA1 which takes 30-60 sec. A must have for Devs. I am getting used to the Xbox360 error codes and I think that they are similar to the error codes on the HD-XA1. For example last night I got a Resource Load Error because my Playlist was messed up and I got a "xxxxx00B" error returned from the xbox...that is very similar to the Toshiba error code for a Resource L ...Show All

• Ilan D ACA Explorer

  Hello, Don't know if anyone has created one yet but I figured I'll share this small tool i made with everyone. AcaExplorer allows you to view the content of unencrypted Advanced Content Archives and extract files. Usage: Run acaexplorer.exe > Click on [Open Archive]  > Select an *.aca file and click [Open] > Select one or more files from the listbox > Click on extract and choose the destination > Click [Choose] and voila! Tip: use [CTRL] to select multiple files The tool is free and can be downloaded from: http://www.levelx.eu Notes: The program doesn't warn if there is already a file with the same name in the destination map and overwrites. Currently there is a max 16MB limit.   ...Show All

• Olley Sidebar and gadgets in XP

  Hi Is it possible to create a sidebar and gadgets for previous versions of Windows ie XP and 2000 thanks Microsoft is supposidly working on a Windows XP version of the sidebar (reports Paul Thurrott) but there is no official word yet. http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/winvista_xp_apps.asp There is no supported version for XP. The article is wrong. So, if there is no version for XP then why does the current Website http://msdn.microsoft.com/coding4fun/windows/productivity/article.aspx articleid=1055051 indicate there is Notice this is an MSDN website. I'm using microsoft virtual pc 2007 on my XP machine to ...Show All

• aaziz 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 Perfect. That is what I was looking. Point also taken on the risk of that 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 m ...Show All

• Scott Sheppard Auto volume leveling

  The Auto volume leveling doesn't scan the files I add to Media Player by dragging them onto files displayed in library (they are added to library, but the auto volume level value is not added). I've checked the checkbox to add the auto volume level value when I add new files to library, but It doesn't work with dragging. Do you have some tips for me please .... Thanks a lot. Try your post on this newsgroup: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/community/newsgroups/WindowsMedia/default.mspx dg=microsoft.public.windowsmedia.player&lang=en&cr=US ...Show All

• Pankaj11 Running Multiple Script Files

  I'm running into a problem when I start to use more than one script file. From the little documentation I could find on this, the player should start with the first script file in the manifest, complile it, and move on to the next and store all the variables and functions for use when they are called. When I try this, the player runs none of the scripts and just plays the audio and video. The scripts were checked and are valid. Does the first script have to initialize the other scripts or am I missing something real obvious here That's exactly what I have. I'll have to go over it again on Monday. Great news on VS 2005 Express Edition. I'll have to give it a try. Got ...Show All

• tsg Blu-ray

  Does it bring bad luck to ask this on this forum :) Anyone knows of documentation or sites about BD-J mode, HDMV is a bit limited. Panasonic (but I'm not sure), Sony BD player and PS3. But all BD player (like Sony product) will need to update firmware to support perfectly the BD-J. I know that one of first BD disc with H264 and BD-J (french movie OSS117) is waiting because there is some problem with this two options (H264 and BD-J) on hardware player. I don't understand why the BD player have this problem May be the BDA haven't the tool to test their BD player No time to valide this tool because HD DVD started product.... With HD DVD it is clear, there is the hardware tool to valide the replication, ...Show All

• 1Dave Side Scrolling Chapter Menu

  I'm trying to create a side scrolling chapter menu and was wondering if anyone has solved this riddle script side. Basically I want to scroll through chapter images using left and right arrow buttons, so the menu would start like this: < #1 #2 #3 > Then by clicking on the right arrow button it would then look like this: < #4 #5 #6 > And so on. The version I have built simply replaces the images (#1 replaced with #4, #2 replaced with #5 and so on). But I would love to make them scroll so the new images come in as if they are all on the track moving left and right. I did try to solve the problem be creating on long block of all the chapter images, masked behind a div that was only big enough to show th ...Show All

• Kolja Programatically setting the default playback device (and recording device)

  Under Vista is there a way to set the default playback device programatically I've searched through the APIs but I'm not seeing it. For example, there is a method IMMDeviceEnumerator::GetDefaultAudioEndpoint(), but there is no corresponding IMMDeviceEnumerator::SetDefaultAudioEndpoint(). Can I do this through the endpoint properties I may be missing something here, but it seems to me that if you are prepared to master the Device Topology API, you can do under Vista exactly what you can do under XP, i.e. you can set Mux and Mute switches etc. for individual devices, but you cannot change the default input and output device. It's annoying that the old mixer API's no longer function though; given that the n ...Show All

• plsh 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 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, but not the Sidebar itself. I believe for "Sidebar", if you refer to it as "Sidebar" in your interface (menus, dialogs and gadget itself) that is f ...Show All

• Mapa3matuk Directx 10

  I wanted to know if to run directx 10, I have to change windows(xp to vista) and to buy a new graphical plate At the moment there is no graphics hardware that supports the directx 10 system... to use it you have to use the software device. In the future there will be graphics hardware that you can use, but for now software is all we have. "Samples and applications built with the Direct3D 10 Technology Preview in the June 2006 DirectX SDK require Windows Vista Beta2 to run. The Windows Vista Beta2 will be available to MSDN subscribers." From the SDK Readme . Will there be a version of DirectX 10 fo windows xp ...Show All

• Ljhopkins Searching for HD DVD Authoring online training and certification

  Hi friends! I am a SD DVD Author and willing to work on HD, so I need to know how I can learn HD DVD authoring and would like to do certification for the same. Thanx! But how could I know that MS has organised the even does it mean no as there is no reply Online I am not sure. But sometimes MS do some training session in US and in Europe to learn how to developp and to make authoring of HD DVD. Golgot13 ...Show All

• Johan Nyvaller 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