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• R.S Kimberly OT: Suggestions about gallery.live.com

  Several things stand out about this site, now that people are starting to use it. So, here's some suggestions: Implement some sort of language filtering. Although I have nothing against the use of non-English and think it's actually commendable than MS allowing it, I would rather filter out Gadgets that are of no use to me. Alternatively allow multiple languages in the Gadget description, or some form of language translation. Improve Gadget images. It would be great if you could attach screenshots, as well as the 100x100 icon. Do something about Gadget spam. "Vamos Strip Player" springs to mind, I'd hate to think how many times it's posted. Remove the 1000 character limit on the description field, and allow it to be rich text ...Show All

• Krutika JavaScript on protected and non-protected disk

  Hello, I visited this forum already some time ago and I did read a thread that said that not all JavaScript commands do work on a non-protected disk (so a disk without AACS). I searched the forum, but was not able to find it back. Can anybody shed some light on this Is it true and if so, which commands are affected Thanks in advance for any info ! Is it also possible to stream from a local network, for instance using \\<computer name>\<volume>\<path> Must the data that you want to stream also be encrypted with AACS So to recap it: with an AACS protected disc it is possible to stream an unencrypted EVOB from a network location ...Show All

• WV John Writing To Persistent Storage

  I've been working on this for what seems like an eternity now, but I can't get it to work. I want to be able to write an XML file to the persistent storage of an HD-DVD player. So far, this is what I have tried. - Going from the disc, to the filecache, then to the required storage. Failed when going from the filecache to the required storage. - Going straight from the disc to the required storage. Fails instantly. - Creating a file on-the-fly, and then going to the required storage. Fails again. I am placing the file inside of a folder in the required storage. The folder name is the content ID from the DISCID.DAT. The only thing that comes to mind is that the disc has to have AACS applied for it to work. I hope I am wrong on th ...Show All

• irrdev Which culture?

  Hi,  which culture settings influences the decision which locale will sidebar choose  I have czech format set, czech location and czech system locale (for non-Unicodes) in regional and language options, however, the sidebar still chooses the en-us version of gadget. Vista UI is english of course.  The .Net framework returns System.Globalization.CultureInfo     base {object}: object     CurrentCulture: {cs-CZ}     CurrentUICulture: {en-US}     InstalledUICulture: {en-US}     InvariantCulture: {}  What should I change to test my gadget localization Thanks Edit: PS: Is there any way how to determine from within gadget code ...Show All

• Pavel Makovec 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

• JWedg Posting forms to websites.

  hi, I'm making a booking gadget and need to post a form to an external website is this possible It's a bug and has been around for quite a while. This thread was raised in Sep '06. Are you for real. Does this work in sidebar gadgets Is it reliable and doesnt violate any security Is this the way to go Would be awesome if this is it! Jonathan and Bruce, what do you think Regards, Thor. any idea when this bug will be fixed Yeah, I was trying to build a diredtions gadget. Tried all of the ways I could find. Let this be the way! *bump* Could someone from MicroSoft please answer on ...Show All

• Oyvind 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 Thanks, that's a helpful suggestion (although in our case, it would require a substantial rewrite of our control panel, so this might be more of a long-term solution). Some of the most useful features of our control panel can't be implemented this way, though. We have a "preset" feature where a user can create named sets of all of their audio settings and easily swi ...Show All

• idahogurl Regarding Set Property and Unset Property

  Hi there My current understanding is : if any style attribute is set using script then it gets locked on that particular element ...till it is unlocked on that particular element....ie the style attributes are locked at element level. whereas for state attributes things are different. a) state:focused can be locked using one element and unlocked using other element(even that belonging to a different application) b) state : enabled and state:value can be locked by one element and unlocked using other element belonging to same application i.e. they are locked at application level. I have seen behaviour a). About b) I am not sure. Do these i.e. a) and b) look right to ya all. Here "global status ...Show All

• KitGreen 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. Thanks ToddOs, that was indeed the problem! Are you running ...Show All

• Moorpark Validating availability of Picture on the internet

  I am developing a gadget to display an image on the Sidebar. It works fine if the image is available (I just set the src to the url of the object). My question is this: Is there a way to validate that a url is valid prior to setting the src value to it If the image is not available I would like to show an image to the user rather than get the default image with the little x. I have this functionality working in a Yahoo Widget but am not sure how to go about implementing it in a gadget. Thanks for any help you can provide. Mark Did a little digging and found that I can set the on error handler for the picture to call a javascript function to set the src property to a file that is stor ...Show All

• flagrant99 Object outline

  I lost a link I had to an outline of the iHD script object library. Anyone Found it - it is in the Jumpstart kit documentation. ...Show All

• TalYam How to turn Subtitles off?

  Hi there, i tried the following to select subtitles and switch them on (or off) switch (g_sub) { case "de_sub": Player.subtitle.visible =true; Player.track.selectSubtitleTrackNumber(1); break; case "fr_sub": Player.subtitle.visible =true; Player.track.selectSubtitleTrackNumber(2); break; default: Player.subtitle.visible = false; break; } The first 2 "case" definitions works well. They turn german or french subtitles on. If "g_sub=='off'" the default definition should turn the visibility off. Right Wrong. the last selected subtitle is shown, although g_sub isn't "de_sub" or "fr_sub". How can I ...Show All

• keewest Need help with outlook email gadget

  Hi, i am wondering how i would do the following: 1.Pull the "Subject" text of an email from outlook 2. Pull an Unread email message and have it displayed in a Flyout on my gadget. 3. send an email via gadget through outlook. 4. Get Outlook "Contacts" (like the Contacts gadget that manages "Windows Contacts") Please let me know if you can help me out with this i would greatly appreciate it!! Thanks in advance! Bill First have a look at the existing Gadgets, which will contain the basics: Outlook Upcoming Appointments Outlook info Outlook Tasks Then have a look at Sue Mosher's code site, where you'll probably find all the help you need. I'd advice buying her book, which I've found very useful when de ...Show All

• rod 001 Error event while media session is running

  I'm getting an error event while the session is running (in the loop of the event handling). This event is ERROR_SXS_MANIFEST_FORMAT_ERROR and I didn't found any usefull information as to the cause of this error. I have a custom source that send a single frame from a picture and a sink that saves the frame into a file. When I connect the source to the sink all is fine, and the frame is being saved. When I enter a MFT between them I get the error. I don't know where this error comes from, or what is the meaning of it. Can anyone explain to me what this error means Thanks. A couple questions to help us get to the bottom of this: How does this error arrive Via MEError, or via some oth ...Show All

• fpizzolo C# DLL

  Hi, Is it possible to call methods stored inside a C# dll from a gadget If so please could someone show me an example of how to make the method call I have seen code for how to register/unregister the dll in the gadget code, but thats all i know. Thanks, Jason Hi peter What exactely are you trying to achieve I remember there was a class named PerformanceCounter in the .net Framework. You could simply create a .net component, make it Com Interoperable and then use the data from it in your gadget. If this is what you are looking for: I have created a small gadget (my first as well) the past nights. It should be done by tomorrow. It doesn't use the PerformanceCounter class but some other classes, but ...Show All