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Windows Gadgets - addTextObject doesn't work

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I would avoid the use of both System.Gadget.background and g:background and stick to the latter on its own.

Make sure to supply the src attribute to the g:background element.
Use window.onload instead of document.onreadystatechange, or simply move your script to just before the body tag is closed.
Avoid use of the language attribute.

The following works just fine for me:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

    <head>
        <title>Test</title>
        <style type="text/css">
            body
            {
                margin: 0;
                width: 200px;
                height: 200px;
            }
        </style>
        <script type="text/javascript">
            window.onload = function() {
                someText = gBackground.addTextObject("Some text", "Arial", 12, "Black", 0, 0);
            }
        </script>
    </head>

    <body>
        <g:background id="gBackground" src="images/blank.png" style="width:100%; height:100%" />
    </body>

</html>

Andy E 2010-10-17 18:49:15

Using that creates an invisible gadget for me.

a2h 2010-10-27 10:01:12

@a2h: that's odd. This exact code works fine on my Windows 7 machine. Are you sure your png is white and not transparent?

Andy E 2010-10-27 10:19:05

@Andy E - Yep. Here's the source: http://cl.ly/32nI

a2h 2010-10-31 08:06:42

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