I'm trying to set up my environment for developing, debugging and deploying Windows Desktop Gadgets. I've hit a bit of a roadblock in my project, where I can't run a build on my gadget when the configuration is set to "Debug". If the configuration is set to "Release", the build goes through the following custom tasks: Copy gadget con...
Hi all.. I want to get some information from my database and show into my sidebar gadget (i am newbee on gadget coding). I tried many ways to do it but i didn't succeed yet. For this purpose, I have prepared a php file to get some values from my database (on the server) and i want to get the content (results) of this php file. I don't w...
Some features I needed is not available in the Javascript API. Is it possible to use an external component (C++ or whatever) in a gadget? In particular, I'd like to get a list of running processes. ...
I'm trying to create a Windows sidebar gadget with JQuery and flot. When I run the gadget in FF the graph is plotted fine. But when I run it from the gadget, it doesn't work. I know the JQuery code is working cause I can use it to change the html, style, etc. So the problem is in the flot part. Any ideas? thoughts? Basically I'm tryi...
Please let me know how to uninstall a gadget programmatically. Rite now i am using this command sidebar.exe /uninstall gadget_name but it just pop the gadget control window, do not uninstall the specified gadget. Am I doing anything wrong with command. Plz help. Thanks in advance. ...
hello ! i have a problem with a variable for the flyout : var friendsUser = ""; var friendsMdp = ""; System.Gadget.Settings.write("variableName", variableName); System.Gadget.settingsUI = "Settings.html"; System.Gadget.onSettingsClosed = SettingsClosed; System.Gadget.Flyout.visible = SettingsClosed; fu...
I'm trying to create a sidebar gadget without the use of Visual Studio. I've looked around for ways to debug them, but everything says that the Visual Studio JIT debugger is the only way to do it. Has anyone been able to debug sidebar gadgets without Visual Studio? ...
I've been working on creating a Windows Desktop Gadget. I can create HTML elements I want with document.createElement. I can set their attributes and I can get those attributes after setting them, but anything I do to modify the document just fails completely silently. I'm not seeing any errors at all, but the gadget just doesn't change....
Hi! I am trying to develop a sidebar gadget that automates the process of checking a web page for the evolution of my transfer quota. I am almost at it but there is one last step I need to get it working: Sending an HttpRequest with the correct POST data to a php page. Using a firefox plugin, here is what the "Content-Type" of the heade...
We want to create a Windows desktop version of our weather widget There are 2 special things about the widget. It consumes a lot of processor time while active - it displays an animated picture (Flash without GPU acceleration, unfortunately). It updates the weather from our server (frequent server requests from all widget users). Wh...
hi, I am adding my custom gadget in windows sidebar but when i am uploading my gadget file in the format of zip, its telling format of the file or image is not correct. So please can any1 tel me the details about this how to upload which format should it to be upload..... yours bhanu ...
I want to set my application to be on desktop level, like Windows Gadgets. Is this possible to achieve? Thing is, i have borderless application I want to run on desktop. I tried to find the option, but I found only "always on top" which is opposite of what I want to achieve. ...
Hi I'm trying to create a "gadget" like application using WPF. The goal is to get the same behavior as a normal Windows 7 gadget: No task-bar entry Doesn't show up when you alt+tab windows NOT always on top, applications can be on top Visible while performing 'Aero Peek' Visible while using 'Show desktop' / Windows+D I've been able ...
Hi, I have a windows sidebar playing an video which is working in Vista Home Basic but not working in Vista Home Premium....And i am having a customized flash player. ...
In the main gadget html, there is a div with an onclick that calls this method in the Gadget script file: ShowFlyout = function() { System.Gadget.Flyout.show = true; var flyoutDoc = System.Gadget.Flyout.document; var mainFlyoutDiv = flyoutDoc.getElementById('divFlyout'); mainFlyoutDiv.innerHTML = "hello"; } Here is th...
I need to include some kind of notifications in a sidebar gadget, preferably systray popups or sound notifications, so that they can't be missed/overlooked. Is there any existing JavaScript lib or ActiveX that you could recommend? ...
Hi all, i am developing a gadget and i am using JavaScript to change innerHTML of span, but after some operations i need to read that value. Additionally i am using pre-entered value for spans but when i try to read new data function loads pre-entered one. Is there any solution for that? JS: function read_write(condition,filename){ ...
Hi All, I have developed a windows sidebar gadget which plays videos in a flash player, It works in vista home basic(32-bit OS) but doesn't work in vista home premium(64-bit OS). I use Flash Player 9 and Actionscript 3.0. Can anyone help me Please. ***This is the html content for the player*** <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D...
Hi! I am actually making a Sidebar Gadget, (which is AJAX-based) and I am looking for a way to extract a single element from an AJAX Request. The only way I found yet was to do something like that: var temp = document.createElement("div"); temp.innerHTML = HttpRequest.innerText; document.body.appendChild(temp); temp.innerHTML = docume...
Hi, Can any 1 tell me how to play a multiple videos by using actionscript in a windows sidebar? ...