Hi, I am having a gadget in which i have an li's so i want to display a tooltip when i mouseover in each li. For ex: I want to display a tooltip in the right corner of the gadget in that case the tooltip hides...So can any 1 suggest me a answer.. Thanks ...
Hi, I want to try http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb456468(VS.85).aspx#_sidebar_basic_example but i am on a pc without vista/windows 7. Is there a way to test the hello world gadget??? regards ...
Apart from seeming a few, I don't know much about how gadgets work. Are they special applications, or regular apps with special styled windows? I can't think of any app I use which has asked me if I want to install a gadget... I'd have thought any application which is typically left running all the time would be suitable... Skype/MSN fo...
For my first windows gadget I'm trying to make one that displays the current time and date. The code below is what I have, but I can't figure out why the javascript is not running. Any ideas? <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Unicode" /> <title>Clock</title> <style type="text/css">...
i want to develop a nice thing that will be on the desktop (like an active desktop) something like this: http://www.tinnes.org.uk/desktopcalendar/about.htm or this: http://www.xemico.com/adc/screenshots.html Edit: That gadget should be common for XP,Vista, Windows 7 and that gadget size should be adjustable ...
Does anyone know of a way I can code-profile my Windows Sidebar Gadget? I've played around with the code-profiling tool in IE8's "Developer Tools" and the code-profiling included in Visual Studio 2010, but I can't find a way to include the System.* API, which my gadget relies on (as it is standard in the Sidebar environment). The gadge...
How Can we integrate a JQuery menu with windows XP desktop for example a top menu that appears on mouse over ... ...
I have a desktop gadget that pulls RSS Feeds from a website. The Feed contains information about issues - ie. Priority, Time, Description. The Feed items are displayed on the desktop - however I need to colour code them according to their priority ie 1 = red etc. using the substr function - is there a better way to do this using JavaScr...
We're doing some preliminary explorations of Windows Desktop Gadgets here at our company and we've decided to try our first one simply by embedding an IFRAME inside the gadget HTML and pointing it to a web page we already have hosted on our intranet. The page on our intranet includes JQuery (whose calls seem to be working inside the pag...
Is it possible to authenticate against a LDAP Auth enabled web site using Javascript alone? website here: http://vl3.co.uk/moodle ...
Hi, I have this programming question that's been bothering me for some time now. I'm wondering how is it possible to write applications that change the Windows UI? More precisely how could you write an application that modifies the Windows Taskbar or the Windows Desktop? I'm really interested in this topic but cannot find a lot of infor...
I'm embedding windows media player in a windows sidebar gadget. As soon as I start the player (even if i stop it after doing so), hitting WIN+D ("Show Desktop") hides my gadget (all other gadgets stay visible). What's causing this issue and is there a way to fix this annoying behaviour? The problem occurs both with a media player embedd...
Hi, Does anyone know how to sign a gadget for Windows Sidebar (*.gadget)? I tried with signtool, but without any result. Thanks ...
I am developing a dynamic gauge gadget for windows 7. I have an ASP.NET gauge user control. I am currently forwarding the gadgets default.html page to an ASP.NET page using the <meta> tag. Using this tag prevents the ASP.NET page from opening in a new window. I have tried using javascript's "location" to perform the redirect, however it ...
I have the LDAP server hostname and the search base, but have not been able to find any way of using that information with javascript. this is to be used in a windows sidebar gadget. ...
I experimenting with writing Vista/W7 gadgets. In my experiment I want to write the modification date of certain files on the system. Problem is that if I want use string manipulation functions the gadget just stops writing its output. Part of the gadget's code looks like this: function format_lmd(lmd) { // Parse something like...
I created a Windows 7 Gadget and I need to create a place on each user's computer to store the Settings.ini file (Created from my SettingsManager.js file). The application packaging team at my company recommends I use %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar\ and then add Gadgets\iMon.Gadget\ subfolders. This is so each user's setti...
I'm trying to make my Gadget html to navigate to another page, but when I try to do it via window.location = 'http://newurl.com' It opens the address in a default browser new window. All I could do so far is to iframe the page in the gadget html (in the flyout html it didn't work), but the site I'm trying to frame has a frame detecto...
I know that Windows Sidebar Gadget API provides functionality beyond normal Javascript capabilities. Does it manipulate files? How? I didn't find how to do it in the API Reference ...
im developing a windows gadget. there is a function called addTextObject on the background object which creates the object i want which i can later add glowing and shadows to it. but the problem is that i am not able to control the objects location. for example if i want to append it inside a div or span or td, the appendChild method is ...