windows-desktop-gadgets

Writing a desktop gadget and displaying a webpage in it

I want to write a gadget and display a webpage in it through an iframe, how is this possible? ...

How to change CSS of desktop gadget on docked and undocked

Making desktop gadget and want to change the css file on docked and undocked. In fact, I am changing it in ondock and undock function, but it's not reflecting. ...

Vista Gadget - Write to a XML file

Hello, I have built a Vista Gadget. It grabs a local XMl file called "settings.xml". It loads it and I change a few things. then I call the xmldoc.Save("settings.xml") method which works fine of you run it in Internet Explorer... but if you run it in the sidebar it does not write to the xml - only loads from. how do I get it to write to...

Examples of quering the msn weather api using ajax or jquery

Hi Everyone I am having trouble finding a simple example that demonstrates how to query the msn or yahoo weather api using ajax or jquery. I want to understand how I can pass a query to these api's and then retrieve string information back which I can then present to the user on a html page. I have been searching the internet for two ...

Vista Gadget - Show tooltip on mouse over

Hello, I have a vista gadget that has a few DIV's and IMG's. The elements have 'title' attributes set to display a tooltip. If you are in the gadget, and it is focused the tool tips show... like normal. But if you click on the desktop then hover over something that is supposed to have a tooltip nothing shows up until you click the gadget...

Windows Gadget mailto: link not working

I'm creating a Windows Gadget and have found that my mailto links are not working at all. I have other links that work perfectly like: <a href="http://www.yahoo.com" target="new">Yahoo</a> But when I do this, it doesn't do anything <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> or I also tried this <a href="mailto:[email protected]...

Windows Gadgets - addTextObject doesn't work

This gadget: <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Test</title> <style type="text/css"> body { margin: 0; width: 200px; height: 200px; } </style> <script type="text/jscript" language="jscript"> document.onreadystatechange = function() { ...

How to retrieve information from website(first login using POST and cookies) using windows 7 desktop widget.

I need to build a Win 7 desktop widget, that would display a single value from a certain web page. To view the page you need to login first(with POST form), get session id, and proceed to the page. Then i'll download it and parse, no problem here. I also probably need cookies support for this. So, are there any tools for this in the Wind...