I am initialising the user prefs and i am setting and getting numeric prefs but i do not seems to be able to get and set string prefs. the prefs i initialise are not altered later on in the gadget, but int prefs are.
i set the user pref up
the set the actual value
prefs.set("Cpopup8_value",popup8_value);
later in the app the ...
I have requirement were I need to create google desktop gadget which can play flash videos from given video URL, So if I give the http://www.someweb.com/xyz.flv than the gadget should play that video ...
Please provide some sample code if anybody has worked on this kind a widget.
Any Help Appreciated ...
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So I'm working on a google gadget(really only gadgetizing so I can get a datastore for this) that I want to be embeddable in a google spreadsheet (after this point, I'm going to skip the word google - you can just imagine it's there).
I want to use the spreadsheet that I embed the gadget in as a key/value store for the data I enter with...
I just spent 5 hours by checking Google gadgets websites and FAQs, but I still have no idea how to host a gadget.
What I've figured from reading the Google documentation:
I can write gadgets with XML, JavaScript etc..
Gadgets can be added to iGoogle etc..
Google can host the gadgets for you.
Gadgets can be hosted anywhere else???
Al...
Anyone run across a Google Gadget RSS reader that can read https feeds? I haven't been able to find any, and I'm not sure if this is because a) I'm the only one that needs one and/or b) there is something nasty about the browser security model here that I'll find out if I try to roll my own.
Thanks much in advance.
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I am designing a simple Google Gadget, and I would like the Gadget title to be a link (like the GMail gadget where the title link points toward the originating GMail app).
Does anyone know how to achieve such a behavior?
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This is not for a desktop gadget.
I want to have a user preference that is a date. Can I use a date picker to do this or can I only use a html input field?
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I read through the Wave Gadgets tutorial, and it shows you how to write a simple gadget that will record bids and display the current bids. When you run it through playback mode, you can see the changes to the gadget state, but they're not highlighted the way that text in blips has its changes highlighted.
Can gadgets provide the same h...
How do I force refresh a Google Gadget that's embedded in another website to update automatically and instantly when the Google spreadsheet/form that it's linked to updates with new data?
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How do I make a Google gadget embedded in a website force refresh to reflect updated data in a Google Spreadsheet?
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I'm working on a GMail gagdget and am trying to access the current users ComanyName / Apps-Account-DomainName / ID. It has to be some ID thats unique for all users belonging to the same Google Apps Domain, for I like to display different content to different users beeing in the same Domain / Company.
Do you know if and how this is possi...
Does it exists a platform or container capable of running google gadgets written for iGoogle.
Basicly what I want is to have my private "iGoogle" intranet page.
I found out that LifeRay, Sun Java System Portal Server, Weblogic Portal Server and JBoss Portal Server should be capable of running google gadgets and i'd like to know if this...
Don't get me wrong, I like iGoogle and use it.
But for intranet site, why anyone would use iGoogle or Apache-Shindig which is foss implementation of iGoogle platform.
OK, boss likes look of iGoogle widgets/gadgets and fact that he can drag them around the page. But you can do this with say ExtJS library.
So are there any benefits o...
Looking to drive the content displayed on my Google Apps domain by using my IIS7-based webservice. Would it be more productive to ask 'how can i drive a Google Gadget with asp.net'?
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I needed a gadget for Google Calendar so I wrote it; I'd like to offer it to the public for free.
However, after going around in circles through Google help on publishing gadgets, it seems that iGoogle directory is only for iGoogle gadgets. Although my gadget works on iGoogle by redirecting user to Google Calendar, iGoogle users don't r...
I am simply trying to read a user's boolean preference in a Google Gadget, but it seems that the preference is never getting saved at all, and I only ever get whatever the default_value is. I've broken this down into a very simple test case. Here is my test gadget spec:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<Module>
<ModulePrefs ...