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Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. Or even below it. The options dialog allows you to present the user with a list of gadget preferences. The user experience can be most anything you want. The dialog can be just like a regular Web page with radio buttons, checkboxes, and textboxes. When a user opens the options dialog of a gadget, Sidebar takes a snapshot of the gadget and displays the image as a small icon see Figure 6.

I would like to point out that there is some ambiguity when it comes to the name of this dialog. When you right-click on a gadget, the gadget UI presents a menu that refers to this as "Options. I was a bit surprised to find that user settings are stored in a circa INI file instead of a more modern XML file. Fortunately, there are gadget APIs to read and write settings, so where and how the settings are stored is of little concern to you or your application.

There are a few caveats when it comes to creating your options UI. The width of the user area of the dialog is limited to a maximum of pixels. There is no height limit, but the Microsoft UX Guide for Windows Vista Gadgets recommends a maximum width of pixels and a height of no more than pixels.

If you need more room, you should probably create a tabbed dialog. You need to instruct the gadget to enable the options icon. This is done by setting System. You also need to set up a callback function for when the options dialog closes so your gadget can read the new user preferences. You do this by setting System.

As you can see from this example, when the handler is called, it is passed an event object— specifically the System. ClosingEvent event object. If the closeAction property of the ClosingEvent object contains a value of commit, this means the user selected OK and you will likely want to read the new settings.

Otherwise, the options dialog was canceled and you can bypass reading of the preferences. Settings are written using System. Conversely, settings are read with System. Both of these functions take a key and return a value. If the key does not exist for instance if it has never been written both will return a value of undefined. JavaScript is not a strongly typed language and if you use write and read, Sidebar will attempt type conversion.

If you want to be absolutely sure what is written and read, consider using writeString and readString as these will assume strings. Depending on the type of data in question, you will have to determine which methods will work best. Sidebar gadgets support localization by way of "localized folders. For example, if you are running a US version of Windows Vista and your preferences are set to Spanish, Sidebar will first look in the folder es-us.

If the file is not found there, Sidebar will then search the es folder. And finally, if the file is still not found, Sidebar will search the gadget root folder. Language is obviously important, but why is location important? Location is actually very important for certain gadgets. Consider the weather gadget. You may display the word sunny to users in both the United States and the United Kingdom, but the location will determine whether you should display the temperature in Fahrenheit US or Celsius UK.

Many developers will likely support an English-only gadget, but if locale is important to you I recommend that you put all of your language-specific strings and location-specific variables in a single JavaScript file called local. Then create a folder for each locale that you are going to support and copy the translated versions of local. Here is an example of a local. In your main JavaScript code, when you want to use a string or determine what to use for degrees, you would do something like this:.

As you can see, your code will react differently depending on which local. Cool, huh? Note that with the English local. It will restore all the genuine features like: Desktop context menu. Full Control Panel integration with working links inside the "Appearance and personalization" category! The integration with Windows Search: wherever you type "gadgets" - in Control Panel, or in third party Start menus like Open Shell or StartIsBack , the common gadgets-related tasks will appear in search results!

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