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Re: New at this

2008-10-11T11:36:02Z

Hello and welcome to developing gadgets,

You can create an interval for periodic requests in the onopen event
of your view.
Keep in mind that your gadget might not be the only one running so you
should minimize your impact on the users system.

Benjamin

Re: Generating an ID

2008-10-11T10:25:50Z

Hi,
in my opinion the easiest way you can generate such an ID is going on this
site <[link]>. The bold long row (the
second row actually :) should be exactly what you need.
Thanks,
Teo

Generating an ID

2008-10-10T19:11:06Z

Can someone post a sample of how they generated a unique identifier in
gadget.gmanifest?
Thanks.

New at this

2008-10-10T17:59:10Z

Hi there,

Im new to this, but not so new at programming. My question is: I've
some javascript loop here, where can I put it to keep on looping?
Onopen?

Re: new 'blog list' gadget for use in 'google desktop'

2008-10-08T22:12:51Z

'blog list' is definitely the name. it is a new sidebar gadget that
was added to the dashboard of blogger a month or two back. it is
featured on the first page of the 19 'basic' gadget that can be added
to the page. it is an aggregation of the blogs that you import from
google reader. the gadget lists all the blogs you subscribe to with

Re: new 'blog list' gadget for use in 'google desktop'

2008-10-08T22:21:23Z

the gadget is found under the 'add gadget' tab of the layout page on
the blogger dashboard. the gadget allows you to import your blog list
from google reader and then displays the blogs in order of the blog
with the most recent post with a continually updated list of blogs by
blog name, most recent post name and time since that post was

List of countries and cities supported by google weather

2008-10-10T14:06:46Z

Hi ,

I am developing a portlet to display weather information using google
weather . User can select the city for which the weather information
needs to be displayed.
Question is .

How do i get the list of cities which are supported by google
weather , is there a webservice or rss feed by google or some general

[SUBMIT] New gadgets submitted: 2008-10-10

2008-10-10T17:00:07Z

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New gadgets have been submitted!
If you have feedback about these gadgets, please post it to the group by
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gadgets.
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gadgets. Please direct all questions to the authors.

RSS demo: change description length?

2008-10-10T15:51:17Z

Hello everyone,

I am having some trouble trying to reduce the description length of
the feeds. I am using Google's RSS demo, editing the file "/utils_js/
parsers.js" for the Generic RSS 2.0 parser with:

// Entry content.
if (entryData['content'] >= 150){
entryData['content'] = substr(entryData['content'],0, 149)."...";

[SUBMIT] New gadgets submitted: 2008-10-09

2008-10-09T17:00:10Z

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2008-10-09T01:58:30Z

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[SUBMIT] New gadgets submitted: 2008-10-08

2008-10-08T17:00:06Z

Can GD access data on Google Apps?

2008-10-08T14:18:32Z

my wife and i use a google app spreadsheet for our 'to do' list. i'd
like to build a google desktop gadget that let me see and update the
spreadsheet data. Is it possible? Is it easy?

thanks!

-Josh

Re: append multiple elements

2008-10-08T10:15:09Z

Hi,
yes this function is there for this purpose as well. You don't even need to
make a separate XML file (since you'll have to read from it) but you can do
a portion of a .js file (or a whole .js file) that deals with the XML.
Here's a section from an article that might help:
[link]

append multiple elements

2008-10-07T15:30:38Z

Is there a way to use appendElement(string xml) to add multiple
elements ?
some pieces of the infterface are getting too complicated to be in the
main.xml

so I was thinking about to externalize in a separate xml file.