I just started building a gadget but everywhere in the discussion it
is stated that use content type=html or Url.....But it is not stated
anywhere that where to specify this content....i tried it the main.xml
file but it is unable to load gadget....Please help regarding this...

Thanks

Hi,

are you talking about Google Desktop gadgets or iGoogle gadgets? For Google
Desktop gadgets you don't need to write anything like that in the xml...

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Hello Sir,

      Thanks for repling . But my concern was about google desktop gadgets.
      I have seen all others desktop gadgets in google SDK it contains
<view> tags and no HTML
      is used for that. Where as in igoogle gadgets i used this
content type code and it worked but it is not working in case of
desktop gadgets.

     Please help regarding this.

Thanks
Rahul Kumar

Basically: Google Desktop gadgets and iGoogle gadgets are different.
Google Desktop gadgets use only special XML tags to define the layout
of the gadget. You can only use HTML code in a special detailsview.

Please check out the Google Desktop APIs page on Google Code
http://code.google.com/apis/desktop/docs/ for detailed information
about the correct layout of the views and examples for gadgets.

Basically, the only similarity between iGoogle gadgets and Google
Desktop gadgets is that both use Javascript as a programming language.
You will have to read and learn a new set of methods and APIs to
create Google Desktop gadgets.

Best regards,
Benjamin

On Nov 6, 3:30 pm, rahul gupta <rahulgupt...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello Sir,

  Thanks for your quick reply.
  Then it means that i have to use sdk-only to create a desktop gadget.

  I cannot use the content type = Html to use my html page ....
  where as i did the same thing creating a yahoo widget....i used my
html and javascript code there.

  Please help regarding this.

Thanks.
Rahul Kumar

Thats correct. You will have to use the XML elements mentioned in the
SDK to create the view.
You should check out the Google Desktop APIs page I mentioned as well
as the various articles http://code.google.com/apis/desktop/articles/

This should help you get started.

Benjamin

On Nov 6, 6:20 pm, rahul gupta <rahulgupt...@gmail.com> wrote:

Yes, you're right. You may be able to reuse some parts of your HTML or
Javascript code, but in the end you have to put them in a form that's
accepted for a Google Desktop gadgets. Please check out the SDK, since
it also contains some sample gadgets and will help you understand.

Thanks,
Teo

On Nov 6, 7:20 pm, rahul gupta <rahulgupt...@gmail.com> wrote:

Sir,

  You replied that we can use some parts of Html ....Can you please
tell me how can i use that some html part.

Thanks
Rahul

Only you can figure this out, by reading the documentation.. Shouldn't be
hard since what you need to write in the XML isn't very different than what
you write in an HTML page.

P.S. I received your messenger invite, but i kindly ask you to keep this on
the group. Thanks!

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Teo
www.teodorfilimon.com
Romania, Europe (GMT +2)

Sir,

   I created igoogle gadget and it was very simple using content
type=url . That gave me the exact look and functionality that i
needed.

   yes you are very correct that it's not very hard in xml but i was
concerned about the functionality. No problem if it can be covered by
XML part.

 Thanks
Rahul

One more thing i am not getting that everytime i use font size=8 for a
label but it converts on its own to 10. I don't know why this is so.

Hi,

I also got this problem, i think it is a bug inside the Gadget
Designer.

Kind Regards,
Stefan Van Damme (aka Stefan vd)
Gadget Developer
www.stefanvd.net

On 6 nov, 20:25, rahul gupta <rahulgupt...@gmail.com> wrote: