XBMC Vista Sidebar Gadget (also Windows Desktop Gadgets in Windows 7)

I cannot get this to work, at all, with Windows 7 RTM. It does not save the IP address after I fill it in either.

anyone get this to work on Win7?

got it working... kinda.

looks like there are a few big bugs

1) poster never displays
2) editing the config using the GUI does not save (must edit txt file)

minor issues...

a) docs do not state IP address must have the port # added
b) paths in config file confusing - what are these for?

Gamester17 Wrote:@nad, any chance of a Windows SideShow version of this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_SideShow
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=30460

Windows SideShow is almost the same thing as a Windows SideBar gadget but displayed exclusivly on a small secondary display.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/product...eshow.mspx

PS! I know this is the wrong place to request this bit I could not resist.

Sorry to be off topic but damn.. haven't heard anything about Windows SideShow in a while.

Thanks for your sharing. Thanks for sharing this useful information. It's great.
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tytherman Wrote:Love the app, but cant get a picture to show when media is playing.... using vista and localhost as XBMC if there is no cover art it correctly shows the XBMC logo but if I add cover art then I get a red cross in top left corner.

I found out the reason behind this. This gadget tells xbmc to put the current cover into the web directory. The problem with Vista (and 7) is that xbmc doesn't have the rights to place something into the program files directory.

i'm currently working on my own version and i already made a workaround for that.

I have just uploaded V1.5 of my gadget to Microsoft's Vista/Windows 7 Sidebar gadget gallery. (Unfortunately I forgot to update the version number on the submission form so it is still showing as v1.3 - hopefully that will change in a couple of days but you will be downloading v1.5.) This fixes most if not all of the problems reported on this thread which were predominantly due to me not keeping up with changes to xbmc.

You can get it here: http://gallery.live.com/LiveItemDetail.a...93743532d4

Updated again to v1.6.

Bugs fixed:

Aspect ratio matches XBMC only when screen grabbing
All (most?) key strokes are now exposed to the gadget

Available here: http://gallery.live.com/LiveItemDeta...e-e293743532d4

link not working

pd: thanks for your work

Hm, somehow dropping files on it doesn't work....

foldermapping=z:\music\=smb://hda/Movies/
foldermapping=x:\=smb://hda/Music/

these are my foldermappings...

this is a typical url of a working playing file:

# URL:smb://hda/Music/A Perfect Circle/Emotive/7 - People Are People.mp3

this is what your gadget does:

12:15:05 T:3060696944 M:1428471808 DEBUG: HttpApi Start command: addtoplaylist paras: addtoplaylist; smb://hda/Music/iron maiden\powerslave\02 - 2 minutes to midnight.flac

I think it doesn't work due to the backslashes?

dyt72 Wrote:link not working

pd: thanks for your work

link just worked for me.