Slaine's World of Warcraft Realm Status Vista Gadget

Published 18 April 07 02:08 | Simon Phillips

Last October I started my first Vista Sidebar gadget, and got a bit stuck in getting the alpha transparencies in the popup to work correctly see My first Vista Sidebar gadget.

Due to getting a couple of emails from people to see how I was getting along with this, so I sat down and cracked on with it.

After disassembling some of the standard gadgets I found that I was going about popup bit completely the wrong way. I was trying to get this working by using IE / JavaScript fade in and fade out tricks using transitions. I found that there was a System.Gadget.Flyout object which you can set with it's own page and just call System.Gadget.Flyout.show = true; :S.

My excuse is that I know that this feature was added sometime during the vista beta realses and I'm sure it wasn't in the the version I was running at the time I started building the gadget ;).

I've publish the gadget up on the Window Live site and I'm waiting for it to be approved, but I've also posted to the NIMTUG site here

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Comments

# Simon Phillips said on April 19, 2007 02:04 :

Well it's now live up on the Windows Live Gallery

http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=796a83b7-8183-4a5c-9343-c2c769c74454&l=1

# Kell said on April 29, 2007 04:54 :

This addon is great, i had been looking for one of these for ages, thnx alot.

1 thing i think would be great on this would have to be a maintance countdown or due date, that would look great :)