Our new lab’s project ‘Broadcast‘ streams audio via the Flash player. This means the broadcast can play anywhere you can play Flash. It is easy to embed players into websites, Desktop gadgets (Vista, Windows 7, Google, MacOS) and mobile devices (with Flash Lite 3). The following discussion explains how to setup the various players. (more…)
The Google Desktop allows you to run Google Gadgets on your XP, Vista or Windows 7 desktop. Versions are also available for Linux and Mac. This means that a Google Gadget could have a far wider audience than a Vista / Win7 Gadget. This article explains how to make one using your Flash files.
Converting your .swf file to a gadget is surprisingly easy. You will nead a couple of things though:
1. A site to host your .swf file. (SWiSH Space can do this).
2. The Developer SDK. This is a free download from Google.
Download the SDK from the link shown above. At time of writing the SDK is distributed in a .zip file. Once the download is complete, extract the contents of the .zip file to a convenient location.
The application you need to run is:
api/tools/designer_en.exe (depending on the settings of your computer, the .exe extension may not be displayed) (more…)
The windows sidebar has been removed from Windows 7. However, Gadgets are still supported. Our earlier blog article ‘Make a Vista sidebar gadget’ explained how to make a gadget for Vista, this followup article explains how to convert these previously described gadgets for use on Windows 7.
Vista users will be aware of the sidebar and the gadgets that it can contain. Although the sidebar has been dismissed by many as a hog of screen real estate, I personally think it is quite useful. I suspect that most SWiSH’ers are not aware of how easy it is to make great looking sidebar gadgets using SWiSH Max2 or SWiSH miniMax2.
Badgets of Honor.
