By Wei-Meng Lee
As an easy-to-use software that offers details at a look, a machine permits clients to quick and simply receive climate info, RSS information feeds, and lots more and plenty extra. In home windows Vista, there are forms of gadgetsSidebar and SideShow instruments and Microsoft MVP writer Wei-Meng Lee covers either. You’ll commence through jogging in the course of the improvement of an easy equipment, after which each one successive bankruptcy breaks down the categorical APIs which are correct to bettering a equipment for you to essentially learn the way a equipment is outfitted.
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Figure 1-5 You can configure the Sidebar with the following options: ❑ Start Sidebar when Windows starts — Auto-launches Sidebar when Windows starts. ❑ Sidebar is always on top of other windows — Sidebar will always appear on top of other windows. This option is useful if you have a large display (or have more than one display attached to your system) and can afford the additional space taken up by Sidebar. For smaller monitors, it is always better to uncheck this option. ❑ Display Sidebar on this side of the screen — Right or Left.
Indd 21 11/1/07 4:42:25 PM Part I: Sidebar Gadgets Figure 2-1 Microsoft exposes the Virtual Earth Map control so that developers can embed VE maps into their own applications. You can use it to build your own custom mapping solution using the mapping services provided by VE. The VE Map control is made up of a JavaScript page and a cascading style sheet. v=5. FamilyID=24e08cbd-8875-4368-b4fc-cbc210d4ce72). 0. Your Virtual Earth Sidebar gadget will enable you to view maps of the world and add images to them.
Simply right-click the Sidebar and select Add Gadgets. The Gadgets Gallery appears (see Figure 1-9). The Gadgets Gallery shows all the gadgets installed on the local computer (those that come with Vista as well as those you install yourself). To add a gadget to the Sidebar, double-click it. To uninstall a gadget from the local computer, right-click the gadget and select Uninstall. indd 13 11/1/07 4:24:26 PM Part I: Sidebar Gadgets Figure 1-9 Obtaining Additional Sidebar Gadgets In addition to the built-in Sidebar gadgets provided by Microsoft, you can add gadgets developed by others (in the next chapter you learn to develop gadgets yourself).