Questions tagged [google-gadget]

Google Gadgets are simple HTML and JavaScript applications that can be embedded in webpages and other apps. Built-in JavaScript libraries make it easy to create gadgets that include tabs, persistent storage, dynamic resizing, and more.

Google Gadgets are simple HTML and JavaScript applications that can be embedded in webpages and other apps. Built-in JavaScript libraries make it easy to create gadgets that include tabs, persistent storage, dynamic resizing, and more.

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Introduction to Testing Google Gadgets

I'm trying to create a simple google gadget and am encountering trouble right out the door. I've read the getting started guide top to bottom and feel like i'm still missing something. Starting with the Hello World gadget they have provided, how do…
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How can Google Hangout App show user a form

We've got our Google Hangout app so that it can display a little message at the end of a broadcast. We'd like to pop up a form for a user to fill in information about their experience, but we don't want to dominate the entire screen until the end…
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Google gadget Unique ID

How to get unique Google Gadget ID from a gadget added to a iGoogle website, with Javascript?
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How do you test a Gmail Contextual Gadget?

In their docs the links all seem to resolve to https://developers.google.com/apps-marketplace/ - where there doesn't seem to be any call to action. How does one test a Gmail Contextual Gadget? Where does one upload the manifest and gadget spec?
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Google Gadgets and external scripts

I'm trying to create my first custom Google Gadget to be used privately in my company's Google Sites intranet. Ideally I'd like to just show a thumbnail that the user can click that will open a modal window with the full video. This requires my…
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Gadget OAuth2 Authorization

I am developing a gadget (html, JS) to run inside (Google Calendar page). I need to show user's tasks there so I need a connection to Google Task Api. I need to use OAuth2 authorization and such requests as: GET…
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Cannot Deploy Gadget-Application for Development and Testing

I want to start developing a contextual gadget for GMail apps and have been following the guide. In the part about Installing and Testing the Gadget, it tells me to go https://code.google.com/googleapps/console/a/{Domainname} and upload the…
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Google gadget/spreadsheet: Grab spreadsheet key for gadget

So I'm working on a google gadget(really only gadgetizing so I can get a datastore for this) that I want to be embeddable in a google spreadsheet (after this point, I'm going to skip the word google - you can just imagine it's there). I want to use…
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how embed flash video in google desktop gadget?

I have a requirement where I need to create a Google desktop gadget which can play flash videos from a given video URL. For example, if I give "http://www.example.com/xyz.flv" then the gadget should play that video. Please provide some sample code…
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Where to submit Google Gadgets for Blogger?

I am a blogger user and I have seen a lot of useful gadgets in the Blogger gadget directory to integrate with my blog. Not too long ago I decided to write my own gadgets to integrate them with my blog. Throughout the Google Gadgets API docs I find…
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Google Calendar API - how to add a calendar gadget along with event?

I'm trying to add a google calendar gadget along with an event. However, whenever I try and add a gadget along with an event, the google calendar API gives me an 'invalid value' error. I'm using the event.insert protocol. If I send the request in…
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Ajax call not working in Google gadget

I have a conversion rate script which i know works perfectly outside of a Google gadget however i cannot figure out why it doesn't work inside of a gadget. Here is my XML:
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gadgets.io.makeRequest returns empty html document on specific site

I am trying to use gadgets.io.makeRequest to retrieve the site http://www.novasoftware.se/webviewer/(S(r2vc0j45wbu53x55slbdce55))/MZDesign1.aspx?schoolid=27500&code=82820 It worked before, but now it returns empty html:
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Is there a working Jira Gadget source code example?

I would like to create a JIRA gadget for a dashboard which displays a graph not currently available. I have looked through thousands of out of date pages from Atlassian. I have downloaded their examples and tried to run them. The most recent example…
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Gmail Contextual Gadgets Slow Requests Between 13:30 - 17:30 UTC

We've been getting reports of poor performance for our Gmail contextual gadget from our users between approximately 13:30 and 17:30 UTC every weekday. This has been occurring since late November. We've been able to observe the issue ourselves and…
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