hi
Thanks for the report. Can you give us the list of gadgets which you are
seeing issues?
~Srinivas
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 2:34 PM, EnglishBuddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>
> Hi guys,
>
> Just tested our gadget with the new version of Desktop: 5.8.
>
> It seems the new desktop version has altered several features gadgets
> may have been using:
>
> 1. Setting view.height and view.width in an onsizing event handler
> now causes a fault, where it used to allow the change. This could
> cause onsizing routines that once worked to fail.
>
> 2. With desktop 5.7 it was possible to escape quotes with backslashes
> when scheduling timeouts to execute routines with arguments. For
> example:
>
> setTimeout("GadgetProtocolEvent(\"Timeout\", \"Connection\")",
> MAX_CONNECTION_TIME);
>
> This syntax works with 5.8 and 5.7:
>
> setTimeout("GadgetProtocolEvent('Timeout', 'Connection')",
> MAX_CONNECTION_TIME);
>
> 3. Using the new gddDetailsViewFlagDisableAutoClose can cause lockups
> if used with earlier Desktop versions (but not always). It would be
> nice if the release notes would mention checking the
> framework.runtime.appVersion property to determine when to use it.
>
> We are continuing to review our gadget implementation at this time,
> but it is quite clear from our testing that the change from Desktop
> 5.7 to 5.8 can potentially break existing gadgets, especially complex
> ones. Developers should read the release notes and carefully re-test
> their gadgets.
>
> http://code.google.com/apis/desktop/docs/releasenotes-v58.html
>
> Hope this helps others!
>
> -EB
>
> >
>
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