DesktopX widgets gone AWOL or won't load

Monday, February 13, 2006 by vikram sheorey | Discussion: DesktopX

Hi, I have mistakenly deleted the Silica Translator widget and cannot seem to find it anywhere even if I go to the recycle bin or try and find it using the search function.

I'm also having problems loading up individual widgets. Downloading is not a problem but when I try and load them I am getting a message saying that this is not a valid DesktopX widget which seems a bit odd since it was in the DesktopX widget section that I have found them.

Any help out there please?
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rabidrobot
Reply #1 Monday, February 13, 2006 9:43 PM
Some of the "widgets" in the widget gallery are actually "Gadgets". Gadgets won't import into the DX Builder, which it sounds like you are doing--they must be run from the exe. Also, many widgets are configured to be run from the exe, and should only be imported into the builder for examination / editing.

A reinstall of DX might get back the translator widget.

vikram sheorey
Reply #2 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 11:37 AM
Reinstall worked great, thanks.

Regarding running gadgets, when downloading I just run it do I? How does the gadget then get saved?

rabidrobot
Reply #3 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 1:18 PM
Oh, I'm sorry, I don't use Interent Explorer, and often forget it has that step. What I meant was, go ahead and save the file you download to your hard drive. It is probably a zip file, so you need to extract the archive, usuallly by double clicking then selecting a place to save the contents.

Then, once you have the extracted files, there should be an *.exe and maybe a readme. That exe file is either a gadget or a widget. Both gadgets and widgets can be run by simply double-clicking the exe. Widgets can also be "imported" into the DesktopX Builder for editing--gadgets are "as-is" only.

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