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boardermindtrick marked one of Dave Rhea's replies in Widgetbox as useful. Dave Rhea replied to the question "live.com Widgetbox support?".

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boardermindtrick asked a question in Widgetbox on April 10, 2009 18:43:

live.com Widgetbox support?

We are interested in our Widgetbox widget working within the live.com galleries. Does Widgetbox support a live.com sharing or installation mechanism and if not will this be something supported soon?

Thanks,
Bryon
Inkubook

boardermindtrick replied on April 10, 2009 18:14 to the question "Get Widget Tab not passing parameters of instance" in Widgetbox:

Great! Thanks for the help. I hope you like our widget as much as we like Widgetbox :)

Bryon

boardermindtrick asked a question in Widgetbox on April 10, 2009 13:40:

Get Widget Tab not passing parameters of instance

When someone shares their widget on facebook it shows up correctly with their particular inkubook (I love that feature!). However, when they click the "Get Widget" tab from that facebook instance it does not pass the instance's parameters in the url like it should. This leads to the users seeing a different inkubook (the default param value). How difficult would it be for widgetbox to update that "Get Widget" tab's url to include the instance's param values? That would be VERY beneficial. This is a big concern with our marketing department and with good reason.

Thank you,
Bryon Greene
inkubook

boardermindtrick replied on April 07, 2009 20:58 to the question "Does widgetbox support updating the preview image in facebook?" in Widgetbox:

It has updated to the correct image now. Now I know that Widgetbox does in fact push the thumbnail to Facebook.

Thanks for the help :)
You guys offer the best customer support I have seen in a long while. Keep up the good work!

One more question that I have not understood about your product offerings on the site. I see "blidget pro" which appears to be widgets for blogging and rss that is a monthly subscription to get more features. Is there a "widget pro" for a widget like mine or is a blidget the same thing?

boardermindtrick marked one of Dave Rhea's replies in Widgetbox as useful. Dave Rhea replied to the question "Does widgetbox support updating the preview image in facebook?".

boardermindtrick replied on April 07, 2009 19:25 to the question "Does widgetbox support updating the preview image in facebook?" in Widgetbox:

I changed it over 24 hours ago and still see the same pixelated image of a book partially opened. The image that should be showing is the book all the way opened which is the file in this link: http://img.widgetbox.com/thumbs/aa5be.... I set the thumbnail image to this. Is thumbnail image what facebook uses? Do you see a difference between the image in this link I gave you and the image in the facebook preview?

Thanks,
Bryon

boardermindtrick asked a question in Widgetbox on April 07, 2009 15:47:

Does widgetbox support updating the preview image in facebook?

I have updated my image icon for the inkubook widget a day or two ago hoping to see the change reflected in new widget instances previews shared to facebook. However, facebook is still showing the old widget preview image when I post a widget to a profile page. I have tested the same thing with clearspring and clearspring's facebook preview image works, refreshing as you would expect it to.

Does widgetbox support updating the preview image in facebook?

boardermindtrick replied on April 01, 2009 22:14 to the question "does flash wrapper mess with absolute url or flash params?" in Widgetbox:

I used the textbox method of displaying variables and figured out that the xml file is being read properly and the page urls are also being read properly. They are just not rendering for some reason. I will have to try some more try/catch statements to see what I can find.

Since I have exhausted the technical docs for flash wrapper compatibility and have not found any other "gotcha", do you know of any "gotchas" that are not in the documentation? I would even be willing to let you look at our actionscript to see what is conflicting with the wrapper. I need the wrapper to work with this control for the myspace and facebook functionality.

Thanks

A comment on the question "passing parameters from code to widgetbox widget config params" in Widgetbox:

Thank you very much. That is the answer. – boardermindtrick, on April 01, 2009 21:45

boardermindtrick marked one of Dave Rhea's replies in Widgetbox as useful. Dave Rhea replied to the question "passing parameters from code to widgetbox widget config params".

boardermindtrick replied on April 01, 2009 20:03 to the question "passing parameters from code to widgetbox widget config params" in Widgetbox:

That looks like a good solution, but when I try using http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/inkub... it does not change the parameters. The default parameter should be changed to the extmlpath querystring value. Why isn't it working? Do I have to configure my widget to enable this functionality?

boardermindtrick replied on April 01, 2009 18:19 to the question "passing parameters from code to widgetbox widget config params" in Widgetbox:

I want the widget to show up with their project visible (e.g. set the config.xml parameter for them and refresh the preview for them) to allow them to see their project. From there they can do the normal "Get Widget" widgetbox functionality. I want to avoid having to tell them "Copy this "http://....b30.xml" string and paste it into the widget parameter to see your project".

I notice that when I update the parameter's value on http://widgetbox.com/widget/inkubookbeta it automatically refreshes. Updating the value of that customizable parameter is what I want to do via code for the user.

So I'm not updating the widget on the fly, but rather the value of the configxml parameter so they don't have to. They can easily mess up copying and pasting of a long URL and it isn't a good user experience. It looks like that is what the viral installer help doc is saying it can do, but I wanted to be clear.

boardermindtrick replied on April 01, 2009 15:10 to the question "does flash wrapper mess with absolute url or flash params?" in Widgetbox:

I've tried the javascript alert, but I think that is blocked so I can't see what is wrong. Any suggestion on how to popup a message in flash so I can see the value of the suspect variables when I am testing the flash wrapper?

boardermindtrick asked a question in Widgetbox on April 01, 2009 14:59:

passing parameters from code to widgetbox widget config params

We need the inkubookbeta widget to show up on our site and have our code pass the config.xml param to the flash object in order for the user to see their own inkubook in the widget. Is this doable with javascript? Is the following document the only method of doing so? http://docs.widgetbox.com/developers/...

boardermindtrick replied on April 01, 2009 13:51 to the question "does flash wrapper mess with absolute url or flash params?" in Widgetbox:

Thanks for the reply. I have thoroughly gone through the documentation and found one thing I missed. That is adding the wbx_softkey parameter.
However, that did not fix my issue.

Also thank you for mentioning the stage problem. I did not see that mentioned in the documentation, however, I am not calling stage anywhere so that did not resolve my issue either.

I am really running out of ideas but need the flash wrapper to work for me to use widgetbox. If I am getting a runtime error somewhere, is there a simple way to trap any runtime error from anywhere in the app so I can pop up a javascript alert to see what error it is?

boardermindtrick replied on March 31, 2009 19:39 to the question "does flash wrapper mess with absolute url or flash params?" in Widgetbox:

I have added the crossdomain.xml with permissions already. I had to do that to get it to work on myspace http://www.myspace.com/boardermindtrick as a flash object without any widget service. So I have eliminated that as the issue. The code is in CS3, is that an issue?

boardermindtrick asked a question in Widgetbox on March 31, 2009 16:50:

does flash wrapper mess with absolute url or flash params?

does flash wrapper mess with absolute url or flash params? My application reads an xml file which it gets from an absolute url string passed in as a flash parameter. It works without the widgetbox flash wrapper, but with the flash wrapper it acts like it cannot find the config file. Is there a problem with absolute urls, flash parameters, or flash xml when adding a flash wrapper? it works without the flash wrapper.