Gadget install problem

[bnwrx]

Trying to install the "Gadget". followed instructions to download, then renamed to .gadget. But when I double click the file,it simply opens a folder as below. Nothing installs. Any ideas what I should do?

[gemini06720]

Bob, remove the '.zip' extension - Windows 7 (or Vista) will not recognize the gadget if the extension is anything other than '.gadget' - so your file should be named 'cumulisih.gadget' - without the quotes, obviously...

[Synewave]

I think the screen capture is showing the contents of the zip file before extracting. I think you'll have to extract the files first.

[bnwrx]

Thank you! After investigating my Win 7 system, it was not showing the file extensions, therefore when I was renaming the file I was getting '.zip.gadget', not '.gadget'. I think it is working fine now.
Sorry for my blunder....

[gemini06720]

Paul, one does not extract a gadget file - that is a file with the extension 'gadget' (such as cumulus.gadget) - Windows 7 (and Vista) will automatically recognize the 'gadget' extension and properly extract and install the file in the directory where Windows looks for the gadget files (ie: C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar\Gadgets).

[bnwrx]

How do I edit the settings.ini file for US date? Confused as to what in the script I am editing? Am I editing the bottom line as shown here:

[Synewave]

Ray, one does not have Windows 7 so apologies.

[steve]

How do I edit the settings.ini file for US date? Confused as to what in the script I am editing? Am I editing the bottom line as shown here:

Yes - remove the '//' comment symbol from the beginning of the line.

[gemini06720]

Ray, one does not have Windows 7 so apologies.

Paul, please, please, do not apologise for something you did not know...

If we were to apologise for all/every things we do not know, we would have no time to learn anything as we would be apologising constantly/continuously...

[Synewave]

Sorry

[bnwrx]

How do I edit the settings.ini file for US date? Confused as to what in the script I am editing? Am I editing the bottom line as shown here:

Yes - remove the '//' comment symbol from the beginning of the line.

After removing the // , I now have this:
The date is correct but it is followed by mm/dd/yy......
Am I not editing correctly.
The last line now reads:// 5th parameter: if specified: use US-date format in output: mm/dd/yy
usdate = "mm/dd/yy"; // separation char. default: not US-format
/*------------------------------------ end of settings.ini --------------------------------------------------------*/

[steve]

Sorry, I don't actually know anything about the gadget, I was just telling you how to un-comment the line. Having looked at the original file, I see that you have edited that line, which I hadn't realised. It actually looks like this:

// 5th parameter: if specified: use US-date format in output: mm/dd/yy
// usdate = "-"; // separation char. default: not US-format

The value supplied in the usdate parameter is actually supposed to be just the separator, not "mm/dd/yy". So if you want to use a slash, you need:

// 5th parameter: if specified: use US-date format in output: mm/dd/yy
usdate = "/"; // separation char. default: not US-format

[gemini06720]

Sorry

Ah! Come on Paul, you do not have to be sorry for apologising for not knowing something...

[gemini06720]

Paul, as Steve indicated, using 'usdate = "/";' (without the outside single quotes) will give you the date in the 'mm/dd/yy' format (ie: for Tuesday, November 23 = 11/23/10) - the 'usdate =' expect a single separation character.

[Synewave]

Paul, as Steve indicated, ...

I think one means Bob, not Paul