Windows 7 gadget not loading

Question

I'm developing a simple gadget for Windows 7 as a learning exercise. I read in this article (under the subtopic Gadgets and Script ) that to initialize the gadget, you should use document.onreadystatechange instead of events such as onLOad . I've seen it in the example project code I've looked through as well. This is what I came up with for my project.

document.onreadystatechange = function()
{
    if(document.readyState == "complete")
    {
        System.Gadget.settingsUI = "settings.html";  //this line enables the settings UI
        System.Gadget.onSettingsClosed = settingsClosed;
    }
}

However when I use this snippet in my work, it doesn't work. The Options button in the gadget doesn't show up. If I use onLoad , it works. I have installed 2 gadgets. Each of them use these 2 methods. One use onLoad and the other use document.onreadystatechange . And both of them works!

Now I'm confused why it doesn't work with my gadget. Is there any important part I'm overlooking?

Answer 1

try something along these lines, move your onsettingsclosed to a different event and call the function with it

document.onreadystatechange = function()
{    
    if(document.readyState=="complete")
    {
        var searchTags = System.Gadget.Settings.read("searchTags");
        if(searchTags != "")
        {
            searchBox.value = searchTags;
        }       
    }        
}

System.Gadget.onSettingsClosing = function(event)
{
    if (event.closeAction == event.Action.commit) 
    {
        var searchTags = searchBox.value;
        if(searchTags != "")
        {
            System.Gadget.Settings.write("searchTags", searchTags);
        }
        event.cancel = false;
    }
}