[Release] Dashboard Mail

[Ghostwalker]

resizable is a tough one because of the size changes it makes now. I will see what I can do almost got spawning working but still buggy.Added new mail bezels,fetchAsync so it no longer freezes when it is fetching the mail, Hotkey support included.

[cytomorrow]

I have a problem. The widget is always checking mail when I start the computer, Could I avoid it?

[Ali C.]

^Only by shutting off the widgets from loading at startup. Then you can just click the Yahoo widgets icon to laod them and the mail widget.

Hope there was some help in that.

And Ghosty, some really awful random problem's suddenly started and I haven't changed ANYTHING on my comp.

Instead of loading, now Dashboard Mail just kindly informs me 'it was unable to load itself sucessfully'. It's been doing that off an on the past couple of days but now it's doing it nonstop and I can't get it to open.

Has there been some kind of server change so I need to reset this widget?

[Ghostwalker]

I dont think so but Im not sure this morning I had it tell me there was no mail when I know there is so I will get back with you for now you can delete the registry entry and try restarting the widget. You will have to put your information back in the widget.

update: just took a look at the atom feed nothing has changed.

[crystalmeth]

i am also having that same problem of having the widget engine close the widget saying it was unable to load properly.

I am running widget engine 3.0.2... i wonder if that is the problem??

[Ghostwalker]

well as of right now all the gmail widgets at the Yahoo Gallery are not working so that is my problem and probably yours. Hopefully they are not fropping thier feed. Will keep you updated as to what I find out.

[Ali C.]

K, thanks.

After an hour of messing with it when I posted that, I concluded it's something to do with GMail. Because I tried reloading the widget, tried using it in another account, tried deleting traces of it from my registry and from the directory where it unzips the widget, and still no dice.

Google needs to leave their @#$% alone, because now I have this empty space that stamp once sat nicely in, and it's driving me off a wall. (lol)

[Ghostwalker]

message has been sent to Google awaiting a reply.

[Ghostwalker]

ok seems Google has thier feed working again, I used this time to make a better way of notifing you about the feed being down. Still working on an update to this widget with enhancements.

[iChuck]

Shady contact me on msn and we will see what we can do.Anyone else having this problem.

I have that same error message, the widget looks so awesome, but I can't load it.

[Ghostwalker]

well seems google is still having problems so until they fix thiers I wont know if your having a problem with the widget or not.

[Ali C.]

Yeah, I was about to say to your last message that it still won't load.

I sure hope Google gets this fixed. I love this widget too much to be screwed out of it now.

[Ghostwalker]

Seems to be working now I will try to roll out a new version this weekend so that when the servers are down the widget will still load but show an alert that the servers are down. With the version you have if it does not retrieve the info from the server it will not load. That is why you are all having this problem with the widget not loading.

[Ali C.]

^I figured it was something like that.

YAY it works again!

Thanks for checking it out and I'll be ready for that new version to hit.

[asstastic]

After I upgraded to version 3.1 of the Windows Widget Engine, Dashboard Mail stopped loading with the following message:

Unable to load 'Dashboard mail'. It's main XML file was either not found or not readable.

[Ghostwalker]

Sorry guys Ive been offline and will be for awhile when I get back I will install the new version and see whats up.