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Online pheasant_plucker wrote Get Your Vista / Windows 7 Side bar gadget for RCMF Here! on March 05, 2009, 17:47:48 PM
Last Edit: November 13, 2010, 09:45:52 AM by pheasant_plucker
I have been testing this for nearly a Year now so I thought this would be a good time to release it  :'' Simply double click to install to Your Windows Vista Sidebar (32bit or 64bit)
right click on it to set the options, enter your user name and password, click OK and wait for a few seconds while it initialises a connection.
Simply right click on the picture below and select "Save Target as" or "Save link as"  to download.

RCMF Sidebar Gadget


A slight issue of not recognising some User names with Upper case letters in them has now been fixed! This is fully functional again.



Gerry

« Last Edit: November 13, 2010, 09:45:52 AM by pheasant_plucker »
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Offline NoNuFink wrote Re: Get Your Vista / Windows 7 Side bar gadget for RCMF Here! on March 05, 2009, 19:12:21 PM
 :'( :'( :'(  I didn't work  :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(

Installed OK but after inserting username and password (correctly - tried 3 times) it comes back with:-
"Error, Your Username and/or Password were incorrect, check and try again"

 :'( :'( :'(

NNF

(Vista Home Basic)

One in four people in this country is mentally unbalanced.
Think of your 3 closest friends... Are you the one?

Reply #2
Online pheasant_plucker wrote Re: Get Your Vista / Windows 7 Side bar gadget for RCMF Here! on March 05, 2009, 19:18:54 PM
In that case, You entered the wrong details  :co
either that or I forgot to alter something  :'' I'll have a look.

Gerry

Senior Administrator

The man serving me in the canteen said "Look, You can see the face of Jesus in the Margarine" The Asian guy next to me replied "I can't believe it's not Budda"

Reply #3
Online pheasant_plucker wrote Re: Get Your Vista / Windows 7 Side bar gadget for RCMF Here! on March 05, 2009, 19:23:51 PM
yes, my mistake  ::)
I'll sort it later on.

Senior Administrator

The man serving me in the canteen said "Look, You can see the face of Jesus in the Margarine" The Asian guy next to me replied "I can't believe it's not Budda"

Reply #4
Offline selleri wrote Re: Get Your Vista / Windows 7 Side bar gadget for RCMF Here! on March 06, 2009, 02:49:30 AM
You big teaser you  :nananana:

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Reply #5
Offline miniflight wrote Re: Get Your Vista / Windows 7 Side bar gadget for RCMF Here! on March 08, 2009, 21:41:27 PM
There's only room to enter my username on the flyout not my password as well what am I doing wrong?
                           MF


Reply #6
Offline fly-navy wrote Re: Get Your Vista / Windows 7 Side bar gadget for RCMF Here! on March 09, 2009, 16:58:29 PM
Got the side bar up Gerry,logged in and came up with user name,no pms and 3 users in chat,after a couple of min error on user name or password comes up???

John

Now that I am older I thought it was nice I seemed to have more patience,turns out  I don't give  a sh*t

Reply #7
Offline craiglines1970 wrote Re: Get Your Vista / Windows 7 Side bar gadget for RCMF Here! on March 10, 2009, 00:48:43 AM
Is this available for XP users :xx :xx


Reply #8
Online pheasant_plucker wrote Re: Get Your Vista / Windows 7 Side bar gadget for RCMF Here! on March 10, 2009, 06:55:29 AM
Only if you have a Vista Side bar port!

Senior Administrator

The man serving me in the canteen said "Look, You can see the face of Jesus in the Margarine" The Asian guy next to me replied "I can't believe it's not Budda"

Reply #9
Online pheasant_plucker wrote Re: Get Your Vista / Windows 7 Side bar gadget for RCMF Here! on March 10, 2009, 07:12:36 AM
Got the side bar up Gerry,logged in and came up with user name,no pms and 3 users in chat,after a couple of min error on user name or password comes up???

John


Strange one that John, I can't say really unless it's a connection issue!

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There's only room to enter my username on the flyout not my password as well what am I doing wrong?

Don't know!

Gerry

Senior Administrator

The man serving me in the canteen said "Look, You can see the face of Jesus in the Margarine" The Asian guy next to me replied "I can't believe it's not Budda"

Reply #10
Online tomkfly wrote Re: Get Your Vista / Windows 7 Side bar gadget for RCMF Here! on March 10, 2009, 08:18:23 AM
Doesn't recognise my details.


   Tom

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Reply #11
Offline Wiz wrote Re: Get Your Vista / Windows 7 Side bar gadget for RCMF Here! on March 10, 2009, 08:35:02 AM
Failed for me first time on credentials but worked fine second time :)  Nice work Gerry!

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Reply #12
Online tomkfly wrote Re: Get Your Vista / Windows 7 Side bar gadget for RCMF Here! on March 10, 2009, 08:50:41 AM
I tried 6 times and just tried again. It still says "Error, Your Username and/or Pasword were incorect, check and try again"



   Tom

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Reply #13
Offline NoNuFink wrote Re: Get Your Vista / Windows 7 Side bar gadget for RCMF Here! on March 10, 2009, 11:28:04 AM
There's only room to enter my username on the flyout not my password as well what am I doing wrong?
                           MF

I think I can answer that one. (Been there, done that :co) At a guess you've got a big screen with a high resolution and at some time you've increased the windows font size to make it readable.
Try - Right Click on blank bit of desktop.  Select Personalize on the menu that comes up.  In the window that comes up under 'Tasks' (top left) select 'Adjust font size' - Select the default.  Reboot and try again.

HTH

NNF

One in four people in this country is mentally unbalanced.
Think of your 3 closest friends... Are you the one?

Reply #14
Offline fly-navy wrote Re: Get Your Vista / Windows 7 Side bar gadget for RCMF Here! on March 10, 2009, 12:49:48 PM
Mines ok now,just tried different permutations and after using upper case letters at start of each word in user name became all hunky dory!!
Er what do I use it for now  :ev :ev
John

Now that I am older I thought it was nice I seemed to have more patience,turns out  I don't give  a sh*t

Reply #15
Offline fly-navy wrote Re: Get Your Vista / Windows 7 Side bar gadget for RCMF Here! on March 16, 2009, 10:08:40 AM
Gerry lost the RCMF logo off the side bar,got the weather for my location and the clock still,entered gadgets and clicked on RCMF info and naff all,any ideas???

Cheers
John

Now that I am older I thought it was nice I seemed to have more patience,turns out  I don't give  a sh*t

Reply #16
Online pheasant_plucker wrote Re: Get Your Vista / Windows 7 Side bar gadget for RCMF Here! on March 16, 2009, 11:04:05 AM
No idea  $%&

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The man serving me in the canteen said "Look, You can see the face of Jesus in the Margarine" The Asian guy next to me replied "I can't believe it's not Budda"

Reply #17
Offline Iansane wrote Re: Get Your Vista / Windows 7 Side bar gadget for RCMF Here! on March 16, 2009, 11:22:43 AM
Straight in, well done Gerry ::cc ::cc


Reply #18
Online tomkfly wrote Re: Get Your Vista / Windows 7 Side bar gadget for RCMF Here! on March 16, 2009, 12:33:16 PM
Still wont accept my username and password.



   Tom

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at often change.        www.deesidemac.co.uk

Reply #19
Offline bill_in_germany wrote Re: Get Your Vista / Windows 7 Side bar gadget for RCMF Here! on April 06, 2009, 22:43:33 PM
I got the zip file and unzipped it, but can't do anything with it. If I double click on the gadget.xml file it simply lists the file in my IE8 window.
What am I missing? or what should I be doing?

Thanks for any advice

Bill


Reply #20
Offline Winchweight wrote Re: Get Your Vista / Windows 7 Side bar gadget for RCMF Here! on April 06, 2009, 23:05:24 PM
Same here.

A400M - Grizzly!

Reply #21
Offline bill_in_germany wrote Re: Get Your Vista / Windows 7 Side bar gadget for RCMF Here! on April 06, 2009, 23:20:48 PM
OK Winchweight- sussed it

Take the rcmf.zip file and unzip it to c:/users/<user name>/ App Data/Microsoft/windows sidebar/rcmf 
Rename rcmf to rcmf.gadget
then go to the sidebar, click to add gadgets and rcmf should appear in your list of gadgets
Ddouble click on the rcmf gadget and it will install to your sidebar
Right click on the sidebar rcmf gadget and select options to enter your rcmf details

Off you go (on the next Vista startup)

Hope this helps
Happy landings

Bill
 


Reply #22
Online pheasant_plucker wrote Re: Get Your Vista / Windows 7 Side bar gadget for RCMF Here! on April 07, 2009, 05:59:06 AM
It's not a zip file! You simply double click the gadget to install it. If it's opening with winzip there is an error in Your default program setting for opening this type of file and it needs resetting to open with Windows sidebar  :co

Gerry

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The man serving me in the canteen said "Look, You can see the face of Jesus in the Margarine" The Asian guy next to me replied "I can't believe it's not Budda"

Reply #23
Offline Russell wrote Re: Get Your Vista / Windows 7 Side bar gadget for RCMF Here! on April 07, 2009, 12:28:46 PM
I may have to install Vista just to use your sidebar!

There's a smell in here that will outlast religion.

Reply #24
Online half throttle wrote Re: Get Your Vista / Windows 7 Side bar gadget for RCMF Here! on April 07, 2009, 12:32:52 PM
It doesn't work on my Vic 20  >:(

Beer is the mind-killer

Reply #25
Online pheasant_plucker wrote Re: Get Your Vista / Windows 7 Side bar gadget for RCMF Here! on April 07, 2009, 12:42:16 PM
Your supposed to rub it on your chest at your age paul (Vic)  :co
There are ports of the sidebar available for XP, I'll see if I can locate a good one and put a link up to it.

Gerry

Senior Administrator

The man serving me in the canteen said "Look, You can see the face of Jesus in the Margarine" The Asian guy next to me replied "I can't believe it's not Budda"

Reply #26
Offline bill_in_germany wrote Re: Get Your Vista / Windows 7 Side bar gadget for RCMF Here! on April 07, 2009, 21:15:11 PM
It's not a zip file! You simply double click the gadget to install it. If it's opening with winzip there is an error in Your default program setting for opening this type of file and it needs resetting to open with Windows sidebar  :co

Gerry

Hi Gerry
I've checked, double checked and checked again, my default association for .gadget files is Windows Sidebar, but when I double click on the gadget above, a second browser opens and Vista asks me whether to open, save or close rcmf.zip.
Tried it several times - always the same.
Using the method I gave above - the gadget loaded in to the sidebar but continues to display Connecting to server.
I guess I'll keep trying different things to see if I can make it work
BTW I'm on Vista Ultimate with full security selected


Happy Landings
Bill


Reply #27
Offline Winchweight wrote Re: Get Your Vista / Windows 7 Side bar gadget for RCMF Here! on April 07, 2009, 23:24:51 PM
Nothing... nada.... zip..... bupkiss....

Vista X64.

A400M - Grizzly!

Reply #28
Online pheasant_plucker wrote Re: Get Your Vista / Windows 7 Side bar gadget for RCMF Here! on April 08, 2009, 06:32:38 AM
Nothing... nada.... zip..... bupkiss....

Vista X64.

I use Vista64 and it works fine! What is the problem?

Gerry

Senior Administrator

The man serving me in the canteen said "Look, You can see the face of Jesus in the Margarine" The Asian guy next to me replied "I can't believe it's not Budda"

Reply #29
Offline Winchweight wrote Re: Get Your Vista / Windows 7 Side bar gadget for RCMF Here! on April 08, 2009, 07:38:15 AM
Whenever I open it, it just treats it as a zip file and unzips it to m downloads folder. I tried dragging the unzipped files to the Gadgets folder, but it doesn't show up.

A400M - Grizzly!

Reply #30
Offline NSS wrote Re: Get Your Vista / Windows 7 Side bar gadget for RCMF Here! on January 08, 2010, 17:24:01 PM
Apologies for dragging this one up from the past.

Has anyone got this working in Windows 7 Ultra?

If u have could you pass on to me how you did it. Many thanks..


Reply #31
Online pheasant_plucker wrote Re: Get Your Vista / Windows 7 Side bar gadget for RCMF Here! on January 08, 2010, 17:27:35 PM
Works fine for me, just the same as Vista.

Gerry

Senior Administrator

The man serving me in the canteen said "Look, You can see the face of Jesus in the Margarine" The Asian guy next to me replied "I can't believe it's not Budda"

Reply #32
Offline NSS wrote Re: Get Your Vista / Windows 7 Side bar gadget for RCMF Here! on January 08, 2010, 17:45:11 PM
Double clicked to install.

Nothing shows up.

Will keep trying.


Reply #33
Offline Winchweight wrote Re: Get Your Vista / Windows 7 Side bar gadget for RCMF Here! on January 08, 2010, 21:36:32 PM
Never managed it  :'(

A400M - Grizzly!

Reply #34
Offline NSS wrote Re: Get Your Vista / Windows 7 Side bar gadget for RCMF Here! on January 08, 2010, 21:37:57 PM
Still a no go for me aswell. $%&


Reply #35
Online pheasant_plucker wrote Re: Get Your Vista / Windows 7 Side bar gadget for RCMF Here! on January 09, 2010, 10:05:21 AM
This post from bill explains a manual install Get Your Vista Side bar gadget for RCMF Here!
Or You could try right clicking on the file and selecting "properties" then try running in compatibility mode for vista.

Gerry

Senior Administrator

The man serving me in the canteen said "Look, You can see the face of Jesus in the Margarine" The Asian guy next to me replied "I can't believe it's not Budda"

Reply #36
Offline NSS wrote Re: Get Your Vista / Windows 7 Side bar gadget for RCMF Here! on January 09, 2010, 16:46:08 PM
Sorted.

Changed it so that it would open with WinZip. Extracted it to a temporary location.

Renamed it to rcmf.Gadgets. Copied to the Gadgets folder.

Have it on my desktop, just waiting to see if it works....

 :af


Reply #37
Offline Full-Throttle-Lee wrote Re: Get Your Vista / Windows 7 Side bar gadget for RCMF Here! on January 10, 2010, 02:14:02 AM
Does this work in Windows 7?


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Reply #38
Offline craiglines1970 wrote Re: Get Your Vista / Windows 7 Side bar gadget for RCMF Here! on January 10, 2010, 02:18:20 AM
Last Edit: January 10, 2010, 07:33:46 AM by pheasant_plucker
Got mine working on Win7 using NSS's suggestion above. :af :af

Craig

« Last Edit: January 10, 2010, 07:33:46 AM by pheasant_plucker »

Reply #39
Offline NSS wrote Re: Get Your Vista / Windows 7 Side bar gadget for RCMF Here! on January 10, 2010, 09:28:59 AM
Well it is sitting on my desktop waiting to connect to the server which may take 30seconds!!!

Been waiting a good few hours now, and nothing. :'(

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