resolvedI am using TopProcess gadget and I really loving it, it's great :)
But one thing is pretty annoying, I am using 2 instances of topProcess, one for memory and other for CPU usage. Problem is that when windows are restarted only one TopProcess instance is started.
Is there something that I can do ? Maybe something to debug this problem, Windows version is Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit, build 7600 with latest updates.
I've noticed that in Windows 7 too. My guess is that the Sidebar functionality just has a bug - this wouldn't be the first one I've found.
OK, solved this by hacking in TopProces.js and merging CPU and memory tables in one. Unfortunatly don't have time to make this right so other people can benefit, in this quick and dirty version when I select CPU in settings both CPU and Memory are shown
btw. I don't know about gadget programing but this don seem right
result += '<tr><td class="processName">' + process.name + '</td><td class="percentage">' + percentUsage.toFixed(2) + "%<td>";
last td tag is not closed, and there is no closing tr tag, so I changed to this
result += '<tr><td class="processName">' + process.name + '</td><td class="percentage">' + percentUsage.toFixed(2) + "%</td></tr>";
but then doesn't look ok, so I quickly change it back to bad markup ;)
So just in case that someone need this also I will put link to it here
jbohmtiny
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I have the same problem but I use 3 instances to show all 3 categories. Each time I reboot Vista (build 6002), one instance becomes a blank space in the sidebar (gadgets below don't flow up to fill the gap, and the instance is still listed in the remove gadget dialog). If I reboot again without fixing the problem another instance becomes blank too (2 blank gadgets, one survivor).
Right clicking in the blank space where the gadget should be brings me the right click menu for the sidebar itself, not the Top Processes right click menu, and moving the pointer to the edge where the options button should appear doesn't either, so there is no obvious way to reconfigure the half-dead gadget instance.
Since this happens in both Vista and Windows 7 (according to Antonio and Raul), I suspect it may be something related to how this gadget does the "multiple instances" chores in its code. I have not read the gadget authoring documentation from MS, so I cannot check the code myself, sorry.
Yep, I'm completely aware of it - the gadget is pretty broken. It's some bug in Sidebar though that I'm hitting - I don't think I'm doing anything weird.
I forgot to update this thread, but I've released a version of TopProcess that fixes this issue.
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