Re: How to create Gmail contextual gadget using GWT?

I've been having the same issue and I haven't got much further with
it.

What is the structure of your inject.xml file? I had a lot of problems
trying that approach and only was able to get one required tag in
there otherwise I got compile issues for malformed xml

On Dec 2, 2:12 am, Alexander <akolc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You can create usual gadget using thishttp://code.google.com/p/gwt-google-apis/wiki/GadgetsGettingStarted
>
> But the Gmail contextual gadgets has several differences from usual
> gadgets.
>
> The main is spec XML file. It should begin like this:
> <Module>
>         <ModulePrefs title="Hello World">
>                 <Require feature="google.contentmatch">
>                         <Param name="extractors">
>                                 google.com:MessageIDExtractor
>                 </Param>
>                 </Require>
>
>         </ModulePrefs>
>
>         <!-- Define the content type and display location. The settings
> "html" and
>                 "card" are required for all Gmail contextual gadgets. -->
>         <Content type="html" view="card">
> ...
>
> The usual gadget can start like this:
> <Module>
>         <ModulePrefs title="Hello World" />
>         <Content type="html">
>
> In order to get desired context gadget specification I added some code
> to usual gadget class:
>
> ...
> @ModulePrefs(title = "GmCGadget", author = "akolchin", author_email =
> "akolc...@gmail.com")
> @InjectModulePrefs (files = "inject.xml")
> @ContentType(views = "card")
> @UseLongManifestName(false)
> @AllowHtmlQuirksMode(false)
> public class GmCGadget extends Gadget<GmCGadget.Preferences> {
>
> The line @InjectModulePrefs (files = "inject.xml") works fine and adds
> desired elements to ModulePrefs node from inject.xml file.
>
> But the @ContentType(views = "card") didn't' produce any effect. (I
> wished to add 'view="card"' in the <Conten>)
>
> Could anybody help me? Maybe I have to add some other declarations to
> get desired effect?

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