I've been looking into the Pub/Sub idea that was mentioned in the last posting of this and it looks promising (http://code.google.com/apis/ gadgets/docs/pubsub.html). You might want to check that out... it doesn't work when previewing the gadget in the editor, but it might work in practice (I have yet to get it to work on iGoogle, but that is more my fault than Googles so far).
On Jun 15, 7:55 pm, rgibson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi... I'm new to gadget programming and have a question about how best > to design something. > > I'm trying to do something conceptually simple. > 1) Show a google map in one gadget (Gadget 1). > 2) From another gadget, send a message with lattitude, longitude > coordinates to Gadget 1 and have it update the location shown in the > map. > > In practice, this is difficult. > > I'm new to gadgets, and I've searched the tutorials. From what I've > seen: > 1) this can be done if you're running in a chat session (Google Talk, > etc.) > 2) using OpenSocial, but I can only update Gadget 1's stored data, and > someone has to hit "refresh" from the keyboard to tell Gadget 1 to re- > examine its data and re-draw the map. > > Is there another way to do this in a more collaborative way? Maybe > everyone is waiting for Google Wave to do this? > > Thanks! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iGoogle Developer Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Gadgets-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
