We're aware of the issue going on with the user prefs and the url gadgets; however, we're experiencing an issue with an html gadget so decided to create a separate post.
As of this morning (or yesterday), one of our popular gadgets located at http://www.turkishmedia.com/gadget/piyasa.xml lost all of its default user prefs that are datatype="bool". Some of the user pref options were "pre-selected" for the users as set by default_value="true"; however when we now look at the gadget's settings (through edit settings), all check boxes appear blank (false) as if default_value="true" has no affect. The strange thing is that if one goes to "edit settings" screen and make edits to user preferences after the gadget is installed, then those settings hold true OK. However, the "default" settings are being ignored Sample user pref code is as follows: <UserPref name="code" display_name="Name" datatype="bool" default_value="true" /> ... where default_value is being completely ignored. More importantly, this problem is showing itself on any gadget that has a userpref with a required="true" datatype Take <UserPref name="horoscope" display_name="Horoscope:" datatype="enum" required="true"> for instance. When no "EnumValue" had default_value="true", the user was being prompted to make a selection among the available setting options when the gadget is first installed. The gadget was stating that a setting value was required and providing the user with a drop-down select box to make a selection. Now, this behavior seems to be completely changed.. the user is no longer being prompted to make a selection when userpref is required and such gadgets appear broken when there no value is being passed for a required parameter. Again, this is true for any gadget, not just type=url gadgets Another good example is Google's own featured "Horoscope" gadget with 1+ million users (http://www.google.com/ig/modules/horoscope.xml). This gadget is broken right now and users seem to be complaining: http://www.google.com/ig/directory?hl=en&url=www.google.com/ig/modules/horoscope.xml -- 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.
