The page leaves this up to the user by design. The best gadgets live gracefully with the user's desired layout. Some gadgets are much more useful in canvas view but still present a summary of information in the home view.
hth, Rob Russell Google Developer Relations On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa < [email protected]> wrote: > Thank you very much for the reply, Rob. > > > The width of the columns in the home view is set by the iGoogle visitor. >> They can choose to have one, two or three columns at >> http://www.google.com/ig/settings . See >> http://code.google.com/apis/gadgets/docs/publish.html#Testing_Size for a >> little more detail. >> > > Cool! At least now I know that the users have this power. We could put this > information on our gadget guide. > > I do have a last question, though -- Is there a way to force/override the > width / use of a column layout for a specific gadget? > > Thanks, > > Marcelo. > > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Rob Russell <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi Marco, >> The width of the columns in the home view is set by the iGoogle visitor. >> They can choose to have one, two or three columns at >> http://www.google.com/ig/settings . See >> http://code.google.com/apis/gadgets/docs/publish.html#Testing_Size for a >> little more detail. >> >> Rob Russell >> Google Developer Relations >> >> >> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I really need some help here. Our gadget can't really be useful if we >>> don't make it larget on its width. What should I do? Maybe use the canvas >>> view is the only way? >>> >>> Marcelo. >>> >>> >>> On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hello list, >>>> >>>> No matter what number I put on the Modulepref's tag width attribute, my >>>> gadget just don't adjust to that, it keeps ~360px width. >>>> >>>> Here's the code: >>>> >>>> <ModulePrefs title="OneLogin" height="320" width="1024" >>>> scrolling="true"> >>>> >>>> What am I doing wrong? >>>> >>>> Thanks in advance, >>>> >>>> Marcelo. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> -- >>> 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]<google-gadgets-api%[email protected]> >>> . >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Gadgets-API?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> 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]<google-gadgets-api%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Gadgets-API?hl=en. >> > > -- > 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]<google-gadgets-api%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Gadgets-API?hl=en. > -- 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.
