Hi again. The reason I thought you were confused is because you pointed me to the Blogger Help Forum for "Something is Broken". Clearly my question wasn't about something being broken and couldn't imagine that an official Google "developer advocate" would intentionally send a developer off to a forum designed for reporting missing images and service outages. So I figured you were just confused. I guess I was wrong.
You are right about the group email address being confusing. You'll also notice the URL also includes "google gadget api". Another thing that makes it confusing is, if you go to the official Google Gadgets API webpage, here: http://code.google.com/apis/gadgets/ And click on step 4, "Submit your gadget to the directory." And then click on "Developer Forum", it takes you right to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Gadgets-API Also, I feel I should add that Google's own Group Search pointed me here as well, and a bit ironically, a post on the official Google Help Forums (which are directly related to the forum you suggested earlier) also points here. http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/sites/thread?tid=2c07d9440a643c5b&hl=en Either way, I was just looking for a Google Gadget developers group and I thought this was it. I saw "Google Gadget API" in more places than I saw "iGoogle developers". So I figured it just started out as iGoogle gadgets, but the name was never updated when Google Gadgets started being used elsewhere. Since there didn't seems to be no general group for Google Gadget API help, it looked like it had been intended to cover all use cases of the Google Gadgets API. But I apologize if my message was off-topic. I'll wrap up the problem I originally came here to solve in case others with a similar problem come across this. I have since found the Google Apps gadgets API group, however it seems to exclude Blogger. Nonetheless, others looking for help with Blogger and Google Gadgets will probably get better responses there: http://code.google.com/googleapps/support/gadgets/ As to the problem of post-setting, pre-"content" processing of user preferences, it's simply not possible. I can find nothing that will let you do this and similar questions always end with the same suggestion: put a configuration button in your UI for customizing the settings. This might work for iGoogle, but in the broader sense of gadgets, there is no proper solution at this time. To summarize my specific problem, I was hoping to make a general purpose reCAPTCHA Mailhide gadget. They even have an api for it, so it seemed a perfect match. However I now believe doing this properly to be impractical with the current Gadget preference options/features. The email address could be taken as a user preference but then the email address is there in plain text (in the HTML using the gadget), which defeats the purpose of Mailhide. The only solution I see would be to set up a site that generates a unique gadget XML file based on a user's email address. The user would then have to enter their unique url manually through the "Add a Gadget" page. Due to this limitation, such an app would be impossible to submit, making it very hard for others to find it. Perhaps such a gadget simply has too much going against it. On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Takashi Matsuo ♟ <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Danny, > > The e-mail address of this group is google-gadgets-api is somewhat > confusing, but referring to the about page of this group: > > https://groups.google.com/group/google-gadgets-api/about?hl=en&noredirect=true > > """ > This is a discussion forum where you can exchange ideas and information > with other iGoogle developers. > """ > > However, I'm still new here, so I may miss something. Please tell me if > that's the case. > > -- Takashi > > On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Danny <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Takashi. I think you're still confused. Blogger's gadgets *are* Google >> Gadgets. >> >> source: >> http://buzz.blogger.com/2008/07/spice-up-your-blog-with-google-gadgets.html >> >> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 12:06 AM, Takashi Matsuo ♟ <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Hi Danny, >>> >>> Sorry about the confusion, but I don't think blogger gadgets issue is >>> in the scope of this group. >>> Could you visit blogger forum at the following url? >>> >>> http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/blogger/label?lid=0271191b4249689a&hl=en >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> -- Takashi >>> >>> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Danny <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > Hi Takashi. I don't think your answer applies for a Blogger based >>> Google >>> > Gadget. In Blogger, the blog owner sets up the gadgets. It doesn't >>> make >>> > sense to put a configure button in the gadget's content section since >>> only >>> > the blog owner should be able to configure the gadget, not just anyone >>> > viewing it. Unless I'm mistaken on how that works. >>> > What I really need is a way to use my own scripting to get the hash I >>> need >>> > before the content is displayed. Perhaps some kind of call back that >>> gets >>> > called when user preferences are set during configuration, or something >>> > equivalent. >>> > >>> > On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:30 PM, Takashi Matsuo ♟ <[email protected]> >>> > wrote: >>> >> >>> >> Hi Danny, >>> >> >>> >> I'd suggest using your own UI for the user input, and do the >>> >> scrambling work in your script, and then, storing the result to a >>> >> hidden userpref. >>> >> >>> >> Hope it helps. >>> >> >>> >> -- Takashi >>> >> >>> >> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:41 PM, DannyDaemonic < >>> [email protected]> >>> >> wrote: >>> >> > I'd like to write a blogger gadget that hides email addresses, so >>> I'd >>> >> > like to be able to take an email address entered by the blog owner >>> as >>> >> > a user preference, and generate a scrambled key for that email >>> address >>> >> > and then delete the plain text email address. Is there a way to >>> edit >>> >> > the preferences to do this? 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