Provides Sidebar with a gadget file type and the API version information required to run the gadget. Its child elements define the gadget's behavior for a specific host application. Identifies the application that hosts the gadget (currently, only 'sidebar' is supported). Each of these numbers (or octets) can contain 0 to 4 digits between the values of 0 and 9, inclusive.Ī container for one or more elements. If the versions differ, the user is prompted to select the appropriate version. If another gadget of the same name has already been installed, Sidebar does a version comparison. Sidebar uses this value during gadget installation. Specifies the version information for the gadget.
It has no attributes.Ī user-friendly name that is displayed in the gadget picker, on the Windows Sidebar page of the control panel, and the Sidebar itself. The expected value is UTF-8.Ī container for child elements that describe the gadget. This particular document conforms to the 1.0 specification of XML and uses the UTF-8 (Unicode) character set. The XML declaration defines the XML version and the character encoding used in the document. This section defines the individual elements of a gadget manifest. This example shows the data and structure of a valid gadget manifest. The gadget manifest file must be named 'gadget.xml'.
