It's tedious to copy & paste the Canvas and Profile and Home html into those source dialogs all the time. It would be nice if you accepted them inside the XML file as per some Google specs, then with one button click we could update all three. Even Better: have a checkbox "don't cache" so that every time the canvas/profile/home is displayed, you'd make a round trip and get our latest generated XML. Would be great for development. Would also be nice to encapsulate the App Details all into one file - maybe part of The XML file, or maybe a separate file. As it is, each one of us that sets up an app, kindof guesses their way through, filling out the form. This wastes lots of time when someone guesses wrong. I'm trying to get everybody to write that stuff down in the code comments, but an automated system would be better. Thanks!

 Check out the tab lableled Upload App Xml.  I think that allows you to upload the entire app using the google gadget specification.

by george I think you're right. And I've been uploading xml AND filling out the forms, and wondering about the overlap. Is there any docs as to which XML attributes map to which form blanks? Yet another category of stuff that's undocumented.

 

Allan:

by george I think you're right. And I've been uploading xml AND filling out the forms, and wondering about the overlap. Is there any docs as to which XML attributes map to which form blanks? Yet another category of stuff that's undocumented.

 http://code.google.com/apis/gadgets/docs/reference.html

Got it. very useful & interesting. Of course it doesn't have everything that MS has on the dialogs:

In Google gadgets ref but not in/not listed in MS dialogs:

• title_url, author, author_email
• screenshot and thumbnail images. Somehow my company's using different sizes than what Google's relatively rigid spec calls for, in several other applications.

In MS dialogs but not in Google xml spec:

• the canvas, profile and home each have a height on MS. Google ref gives you one height attribute for the whole thing. Doh!
• the three also have a "HTML/Javascript Source -- Inline Flash -- External IFrame" switch, which might preclude the xml but I hope not cuz those guys could upload all at once too like in a makefile
• small and large icons
• primary category/secondary category
• MS has various 'external' switches (including 'installable') which... might preclude xml anyway

OK, well at least I know the score, some manual filling-in is needed.

-- allan (logged in as matt)