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copied!<p>See <a href="http://www.aeroxp.org/board/index.php?showtopic=9741" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Flip Calendar</a>, by Jonathan Abbott. His code is usually well commented so maybe you can get some ideas from that.</p> <p><strong>EDIT</strong><br> The source of my information was from the early days of Vista Beta 2 where that was the official word from MS. I also found the following response to a thread on the MSDN forums regarding the Flip Calendar gadget itself:</p> <p><a href="http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sidebargadfetdevelopment/thread/841e9d5e-32e9-453f-bd0e-dc5a4e607c33/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sidebargadfetdevelopment/thread/841e9d5e-32e9-453f-bd0e-dc5a4e607c33/</a></p> <p>The gadget has options for setting bold font on the day of the month (a g:text object) but on closer inspection it doesn't work. Sorry about that. The MS guys have been known to be wrong as well on one or more occasions. I can honestly say that I don't use the g:text object.</p> <p>This means your only (well, non activex route) option is VML text, which provides a lot of flexibility on layout. However, you will have to place it on a <em>fully opaque</em> area of the gadget which is probably why you wanted to use the addTextObject in the first place. <a href="http://www.garybeene.com/vml/vml-sum.htm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Gary Beene's site</a> really helped me out when I was getting started, but it doesn't go into any detail on the <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb264073(VS.85).aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">v:textbox element</a> and the <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb263924(VS.85).aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">v:textpath element</a>, though the MSDN documentation goes into enough detail on these.</p> <p>If you need to place the text on a non-fully opaque area of the gadget, then you could still go the VML route and place an image behind the text that acts as a shadow, starting out fully opaque and fading to fully transparent. This is how Microsoft does text in window title bars with aero enabled.<br> Alternatively, you could create an ActiveXObject that draws the text you need in the font you want and saves the image to a temporary file in the gadget folder. Then you set that to the src of an addImageObject. I've done something similar in a gadget and it's fast enough not to be noticeable. You can also set min/max dimensions so shrinking/stretching to fit becomes a breeze.</p>

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