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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ThirdWizard" data-source="post: 3549979" data-attributes="member: 12037">The gadgets actually run in the sidebar. Here is what it looks like:<img src="http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b319/ThirdWizard/desktop-2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />The clock ticks the seconds away, the weather channel gadget tells me lots of weather information, and the last one monitors my CPU and memory usage. All this is done in real time in the sidebar all the time.By the way, for anyone interested, the weather channel gadget is the best I've seen and can be downloaded <a href="http://download.weather.com/web/services/gadgets/vistasidebar/TheWeatherChannelVistaSidebarGadget.gadget" target="_blank">here</a>. It really is very very good.Yes to #1. No to #2. You can do a lot with sidebars, and a die roller would be fairly simple. And, a while back they were planning on a sidebar for XP, but it died due to time constraints on all the things they were working on. A die roller would be easy to do in javascript/html. You'd just do something kinda like:[code]var img_1var randomNumber = Math.random()*5if (randomNumber = 4){    img_1 = "d4_roll_4.gif"}if (randomNumber = 3){    img_1 = "d4_roll_3.gif"}......etc[/code]Of course, I haven't used javascript in a while, so I'm positive you can't use that exactly, but it should give you a general idea of what you're looking for. Stick that in some html that displays images for die rolls, probably a button, some text fields to choose what die and how many you're rolling.For more advanced usage, check out the gadget <a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa965853.aspx" target="_blank">api</a> page from msdn. There you can find various calls that are more powerful than those supported by javascript, for example the ability to read system information or network capability.You know what I would find useful? A gadget that would tell me info on various status effects! So, I could type in "nauseated" and it would tell me all the effects associated with nauseated. Or maybe even one that had the stats on various creature types so I wouldn't have to worry about forgetting all the immunities that go with plant creatures once in a blue moon when they actually see play. Those would be helpful for me. If I get some free time, I might work on some of those.</blockquote>

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