I am developing a monitor gadget that monitors production exceptions (by making JSONP Ajax requests).
Most of the time the information is not of interest and I wish for it to be behind other windows.
However, when an exception occurs, I would like for the gadget bring itself to the top of other windows to let me know of the problem.
Is this possible, does anyone know? I have a feeling not... is there another way that people can suggest? Or is it that windows gadgets are not really suitable for this sort of thing.
Thanks.
The answer is no.
However, I have managed to achieve the effect I wanted. Namely I set the gadget to be "always on top" and then have a minimized state that shrinks the gadget down to the smallest it can be and sets the background to an icon (surrounded by transparency). This give me an unobtrusive icon that I can dock into the top right of the screen.
Then, when an event occurs that I want to display, I have a Maximize() method in JS that restores the width/height of the gadget and shows some content (I actually use jQuery's animate method to do this which gives a nice "expansion", similar to the dock/undock transition).