This is because Gmail requires User Authentication. Uou may download a widget: https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.aspx?skinid=873&libid=34 Then open it in the DesktopX Builder and look how it scripted.

Here you'll find a little subroutine that make all that you want:

Sub CheckGmail_Ex(cn,un,ps,ms)
  On Error Resume Next
   im = 0 : maildata = "" : mailarray = ""
 If instr(un,"@") > 0 Then
  gmailname = split(un,"@")
  ac = gmailname(0)&":"&ps
 End If
 Set objXML = CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")
  objXML.Open "GET", "https://"&ac&"@"&ms&"/gmail/feed/atom/atom.xml", False
  objXML.send "Authentication" 
  objXML.Open "GET", "https://"&ms&"/gmail/feed/atom", False 
  objXML.send "Gmail Information" 
  maildata = objXML.responseText
 Set objXML = nothing
 If instr(maildata,"<entry>") > 0 Then
   mailarray = split(maildata,"<entry>")
  For i=0 To UBound(mailarray)
   If instr(mailarray(i),"</entry>") > 0 Then
    im = im + 1
   End If
 Next
  Set mailarray = nothing
 End If
 If im = 1 Then
  strmail = "mail"
 Else
  strmail = "mails"
 End If
   desktopx.object("mails"&cn).text = im
   desktopx.object("mailstxt"&cn).text = strmail
   allmails = allmails + im
End Sub

Best Regards.

Hmmmm.... This is not good. You need learn DesktopX and VBScript (or at least Java) if you really want make your own widgets...

Ok. Please look below:

1. Cteate any Text Object. Then add this lines into your code:
 
Sub Object_OnScriptEnter
 If system.InternetConnected Then
  un = "YOUR GMAIL USERNAME"    '<== enter here...
  ps = "YOUR GMAIIL PASSWORD"  '<== enter here...
  desktopx.object("YOUR OBJECT").text = CheckGmail(un,ps)
 End If
End Sub

Function CheckGmail(un,ps) '<== This Function will calculate your incoming mails
 On Error Resume Next
  im = 0 : maildata = "" : mailarray = ""
 If instr(un,"@") > 0 Then
  gmailname = split(un,"@")
  ac = gmailname(0)&":"&ps
  ms = "gmail.google.com"
 End If
 Set objXML = CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")
  objXML.Open "GET", "https://"&ac&"@"&ms&"/gmail/feed/atom/atom.xml", False
  objXML.send "Authentication"
  objXML.Open "GET", "https://"&ms&"/gmail/feed/atom", False
  objXML.send "Gmail Information"
  maildata = objXML.responseText
  desktopx.ScriptObject("xbox").control.additem maildata
 Set objXML = nothing
 If instr(maildata,"<entry>") > 0 Then
   mailarray = split(maildata,"<entry>")
  For i = 0 To UBound(mailarray)
   If instr(mailarray(i),"</entry>") > 0 Then
    im = im + 1
   End If
 Next
  Set mailarray = nothing
 End If
 CheckGmail = im
End Function

2. Run a Script And you'll Get a result.

Best Regards.

SORRY! SORRY! SORRY!     It was my mistake! I forgot to add one little line into the function: ms = "gmail.google.com"... Now the bug is fixed, code is tested ant already work. Please copy and paste the updated Script from my post 3#.

Best Regards.

Does this script still work? I am making a theme and I am trying to make a gmail notifier. With this script do I need to use the incomming email notification or the incoming email notification controlled by a script? I also just tried creating a text item. It still returns 0. Can some help me out with this one?

I have some themes for sale but many customers says the same. These Mailcheckers doesn't work with Gmail. We are very dissapointed. Doesn't we?

No disrespect, but perhaps you don't fully understand how email checkers work then. From the Winstep Xtreme FAQ:

The Email Checker is not a full blown email client. The Email Checker simply asks the server how many messages are pending retrieval, and, if there are any, that's what it reports. It also keeps a counter of the number of messages in the server so it will only notify you again when more mail arrives. The notification, however, will tell you the total number of messages still in the server, not the number of messages that arrived between the new and previous notifications.

This counter is reset when the number of messages in the server is less than the value in the counter (which means mail has been retrieved in the mean time) or when you tell the Checker to launch the email client.

The Email Checker has no way of knowing which messages have already been read but left on the server.

Also, the Winstep Email Checker was one of the very few (and possibly the very first) that was able to work with Gmail accounts, but that ended when SSL v2 was found to be insecure in 2009 and the email providers stopped allowing connections encrypted with it. Unlike most normal POP3 email servers, Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo mail all require a SSL encrypted connection, which the Winstep Email Checker provided - but only version 2. SSL v3 support is a whole different beast to implement.

The Winstep Email Checker is probably still the only Email Checker that offers support for IMAP accounts.

Here is the object that I want to fix. If someone have any idea how can the text object show the new emails and at the same time to show the state "New mail". The original object only works with proprietary domains but many users (included me) need that it works with Gmail.

Is this possible??? Thanks in advance.