This worked. Thanks Kaustubh.
On Apr 15, 4:02 pm, Kaustubh Kulkarni <kaust...@fusion-software.com> wrote: > The Unit Converter Widget is broken in Mac OS X 10.5.6: the left and > right pop-up menus do not match, and Apple's code assumes they do. On > the left menu, the Australian dollar appears at the top; on the right > menu, it's the US Dollar. As a result, conversions come out incorrectly! > > To fix this problem, make a copy of /Library/Widgets/Unit > Converter.wdgt on your Desktop, Control-click on it and choose Show > Package Contents from the pop-up menu, then open the UnitConverter.js > file in a text editor. Search for "USD" (with the quotes). There > should be only one matching line: > if (a.iso == "USD") return -1; > Delete this line. Then, delete the else at the start of the next line, > i.e. change the line from this... > else if (a.name < b.name) return -1; > ...to this... > if (a.name < b.name) return -1; > Save the changes and close the document. I suggest keeping the > original widget in /Library/Widgets, and installing the corrected > version in ~/Library/Widgets, so that the system's version remains > untouched. > > [robg adds: When originally posted, I thought this was merely a > display glitch, but it's not -- the calculations simply won't work > properly with the two lists not being the same. You can test this > yourself by converting any number in the default widget as it appears > -- enter 55 in the left-side box, for instance, with the left pop-up > on Australian Dollar and the right on US Dollar, and you'll see that > the result is also shown as 55. Clearly that's not correct. This hint > fixes that problem. Sorry for the confusion.] > On 15-Apr-09, at 3:51 PM, Vikas Tandon wrote: > > > > > Perfect, it worked. Thanks a lot!! > > > However, this now brings me to the original reason I had deleted it. > > Since I installed Safari 4.0, the curreny converter gives all > > incorrect values. I checked on Yahoo Finance (the source of the > > exchange rates) and the rates are fine there. > > > Any ideas? > > > Thanks once again... > > > On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Shreeharsha J N <shreeharsha...@mac.com > > > wrote: > > Take this zipped file & try it. > > > On 15-Apr-2009, at 14:48, Vikas wrote: > > > I have accidentally deleted the Unit Converter Widget > > (unitconverter.wdgt) that comes bundled with Mac OS 10.5. Not just > > removed from Dashboard, I have physically deleted the file from > > library. Now I find no way to get that file back - not from the DVD or > > from the web. > > > Can anyone please tell me where I can get the widget? > > > Thanks
