Yahoo! Widget Engine 3.1.2

Yahoo! Inc - (Freeware)

The "widgets" are increasingly popular so stay up to date with everything using this useful application named Yahoo! Widget Engine.

Yahoo! Widget Engine is a JavaScript engine running Windows ( and Mac OS X) and able to operate small files called "Widgets". These files do not have predefined functions and it is possible to develop for almost everything and anything.

At installation, the software will install a clock, barometer, calendar, CPU monito, display the level of Wifi signal or even an iTunes remote control. But Widgetgallery.com site offers dozens of other applications on the following topics: games, time and date , RSS feeds, system utilities, application extensions , search engines and Webcam real time.

Each "Widget" provides transparency characteristics and positioning in depth (foreground, floating in the background, etc ) and sometimes other specific function (the location for the weather, for example).

Title:: Yahoo! Widget Engine 3.1.2
File Size:: 560.0 KB
Requirements:: Windows 2000 / XP / Vista / Windows7 / XP64 / Vista64 / Windows7 64 / Windows8 / Windows8 64
Language:: en-us
License:: Freeware
Date Added:: 02 May 2006
Publisher:: Yahoo! Inc
Homepage:: http://www.yahoo.com
MD5 Checksum:: AF664206B5B02FACB357383E12458A5C

General

* Fixed problem where readFile() wouldn't locate a local file in a flat-file widget.
* Fix problem where about boxes were affected by the master opacity.
* Fix Korean localization.
* Be more tolerant in string file whitespace parsing.
* Allow .kon files to access localized resources properly.
* Fix problem where we weren't loading images properly for custom scroll bars in flattened Widgets.

Windows

* Attempt to fix problems where non-English font names with "Regular" in them (localized) didn't work.
* Fix problem where debug window was not remembering its size/location.
* Initialize COM on secondary web request threads so we can use text encoding stuff (which is COM-based).
* Fixed problem which caused Personal radioTuner to crash when opening preferences.
* Filter out all font names that start with @
* Fixed problem on Win2K where preference OK/Cancel buttons were blank.
* We no longer localize our shortcut name. It was leading to multiple shortcuts in the startup folder if you changed languages.
* Make sure to return null as documented from chooseFolder. Also make sure to return forward-slashed paths.

Macintosh

* Fixed problem which caused zipped Widgets to recreate their Widget Data Folder on each run (thus losing any saved data).
* Fixed ugly memory allocator diagnostic message in Converter.
* Fixed several instances in which international characters were handled incorrectly.
* Prevent multiple clicks on gear menu while a dialog is open.
* Fixed a crash when a Widget requested login and the Purple Box was already displayed.
* Fixed problem where UTF-8 file encodings were sometimes misinterpreted.
* Addressed a minor memory leak in animated GIFs.
* Fixed a problem where filesystems.volumes would report random results for volumes that aren't really there (Mac OS X 10.3.9 sometimes continues to report the presence of USB drives which have been ejected). The engine now double-checks (on 10.3.9) to make sure a volume really is there before reporting it.

Widgets

* Added satellite views to Yahoo! Maps Widget.
* Fixed Korean localization of Purple Box (Yahoo! Login) Widget.