Here's a skin to improve that hideous Dashboard calculator

[nagromme]

This is odd...my calculator changed fonts to a smoother, helvetica-like font. The top of the characters rests at the horizontal "line" of the display window, leaving a gap at the top.

I would post pics, but I don't have flickr or anything. The weird part is, I don't do mods or anything. So how did it change? Does anyone else have the same problem?

-=|Mgkwho

Widgets are like little web pages. Sometimes one my my calculator buttons fails to load (some kind of timeout?) and I get a Safari style question mark on that button until it refreshes when I next click. In your case, maybe the CSS stylesheet of the calculator did not load?

Try clicking the calc, then hit Command-R -- same way you would reload a Web page.

 

[Mgkwho]

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[Mgkwho]

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[nagromme]

I'd try running Yasu from versiontracker.com. Maybe a font cache problem?

 

[Macbook Matt]

I just made a plain brushed metal skin, let me know what you think, here it is:

 

[Mgkwho]

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[jonnylink]

Just be careful using the dock calculator it doesn't follow proper order of operations.

try this 1+2*3 it should equal 7 but in the dock calculator it will equal 9. I use calculon

 

[winterquilt]

replace calc skin

My needs are the reverse. I prefer the dashboard widget look the original orange and would like to replace the look of the Apple calc app with that. I opened up the package but could not see what needed to be replaced - is it possible?

Alternatively is there a calc app that I could just download and use that looks like the bundled widget?

Thanks.

 

[GGJstudios]

My needs are the reverse. I prefer the dashboard widget look the original orange and would like to replace the look of the Apple calc app with that. I opened up the package but could not see what needed to be replaced - is it possible?

Alternatively is there a calc app that I could just download and use that looks like the bundled widget?

Thanks.

Did you notice that this thread hasn't been touched for 1 1/2 years? You might try looking on the Apple site for the many calculator widgets that are there.

 

[winterquilt]

no reply

I did already:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1890572&tstart=0

But nothing. I am not after a widget, rather a skining workaround for the default calculator app.