I haven't seen it mentioned yet, so I don't know if the problem is intrinsic to my machine only... or if other just haven't noticed it yet.
ADDRESS BOOK WIDGET: I love this widget... I use it all-the-time now, but there is a bug(?) that manifests on my system. Let's say I go type in a friend's name and click their phone# to make it display LARGE on screen. Very helpful. I click out of that dashboard and work some more. I need to make another call, so into dashboard I go and put my cursor in the input field of the address book widget. When I try to type, I get the system-error beep on each keystroke and no text changes. I basically have to open the widget shelf to get the "close" box, kill the widget, re-spawn a new one, close the shelf and type my new search.
This happens about 1 in ever 4 attempts to use it. I cannot accurately replicate this "bug" at will either. As a matter of fact, when a fellow Mac-friend was over... I was trying to demonstrate the "bug" to him and I couldn't replicate it at all... yet JUST NOW, it did it for me.
Anyone else experience this w/ Address Book Widget...?
Okay, I was actually asking about the auto-running, which would have been really dumb.
Does it actually overwrite the Apple widget, or does it go in a separate folder, which takes precedent over the Apple widget?
I'm curious to see exactly what the problem is here. Auto-running doesn't appear to be one of them, but it looks like spoofing widgets is.
I think that the downloaded widget taking precendent over the system widget is OK, but it certainly sounds as if Apple hasn't given enough warning to tell users what is going on.
The widgets install in your home widgets folder - they do not replace the Apple widgets but just appear in the dashboard instead of them.
Address widget issue confirmed - I just did a search with the widget, and it returned the five entries that matched. Clicking on a phone number in any of the five records works fine. The bug manifests itself when I clear the search field/or just try to type in a new search. To fix, I had to close the widget and re-spawn it.
Address widget issue confirmed - I just did a search with the widget, and it returned the five entries that matched. Clicking on a phone number in any of the five records works fine. The bug manifests itself when I clear the search field/or just try to type in a new search. To fix, I had to close the widget and re-spawn it.
That's a bittersweet confirmation.
Sorry to hear you are experiencing the bug... but glad to know I'm not the only one experiencing it.
Sorry to hear you are experiencing the bug... but glad to know I'm not the only one experiencing it.
Add me to that list - I think the trick is to click to get rid of the number first and then search for another number and then it wont go funny. This is obviously a bug. It works every-time I do it.
Thanks for the "click on the name" field fix, it works. However, I now noticed another anomaly. The parentheses don't consistently appear around the area code in the numbers for the searched records. I initially thought that Address Book remembered how the record was originally entered (i.e., with or without parentheses) and used that. But after building a test record, it displayed both numbers properly with the parentheses. However, simply scrolling up or down through the address records seems to randomly display some with and some without parentheses.
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ADDRESS BOOK WIDGET: I love this widget... I use it all-the-time now, but there is a bug(?) that manifests on my system. Let's say I go type in a friend's name and click their phone# to make it display LARGE on screen. Very helpful. I click out of that dashboard and work some more. I need to make another call, so into dashboard I go and put my cursor in the input field of the address book widget. When I try to type, I get the system-error beep on each keystroke and no text changes. I basically have to open the widget shelf to get the "close" box, kill the widget, re-spawn a new one, close the shelf and type my new search.
This happens about 1 in ever 4 attempts to use it. I cannot accurately replicate this "bug" at will either. As a matter of fact, when a fellow Mac-friend was over... I was trying to demonstrate the "bug" to him and I couldn't replicate it at all... yet JUST NOW, it did it for me.
Anyone else experience this w/ Address Book Widget...?
Originally posted by Rayz66
Okay, I was actually asking about the auto-running, which would have been really dumb.
Does it actually overwrite the Apple widget, or does it go in a separate folder, which takes precedent over the Apple widget?
I'm curious to see exactly what the problem is here. Auto-running doesn't appear to be one of them, but it looks like spoofing widgets is.
I think that the downloaded widget taking precendent over the system widget is OK, but it certainly sounds as if Apple hasn't given enough warning to tell users what is going on.
The widgets install in your home widgets folder - they do not replace the Apple widgets but just appear in the dashboard instead of them.
Originally posted by Dave Marsh
Address widget issue confirmed - I just did a search with the widget, and it returned the five entries that matched. Clicking on a phone number in any of the five records works fine. The bug manifests itself when I clear the search field/or just try to type in a new search. To fix, I had to close the widget and re-spawn it.
That's a bittersweet confirmation.
Sorry to hear you are experiencing the bug... but glad to know I'm not the only one experiencing it.
Originally posted by Scott Finlayson
That's a bittersweet confirmation.
Sorry to hear you are experiencing the bug... but glad to know I'm not the only one experiencing it.
Add me to that list - I think the trick is to click to get rid of the number first and then search for another number and then it wont go funny. This is obviously a bug. It works every-time I do it.