Works great. One suggestion, could you make some way to check it when you click a button or something if you don't want to wait for it to update.

thanks for the info, Ozzpot, didn't notice that preference glitch.

Okay, to be more specific about my comments below, the map appears in error afer preferences have been invoked. Also, you should clean up the shadow during the slide transition between states. It should ideally be turned off as the first action, i.e:

function changeState() {
if (preferences.state.value=="Maximized")
mainWindow.shadow = 0;
map.opacity=0;
largeBackground.slide("up", 200, 5);
mainWindow.shadow = 1;
} else {

etc... (I don…9;t know what you've called your images, you know what I mean)

This would alleviate the minor graphical glitch of the OS temporarily leaving an artifact of the Aqua shadow behind druring the slide state. More

This is really great. Works absolutely fine for me. The only glitches I have found is once or twice the map has appeared while the Widget is minimized. Might wanna clean up the slide / state function or whetever you've done there. (I haven't looked at the code)

Try as i might i can't reproduce this problem under normal circumstances, my main development platform is mac so that's mainly where i tested it, but i did run it on windows without a problem. Are you guys using a 14k dial-up or something? The only way i can get it to lock on a windows box is if i disable my network card?