Widget Converter

Are you a Widget developer? Do different Widget formats have you down? This Widget will end your misery.

Widget Converter will take a Widget which runs in the Yahoo! Widget Engine and convert it into a Widget format of your choosing, be it a folder, a zipped Widget, or the latest flat Widget format. As a bonus, it will clean up your Widget a bit in the conversion process!

Note that this Widget is a developer tool, and it is not written for converting similar accessory applications for other runtime environments to work with the Yahoo! Widget Engine.

Current Version: 2.6

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July 24, 2006 · version 2.0 Michael
What a terrible name. If you have to add a line to the desc pointing out that it doesn't convert format, then you knew it was coming. How about widget packager or any other name that doesn't confuse people into thinking that the holy grail translator was finally here.
July 23, 2006 · version 2.0 Jeff
I'm new with widgets on windows, so can anyone tell me where the files go after you convert it to a folder or .zip? i've been trying to mod some of them to better suit my needs but even XML Editor won't convert them all to .zip files... Can anyone help me?
July 23, 2006 · version 2.0 Ricky Romero
It removes extra files left by the system, such as Thumbs.db files on Windows, or .DS_Store files and __MACOSX folders (in ZIPs) on Mac OS X.
July 22, 2006 · version 2.0 Jared Shenson
When you say it cleans up the widget, what exactly does it do?
July 22, 2006 · version 2.0 Ricky Romero
jac - At present there is a bug that doesn't allow you to use "./" in a path in a flat file. Remove that and it'll work fine.