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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September 22, 2006 · version 2.0 Andrew Ladner
Wonderfully easy, I haven't had any problems with "zipping" or flattening my own widgets nor unzipping (or unflattening?, lumpifying?) others which I have downloaded.
Would like to have the option of where the file is unzipped to, but it's a small concern.
This widget has saved me lots of time.
September 21, 2006 · version 2.0 M@verick
first one I converted was converted to same address as original file, after that I can't find where they are being converted to. awesome app for the first one though!
September 17, 2006 · version 2.0 PenguinOL
Well, I can't find the folder or converted files anywhere!
September 11, 2006 · version 2.0 X.509
What kind of certificate authorities and the X.509v3 extensions are needed to make YWE recognize the signature? I have put mine but Widget Engine says that while the signature is valid it can not be validated. Maybe YWE works strictly with Verisign?
September 11, 2006 · version 2.0 Lionet
Please note! Both this widget and the command line utility will NOT flatten something which has files of zero length:

Error: ConvertWidgetBundle: Caught exception!
Error: FlattenBundle failed

Make sure all your files are actually of positive length.

To authors: this is just lame. Why not put something more descriptive? It costed me an hour to figure it out.