Tide Widget 2.21 for Mac OS X 10.4

The Tide widget displays the current tide or current for locations worldwide, using the XTIDE tide engine to predict the tides.

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v2.21:

Fixed a bug where you couldn't change the units at the same time you changed the station. A silly little one-line fix that I should have caught before release.
Fixed a display issue with two of the localized versions where the back side wasn't displaying correctly.
Added the ability to set default units that apply to all stations, by holding down the option key when you select the unit.
Fixed the programmer's error that made it seem necessary to copy the images to the localization subdirectories. Now there's only one set of images and the widget's size is way down.

Installation instructions:

Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger is required. If you're using Safari, click the download link. When the widget download is complete, show Dashboard, click the Plus sign to display the Widget Bar and click the widget's icon in the Widget Bar to open it. If you're using a browser other than Safari, click the download link. When the widget download is complete, unarchive it and place it in /Library/Widgets/ in your home folder. show Dashboard, click the Plus sign to display the Widget Bar and click the widget's icon in the Widget Bar to open it.

Many thanks for everyone who helped test the widget, who offered suggestions or reported bugs. Without you, the widget would not be, and I thank all of you very much.

Hey, where's my station?

The widget's front side shows the current value, whether the tide is rising or falling, the date and time (which is always in station local time), the previous high or low (on the left), and the next high or low (on the right). Highs and lows are also designated with an 'H' or an 'L' as appropriate.

Clicking on the widget will open the widget up and show you today's and tomorrow's highs and lows (and slack times for currents). High tides are in bold, and slack times (for current stations) are in italics.

Flipping to the backside shows the configuration screen.

'Units' controls the units of tide stations (currents are always in knots, and current stations will not show the Units controls).

Holding down the option key while selecting the units will set the default units. If the default units are already set, clicking again on the same unit will clear the defaults.

'24 hour clock' will change the clock to display as 01:30 instead of 1:30 AM (or vice versa).

The search field needs a minimum of 3 characters, and then will search the list for any station that contains those characters. The search is case-insensitive; 'Sea' is the same as 'sea'. If you first select a region from the left list, only that region will be searched. To reset the list, click on any region that begins with '--'.

Click "Done" to accept the changes, or "Cancel" to return to the front side. There will be a slight pause as the widget handles the changes.