Itunes dashboard widget

HI :
Can anybody tell me if you can select a playlist from the itunes Dashboard Widget, Mine doesn't seem to work, it plays songs, and can ship tracks fine, but I'm unable to pick a playlist.
Also if my itunes is closed the widget will spin back and forth like is should, when the info button is pressed but when Itunes is open, and I click the info button on the widget, it doesn't flip, it just shows the playlist page, there is no animation.
do I have a problem with my widget or is it buggy?
Cheers
Mike

The iTunes dashboard widget has never worked correctly. It has had reproduceable crashes since 10.4.0's release, and in Leopard really the only thing it can do reliably is crash.
No, you can't select playlists from the playlist pulldown - it doesn't even respond to clicks, except when it decides that iTunes is not open (when it is, of course), in all irony.
With one major and 17 minor updates gone, it just seems that this widget isn't much of a priority . I will be reporting the crash for the 26th time (give or take) when 10.5.7 ships.

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Hi
i don't mean to be a noodge, but 4 days ago i posted
a simple request asking if i could get support here
for some questions i had as regards some snags i ran
into making dashboard widgets. while other people's
questions about ruby/rails, c and objective c and
even powerpoint (shouldn't that be in a microsquish
support forum??) have been responded to.
You shouldn't take the lack of response as a personal insult The nature of these forums (fora?) is that people respond to those messages where they can help and don't respond when they can't help. FWIW I've got two unresolved questions dating back to Mar 17th!
In my opinion, the Developer forums would be absolutely ideal and on-topic places to discuss Widget development..... but it looks like very few experienced Widget developers hang out here, so any questions would most likely go unanswered. My own skill area in limited to Java so I can't help out with widgets. No doubt the other forum regulars are in a similar position.
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