Calculator widget on notification panel

Hi

I have the same problem, but my "aficionado" number il 72.

I guess it simply keeps fixed the first result of a calculation made after the upgrade.

By the way... sometimes it's impossible to give keyboard focus to the calculator:

the only way is to close and open some times the side panel.

Bugs of the first release, I guess...

Just received a reply from the developer of the PEMDAS calculator widget. The newest version (3.1) "white calculator" requires you to restart the computer after installation to fix an issue with macOS causing the calculator to look distorted or missing graphical sections. After restarting my computer, v3.1 works perfect. If any of you who have posted your concerns/complaints with how after upgrading to High Sierra the calculator in Notifications resets to zero (which I previously stated in this discussion is how Apple developers programmed it to function now), or it repopulates with the total you had before upgrading, I encourage you to give this widget a try. Just follow my instructions above on how to set it up.

If what we want is having a visible calculator that retains the last total and even has the benefit to be moved around the screen as an overlay, then based on my experience, PEMDAS is the solution for me. I am not satisfied with the results deleting the .plist/.config file give since all it does it reset the total to zero the moment you go to another window, screen, open/close the Notification sidebar, etc.

In God's Harmony

Perhaps if the majority of the users who post their complaints across this forum would also consider investing the time (and I understand it takes a lot of it!) to call Apple Support and voice their issues and complaints, their would be a greater possibility to have things either fixed or work as they used to. The advice almost all give, including Apple Support is to use the Feedback source. From my experience, trusting that the number of users who state they submitted feedback is accurate based on comments, I haven't really noticed that Feedback resolves much of what we complain about. Some issues date back years with numerous feedback to include, change, or re-instate function(s) with no changes ever being made. I've experienced somewhat better results from confirmed phone calls of users phoning in complaints. In the end, as with the majority of companies, whatever changes are made are usually based on internal decisions due to corporate vision.

In God's Harmony

John Laury wrote:

So, again, quite picky, and most people don't need such a hard level of persistence for calculator results. If you need such a level of persistence, write you own app, it's free, and it's not too hard to do.

I'm very familiar with how Macs work. Again, making excuses for what can only be seen as a bug and forcing users to use a workaround doesn't seem "picky". Yes, "most people" don't, some however prefer the old behavior.

Personally I just use PCalc, which works.

Same issue here, with the number 8,100

The fix proposed with ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.ncplugin.calculator/Data/Library/Preferences/ does not work for me so I don't even have the 'reset to zero' option. I just use my phone now!

~/Library/Containers/com.apple.ncplugin.calculator/Data/Library/Preferences/

Within that folder I have only these files:

and a search in Finder for com.apple.ncplugin.calculator.plist comes up with nothing.

I agree. Apple needs to be shot in the foot, for failing to provide the simplest and most basic functions of a computer... to calculate a few numbers! Talk about not seeing the trees through the forest! Geeze! Even with the appex file, the fix is NOT in! It worked for a while, but then the keyboard suddenly fails to input numbers, at which point you have to launch the Activity app and kill the whole notification process to reset it.

I just gave up on the Notifications panel and installed a 3rd party calculator. Shame on you Apple! Wake up and fix your OSX! We bought your China-Made Marvel at $3,500+, and you can't even give us a simple working calculator! Idiots!

Thankfully, all contributors to this thread, myself included, received an email notification of your original, unedited post that contained that beautiful link. I downloaded that version of the Calculator and tried it and found it completely solved the problem! Now if Apple would just fix the core problem so we didn't need to download any links, that, my friends, would be the final and best solution!

I use PCalc from the App Store.

FWIW, you can also do math with Siri, Spotlight and in Browsers if you don't want to mess with your phone. There is also a calculator in that App Store called "PCalc" that works well.

Hi Krigan! Could you please send me that fresh .appex file?

Thanks!

After replacing the apex file from Sierra, calculator doesn't work. I returned apex from backup TimeMachine %9

Sometimes, tons of productivity are lost concentrating all energy on a recalcitrant solution, rather than getting the job done using the readily accessible alternative. In my 'world', I cannot afford to waste time.

Thanks - fixed the problem for me and the calculator works fine now. Didn't bother to back up the file as the only other files in the preferences directory were all marked 'security' so the calculator plist was the only notifications widget with a plist in this directory. This gave me confidence that deletion wouldn't have any lasting effect. Thanks again mons.fractus. Nice one.