@johnpowell: 1) When I followed your amazingly clear advice ending with Enter killall Dock
Hit Return, a new stock widget appeared with several defaults…Dow, Nasdaq, Apple, Google and the closing figures being fed in on the right
2) However, when I edited and typed in several of my stocks, the last $ costs disappeared again and theright-hand side reverted to blank green windows.
3) When I tried to upload a copy from your link in your answer above, I got an error message that said,
“Stocks-1.wdgt” can’t be opened because it is from an unidentified developer. Your security preferences allow installation of only apps from the Mac App Store and identified developers.”
I am not sure that this issue is worth much more of your time and mine because I can get the information from my brokerage account with only a little more effort…logging in with PW and user name and the list of stocks I am interested comes up.
I believe that Mac is planning to come out with yet another OS (Maverick?) soon. Perhaps the Dashboard widgets are a thing of the past.
Should I let this drop? In any case, thank you very much for the clarity and accuracy of your help.