Aqua-Soft ForumsDoes anyone know if there will be an update to the weather docklet? Looks like the beta weather.com site is not working properly either now. Thanks for any information.
Weather Dock
I got the same issue, seems weather.com has added popups that interfere with the docklet, like weather.com had orginally with the docklet. However, now beta.weather.com has popups as well.
Not being a programmer I don't know how much work it'd be or if it's even possible, but would it make sense to get weather from a different site like Yahoo Weather or Intellicast? If weather.com is going to keep f*cking around with their site and breaking the docklets for all the docks every couple weeks - I'd suggest we don't use them.
we should change our weather site to some other one that doesn't change so often.
isn't there one called weather underground or something but i think thats an xml feed
so its up to the coders to rework that into their program
Yes, it's too bad because my was working fine with Albeik's latest .43 dll and the http://beta.weather.com/ site, but now no go...
Kind of miss having it on my dock...
Originally posted by idicula@Oct 10 2003, 03:16 PMisn't there one called weather underground or something but i think thats an xml feed
so its up to the coders to rework that into their program
yes, theres a weather site at wunderground.com. this site is actually a lot better than weather.com. the forecasts are more accurate, and the geographic breakdowns are more precise. for instance...
im in zip code 02452. wunderground.com gives me weather specific to "northern waltham" as opposed to the overall city of "waltham" from weather.com.
walka :woot:
Originally posted by walka+Oct 10 2003, 03:44 PM-->QUOTE(walka @ Oct 10 2003, 03:44 PM)
i think the script needs to be changed, though, so it's not that easy. but i'm not a coder, so i don't know.
i think it'd be pretty easy for the programmer to change, instead of an html info they would have to set it up to recieve xml feeds
guys, just change your YZ dock weather thing to wunderground. 1st go to http://www.wunderground.com and type in your zipcode, then highlite the url at the top, should look like this http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findwe...yourzipcodehere, and then p[aste it into the weather deocklet, when you right click it
works great here.
sadly, zip codes only works in us 
does anyone know if a similar tweak will work for samurize weather?
hmm thats weird cause i put in a custom location and mine just says something like "invalid unit from site"
here's what i pasted into the custom URL
http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findwe...ast?query=19610
Originally posted by dreamz@Oct 11 2003, 03:24 AMdoes anyone know if a similar tweak will work for samurize weather?
Hi, dreamz, go to samurize.com->forum->scripting support, see the thread of "Desktop weather needs update", at about page 3 or 4, gordep posted his solution for samurize weahter.
I copied his solution as following:
To get around the problem add this function to Desktopweather.vbs after the getCacheFile Function.
CODE
Private Function ExtractTicker(HtmlResult)
etstart = Quote & "svrWxAlert\" & Quote
etend = "<!-- end svr wx alert -->"
searchstart = InStr(HtmlResult, etstart) - 91
searchend = InStr(HtmlResult, etend) + Len(etend)
If searchstart > 0 AND searchend > 0 Then
ExtractTicker = Replace(HtmlResult,Mid(HtmlResult, searchstart, searchend - searchstart)," ")
Else
ExtractTicker = HtmlResult
End If
etstart = "<!-- N/A°F"
etend = " -->"
searchstart = InStr(ExtractTicker, etstart)
searchend = InStr(ExtractTicker, etend) + Len(etend)
If searchstart > 0 AND searchend > 0 Then
ExtractTicker = Replace(ExtractTicker,Mid(ExtractTicker, searchstart, searchend - searchstart)," ")
End If
etstart = "<!-- normal.css -->"
etend = ""
searchstart = InStr(ExtractTicker, etstart)
searchend = InStr(ExtractTicker, etend) + Len(etend)
If searchstart > 0 AND searchend > 0 Then
ExtractTicker = Replace(ExtractTicker,Mid(ExtractTicker, searchstart, searchend - searchstart)," ")
End If
End Function
Also add this line to the getCacheFile function after line HtmlResult = BinToText...
CODE
HtmlResult = ExtractTicker(HtmlResult)
Originally posted by anibalin@Oct 11 2003, 03:23 AMsadly, zip codes only works in us
ya :cry: me too it don't work
thanks etiwanda, i'll have to try that out sometime!
When I try to use that previously mentioned site for the weather docklet URL, I get only an image of a cloud and lightning, but no temperature indicator. Does anyone know any other way to fix it?
Originally posted by whitelion@Oct 12 2003, 05:59 PMI get the same thing as bigbiff mentioned.
Guess this dock is no longer useable
Yes...same here...cloud & lightning, however I then got a string of weird dialog to the left of side of my dock...
Poof...