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[01micko]

Hello vovchik

To get your weather code (replace zipcode variable) you have to jump through some hoops. You go to the download page for accuweather and get the "Net Weather" as if you were to add it to your website. Agree to their terms and a code box is presented. Scroll to the zipcode part and there is your weather code, replace spaces with %20. Mine is:

[vovchik]

Dear 01micko,

Happy New Year! You solved the problen in a very clever way. No need to register, but almost, to see the address. I also now get Celcius, which is what I want. Thanks.

With kind regards,
vovchik

[01micko]

Hello vovchik

Yes, it is the same weather code as Pwidgets uses, but I didn't know you could append the "metric=" bit to that code, a handy feature.

Once upon a time Accuweather had that code in the URL for a location, but now it is hidden away in the html. I just stumbled upon the "Net Weather" method, kind of an "educated guess". Easy enough I think .

Happy New Year to you too.

[Geoffrey]

I had a bit of a play with this weather app, I managed to get it working using yad for the notification.

[seaside]

01micko,

I was pleased to see that you found a world solution for Accuweather because I just took a look at Yahoo weather and while they have the same xml path to the "description" tag, the actual content is composed of DATA html markup. Short of stripping out the html code, I'm not sure how sit can display any markup.

Geoffrey,

Yes, nice and Yad is always a good swiss army knife located comfortably between Xdialog and gtkdialog.

vovchik ,

I feel much warmer knowing that you'll be able to tell exactly how cold it is where you are.

A very Happy New Year to all,
s

[technosaurus]

to get markup from rss feeds most people typically grep for the needed tag and then strip the tags out using sed ... I use shell only methods such as:
(just the jist of it - not tested, and I always seem to mix up ## and %%)

[mavrothal]

[seaside]

[Geoffrey]

[vovchik]

Dear guys,

I have coded a taskbar weather app in BaCon - based on Yahoo's weather API - and it is available here: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=676079#676079.

Have fun....

With kind regards,
vovchik

[seaside]

technosaurus,

I noticed that Vovchik's Yweather application uses markup in the icon tooltip.

Is it possible for "sit" to do this as well?

Regards,
s

[technosaurus]

you can now,... http://developer.gnome.org/pango/stable/PangoMarkupFormat.html

(just had to change *tooltip_text to *tooltip_markup ... unformatted text still works too, though I didn't check new lines)

I have included the current master branch which should build on Linux, BSD, Mac and Win32/64

the win32 version has lots of downloads but no comments, if anyone is using it let me know its shortcomings so I can improve its cross platform abilities (for example what would be a good path for includefiles? C:\\MinGW...) ... same goes for Mac if anyone has built it... so I can put out another point release.

[vovchik]

Dear technosaurus,

Very nice. I like the addition of markup.

With kind regards,
vovchik

[seaside]

technosaurus,

You have done it again. Works nicely indeed, thank you.

New lines seem to work just fine.

I really think sit should be part of Puppy, as it is versatile, small, and so easily implements an attractive interface.

Best Regards,
s

[jamesbond]

Patch:
1. Remove default include files path (if this path doesn't exist, execution fails - bad)
2. change popen mode from "r" to "w" - otherwise no output
3. ensure pclose after popen so that we don't get zombie process
4. close pid from g_spawn_async
5 add version numbering so we know which version of sit this is.
6. modify build process so that it is 64-bit compatible (should still work on 32-bit)
7. modify build process so that it tests correctly