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20-10-2005, 07:48 AM
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Great Widget. The only change i can suggest is making the configuration button more prominant. At the moment it is hidden in the corner until you mouse over it.
Cheers!
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20-10-2005, 08:23 AM
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Great start! Glad to see someone have a go at a BOM driven widget!!! I'll follow your updates closely as I'm sure this will only get better and more useful.
As iSlayer has shown, don't be afraid to grab a little help from those designers lurking around here, the World TV widget was coded by him, and 'drawn' by Marc... a great combo. Looks like you've got an offer of colaboration already!
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20-10-2005, 08:30 AM
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Excellent!
As I rely wholly on my motorbike for transport too and from work, I *need* to know the what the weather will be like so as to be prepared. This is a great help! Thanks!
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20-10-2005, 08:35 AM
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Originally posted by iMick@Oct 20 2005, 08:48 AM
Great Widget. The only change i can suggest is making the configuration button more prominant. At the moment it is hidden in the corner until you mouse over it.
Cheers!
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That would be like most widgets, including Apple's own. They all hide the configuration button in the corner and make it invisible until you mouse over it, it makes for a cleaner window.
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20-10-2005, 09:48 PM
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Minor update:
--Drop down location on back of widget remembers previously selected location, even after restart.
--Some coding changes which speed things up a fraction.
--Reduced the size of the .css file (but more to do on this).
Update available from the link at the top of this post.
Fotodivr, not sure what's stopping the widget flipping for you. Sometimes the "i" in the bottom right takes a little while to appear, I'm using Apple's code here so not sure why this might be. Try hovering the mouse over the bottom right of the widget, and seeing if you can flip the widget and select a state and location. If that fails, try closing the widget, spotlighting "com.tamham", deleting the plist file which appears, and then re-installing the widget.
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21-10-2005, 10:44 AM
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Very nice - well done. I've ditched the accuweather one now - it was obviously horribly inaccurate and I ended up checking the BOM website anyway! Thanks 
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21-10-2005, 09:43 PM
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Great widget. I quite like the lack of graphics - it's the info I want.
Have you thought of adding a "donate" button? I'd be more than happy to sling you a few bucks for this.
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21-10-2005, 09:49 PM
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In the afternoon/evening the current day's forecast goes blank as it's removed from the BOM site. I know it's a forecast widget but is there a way for you to cache the current day until midnight?
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23-10-2005, 04:33 PM
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Minor update before I start on some of the harder stuff suggested in other posts 
--Custom widget icon
--More code tweaks
--"Done" button changes highlight correctly
--Further reduced size of .css file.
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23-10-2005, 05:29 PM
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why not just use the mac one?
just put this into the config:
OCN;AU;NSW;SYDNEY;
go to:
http://wwwa.accuweather.com/world-city-lis...r=apple&myadc=0
and pick the place you want. and in the url field you will see the string like the one above. and just plug that into the widget
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23-10-2005, 05:38 PM
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Originally posted by designers_hub@Oct 23 2005, 06:29 PM
why not just use the mac one?
just put this into the config:
OCN;AU;NSW;SYDNEY;
go to:
http://wwwa.accuweather.com/world-city-lis...r=apple&myadc=0
and pick the place you want. and in the url field you will see the string like the one above. and just plug that into the widget
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Because, as you would have realised if you had read into the discussion on the Weather Widgets a bit more, the Accuweather one (the one bundled with OSX) is not accurate with its forecasting or even its current temp levels. This widget here uses BoM data, so is actually of some use.
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31-10-2005, 09:03 PM
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Hi hamlynt
Just downloaded the update - thanks for the work....it's much more useful than the Apple widget.
Just a small point - can you put a link on the back of the widget to your website so it's easier to check for an update than searching this thread?
Congrats on building my most used & most useful widget and thanks again!
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01-11-2005, 02:08 PM
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Location: Melbourne
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Thanks heaps for this wicked widget, I was bitter when I got my iBook about the Apple weather widget sucking so badly for Australia, but you restored my faith in the magic of widgets!
lol anyway, my older version of Aus Weather died today.... all the fields just had "---" in them. I tried the update above, but now the widget won't even show up with an "i" button, it's just a blank gray rectangle thingy.....? As I'm typing this, I checked it again and now it looks like it used to, but still with the "---" on it. The "i" button isn't responding properly, and if I click Command-R, it reloades whatever I last clicked on, as in the widget won't take focus properly (or at all). I'm running 10.4.2 FWIW.
Is this something that I'm doing wrong?
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01-11-2005, 04:41 PM
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Location: Canberra ACT
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Originally posted by forgie@Nov 1 2005, 02:08 PM
Is this something that I'm doing wrong?
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I just checked mine and it is working fine.
I'd try deleting it and redownloading / or re install it.
Have you tried the Apple + R (refresh option) first?
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01-11-2005, 05:24 PM
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Location: Sydney
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Originally posted by hamlynt@Oct 20 2005, 10:48 PM
If that fails, try closing the widget, spotlighting "com.tamham", deleting the plist file which appears, and then re-installing the widget.
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forgie, try killing the preferences file as well before reinstalling the widget?
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