Comments on: Local Weather PocketMod http://www.fairlyuseless.com/2006/10/30/local-weather-pocketmod/ a collection of random thoughts Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:44:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: admin http://www.fairlyuseless.com/2006/10/30/local-weather-pocketmod/#comment-19980 admin Sat, 28 Jul 2007 00:44:49 +0000 http://www.fairlyuseless.com/2006/10/30/local-weather-pocketmod/#comment-19980 @ helllpMEE!! What zipcode are you using? Does it work on weather.com? Did you rename the swf? You should have something like this in your mods.xml file. <code><folder label="Custom" folder="custom" icon="" isBranch="true"> <mod label="Weather" desc="Orlando Weather Forecast" url="32820.swf"/> <mod label="Movies" desc="Movie Listings" code="4812" url="showtimes.swf"/> </folder></code> @ helllpMEE!!

What zipcode are you using? Does it work on weather.com? Did you rename the swf?

You should have something like this in your mods.xml file.




]]> By: helllpMEE!! http://www.fairlyuseless.com/2006/10/30/local-weather-pocketmod/#comment-19940 helllpMEE!! Fri, 27 Jul 2007 18:06:24 +0000 http://www.fairlyuseless.com/2006/10/30/local-weather-pocketmod/#comment-19940 It doesn't work!!!! I have it in a subdirectory (\mods\custom\) and in my mods.xml ... ... It doesn’t work!!!! I have it in a subdirectory (\mods\custom\) and in my mods.xml

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]]> By: admin http://www.fairlyuseless.com/2006/10/30/local-weather-pocketmod/#comment-4623 admin Tue, 17 Apr 2007 03:03:51 +0000 http://www.fairlyuseless.com/2006/10/30/local-weather-pocketmod/#comment-4623 Hi Joe, I could not reproduce the bug on my Mac, but I can see what is happening. Weather.com, which is what I use for the weather xml by default returns "English" units. What I am surprised about is that a cookie from IE is affecting the xml feed in the standalone flash player. In fact the wind speed should be wrong too. I went back and looked and I didn't bother getting the metric values I just converted them from Fahrenheit to Celsius. I will see if I can recode it to be a little smarter. Hi Joe,

I could not reproduce the bug on my Mac, but I can see what is happening. Weather.com, which is what I use for the weather xml by default returns “English” units. What I am surprised about is that a cookie from IE is affecting the xml feed in the standalone flash player.

In fact the wind speed should be wrong too. I went back and looked and I didn’t bother getting the metric values I just converted them from Fahrenheit to Celsius. I will see if I can recode it to be a little smarter.

]]> By: Joe http://www.fairlyuseless.com/2006/10/30/local-weather-pocketmod/#comment-4619 Joe Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:05:46 +0000 http://www.fairlyuseless.com/2006/10/30/local-weather-pocketmod/#comment-4619 First of all, great mod. I use this one all the time. I've found an interesting bug / side-effect. 1. Navigate to weather.com through IE and change the default unit to Metric. 2. Load the weather mod 3. The English/Metric values now are not calculated properly (Fahrenheit value displays Celsius) Thanks again for the great mods. First of all, great mod. I use this one all the time.
I’ve found an interesting bug / side-effect.

1. Navigate to weather.com through IE and change the default unit to Metric.
2. Load the weather mod
3. The English/Metric values now are not calculated properly (Fahrenheit value displays Celsius)

Thanks again for the great mods.

]]> By: admin http://www.fairlyuseless.com/2006/10/30/local-weather-pocketmod/#comment-317 admin Wed, 24 Jan 2007 04:14:41 +0000 http://www.fairlyuseless.com/2006/10/30/local-weather-pocketmod/#comment-317 Hi Scott, It looks like you stumbled on to a bug. The easiest fix is to move the weather mod into a folder under the mods directory. For example "/mods/fairlyuseless/28801.swf". Then place this in your "mods.xml" file. <folder label="Fairly Useless" folder="fairlyuseless" icon="" isBranch="true"> <mod label="Weather" desc="Asheville Weather Forecast" url="28801.swf"/> </folder> That should fix it for now. Also it will only use one weather mod at a time. Hi Scott,

It looks like you stumbled on to a bug. The easiest fix is to move the weather mod into a folder under the mods directory. For example “/mods/fairlyuseless/28801.swf”.

Then place this in your “mods.xml” file.

<folder label=”Fairly Useless” folder=”fairlyuseless” icon=”" isBranch=”true”>
<mod label=”Weather” desc=”Asheville Weather Forecast” url=”28801.swf”/>
</folder>

That should fix it for now. Also it will only use one weather mod at a time.

]]> By: Scott http://www.fairlyuseless.com/2006/10/30/local-weather-pocketmod/#comment-316 Scott Wed, 24 Jan 2007 03:28:46 +0000 http://www.fairlyuseless.com/2006/10/30/local-weather-pocketmod/#comment-316 I just stumbled on these PocketMod pages you've designed, and they're really cool. But I can't seem to get this weather one to work. I put the .swf file in the "root" mods folder (i.e. the mods folder that holds the blank, cover, cover_customize and template files in the initial installization). I initially renamed the .swf to my home zip code (which is out in the sticks a little), added the XML node to the mods.xml file, and saved. The Weather page shows in the PocketMods "Select a mod" list, but when I click it, the preview says "You did not rename your swf to your zip code" - though I did. I thought maybe my zip code was too remote, so I tried the zip code for Asheville, NC, the closest minor city, but with the same results. Finally, I tried reseting everything back to the original (Orlando?) zip code, and it still doesn't work. Any ideas what I might be doing wrong? If you've got any ideas what I might be doing wrong, I'd appreciate knowing what I can do to make this work. Thanks again for the cool PocketMods. I just stumbled on these PocketMod pages you’ve designed, and they’re really cool. But I can’t seem to get this weather one to work. I put the .swf file in the “root” mods folder (i.e. the mods folder that holds the blank, cover, cover_customize and template files in the initial installization). I initially renamed the .swf to my home zip code (which is out in the sticks a little), added the XML node to the mods.xml file, and saved. The Weather page shows in the PocketMods “Select a mod” list, but when I click it, the preview says “You did not rename your swf to your zip code” - though I did. I thought maybe my zip code was too remote, so I tried the zip code for Asheville, NC, the closest minor city, but with the same results. Finally, I tried reseting everything back to the original (Orlando?) zip code, and it still doesn’t work.

Any ideas what I might be doing wrong? If you’ve got any ideas what I might be doing wrong, I’d appreciate knowing what I can do to make this work.

Thanks again for the cool PocketMods.

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