On Wednesday 30 September 2009 19:20:55 Shawn Starr wrote:
> > Unfortunately, wetter.com only provides forecast data through its free
> > web service API, so the Ion actually has no access to current observation
> > data to provide to the Weather Plasmoid. AFAICS this results in some ugly
> > rendering glitches in the Plasmoid such as a large question mark document
> > being displayed instead of the current weather condition.
>
> If you omit the keys for current conditions, it should not display any
> current condition tab at all.
That's correct.
> > Is building a Ion that does not supply observation data, but only
> > forecast data, supported? Is there a way to convince the Weather Plasmoid
> > to skip displaying the observation data (instead of displaying "N/A"
> > indicators and icons)?
>
> If you use "N/A" the applet should ignore displaying those fields if they
> aren't even set, they shouldn't appear at all.
>
> Let me know where it is not doing this and I'll fix applet.
Currently I am sending the following data back for a weather forecast request:
QHash(("Place", QVariant(QString, "Heidelberg") ) ( "Credit Url" ,
QVariant(QString, "http://www.wetter.com";) ) ( "Condition Icon" ,
QVariant(QString, "N/A") ) ( "Temperature Unit" , QVariant(QString, "6001") )
( "Total Weather Days" , QVariant(int, 4) ) ( "Credit" , QVariant(QString,
"Powered by wetter.com") ) ( "Short Forecast Day 0" , QVariant(QString, "day|
weather-clouds|cloudy|22|14|20") ) ( "Short Forecast Day 1" ,
QVariant(QString, "nite|weather-clouds-night|cloudy|13|12|20") ) ( "Short
Forecast Day 2" , QVariant(QString, "Thu|weather-clouds|cloudy|20|9|20") ) (
"Short Forecast Day 3" , QVariant(QString, "Fri|weather-clouds|cloudy|17|9|
20") ) ( "Station" , QVariant(QString, "Heidelberg") ) )
This results in the following display (under KDE built from trunk):
http://blog.ginkel.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/snapshot-weatherplasmoid.png
IMHO, the condition icon should be left out in this case and probably nothing
should be displayed instead of "N/A" for the current temperature (I also tried
leaving out the condition icon completely, which did not make any difference).
Alternatively, I could of course also display the weather icon that is
associated with the current time in the forecast results, but that kind of
feels like cheating. ;-)
Now that my Weather Ion is mostly feature-complete, how does the further
process look like? Should I submit a review request? Should it first go to the
playground? (Feel free to point me to a Wiki page if there is any explaining
the process.)
Thanks,
Thilo
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