Forecast-only weather ion

Shawn Starr shawn.starr at rogers.com
Wed Sep 30 19:20:55 CEST 2009


On September 29, 2009 09:14:42 pm Thilo-Alexander Ginkel wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I am currently developing a Weather Ion for the German wetter.com weather
>  data provider to improve the station coverage for Germany, Austria and
>  Switzerland.
> 
> 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.

> 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.

Thanks, 
Shawn.

> Thanks,
> Thilo
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