New weather plugin alpha

[CodeMonkey]

OK, having a problem with the weather icon.  Trying to follow what myth weather does.  They have a weathertypes.dat file that contains the icon file name for what is in the swCIcon part of the msnbc weather page.  As an example, Go Here.

Right now, swCIcon shows 28, and swConText = Mostly Cloudy.

However, in weathertypes.dat the icon for a swCIcon of 28 is thunshowers.png.

What the heck am I missing??  And on this note I'm stepping away from the monitor for the evening

[sub]

Wow. That is looking really good.

[CodeMonkey]

OK so I lied about stepping away from the PC

Thanks. It should be useable by everyone now. All the data from the default plugin is there, and even a bit more now.

This darn icon problem is bugging me though!

[sub]

I'm not quite sure what they were doing in Mythtv, its a little hard to follow. I wonder if you should use a hashtable keyed by swConText. For example,

  Hashtable weatherIcons = new Hashtable();
  weatherIcons["sunny"] = Image.fromFile(directory + "\\sunny.png"
  weatherIcons["partly cloudy"] = Image.fromFile(directory + "\\pcloudy.png"
  ...etc

Then later:
string swConText = ...
  Image currentWeatherIcon = (Image)weatherIcons[swConText.ToLower()];

[CodeMonkey]

Yeah I was heading that way myself. Thanks. Should have that tomorrow and maybe the rest as well

[bitter_old_man]

This looks great!

[CodeMonkey]

Thanks bitter old man

Another question sub.  I don't see these weather icons being skin specific do you?  And if not, where in the directory structure should I put them.  In a 'weather' subdir off of the plugin dir?

[CodeMonkey]

Minor cosmetic fix uploaded today for the benefit of our non-USA friends. No more 'Wellington, , New Zealand' in the title for example

WeatherAlpha

[bitter_old_man]

I wish MSNBC updated the conditions more often. Right now they are over an hour behind the National Weather Service and the current temperature is 5 degrees higher than MSNBC reports. I guess I'll find out it's raining an hour after it starts.

Keep up the good work, CodeMonkey.

Barry

[CodeMonkey]

Quote[/b] (bitter_old_man @ April 11 2004,10:28)]I wish MSNBC updated the conditions more often. Right now they are over an hour behind the National Weather Service and the current temperature is 5 degrees higher than MSNBC reports. I guess I'll find out it's raining an hour after it starts.

Keep up the good work, CodeMonkey.

Barry

Go to the MSNBC site then send them a comment about updating more frequently. If enough people complain they might increase the frequency.