Weather widget location validation
Ivan | Fri, 2005-08-05 09:39
I guess it's Widget week on cb. If you don't have Tiger or despise Widgets hold on. The week is almost over. :)
I was struggling for some time to get the Weather widget working for my city. I realize that I live at the end of the world, but I didn't want to give up.
After some fiddling around I realized that I needed to enter the city name and press return to start a validation process. If there are several countries with that same city name you will be presented with a list, so that you can select the correct one. Hope this helps some of our international readers to get their Weather widget working.
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Hello. This widget doesn't work for me, its never show me the weather for my city (Buenos Aires, Argentina), i recently downloaded the BBC Weather Widget and works fine!!
Regards, Leo.
1. Flip the widget
2. Type "Buenos"
3. Press Return and wait
4. Select Buenos Aires, Argentina from the list
Eww, it's chilly down there :)
Oh man, you have no idea how happy this makes me. I had switched back to Konfabulator just because I couldn't get the weather for my city... and now, I can. Woo! (But I still love Konfabulator... And now it's free too!)
Daring Fireball has the scoop on it:
http://daringfireball.net/2005/07/weather_widget_location
I can't agree more. This GUI design flaw led to weeks of frustration for me.