My weather maximum city entries (1 Viewer)

[ADL]

Hi there,
Can someone tell me is MP only allow 20 entries for my weather? I enter 40 cities in my weather using MP setup, It seem OK uder setup window, but after I click OK and run MP, it only take the first 20 cities , when I go back to MP setup, other 20 entries gone can I add more cities by editing the xml files?
Thanks

 

[kec2]

Does nobody know why mediaportal has that limit?

 

[rekenaar]

Seems like the configuration program only saves 20 cities. I will try and investigate further.

 

[Darre]

Hi

My guess is the author didn't think anybody would need more then 20 cities.. Thats beyond me at least

Darre

 

[rekenaar]

Yip, 20 is hardcoded in the config program as well as in the windows plugin. I quickly changed it to 50 and recompiled. Working like a charm now.

I am not sure if it is worth the effort to submit the changes as a patch on sourceforge if there are only 2 users needing it? What is the general feeling?

ADL, kec2 - If you send me your email address via PM, I can mail you the two modified compiled files. This will however only last until your next upgrade...

 

[kec2]

Hi Rekenaar

I have also looked at the code. I can only see one reason for having a MaximumCities, and that is because of the lack of a method that gets the number of cities in the config file.

My feeling is that there should not be a limit. An that it would be wiser to have the weather data in the database insted of the xml config file. For the sake of argument I would say that "MaximumCities=1000;".

I know that I don't need store 1000 cities or 50 cities for that matter, but such a limit is old fasion, and hardcoding such a value is not bright.

 

[rekenaar]

I agree that it should be dynamic. However, I still doubt that there will be more than a handfull of people to benifit from this.

In my tests, I also changed the config program to skip empty values when writing the xml file.

 

[kec2]

I would like to see the code change for skipping empty values.

 

[rekenaar]

Just added the if-statement. The code inside the if is already there.
Weather.cs

if (cityNameData.Length > 0 && cityCodeData.Length > 0)
{
xmlwriter.SetValue("weather", cityName, cityNameData);
xmlwriter.SetValue("weather", cityCode, cityCodeData);
xmlwriter.SetValue("weather", citySat, citySatData);
xmlwriter.SetValue("weather", cityTemp, cityTempData);
xmlwriter.SetValue("weather", cityUV, cityUVData);
xmlwriter.SetValue("weather", cityWinds, cityWindsData);
xmlwriter.SetValue("weather", cityHumid, cityHumidData);
xmlwriter.SetValue("weather", cityPrecip, cityPrecipData);
}

Come to think of it, I think this will create a problem when removing an existing city. The old data will remain in the file. Luckily my change was only on my own PC

 

[ADL]

Hi Rekennar,
Thanks for the code

ADL