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<blockquote data-quote="Dadeo" data-source="post: 836662" data-attributes="member: 27204">Re: yrWeather Plugin[USER=20518]burr[/USER] - Nice work! I love the hour by hour forecast, and the new skin properties, thanks!&nbsp; I can confirm all the skin properties work here on Basic Home or any window.&nbsp; The only minor issue I noticed is that#yrWeather.windSpeed does not have a space before the m/s like it does in all the wind speeds within yrWeather window.LOL I can only fit four hours on aMPed 4x3 because it supports large fonts. But if ysmp can fit them on Default 4x3, go for it!I figured out my confusion about the Night Time period - it is due to time zones.&nbsp; yr.no is set for Norway (CET) so when you check the website, night is 0:00-6:00. But if you change to Canada it is 01:00–07:00; India: 23:00–05:00&nbsp; So in India the 'Night' data actually spans two days.&nbsp; I think it will work well for most locations though.Backdrops - now that you have #yrWeather.weatherIcon - all we need is a property such as #yrWeather.weatherIcon.no to expose the icon number to the skin. Then any skin can use &lt;texture&gt;\animations\Weather\#yrWeather.weatherIcon.no.jpg&lt;/texture&gt; to display a backdrop that applies to the current hourly weather condition if they wish.@ysmp- about the 'Forecast Hour by Hour' - yes I agree 'Forecast by Hour' is nicer/shorter and it is a 'simple' change in the language strings files (if someone can translate them all!).&nbsp; BUT - the problem is that you can never predict how long translated strings are on buttons, so it is probably best to add:[CODE]&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;scrollStartDelaySec&gt;1&lt;/scrollStartDelaySec&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;scrollWrapString&gt; | &lt;/scrollWrapString&gt;[/CODE]to the button controls anyway so if translated text is too long it will scroll. Default skin does not have that in references.xml for the default button so you will have to add it to any button control you want text to scroll on.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dadeo, post: 836662, member: 27204"] [b]Re: yrWeather Plugin[/b] [USER=20518]burr[/USER] - Nice work! I love the hour by hour forecast, and the new skin properties, thanks! I can confirm all the skin properties work here on Basic Home or any window. The only minor issue I noticed is that#yrWeather.windSpeed does not have a space before the m/s like it does in all the wind speeds within yrWeather window. LOL I can only fit four hours on aMPed 4x3 because it supports large fonts. But if ysmp can fit them on Default 4x3, go for it! I figured out my confusion about the [B]Night Time[/B] period - it is due to time zones. yr.no is set for Norway (CET) so when you check the website, night is 0:00-6:00. But if you change to Canada it is 01:00–07:00; [B]India: 23:00–05:00[/B] So in India the 'Night' data actually spans two days. I think it will work well for most locations though. [B]Backdrops[/B] - now that you have #yrWeather.weatherIcon - all we need is a property such as #yrWeather.weatherIcon.no to expose the icon number to the skin. Then any skin can use <texture>\animations\Weather\#yrWeather.weatherIcon.no.jpg</texture> to display a backdrop that applies to the current hourly weather condition if they wish. @ysmp- about the 'Forecast Hour by Hour' - yes I agree 'Forecast by Hour' is nicer/shorter and it is a 'simple' change in the language strings files (if someone can translate them all!). BUT - the problem is that you can never predict how long translated strings are on buttons, so it is probably best to add: [CODE] <scrollStartDelaySec>1</scrollStartDelaySec> <scrollWrapString> | </scrollWrapString>[/CODE] to the button controls anyway so if translated text is too long it will scroll. Default skin does not have that in references.xml for the default button so you will have to add it to any button control you want text to scroll on. [/QUOTE]

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