Invalid zip code when running weather widgets

Tuesday, July 7, 2009 by jag4710 | Discussion: DesktopX

My computer was shutdown incorrectly when the breaker in my apartment went off. Now, when I run a weather widget, I get an invalid zip code error. I uninstalled and reinstalled DesktopX, but it didn't help. I cleared the widget cache, but I still get the same error. Does anyone have any suggestions? I never had any problems running anything in DesktopX before this.
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neophil78
Reply #361 Tuesday, February 2, 2010 5:28 PM

I would like to ask if some widgets weathers are still usable after the change of the format of the feeds/messages of weather.com. There are beautiful objects/widgets that now do not work more like DXweather-Alpha OS or Vista Weather Calendar. They can be restore? There are a procedure in order to adapt them to the new format feeds of weather.com? You have suggestion or experiences? Thanks for any news.

For me the best way is to use the "old" rss field, that is to say replace xoap by xml in the weather_image and in the weather _forecaststatus scripts (and it works like a charm )

PeregrineSol
Reply #362 Wednesday, March 3, 2010 2:14 PM

The red step below does not work any longer. All it does now is echo back the city name(s).  Anyone have an idea of how to get the needed info for this fix now?


Thanks

 

...........ANSWER TO "This doesn´t appear a valid zip code"-.....................

By  Posted September 27, 2009 15:02:40

I think I got an answer, you need to Disabled the MessageBox editing the script

 

1.-Sorry about my english.

2.-Switch DesktopX Client to DesktopX Builder, right click on Desktop Icon on bottom pf the screen to switch it.

3.-When the DesktopX Builder is already loaded, right click on upper-left corner of the Weather Widget (where a Sun or Cloudy Image appears) and select "EditScrip" option.

4.-The DesktopX Script Editor will be pop up with the 'code' of the weather widget, then search the code line with the sentence:

   Widget.Preference("location").defaultvalue = "MXSP0079" (usually at line 11) 

   We need to change the default location ID.

5.-To get our location ID, go to this page  http://www.weather.com/ and search your city on search browser, this is only to ensure that our city is included on data base. (In my case San Luis Potosi,Mexico)

6.-Once we have our "exactly location name" we go to this page

    http://xoap.weather.com/search/search?where=San Luis Potosi,Mexico

    and replace San Luis Potosi,Mexico with your "exactly location name", if your city is included on data base it will show you a id-locations list

    of your city and near cities to, with this template:

    <loc id="MXSP0079" type="1">San Luis Potosi, Mexico</loc> (My city San Luis Potosi , location id = "MXSP0079")

7.-When you have your location id (with the quotation marks "") replace in this code line, after = symbol.

    Widget.Preference("location").defaultvalue = "MXSP0079" (usually at line 11) 

 

8.-The instructions above are for setup our location name, now we have to disable the Message Box with the alarm

    "This doesn´t appear a valid zip code"

9.-After relocated you id, on the same scritp file, search for any Msgbox instruction (I found it at line 48) and comment it

10.-When we comment a code line, the main code doens´t included.

11.-To comment a line in the Script, type an apostrophe (  '  ) before the linelike this

      'Msgbox "This doesn't appear to be a valid zip code." & vbNewLine & vbNewLine & "Please try again.", vbExclamation + vbOKOnly, "Zip error 
                '

12.-I only find this Msgbox in my script, maybe you have a few of them, remember only disabled the MsgBox with the message:

     "This doesn't appear to be a valid zip code." & vbNewLine & vbNewLine & "Please try again."

13.-I hope this will help you, My computer have 5 hours without the message

14.-Sorry about the writting, if you have any question this is my email "[email protected]"

RedneckDude
Reply #363 Wednesday, March 3, 2010 5:27 PM

Best Known Fix:

Download weather widgets that work from here:

http://redneckdude.wincustomize.com/skins.aspx?libid=34

windowpains
Reply #364 Sunday, May 30, 2010 7:54 PM

So what's all this mean for Object Bar? Is the program going to be updated at all?

RedneckDude
Reply #365 Sunday, May 30, 2010 8:09 PM

What does Object Bar have to do with this thread? 

zevera86zevera03
Reply #366 Saturday, June 12, 2010 8:37 PM

Hello,

According to zevera it is the problem while shutting down the computer you might be done some thing wrong while formatting the computer.

 

 

 

{poster is a fool...and exiled - [warez]] - Admin

waxplay3r
Reply #367 Saturday, June 12, 2010 10:10 PM

RedneckDude
Reply #368 Saturday, June 12, 2010 11:11 PM

According to zevera it is the problem while shutting down the computer you might be done some thing wrong while formatting the computer.

I format mine every time I shut it down, never had that problem before!!!  

waxplay3r
Reply #369 Sunday, June 13, 2010 11:08 AM

{poster is a fool...and exiled - [warez]] - Admin

 

That's what my look was about...I saw that in 2 posts almost around the same time...

RedneckDude
Reply #370 Sunday, June 13, 2010 11:19 PM

Dude, go peddle this crap somewhere else....we frown on this kind of activity here. 

Jafo
Reply #371 Monday, June 14, 2010 8:39 AM

Clean up on aisle 3.

I think I'll have them all....this time...

RedneckDude
Reply #372 Monday, June 14, 2010 10:21 AM

Thanks Jafo! 

RedBuzzard
Reply #373 Wednesday, November 16, 2011 10:37 PM

Hate to bring up this old chestnut but weather.com has done it again.IDs and Keys are going down and will start to no longer work soooo I backtracked and found that neophil78's temp fix does still work

RedneckDude
Reply #374 Wednesday, November 16, 2011 10:47 PM

RedBuzzard
neophil78's temp fix does still work

But it violates the TOS, so is as good as warez.

RedBuzzard
Reply #375 Wednesday, November 16, 2011 10:51 PM

Since they are no longer honoring the ID and Key they gave us when they made us sign up for it then.........

RedneckDude
Reply #376 Wednesday, November 16, 2011 10:53 PM

Still wrong and should be shunned by this community and it's mods. But I have voiced this before, to no avail. Illegal is illegal.

RedBuzzard
Reply #377 Wednesday, November 16, 2011 11:09 PM

Well if you have another solution, I would still like to use my widgets.

RedneckDude
Reply #378 Wednesday, November 16, 2011 11:14 PM

RedBuzzard
Well if you have another solution, I would still like to use my widgets.

Sviz has a legal weather template, I have a gallery full of working, legal widgets and gadgets for weather. I'm sure there are other working, legal choices.

 

RedBuzzard
Reply #379 Saturday, November 19, 2011 10:41 AM

I'd really hate to have to rebuild all my personal objects. Is there any body that I can send one of mine to fix and send back to me so I have something to go by? Seems it would make it a lot easier than starting from scratch on each one of them since they are all pretty much the same except for the graphics :/.

RedneckDude
Reply #380 Saturday, November 19, 2011 11:57 AM

How many?

 

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