[X4U] Non-US cities, countries in Weather Widget in Dashboard?

[John Bryan]

Thanks.  I had tried doing something close to that before, but didn't  
do it right.

Using what you describe I got it to go like this :

First had used the world-:region->country->city method which gave a  
url ending in :   zipcode=AS;CI;BEIJING;
Tried plugging that whole "AS;CI;BEIJING;" string into the widget,  
hit return to get it to verify, and it found no cities;

went back to accuweather.com and just entered city of Beijing, and it  
gave :  zipcode=BEIJING
plugged that into the widget, but this time hit return to let it  
validate, and it comes up with Beijing, China, click Done and we've  
got weather!!  Raining btw.

Tried Changsha in accuweather same way.  Widget comes back with  
different variations of spelling and location and I pick the right one.

Great !  So now I can get other non-US cities, but I STILL can't get  
the dang thing to take my actual home city of Austin, TX as default,  
it must be coming up with Austin, MN, one of 8 Austins the validate  
returns.

sigh...

ok, making progress...thanks much for the help.


On May 04, 2005, at 10:51 PM, Mike Panas wrote:

> There was an entry yesterday about going to accuweather->world- 
> >choose a city-> note the designation following "zipcode" near the  
> end of the url-> copy that "zipcode"->paste it into the widget's  
> location field and click "done." It'll "validate," then give you  
> the weather. I checked the weather in Athens yesterday by this  
> method. I've also seen posts saying to just enter the city name and  
> country in the location space and that woks too, but I haven't  
> tried that. Of course, you must first click on the "i" at the  
> bottom right corner o the widget to flip it over and expose the  
> location entry field.
> mike
> On May 4, 2005, at 7:50 PM, John Bryan wrote:
>
>
>> Hey, has anyone figured out how to get the weather widget in  
>> Dashboard to take non-US cities/countries ?
>>
>> accuweather.com does provide the information, but looks like  
>> Dashboard's weather widget only groks US cities.
>>
>> I found a plist file "~/library/preferences/widget- 
>> com.apple.widget.weather.plist" but it is binary, although I can  
>> find the strings for the city names I already have.  I was going  
>> to see if I could hack the plist to manually enter the non-US city  
>> info such that it would get it to accuweather.com, but no such  
>> luck, apparently.  At least not yet.
>>
>> thanks
>> jb
>>