weather tool within litestep Thread last updated on 2006-01-19 21:09:56

Posted by member 280260 on 2006-01-18 20:35:17

I'd like to build some sort of weather display into my current theme (a la Samurize). I'm not really sure how to go about doing it. As far as I can tell I need a couple of things:

1. Some sort of feed that gives me the weather as a simple text string.

2. A module for reading that feed.

3. A way of setting the image of a label based on that feed.

As for 2, I know there's a module for aggregating RSS feeds.
As for 3, I should probably be able to do it with mzscript.

I guess my problem is that I don't know what kind of feed to use or where I could get such a feed. And then whether or not I can feed that to an LS module.

Am I going about this the right way? Any suggestions as to what/were I should get my weather info?

Thx.

Posted by member 1 on 2006-01-18 21:42:35 link

Check out the Obsidian theme. It has a decent weather config. As for just a module to do it...you can use lookoutside and label to get everything but the image.

Posted by member 280260 on 2006-01-18 22:52:40 link

Also can't find any module by the name of lookoutside on the LSUniverse list.

Posted by member 1 on 2006-01-19 02:41:49 link

Thats nice...1.438 seconds later thanks to FasterFox.

http://modules.shellfront.org/lookoutside-0.5.zip

Posted by member 280260 on 2006-01-19 21:09:56 link

Thanks.