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Posted on Tue May 17 23:36:49 2005 by intranetman

Is there a built-in function to allow icons to be associated with descriptions. I've been looking over Weather::Com documentation and the documentation from Weather.com XML feed, but I can't seem to find it. I don't mind writing statements to correspond descriptions with Icons, but that seems kind of long winded. Also, if I need to write statements is there complete lists of descriptions available: "Mostly cloudy, partly cloud, etc." Any help/direction would be great. Thanks.

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Posted on Wed May 18 12:36:24 2005 by schnueck in response to 469

Re: Icons and Descriptions

Hi,

1. Complete list of descriptions:
Weather.Com themselves do not provide any list of valid descriptions. BUT to be able to do some localization I collected an almost complete list of descriptions. This list can be found in the L10N files (e.g. 'Weather::Com::L10N::de').

2. Mapping icon to description:
As Weather.Com does not provide a list of valid descriptions, they do not provide a mapping, too.
For what purpose could one need such a mapping? For each weather condition you always get an 'icon()' method and a 'description()' method...
There would be sensible possibilities to implement such a mapping - if there is a real need for it!

Thomas

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Posted on Wed May 18 19:04:14 2005 by intranetman in response to 471

Re: Icons and Descriptions

Hi,

1. Complete list of description:
I guess I didn't dig deep enough. Thanks for point out the L10N.pm files, those help a lot.

2. Mapping Icon to description:
The icon() method works like a charm.

Thanks for your quick response. Weather::Com is a great tool. Keep up the good work.

Pat

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