Widget wont show Weather in Metric Units / 24h Time ?

[cbara]

Hi, Can anyone please help with this problem ? The HTML source is pasted below; Although the 'location ID' is correct for the Personal Weather Station, the Widget seems to be showing the default weather for Johannesburg, South Africa. Very many thanks and kind regards. (www.baragwanath.co.za/weather)

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://swf.yowindow.com/wimo/hpPal/hpPal.swf" width="220" height="150">
<param name="movie" value="http://swf.yowindow.com/wimo/hpPal/hpPal.swf"/>
<param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"/>
<param name="wmode" value="opaque"/>
<param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"/>
<param name="flashvars" value="location_id=gn:993800&current_weather_url=http://www.baragwanath.co.za/public_htm ... park,South Africa&time_format=24&unit_system=metric&background=#FFFFFF&copyright_bar=false"/>
<a href="http://yowindow.com?client=widget&link=stub"
style="width:220px;height:150px;display: block;text-indent: -50000px;font-size: 0px;-moz-background-clip:border;-moz-background-inline-policy:continuous;-moz-background-origin:padding;background:#DDF url(http://yowindow.com/img/logo.png) no-repeat scroll 50% 50%;"
>Free Weather Widget</a>
</object>

[cbara]

Hi thanks for the response on how to fix the Widget HTML and changes to crossdomain.xml. The sugestions fixed the problem of the wather not been shown in metric and the time in the 24hr format, but the Widgest is stil showing the default weather for Johannesburg, and not for the PWS, Any more suggestions please ? Many thanks and kind regards.

[jmcmurry]

I think someone mentioned earlier the extra quote that might be causing the problem.

value="location_id=gn:993800&current_weather_url=http://www.baragwanath.co.za/public_html/yowindow.xml"&location_name=Randpark,South Africa&time_format=24&unit_system=metric&background=#FFFFFF&copyright_bar=false"/>

- Jim

[Don]

Hello cbara,

Compare the two url's in theses screen captures and I think you will find the problem.

Don

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[cbara]

Hi, many thanks for the help ! Found that neither the yowindow or crossdomain files could be 'seen' with a browser as per Dons examples, and now both have been corrected and are 'visible'. I must be missing something critical - the Widget still wont show the correct weather, any further suggestions please ? Many thanks in advance.

[Don]

Hi, many thanks for the help ! Found that neither the yowindow or crossdomain files could be 'seen' with a browser as per Dons examples, and now both have been corrected and are 'visible'. I must be missing something critical - the Widget still wont show the correct weather, any further suggestions please ? Many thanks in advance.

Look carefully at the address bar in the examples in my first post and you will see that yowindow.xml is in the root directory, not in public_html. Remove public_html from this section of the flashvars parameter current_weather_url=http://www.baragwanath.co.za/public_html/yowindow.xml so that looks like the code below, then hopefully YoWindow will be able to find it.

Don

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<param name="flashvars" value="location_id=gn:993800&current_weather_url=http://www.baragwanath.co.za/yowindow.xml&location_name=Randpark,South Africa&time_format=24&unit_system=metric&background=#FFFFFF&copyright_bar=false">

[cbara]

Many thanks Don, all has been corrected now and seems to be working OK, much appreciated.