You mean like the one with accuweather?

I guess it's time to kiss DX weather widgets goodbye. What a catastrophe. I use them all the time. I'm sure well over 99% of us aren't going to start poking around with scripts any time soon; for most of us, figuring out how to change the location is a major triumph. It would be nice if Stardock could make a deal with the provider, but the provider would have to revert to the old code that worked with the widgets, if I have that right. I doubt that that will happen just for us. It looks like every single weather widget will have to be re-scripted by the author's for some other service other than the one being presently used. I don't want a logo or 4 or 5 links embedded in my widgets any more than Jim wants to put them in. This is really going to hurt DesktopX and all the skinners that make the widgets. You can tell how important this is by the size of the thread already. We users depend on Stardock to do something, if it's possible. There is a small degree of entitlement involved when you buy something, even if Stardock is not at all responsible for the situation. It's going to hurt Stardock in the pocketbook if DesktopX sales go down because of this. There is a certain logic in the company going the extra mile in this case because it will lose either way, financially speaking. Good luck to all of you working on the problem, and Zubaz, get it fixed like you get everything else fixed. Just don't ask me how.

Putting a logo on a widget is basic common sense that everyone should have been aware of from Stardock,to widget creators to Wincustomize administration.  The fact that it wasn't there while being on all Stardock products frankly shocked me.  What I've been reading is counter to Zubaz's comment about entitlement.  While creating really cool widgets and crediting Martin for the script,skinners weren't crediting the feed owners nor devleoping their own scripts.   Thats not about feeling entitled.  That sounds lazy to me.

Now it's an issue of reputation.  I've got Stardock on a pedestal as I do some of the skinners.  People who put in a lot of work and passion into something that they're giving away and some sell.  But they love what they do.  How different entities resolve this problem will make a difference in how I view them.  Some will say,"Not my problem.  I'm doing nothing."  Others like VAD_M will try to fix the problem and resolve it.  I guess it boils down to the individual and the type of person they are.

I think if I were trying to sell products,my reputation would be very important to me.  If not,a lot less.  Either way I wouldn't walk away with people thinking I didn't care.

-sigh-

First . . I've been a member of the community longer that I've been a Stardockian.  I still pay for my subscription so I can be honest with myself.  I feel your pain.

• Fact - Weather.com changed their feed to get something back for the service they provide
  
• Fact - Every DX widgit that uses the weather.com feed needs to be updated to use the new feed URL (ID & key)
  
• Fact - Every DX widgit that uses the weather.com feed needs to be updated to use the logo
• Fact - Only the coder can do that update (especially because there is variation)
• Fact - Each coder can add the same code to allow input of each users feed ID
• Fact - The registration is free and easy for the user

Did I miss anything?

If you notice though (if you have bought any of our suites with weather widgets), we display accuweathers logo and link. 

"Did I miss anything?"

• Fact-Every weather widget is useless now unless you can write scripts
• Fact-Every widget will look ugly with the logo
• Fact-When we bought DesktopX, there was no expectation of this, whether it's Stardock's fault or not
• Fact-Without weather widgets, DesktopX will probably fade away
• Fact-Stardock must not have read the license

The solution posted makes your location the fixed location. So you lose the ability to change locations. If you want to allow the ability to change locations try one of the solutions HERE under Allow ability to change locations.

This is a perfect opportunity for Stardock and Wincustomize.   Future widgets will work as advertised.  All T's should be crossed and all I's dotted.  I simply can't imagine a widget gallery sans any weather widgets.

I am a long time user and customer of SD, Wincustomize and the wealth of innovative widgets, skins, and themes created by the unbelievably talented and skilled developers and coders on this site. I have been an IT professional for more years than I am willing to publically admit, but this type of maneuver by weather.com is not surprising, especially in these tough economic times where many services need to maximize income and minimize costs.

Since you must code to fix this, I am just curious why you don't choose the service that SD has a valid license with, Accuweather? When I experienced this issue suddenly on my desktop like everyone else here, I jumped online to this forum, found out the source of the issue, then searched for other weather widgets here, found the "July AccuWeather" widget, installed it and now life is good again on my desktops (5 day forecasts are back). True, I prefer weather.com as a service, but then I also preferred the Betamax to VHS many years ago and I lost out on that one too.

Whatever the consensus for action is in the community, I have a sincere appreciation for all of you and the work you do to develop new content for this site and others, you are all extremely talented and your passion shows in the work you do.

Thanks and keep up the great work!

"I don't think that is true, but it certainly don't help. There are still calendars, and meters, system info. lotsa other reasons to use DX besides weather."

I'm pretty sure that weather widgets are the most popular by far, and now there isn't a single usable one available to us. That means that the main reason for most people to use DesktopX has disappeared. A calendar is probably next, but we can use Rainlendar, which is more versatile than most DX calendars. I like sys info, etc., myself, but a lot of people don't. It's not clear to me that Stardock is eager to support DesktopX that much, so if the main practical reason for customers to use it has disappeared, then Stardock will probably become less interested, and it would fade away. That would be a tragedy; it's such a great program, and there's so many clever people writing neat things for it.

I mention Rainlendar because there are a lot of skins for it that are theme-consistent. I'm curious about what you are going to do with your themes. Are you thinking of redoing all of them to fix the weather problem?

And here's THE solution to keep using weather.com (well at least to keep widgets OK) but without having to get any Partner ID and License Key

- Load DesktopX Builder

- Before importing your widget, disconnect from/turn off the internet (unplug cable, etc.)

- R-click on the DX Builder icon in your system tray and Import your widget

- R-click on the DX Builder icon and choose List Objects

- Find the "weather_image" object. R-click and choose Edit Script

(If you don't see this object, you are likely using a different version)

- In the script editor, find the line that looks similar to this:

http.Open "GET", "http://xoap.weather.com/weather/local/" & location & "?cc=*&dayf=5" & str_UNITS & str_RANDOM_URL, False

- Replace in that line http://xoap.weather.com/weather/local/ by http://xml.weather.com/weather/local/ , save & apply the script

- R-click on the DX Builder icon and find the "weather_forecaststatus" object. R-click and choose Edit Script

- In the script editor, find the line that looks similar to this:

http.Open "GET", "http://xoap.weather.com/search/search?where=" & x, False

- Replace in that line http://xoap.weather.com/search/search?where= by http://xml.weather.com/search/search?where=, save & apply the sript

(you may have to do the same with the second line:  http.Open "GET", "http://xoap.weather.com/search/search?where=" & y, False - in case of two locations choice ...)

- This hardcodes NOTHING and the widget goes fine

- Restore your internet connection and test the widget (Use the change location button)

- If all goes okay (and it will), you can now export the widget again.

Funny isn't it ? [e digicons][/e]

Well, this is one of the reasons i decided to avoid supporting and buying products from stardock years ago, the lack of continuity in the projecs and the depencency of internet even to install one product you have paid for.

Seems that once anything is changed or a new version of one application is released yo have to send to the trash can all the work you have been doing for years.

Now I have two alternatives either i redownload and rebuild all my almost 150 weather widgets praying for that in the future there are no other changes that make them unusable or definetively i delete all of them from my hard drive.

I am really tired of updates and changes that solve one minior problem but creates lots of other unexpected problems that forces you to take decissions.

I am owner of WB 4.6, IP 3.0, Icon developer, really not much, but today is the day when i definetively say goodbye to stardock. I am really tired of changing an tweaking things just to be up with any little change in an applications that makes yo to go again and again to repair all the work you have been doing for years.