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PostPosted: November 6th, 2013, 12:35 am 
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Dear developer(s),

is there a reason, why you don't add all available (current condition/forecast) weather data to AccWeatherCore?
These data are downloaded always anyway by AccWeatherCore and can be found in <Path_to_Appdata>\Cache\AccuWeatherCore2SK_<AccuWeatherCode>.~tmp
(for the 15-days-forecast in: <Path_to_Appdata>\Cache\AccuWeatherCore2_<AccuWeatherCode>.~tmp)

I never understood what makes "DewPoint" so relevant and interesting to be included while others, like "PressureTendency" (which is one of the most used meteorologic terms), "CloudCover" or "Precip1hr" are not. :?

Here is a list of all available AccuWeather data (as said - that are already downloaded and locally stored by AccWeatherCore) *)
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Description                                      AccuWeather (local file)         in AccWeatherCore
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Observation time                                 LocalObservationDateTime            yes
Observation time (Unix time)                     EpochTime                           yes
Short description of current weather             WeatherText                         yes
Current weather icon                             WeatherIcon                         yes
Is currently "day" or "night" ?                  IsDayTime                            -
Current temperature                              Temperature [°C, °F]                yes
Current "Feels like" temperature                 RealFeelTemperature                 yes
Current "Feels like" temperature in shade        RealFeelTemperatureShade             -
Relative humidity                                RelativeHumidity                    yes
Dewpoint                                         DewPoint [°C, °F]                   yes
Wind (speed/direction/degrees)                   Wind [km/h, mi/h]                   yes
Wind gust (speed/direction/degrees)              WindGust [km/h, mi/h]                -
UV-index                                         UVIndex                             yes
UV-index text                                    UVIndexText                         yes
Visibility                                       Visibility                          yes
Cause of limited visibility (fog/haze/...)       ObstructionsToVisibility             -
Clouds covering the sky (in percent)             CloudCover                           -
Distance to cloud ceiling                        Ceiling [m, ft]                      -
Pressure                                         Pressure                            yes
Change of pressure/tendency (rising/falling/..)  PressureTendency                     -
Change of temperature within past 24 hours       Past24HourTemperatureDeparture       -
Appenrent temperature                            ApparentTemperature [°C, °F]         -
WindChill temperature                            WindChillTemperature [°C, °F]        -
Precipitation within the past hour               Precip1hr [mm, in]                   -
Mobile URL to weather page                       MobileLink                           -
Normal URL to weather page                       Link                                 -
  *) this list contains only the "current condition" data

Do you have concrete plans to implement them (all AccuWeather data) in the near future?

I'm very interested in "PressureTendency", "Precip1hr" and "CloudCover", but other users might find different AccuWeather values more useful. Same can be said for the 15-days-forecast; there are also "hidden treasures" I would like to use with AccWeatherCore: "Hours Of Precipitation", "Hours Of Rain", "Amount of (falling) Rain", "Amount of (falling) Snow", "Hours Of Sun", "Snow Probability", "Date/time of Daily Forecasts [DailyForecasts]"... (to name a few) and some of them separated by day/night).

If not, could you add at least a new variable for the <AccuWeatherCode> in the next release?
That would make it more flexible (universal) in using WebParseCore to get these locally stored data (the way I do now, which works fine, but it's static and will not work (automatically!) if I change the weather location/town).

Many thanks in advance. :)


P. S.
The "Refresh interval (ms)" in "Core Settings" of the accweatherCore is without any effect since v1.88. :?: It does not matter what value will be entered (at least that's my experience). The only value that counts is the one that is set in the new "Weather Details/Changing Town" dialogbox (or inside the scripting code). Maybe it is a good idea to remove the obsolete one, so it will not cause any confusion/misunderstandings.


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PostPosted: March 22nd, 2014, 7:08 pm 
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I think all of those datas should be included in the accweathercore.


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PostPosted: March 23rd, 2014, 2:28 am 
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I think and I hope that the Dev will add these in the next version of XWidget. Please have a little patience..
Thanks for reporting all these. :)

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PostPosted: March 29th, 2014, 9:41 pm 
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Thanks jackiDi, I will change this at XWidget2.
In fact, I plan to re-write all Cores with script code and open sources, then everyone can change/edit/add there cores source code to Improvements cores easily

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PostPosted: March 29th, 2014, 9:49 pm 
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Thank you for the feedback Tony :) ...... looking forward to V2 :D


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PostPosted: April 3rd, 2014, 3:51 pm 
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are you going to make xwidget open source?
it would be helpful if you open source XWidget.


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PostPosted: April 3rd, 2014, 5:42 pm 
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ELY_M wrote:
are you going to make xwidget open source?
it would be helpful if you open source XWidget.


I plan to make all cores open source at ver XWidget2

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