I've been reading the posts for the problem concerning the weather widgets and from what I read, there is a way for creators to fix their widgets so that they can re-submit them. I would not mind fixing all my widgets so that they can stay on wincustomize... so what I need is help from someone to show me how to do this or fix one of mine, then I could see how and do the same for my others. Thanks

Note:

   I do understand all the arguments given so far and also those who will not wish to fix their widgets or include them in their themes because no one likes to be forced to add links or logos to their creations, so I respect everyone. But like most people who love the widgets, we do hope that the creators find a way to keep creating and sharing their work because that is why we all come here for.

Take care everyone, and don't give up.

Trudy

I have just uploaded themes that have had their weather object converted as shown in section 3a by neophil78. The weather objects now work perfectly but for some reason were rejected.

I also worked most of the night changing all my Master themes so that they also work perfectly.

As this method states :

- This hardcodes NOTHING and the widget goes fine

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

Anyone understand this ??

I used neophil78 's system to sort out a couple of widgets on my computer and worked perfectly.

This is fine as it's my computer and I can do what I like with it.

However from what I have read you cannot use this way to correct widgets and upload here.

Widgets here now have to be correct to Weather suppliers TOS so must include logo and links.

This is true! But seems I have no more desire to share anything on WC after what I've seen and heared here during last days. This work has totally lost a sence for me...

Gef: u want use neophil's suggested method?

This is very sad news... ]

This place already seen the much more significant events like loss Tiggs, Martin, Night Train and a lot of other famous people. What means a few widgets from one ukrainian guy for so Global Project like WC? Just NOTHING! (By the way this looks like in our scripts when we want to clear memory! Seems it's time to clear this memory page)...

So this is not a sad news. This is just a logical conclusion of a long way named "The place of my DesktopX understanding". And now you may trust me - I understood all!

Yeah I see... But I say again: This is very sad news..

I'm your "neighbour".. in Hungary..

have some Ukrainian "friends".. good peoples..

We are all loss, when our elders (masters/coders/skinners) went pack and left out...

Really!

I'm surprised over some of the drama shown here. My understanding is that people attain the rank of MASTER by being a leader and mentor in the community.

This is the time for the "pioneers" of coding/skinning to step up and come up with solutions (like a few are doing) not to point fingers and leave in a huff!

This attitude saddens me more than anything else.

well said.

Yes! But this is very funny! Show me at least one "pioneer" who can produce new codes and I'll be happy. At this moment I'm seeing only two persons who tries work on a new scripts - sViz and Littleboy. That's all and they are not pioneers. Do you really think that this is enough for so large community? Good luck.

EDIT: Sorry I forgot HAPTORK. But this does not change the final result...

I will not leave this place right now. I just stop all projects and will wait for a new version of DesktopX. Then I will take the final decision...

BTW i still didn't see any conditions rules using the xml instead of xoap

If someone can give a link on these eventual conditions rules it would be fine

Seems kind of extreme to me.  You make some of the most creative DX stuff out there, why stop and leave because of this issue with a weather widget that I'm confident will be corrected in short time?

I don't think it is extreme. In my case I will have over 100 themes deleted - 6 years work.

Also, I tried to update themes because of this issue but unfortunately, I missundersttod what is required so those themes are now impossible to update again because they are not there to update.

Dear ID,

There was many reason for this. Just a situation around Weather Widgets was the last straw which "overflowed the cup of my patience"...

1. Remember the Maxton Contest and starnge drop the rating of my skin from 10 (which kept about 2 months!) to 6 exactly before the end of this contest. This can not be true...

I'm very modest person who don't need a fame. And I don't need any prizes or gifts from WC. I just want to say that the Rules of any Contests must be very transparent and honest. Otherwise I lose my interest to take part in these actions and never more will repeat this.

2. Look at the results of selling my Master Skins. Did you really think that a few years of my life may cost so little? The people who downloads the beta preview around 100 times per day with a lot of bugs (that rated to 10 by the way). But they don't like the full versions (without any bugs) which was rated to 7 and 8! This is absurd and I'm not ready to continue it.

3. I wrote a big letter to Zu with all of my thoughts about TWC TOS. If we begin to strictly observe the rules let's ask to people: "How the hell you create your skins?" Did you really have the legal copy of Photoshop (which cost around $700 by the way)? Or: "Did you have the legal copy of SkinStudio or DesktopX PRO?" There are a lot of the similar questions that have no answers...

4. I'm not a skinner. No doubt I can make any skins (buy the way my copy of Photoshop and of a few other Graphic Redactors are totally legal!) but it doesn't interesting for me. Any skin without coding is only the dead set of images. And only through the using of scripts, you can breathe a life into your creation! But when I hear that I couldn't edit new AccuWeather plugin because of some TOS(s) I finally lose my interest even take it in my hands.

And finally I'm so tired during the all these years that I want to relax a bit. Hope I have a right to do this...

Out of curiosity, is 'ACCUWEATHER' as used by Objectdock also not to be used?

Gef (and neophil) . . the work-around in 2a of sViz's thread is a fix for end users.  It is NOT a solution for authors.  The XMLreturned clearly shows that there is a licesne and copyright in place as you can see here http://xml.weather.com/weather/local/48375.

<!--
 This document is intended only for use by authorized licensees of The 
-->
<!--
 Weather Channel. Unauthorized use is prohibited.  Copyright 1995-2009,
-->
<!--
 The Weather Channel Interactive, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.           
-->
<weather ver="2.0">
<head>
<locale>en_US</locale>
<form>MEDIUM</form>
<ut>F</ut>
<ud>mi</ud>
<us>mph</us>
<up>in</up>
<ur>in</ur>
</head>
<loc id="48375">
<dnam>Novi, MI (48375)</dnam>
<tm>10:30 AM</tm>
<lat>42.46</lat>
<lon>-83.46</lon>
<sunr>6:08 AM</sunr>
<suns>9:11 PM</suns>
<zone>-4</zone>
</loc>
</weather>

Any author using the XML feed will have to abide by the weather.com ToS

I have updated the Fix thread to make sure that point is clear.

Thank you for clearing that but you state:

"These fixes are NOT for gadgets, as gadgets can not be modified. If your weather gadget isn't working, discontinue use and contact the author to inform them of the problem. These fixes are for end-users only."

We all know what the problem is - we honestly don't need contacting about it.

Here's the complete Terms off use

http://www.weather.com/common/home/legal.html

... and as far as i can understand, any kind of use of the service has to be priory authorized directly by WTC, it's not only a question of logo and link to them, that means (i think) that each skinner have to get the WTC permission to do what he wants to do, widgets or so

Gef, allowing a weather widget that don't conform to the feed owner's TOS would be parallel to allowing rips to be posted in the galleries. No difference at all.