But the problem of reaching the back pages of widgets is not unique
to the weather widget it happens with all of them.
Greg
On Apr 21, 2007, at 16:40 , Esther wrote:
Greg, Josh and others,
On Saturday, April 21, 2007, at 12:21PM, "Greg Kearney" wrote:
I filed this as a bug today.
Setting location for the weather widget was discussed in a much
earlier
thread over a year ago. At the time, the author of the dashboard
weather
widget posted a command-line alternative for entering the zip code.
However, I tried this in my current operating system, and it
doesn't seem
to change the weather widget location (which is actually correct using
default values that I never set). The archive post that gives his
instructions is:
http://macvisionaries.com/pipermail/discuss_macvisionaries.com/2006-
January/008827.html
But to summarize here, the instruction was to type from the terminal:
open -a /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app
"dashboard-widget:open=com.apple.widget.weather?location=93401"
where the argument for the location is the zip code you want. At
least
at the time the widget was designed, it only worked for U.S. locations
-- a sighted person inputting "Paris" would get the weather for Paris,
Texas. The command was supposed to be typed on a single line,
but gets broken up by the mailer, so if you want to try it you should
paste the two lines together, separated by a space.
As I said, trying it now did not reset my Weather WIdget to
Cupertino, CA,
though it did for some list members who tried it at the time.
And John Louch (author of the widget) was going to report this to
the VoiceOver team.
Hope this helps,
Cheers,
Esther
