[Request] Link to Weather plug-in on Weather page

[Livin]

Nuka just posted a very nice plug-in - can you add a button on the Weather page for it?

http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=40338

thx!

[xb2iris]

u gotta download the script and add it to the scripts section... no idea how to put a button poitning to a script... may look into it at a later stage though...

[rwparris2]

XBMC.RunScript(script[,args]*)

Where script is the path to the script.

You could probably include it in your skin package to prevent confusion with people having to manually install it.

(Just tried your skin today... looks great man!)

[Livin]

xb2iris,
as RW pointed out it is easy to launch a script from a button... I just figured I'd ask you to do it since you are still working on the skin and I thought it would be a great benefit for the end-users as the script really adds a ton of nice weather info.

[Jezz_X]

Originally Posted by rwparris2

.....You could probably include it in your skin package to prevent confusion with people having to manually install it......

Always a bad idea IMHO because you then end up with outdated versions of scripts that no longer work anymore and don't have bug fixes and then people complain to the script writers thats its broken and its just because they have a outdated version. Its best to let them install it themselves and then have an option to point to the script in skin settings like PM3.HD does

[xb2iris]

As Jezz_X says, its pointless me adding a script into the skin. I believe that's not my responsibility, and takes the fun out of collecting scripts for you guys. It would be cool, but I don't think including something which needs installatation would be a good idea, as some people will be rended with an unusable button, which no body wants. Plus, the weather screen is sufficient for me. I just want to know if it rains or doesn't and how warm its going to get. More info makes me dizzy! hehehe

[Livin]

xb2iris,
Is there a way to make a button conditional upon a file or folder existing?

It would be cool to have a button show, if the script (folder/file) exists... set by the user.

If not, maybe a feature request?

[xb2iris]

no idea... wish there were, but unless someone can point me to it... i'm lost... plus, times a bitch... using internet cafe until they can install the internet at my place... sad sad... wish i were more in touch...

[Livin]

xb2iris,
Can you post a feature request for this? JM will consider it much more coming from a skinner!

[Jezz_X]

The reason the feature to check if a file or folder existed was never added (asked for many times before) was because it would have to hammer the filesystem too much because of the way the skin condition system is done by checking and rechecking every frame (or somthing like that) at least thats what jmarshall told me ages ago