Weather widget
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- irritantno9
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Weather widget
I initially bought the Ybox2 just for the weather widget. I'm a terrible programmer. How difficult would it be to have the weather widget cycle through a number of zip codes. Like change every 2 minutes or so?
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I don't have a YBox2, so this is pretty much guesswork, but from the Widgets page, it looks like the zip code is simply adjusted via your web browser, so you may want to try some simple javascript injection.
For example, go to the Google homepage, once it's loaded, paste this into the URL bar:hit enter and wait for once second.
Notice what happened. You'll need to take over from here, since I can't experiment on my own with that page, but I'll break down what's going on.
If you can edit the page source, it would be easy add this:
That should get you started
For example, go to the Google homepage, once it's loaded, paste this into the URL bar:
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javascript:void(setTimeout("document.f.q.value='Hello, World';document.f.submit()", 1000));
Notice what happened. You'll need to take over from here, since I can't experiment on my own with that page, but I'll break down what's going on.
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javascript: - Tells your browser to accept a script
void( - Makes sure you stay where you are, otherwise, you will lose your page when it returns a value
setTimeout( - This function will sleep for the number in the second argument, then do what's in the first argument
"document.f.q.value='Hello, World!';document.f.submit();" - This is the first argument, it tells Firefox (or IE) to look in the document for a form named "f" (you'll need to view the page source and see what your form is named), then in that form, look for a control named "q" (again, find the name of you zip code input box) and set its value to "Hello, World!" and submit the form
, 1000)); - This tells the function to sleep for 1000mS, for 2 minutes, you would do 60 * 2 = 120 * 1000 = 120000
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<script>
function func1(){
<!-- insert code to change zip code to whatever -->
<!-- insert a setTimeout to call func2 -->
}
function func2(){
<!-- insert code to change zip code to whatever else -->
<!-- insert a setTimeout to call func1 -->
}
</script>
- irritantno9
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- Joined: Thu Jun 05, 2008 4:12 pm
ORLY
Sounds like Dr. Sbaitso:
Dr. Sbaitso: The answer is asdhjfkldsfjhklasdfhkjsdhfkjshdfkjshdfjhsdkjf.
OK I think I understand......
Dr. Sbaitso: The answer is asdhjfkldsfjhklasdfhkjsdhfkjshdfkjshdfjhsdkjf.
OK I think I understand......
Last edited by irritantno9 on Sat Jun 28, 2008 4:57 pm, edited 1 time in total.
- irritantno9
- Posts: 22
- Joined: Thu Jun 05, 2008 4:12 pm
no actually
I take that back!
HUH!
I think I plateaued at
10 print "hello world" ;
20 goto 10
HUH!
I think I plateaued at
10 print "hello world" ;
20 goto 10
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