Subj : Re: Customizing underground weather bbs application
To   : Terry Rankin
From : Terry Rankin
Date : Sat Dec 30 2017 10:58 am

On Saturday, December 30, 2017 at 1:53:59 PM UTC-5, Terry Rankin wrote:
> On Saturday, December 30, 2017 at 12:35:28 AM UTC-5, g00r00 wrote:
> > TR> Need to pass State and City (parameters) into the uweather program.
> >
> > These are not part of the door command line codes, but I could probably add
> > this in for you.
> >
> >  TR> If that won't work, how come I can't do this in MPL:
> >  TR>
> >  TR> MenuCmd('DD',Patch+'wu.sh summary |UC');
> >
> > You have to convert it with MCI2STR.  It'd be like this:
> >
> > MenuCmd('DD', Patch + 'wu.sh summary ' + mci2str('UC'));
>
> You absolutely ROCK my friend! :)
>
> Works perfectly!!!
>
> You those who have this weather app (XQ-UWEATHER.ZIP), all you have to do is:
> modify wu.sh (Right under the apikey entry, modify state and city):
>    state=$2
>    city=$3
>
> and modify all the MenuCmd lines in xq-uweather.mps to add + mci2str('UC')
> Note the first MenuCmd line will change...
> From:
> MenuCmd('DD', Patch + 'wu.sh');
> To:
> MenuCmd('DD', Patch + 'wu.sh dummy ' + mci2str('UC'));
>
> The first part of the program doesn't use the first parameter...hence the 
'dummy'.
>
> Thanks again!
> Terry

Of course this will only work if your account location is "state city". Meaning 
no comma or slash or any other variation. Probably could add a couple more 
lines of code to groom out any unwanted characters.

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