Hi Keith, I'll just add that if you want the say command in your AppleScript to announce the temperature in another voice, you can also set that as an argument and use any of your installed system voices (including the InfoVox voices if you have them). For example, if you're a French user in Snow Leopard with the InfoVox French voice you could change the last part of that shell script to a pipe to "say -v Alice", for example, or other valid voice on your system. It looks as though there's an extra argument to the "say" command in Lion that is not in Snow Leopard. Does the "r" switch allow you to specify a speech rate? (That's not something you can do in earlier versions of Mac OS X.)
Cheers, Esther On Sep 11, 2011, at 05:27, Keith Watson wrote: > All, > > Like Scott said, this was an exercise in learning Apple Script and to > facilitate the request of another list member. They did not want all the > information that the weather widget gave. All they wanted was the outside > temperature. If the weather widget works for you then by all means continue > to use it and ignore this thread. I could really give a crap if you like or > dislike the way myself or others wish to garner our information. > > So with that said, I have found that there is a way to do this with curl. > Open your Apple Script editor and copy the following line into it. With this > code you do not have to install Xcode or Mac Ports. And in the interest of > full disclosure, I am also going to post the original Mac Hints snippet in > case anyone is interested in whether or not it's going to be hotter today > than yesterday. Oh and as before, make sure you substitute 33617 with your > own zip code. > > *** Code starts on next line *** > do shell script "curl -s > http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=33617 | > grep -A 2 tempActual | textutil -convert txt -stdin -stdout -format html | > say -r 400" > *** Code ends here *** > > Original Mac Hints code, with a pipe to say added by me. > > *** Code starts on next line. *** > do shell script "curl -s > http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=33617 | awk > '/Today is/ || /Tomorrow is/' | textutil -convert txt -stdin -stdout -format > html | say -r 400" > *** Code ends here. *** > > > If you have any problems or suggestions, please don;t hesitate to ask or > criticize. I personally find that this method is slower than the other way, > but it does not require any additional installs. > > Have fun. > > Keith > On Sep 11, 2011, at 8:20 AM, Scott Howell wrote: > >> Donna, you are making the assumption that someone would always have that >> widget always in focus. This may be a lot of work for you, but the ends >> justifies the means. Your entitled to your opinion of course; however, aside >> from the learning opportunity, you still are assuming that this widget is >> always going to be in focus. FOr me I always have the calendar available. >> Another point here to keep in mind is that you cannot control the sources of >> the weather widget; however, this script could conceivably be used to pull >> weather data from nearly any source. In fact you could even have your own >> weather station and use such a script to capture the information from that >> weather station. >> On Sep 11, 2011, at 8:14 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: >> >>> True, it is a learning opportunity. though to me it seems like a lot of >>> work just to duplicate something that already exists on the Mac. Just my >>> $.02. >>> Cheers, >>> donna >>> >>> On Sep 11, 2011, at 8:09 AM, Scott Howell wrote: >>> >>>> What amazes me is that some missed the point of the script. Ricardo points >>>> out that hitting f12 drops him on the weather widget and that is just >>>> great; however, not everyone has that particular item there at all times. >>>> iN fact I tend to keep the calendar widget as the one with focus. The >>>> other point some have missed here is the learning opportunity of how such >>>> scripts could be very useful. Perhaps there are other ways to accomplish >>>> the same task, but you need to look beyond this specific task and see it >>>> for what it is and that is a learning opportunity. So, what more do "you >>>> people want?" Not much, but a new experience in how something simple can >>>> be used for other tasks. Of course if there is a way to use the >>>> applications available in the OS such as curl that would be great since it >>>> means just one less thing to load. >>>> >>>> On Sep 11, 2011, at 7:31 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: >>>> >>>>> That was my question, too, Ricardo. Then if you VO to the right and >>>>> interact, you get a 6-day forecast. What more do people want? >>>>> Cheers, >>>>> Donna >>>>> >>>>> On Sep 11, 2011, at 2:36 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> >>>>>> You know what, >>>>>> >>>>>> For me, when I press F12, the focus automatically falls on the >>>>>> temperature and current weather condition in dash board. Isn't that >>>>>> what people are pretty much looking for? Press 1 key and get your >>>>>> current weather? >>>>>> >>>>>> Ricardo Walker >>>>>> rwalker...@gmail.com >>>>>> Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 >>>>>> www.mobileaccess.org >>>>>> >>>>>> On Sep 11, 2011, at 2:10 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Thanks, Keith. That's pretty slick. I don't mind having MacPorts, >>>>>>> either, as there are some things I wouldn't mind playing with in there, >>>>>>> including the Lynx browser. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> teresa >>>>>>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
