So I'm making a Rainmeter skin which finds your latitude and longitude using your ip address and then punches the coordinates into a Google Maps Static Map API to spit out an image and marker for your current location. I had it working, but now I cannot seem to get the damn webparser to download the image. The problem does not seem to be with the google maps api url because I can punch that into Chrome just fine providing I change the Measures to actual numbers. I feel like I'm missing something incredibly simple.
EDIT: The only error I am getting from this is that the it cannot open the image, but that's because the image is not being downloaded. I also checked the "Webparser Tester" and got back all green lights.
Last edited by Pyros_Enjoy_Pie on August 3rd, 2017, 1:42 am, edited 1 time in total.
If you use [SomeMeasure] in the URL of a WebParser measure, it makes the assumption that it is a child in a parent-child relationship, and will be looking to get some data using StringIndex from the parent measure.
That isn't what you are doing here. You are using [SomeMeasuere] (multiple times) as a [SectionVariable], where you want this to be a parent measure, but use those [SectionVariable] values in the URL.
To do that, you must lead the name of the measure with a & character, like [&SomeMeasure], and use DynanmicVariables=1 on the measure. (which you did do)
If you want to use the current value of a measure in a dynamic way as a Section Variable, rather than as a reference to a "parent" WebParser measure, you must prefix the name of the measure with the & character.
P.S. There must still be something wrong with this, as I get an image of the middle of the ocean, where I"m pretty sure I don't live. Wait, let me look out the window. Nope. However, I do get an image...
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After making the changes you said I am now also getting an image, however I am also getting the indicator in the middle of the ocean. The skin I am using is a modification of a different one so now I have put back all of the original parts for the latitude/longitude finder.
However the problem I saw with the original skin (the latitude/longitude locator) was that it seems to be replacing whatever values for the latitude/longitude from the website with 0, in fact if you change the 0 to any other number in locationsub the you will get an image at whatever number you put in. So now I have the problem of how can I get the [MeasureMap] to be given the correct coordinates. [MeasureIP2Lat] and [MeasureIP2Lng] are supposed to retrieve their respective coordinates from [MeasureSiteAll].
After a few tries of the posted code(s), I figured out the followings: I get the same image as jsmorley (posted in his last reply). I'm living in eastern part of Europe, so if I get the same image, probably something is going very wrong.
So, what could be the cause? Finally I found that after the [MeasureIP2Lat] and [MeasureIP2Long] measures get their values, the [MeasureMap] (which is downloading the image) should be updated, to use the new values and get the proper image. For this, you have to add the following option to the [MeasureSiteAll] measure: FinishAction=[!CommandMeasure "MeasureMap" "Update"].
That's all.
It seems to me that the [MeasureIP2Lat] and [MeasureIP2Lng] are still replacing their values with zero because if the api link were still just using the literal [MeasureIP2Lat] and [MeasureIP2Lng] instead of using them as variables then it would show the image that jsmorley posted.
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Be sure you completely restart Rainmeter before you test this, it is not unlikely that all the hammering on it trying to get this to work has created a "hung" instance of WebParser.
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Alright so I used jsmorley's code and got back an image of the coordinates that that particular website was giving. However those coordinates were wrong, so I decided I needed to use a different website. This one has a slightly different setup in its html (instead of getting lat and long separately they come paired and with a "," such that the string index comes out to be xx.xxxx,yy.yyyy) so I adjusted the RegExp to get the new numbers, changed [MeasureIP2Lat] & [MeasureIP2Long] to [MeasureIP2LatLong) to reflect that now its coming over as just one string index instead of two, changed the URL so its reading as [&MeasureIP2LatLong] (as the string index is now xx.xxxx,yy.yyyy) instead of [&MeasureIP2Lat],[&MeasureIP2Long]. I checked the log to make sure [MeasureIP2LatLong] is coming up as the coordinates which were in the html for the website, it is. But once again I have come to the problem of its not downloading the damn image. Here's my skin again new and shiny.
