Show weather information

In this tutorial we will be making a box displaying weather data and icons, fetched from an RSS feed.

Files used in this tutorial

Download: File:Forecast.zip

In a table

DISE Parser

We are using a weather feed offered by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute and the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation.

Read more: Information about yr.no

• Download and install DISE Parser on the manager/player that you want to show weather information.
• Download and extract the zipped file attached above.
• In DISE Parser, click Import and browse to the file forecast.dpmodifiers.
• Double-click where it says "Parse feed" and browse to the file "forecast_all.xsl".

• Click Test. DISE Parser will now run and go through the steps until it says "Test done".
• Click Stop test.
• There will now be some files created in your "C:\DISEContent\Content\Weather" directory. The directory to use can be changed, but nevermind that for now.

Table layout in Composer

• In DISE Composer, create a new DISE Movie.
• Insert a table object.
• Select the Table format tab and enter 5 under Rows and 3 under Columns.
• Select the Data tab and click the Connect data button.
• Browse to the file C:\DISEContent\Content\Weather\all.txt downloaded by Parser.
• Click Ok.
• Still in the Data tab, enter | in the delimiter field.

• You will now see something like this in the Preview:

• Select the Images tab.
• Right click the leftmost column in the preview, select Select column and tick the Image cell (text is filename) checkbox.
• Tick the Use image alpha checkbox.
• Select the Options tab.
• Select all cells in the center and rightmost column and tick the Word break checkbox.
• Select the Text tab and make format changes to fit.
• I chose to make the first column bold and used the font Akzidenz Grotesk with size 24.
• I also aligned all cells to top left.
• Go to the Table format tab.
• Select the first column and in the Column width dropdown box select Percent. Enter "10" in the Percent field.
• Select the second column and set it to be 30 percent.
• Now you will have something like this:

Result

Next step

To show weather information on a player, you have a couple of options: 1. Repeat the instructions under DISE Parser above on a player. 2. Transfer the image files using DISE Probe.

Single image with temperature

DISE Parser

• Download and extract the zipped file attached above.
• In DISE Parser, click Import and browse to the file forecast.dpmodifiers.
• Double-click where it says "Parse feed" and browse to the file "forecast_single.xsl".

• Double-click where it says "Write file" and type in the file "C:\DISEContent\Content\Weather\single.txt".
• Click Test. DISE Parser will now run and go through the steps until it says "Test done".
• Click Stop test.
• There will now be some files created in your "C:\DISEContent\Content\Weather" directory. The directory to use can be changed, but nevermind that for now.

Table layout in Composer

• In DISE Composer, create a new DISE Movie.
• Insert a table object.
• Select the Table format tab and enter 3 under Rows and 1 under Columns.
• Select the Data tab and click the Connect data button.
• Browse to the file C:\DISEContent\Content\Weather\single.txt downloaded by Parser.
• Click Ok.
• You will now see something like this in the Preview:

• Select the Images tab.
• Left click the center row in the preview and tick the Image cell (text is filename) checkbox.
• Tick the Use image alpha checkbox.
• Select the Options tab.
• Select the first and third rows and tick the Word break checkbox.
• Select the Text tab and make format changes to fit.
• I chose to use the font Akzidenz Grotesk with size 120 for the top row and 175 for the bottom row.

Result

Next step

To show weather information on a player, you have a couple of options: 1. Repeat the instructions under DISE Parser above on a player. 2. Transfer the image files using DISE Probe.