My 'to dos' for version 2.6 are:

To dos:
1. Make station lookup available to spawned widgets (this is an 'expensive' operation and it's preferrable to just pass on the details if you've already looked it up once).

2. Cache station lookup for a weekly refresh. Since new stations come online/go offline fairly infrequently, there's no reason not to store the lookup locally.

For version 3.0 I'd like to add:

3. Exceptional events -- would like to be able to… show diversions/track closures and other important events of that sort, but this is obviously hard as it depends on my downloading a sample HTML page *while* one of these events is occurring.

If anyone sees such an event occuring on the RTTI site, could you please save the HTML page with the alert to your desktop and then send it to me at widgets - at - reades - dot - com?

Also, I'm always open to feature requests if you have them.

Thanks,

jon More

Just posted 2.4 (should show up in the next day or two) with a fix to the spawning code so that you can now create spawns of spawns properly.

I also fixed a 'logical' error -- I had assumed that "No Report" was basically the same as "On Time", but thanks to David I've discovered that this is not the case. The widget now correctly displays "No Data" if it doesn't know what the status of your train is.

Also improved the Track/Time presentation -…- for stations that have track data (like Euston), you can quickly switch between the real-time departure/arrival info and the track the train is/is expected on. To fit this new 'button' on to the widget I had to move and rename some of the earlier buttons.

Cheers,

jon More

Yep -- the site has changed again. Now it's the stations page that has changed.

Before, they used to force a filter by first-letter at least, so my widget would ask what the letter you wanted to start with was and then would go retrieve the entire list for that letter.

A quick look suggests that they now allow you to view *all* stations at once and that the layout has been updated.

I also received an email from National Rail informing me of another change that they have planned for some…time in the next week or two.

I would like to say that I'll have a patch ready momentarily, but I returned from holiday in Costa Rica to find that the S.M.A.R.T. status of my laptop's hard drive is "Failing". Since I was a cheapskate and never ponied up the $300 for AppleCare (and since I purchased my laptop in the US they'd probably have refused to honour it anyway) I'm left with having to sort myself out. I now have a new hard drive and the Torx screwdrivers to install it, but I'm trying t More

Bill: I'd be pretty sure it's not a Konfabulator problem. Most likely is that National Rail have changed (some of) the web pages slightly and the widget is no longer picking out the data correctly. There' nothing to be done until Jon has time to look at it. I've sent him an email as he suggested.

Great widget, Was working last week but now will not bring list of stations when requested. Using Mac OS X. Have reinstalled Konfabulator and NR widget. Any help would be appreciated.
Bill