[Russian Mac fan]

when I go to Dashboard, only then does the weather widget update. Any way to force it to update when it's in the background? Or was this intentional to save its CPU usage? Thanks.

[CaptainHaddock]

It's intentional, to save CPU usage. All widgets are supposed to pause when the Dashboard is hidden.

[Mithras]

You can change it if you want, though.
Just do this:
1. Option-drag the Weather.wdgt out of /Library/Widgets and into ~/Library/Widgets to make a personal copy.
2. Ctrl-click and `show package contents'
3. Open Weather.js in your favorite text editor. Search for the following lines (lines 1300-1305):

Code:
function onhide () {
	if (timer != null) {
		// we were hidden clear the timer
		clearInterval(timer);
		timer = null;
	}

and replace them with:

Code:
function onhide () {
	if (timer != null) {
		// we were hidden clear the timer
//		clearInterval(timer);
//		timer = null;
		// when hidden, update only 1/15th as often (i.e. 30 minutes)
		timer = setInterval ('fetchData();', timerInterval * 15 );
	}

I think that should work.

[Russian Mac fan]

I followed the directions. Hopefully, this will work. Thanks for the tip! People here are the most helpful.

[Russian Mac fan]

How do I change the update frequency in the above code? With the code above it seems to be updating every 15 seconds or so. Each weather widget hence is shooting up to 9% CPU use when doing that.


I just want it to update every 30 min