Can someone help a poor newbie

[sam.griffin.bht]

"WeatherIcons\\Images\\" + tv_sage_weather_WeatherDotCom_getCurrentCondition(WeatherInstance, "curr_icon") + ".png"

Can someone explain to me what's going on in this line... hopefully then it will all click.

[mtyme]

I know nothing about studio, but based on programming background, it appears it's calling a function called tv_sage_weather_WeatherDotCom_getCurrentCondition() with the parameters of WeatherInstance, "curr_icon" to get the current conditions image name.

Find that function (or whatever it's called in studio) and you'll see how it works.

[Tiki]

The expression: "tv_sage_weather_WeatherDotCom_getCurrentCondition(WeatherInstance, "curr_icon")" is calling a custom java function called "getCurrentCondition" and passing it the parameters "WeatherInstance" and "curr_icon". That function is not part of the SageAPI, so it is not documented, but it apparently returns a string (and if you don't know what a string is, it is just a variable that contains text - a collection of letters and numbers).

The three strings are than concatenated (joined) together by the plus (+) operators. So if the function returned "rain", you would get "WeatherIcons\\Images\\rain.png".

The double slashes are because java uses the slash as an escape character, so you need to put an extra one in to make it get treated as text.

[sam.griffin.bht]

Thanks so much!

I have seen the light!

[GKusnick]

Originally Posted by Tiki

The double slashes are because java uses the slash as an escape character...

While it's true that Studio code, like Java and other C-derived languages, uses backslash as an escape character in string literals, you should not get the idea that Studio expression code is Java. There are important differences (such as the use of underscores instead of dots in fully-qualified method names).