I don't understand why you can't include a working widget that complies with the TWC license agreement and your moderation rules to skinners at least, if not your customers. It's a practical necessity, and there's no legal reason preventing you from doing so. Saying you aren't required to do so is giving the finger to the people that make all those free skins that give your customers a reason to buy Stardock/Wincustomize products. Without those free skins, there would be no reason to buy the products. I think you should reconsider that decision, and provide, by e-mail, if necessary, a sample to all the DX skinners so that they can get on with weather widgets as soon as possible. Weather may be a trivial use of DesktopX, but it's the king of DX, and without it, DX will die. I confess to being surprised at the decision.

A script is not the problem here.  The issue is TWC wants a logo placed on widgets, and several links as well.  It's not just a line of code that is a problem. 

I disagree fully. And I won't be integrating a weather widget into my future themes regardless of what the coders come up with. Integrating anything into a DX theme that is vulnerable to decisions made by outside sources is bound to fail again in the future. It is not a matter of if, but when. And I, for one, don't feel like redoing my entire gallery at that time. Blaming anyone is not getting this fixed.

By the attitude of some around here. Stardock should go through my gallery and repair all my work and take care of that for me....yeah, right. I don't know if I'd want that anyway. I'd rather fix my own work. 

They don't. But they have to use someone's feed, and they are all bound to fail eventually.

That's not right. I made the Weather Calendar a few weeks ago. It show me the weather forecast for current and previous months but it doesn't use any feeds! More then ANY ILLEGAL FEEDS. Just I think that each of us may be a bit programmer. Otherwise this hobby (or may be job) has no future...

You must understand one simple truth - neither Photoshop neither the other Graphic Redactors can't substitute the experience in coding if you really want work with DesktopX. This is not a SkinStudio...

I trust that you disagree with my statement that DesktopX will die. I sure hope that you're right about that. It's such an amazing program. If it's the statement that weather is the king of DX, that's based on numbers. It's the most popular reason for buying DesktopX.

I think your approach to leaving it out of your themes is a wise one, considering the vulnerability you mentioned. Hopefully, you'll be one of the people that keeps it going. Don't forget us when you get into WindowBlinds, and good luck with your first skin. Will you be doing a theme for that, by the way?

I'm excited. Please carry on. I got the new Weatherlab, and it's working fine. I'll be very interested in seeing what you come up with in v7.

Just through Google... I even don't see/get/parse any xml files with someone copiright. There are a lot of alternate ways to build weahter widgets.

Unfortunately the WLB-7 will be never uploaded here. Only the screen shots... Why? Because a few lines of code retrieves some data from one "known place" which logo I don't like...

If you mean for my new blind, I probably will do a DX theme for it, docks, cursor too maybe. Let's see how bad the blind is first...lol.

redneckjim, exactly correct.

fairyy~, the moderators and admins at wincustomize, devs and database and legal folks at Stardock have been working all week to find solutions.  Just because you don't see it here on the forums doesn' mean we aren't doing anything.

Skinners and coders here on WC are busting their ass to find solutions from this side of the fence.  They are looking at new feeds and templates.  They are looking at paying for their own feeds.  They are looking for ways to make this work.

As much as Stardock has been a part of and a leader in the community, it depressees me to see it vilified here.