plugin wont’ go past….

also. there is no dropdown to “select” a birth city. i typed in multiple birth cities and get the same response> “Select a birth city”.

thanks again.

I’m sorry about that. The updated version which was just released (1.3) should fix that problem. Thank you for reporting it.

unfortunately, it did not work. I also uninstalled the old plugin, downloaded and resinstalled the new plug in. same thing. does not work. there is no drop down to select a city and if i type the name of the city, it returns the same error: “please select a birth city”. i am logged in to geonames, though i don’t know whether that matters or not.

thanks again.

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Okay. No, it doesn’t make a difference if you’re logged in to GeoNames. The city field doesn’t have an actual drop down at first. The list of cities should appear after you type at least 2 letters of the city name. I would have to see your page to find the problem. Would you be able to provide a link to your page?

Or, if it’s not available because its a local development site, then try looking in the browser’s console. In Mozilla Firefox, you would press Ctrl + Shift + J and then click on Console. With that open, try typing in the city field again. Any errors should be listed in the console.

Hello again. I just found out something new. After you create your GeoNames account, you have enable their free web services by going to this page (https://www.geonames.org/manageaccount) and click to enable them at the bottom where it says “Free Web Services.” I’m very sorry for the inconvenience. I’m going to add this step to the installation steps.

I hope this helps.

free web services has been enabled since 10/16/16. so that’s not it.

but here is the info from firefox console:

JQMIGRATE: Migrate is installed, version 1.4.1jquery-migrate.min.js:2:542
“Google Maps API warning: NoApiKeys https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/error-messages#no-api-keys”util.js:208:33
“Google Maps API warning: SensorNotRequired https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/error-messages#sensor-not-required”util.js:208:33
Use of getPreventDefault() is deprecated. Use defaultPrevented instead.

fyi: i also tried it on a different machine. same error.

looking forward to hearing back from you.

The Google Maps API warnings may (probably not) be the issue, but the only way for me to tell for sure is if I can see your page. Are the Google Maps API warnings highlighted in pink in the console?

“PLease select a Birth City” is highlight in pink.

The font color of the actual error in the developer window is pink, maybe orange, but not black.

It’s a local site, so not available online.

fyi:
did the same thing in chrome. got the same error. in chrome, the error in developer tools is highlighted in yellow.

JQMIGRATE: Migrate is installed, version 1.4.1
util.js:208 Google Maps API warning: NoApiKeys https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/error-messages#no-api-keys
util.js:208 Google Maps API warning: SensorNotRequired https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/error-messages#sensor-not-required

Okay, since the error is highlighted in the console, it does stop all other JavaScript on the page from working. That is breaking the birth city field. If you’re using a Google Maps plugin, try disabling it (and also report that error to the plugin author). Or, if you’ve added a Google map manually on the page, check to see if you may have added it incorrectly.

since there was no google analytics set up, i tried it again, but time when typed in the city and waited instead of pressing “Enter” or “Tab”, the city, state, and timezone difference eventually came up, though still got the “please select a city”. so i waited longer and the Submit button also finally enabled, and I was able to proceed. so the code is still a little quirky, but does eventually work.

on a different note: in the month, day, and year field, I can type in the info, e.g., 1965. But in the hour and minute field, I cannot. instead, i have to pick from the list. that really slows things down. on your next release, could you fix that?

thanks!

looking forward to it….

also, hoping you plan to output the info into a chart instead of list eventually.

The lastest update (version 1.4) improves the birth city field. The Next/Submit button will be disabled until it is really ready. Previously, clicking Next too early would give a ‘Please select a Birth City’ error. This is because some things are happening in the background, for example, grabbing the city coordinates. If the background processes are not complete, you get an error. This problem should be greatly reduced now since the Next button will only be clickable when the background processes are complete. I hope this helps.

Re: typing in the hour and minute field. You can type in them, but it’s tricky because they each only accept 2 digits.

For the hour field, it’s trickier because it has to be typed in 24-hour format. This is fairly easy to type in any time between 1am and noon. For example, for 1am, type 01 in the hour field. For 2am, type 02, etc. For noon, you can type 12, but for midnight, it’s 00, just like in 24-hour time format. The tricky hours are between 1pm and 11pm because you must know their 24-hour equivalent to be able to type them in. For example, 1pm, type 13, etc.

Then you can tab to get to the minute field. The minute field is pretty easy: just add a zero before 1 through 9. The rest of the minutes can be typed as normal.

Re: a chart instead of a list
Yes, I’m actively working on adding a chart drawing capability.

Update: version 1.5 lets you show a chart wheel.