DesktopWeather Beta 2

[Matrox]

DesktopWeather Beta 2 is available for download.

Get it Here.

Please read the website and Read Me.txt file. The site has been loading pretty slow lately. If anyone can offer me web hosting with sql/php support please let me know.

Please post your comments/bugs and ideas for next version.

-Matrox

[digidep]

i too am geting my orginal error and the fix of deleting the reg values is no longer working. I have trillian .72, norton antivirus 2002, true launch bar, coolmon .93, outlook 2002, ms desktop manager, and ie6 runnning all the time. i personally think it is an error in the program. let's all hope that matrox can figure it out. this is an excellent program without the bs. good luck matrox.

digidep

zip = 47906

ps if anyone has the beta 2 version that works...let me know where i can download it from. thanks!

[Arpit]

weird...i'm getting the runtime error too now =/

[Mystical112]

i thik mine died at 12 also

[DoubleJ]

I have searched the internet for instances of the error in question and have come up with a few possible explanations of it.

http://www.tek-tips.com/gviewthread.cfm/le.../707/qid/182955

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...b;EN-US;q241932

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...b;EN-US;q258818

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...b;EN-US;q191718

I'm sure thare are lots more, but here's a few possibilities.

[BroChaos Veteran]

weird how we're all having the problem now. i just checked weather.com to see if they were down or something :p but they weren't. i have other things that were listed in the VB and VB apps or whatever reg key and they all work fine. shrugs.

cheers,

joe

[2658_1437838185]

Originally posted by Ruciz  

??A_i_N??, use a different country code then, cause obviously there's bugs with that one..

Hey good idea... but what I want is to know the wheather forecast of the area where I l:)e :) that's merely the basic goal of this pro:)y :)

[Chipi]

now i'm getting the Run-Time error '13': Type mismatch too... :ermm: i hope we'll find a solution soon :disappoin

[nspencer]

Ok, this is intriguing....it is now working fine for me. :s

[phobic]

Great program and much improved over beta 1.

[digidep]

i also report signs of this application working...must have to do with a time value of some sort...will update on further errors.

digidep

[Matrox]

Thank you all for the bug reports. A wow was there a lot of them. I THINK I have fixed the problem. We shall see. Beta 2.3 is available for download. After fixing the bugs I also added Wind Direction display, and Barometer status display.

Also for you Neowin Forum fanatics I have created another lil app called Neowin Forum Checker. Get it at the very bottom of the website.

-Matrox

[nspencer]

So far so good on 2.3.

Mirror updated @ www.nspencer.com/DesktopWeather.zip.

[+BeLGaRaTh Subscriber¹]

Was intrigued by this post, but after trying it I have to admit its rather good. Good stuff Matrox, keep up the great work :o)

[Cheif_Bigfoot]

I think that Beta 3 is very good. Haven't had any trouble with it and it seems to be working good. Keep up the good work.

Zip 58103

AMD 1.33

nVidia Geforce 3

512 mb ddr ram

60 gb hd

[2658_1437838185]

thanks for the improvement.... it seems to work fine now...

you've done a great job !

again THANKS !

[DoubleJ]

Yeah, working for me too, although 2.2 is working now too. It probably has to do with the time, so we may not know until late tonight if it is working.

As someone suggested earlier, a way to lock the program to the desktop would be cool. Also, its a little nit-picky, but the wind direction usually goes in frot of the speed, and if it didn't take up to much room, maybe and "@" could be put in between the direction and speed. This is a really stupid request on my part, but in the sake of abolute proffesionalism it would be cool. If you keep going with the improvements, you may have a marketable program... aaaaaah, forget I said that, FREE IS GOOD. Love the thing, great work.

EDIT: I tried the Forum Ckecker, it's cool, but it always opens to the default location, it doesn't remember where it is placed.

[DoubleJ]

I just noticed a little bug, when changing from today to tonight, the high temperature remains from when it said today. If the program i restarted during the time when the first day is tonight, then there is no high temp. I found I was able to reproduce this by choosing a zipcode that still says "Today" (I used 90210, its the only one I know on the west coast:D ) and then changed back to my zip, east coast, and the high temp for tonight in the NE was 72, pretty good considering it is 30 and suppose to snow. :D

[Mystical112]

thx....works great right now

[Corvanus]

I can't run the latest version. Each time I try, I get a little dialog box with a message that says, "Unexpected Error" :(

[Weasel]

I've uploaded 2.3 to my server, so u can update my mirror:

http://www.almostsmart.com/download/DesktopWeather.zip

Also, I like to use a little-known trick to get the latest forum threads. Just bookmark this link and it will show the newest threads from all forums:

https://www.neowin.net/bboard/search.php?s=...=&action=getnew

[Rage]

I'm now getting the big error message on my desktop now when I run the program. 2.2 worked fine for me during the day, but at night I get the type mismatch error.

[lancensign]

I'm getting the same big error, and no stats. Started sometime late this evening, although I don't know when exactly because I've been working. I'm using the most recent version.

[BroChaos Veteran]

weird, why does it only work during the day?? that makes no sense. i didn't get the code 13 error like last night, this time the program runs, but it just displays ERROR and N/A for everything....

[nspencer]

Same here. Very strange.

[Matrox]

I am looking into the problem now. When you get this error and everything says N/A try going to weather.com and looking to see if they all say N/A there too. Let me know.

Future releases: I will release one more version that corrects this error when I find it. Then it will be a while before I release Beta 3. I hope to make Beta 3 using Microsoft.NET. This will require that you have the Microsoft.NET Framework installed. Moving to .NET will allow this application to become that much more stable and will allow me to use multiple threads. I am not gonna release Beta 3 until I have had it running on my machine for atleast one week with no problems. In the meantime, I would like to get these Weather pics fully transparent. If anyone can do this please let me know.

-Matrox