WeatherAlert

[darkmark327]

It works for some countries, and you can choose standard/metric.

[kaptain chump]

wow that program looks truly amazing..ill check it out :)

[eminem213486]

i love the program. good to hear about it. one thing i think you need to implement is the "detail" forecast that weather.com has. thats the only reason i use weatherbug :bleh: i like to see the percentage of rain there might be and what not.

ps. i like the transition animations. quite cool

[Yuxi]

Perfect! I like the interface and the radar/forecast information. (Y) :D

BTW, it uses about 1.8MB while in the system tray.

[darkmark327]

i love the program. good to hear about it. one thing i think you need to implement is the "detail" forecast that weather.com has. thats the only reason i use weatherbug :bleh: i like to see the percentage of rain there might be and what not.

ps. i like the transition animations. quite cool

It does show you the precipitation chance if you have one row of forecast tabs. I will see what I can do.

[phedot]

one little adjustment...

in the tray if we choose the icon to show the current temperature, we may be able to assign a range of "cold" temperatures that would be shown in blue and a range of "hot" temperatures that would be shown in red...

this is just a little add-in that could be considered...

[darkmark327]

one little adjustment...

in the tray if we choose the icon to show the current temperature, we may be able to assign a range of "cold" temperatures that would be shown in blue and a range of "hot" temperatures that would be shown in red...

this is just a little add-in that could be considered...

That sounds like a good idea; I'll use the temperature range in the alert options and the functionality will be linked to having alerts enabled. I think, though, I'll use white text with a red or blue background, to avoid issues with contrast between the text and the tray itself.

Also, 2.2 will support the large font windows DPI setting.

2.2 RC1 has been released. You can use the automatic updates feature to get it, or do so from the first page of the thread. The above suggestion has also been implemented.

Edited July 31, 2004 by darkmark327

[Iluvatar]

cool...but the foreground color changer doesnt work as does the transparent button changer doesnt work for me...it always stays red no matter what color i change it and it never goes transparent even though it saves the settings.

Question: When updating why does the new version save the executable in my Documents and Settings/User folder? I had setup a nice directory for it in Program Files and it was running out of that but when i updated it always sticks the new executable in the Documents and Settings folder. :(

as always though its an excellent program and keep up the good work.

[OnlyMe]

:jump: I really like this new version! The buttons to change the views are perfect, Thanks!

This is how all the other weather programs should have been! :laugh:

[darkmark327]

cool...but the foreground color changer doesnt work as does the transparent button changer doesnt work for me...it always stays red no matter what color i change it and it never goes transparent even though it saves the settings.

Question:? ? When? updating why does the new version save the executable in my Documents and Settings/User folder?? ? I had setup a nice directory for it in Program Files and it was running out of that but when i updated it always sticks the new executable in the Documents and Settings fol:(r. :(

as always though its an excellent program and keep up the good work.

The alerts, as mentioned above, will override your choice of color; I suspect that's it. I will make that fact more obvious, probably by mentioning as much in the GUI to change them.

As for the updates, it's supposed to update to the same directory as it is already running in, but it seems that isn't the case. It has always worked for me, but it appears that is sheer luck. I will fix that too.

As for localizing the program, as was suggested a while back: I have decided against investing the time to do so. My reasoning is that since weather.com has limited data for outside the US, it really does not seem worth it to me to make it localizable at this time, since it would be a relatively significant undertaking. I will keep it in mind though, perhaps as a future thing to do. The other problem is that stuff provided by weather.com is not localizable, such as the condition texts and the weather.com links, and soon, the detailed forecast (which I will definitely put in, I just have to find out where to squeeze it). The latter isn't even available in Celsius, but I will try to convert it on the fly; I cannot guarantee my success though.

Edited August 1, 2004 by darkmark327

[eminem213486]

It does show you the precipitation chance if you have one row of forecast tabs. I will see what I can do.

sorry, i meant you know like weatherbug has a precipitation for morning and afternoon? thats what i meant. i really love the program. great work.

[Matt]

i like it more than weatherbug and weather.com's utility. great job! :woot:

[darkmark327]

sorry, i meant you know like weatherbug has a precipitation for morning and afternoon? thats what i meant. i really love the program. great work.

Ha! I reverse engineered the XML feed from their POS program to figure out how my program can get the info for the hour by hour also. I will add the detailed info in soon.

[phedot]

The other problem is that stuff provided by weather.com is not localizable, such as the condition texts and the weather.com links, and soon, the detailed forecast (which I will definitely put in, I just have to find out where to squeeze it). The latter isn't even available in Celsius, but I will try to convert it on the fly; I cannot guarantee my success though.

maybe if you just create a new view... then you can assign this view to detailed forecast... ;)

just my 2 cents... :whistle:

oh and I can't update to 2.2RC1 I'm still on 2.1.9.1 ... don't real know what's goin' on... :pinch:

[darkmark327]

2.1.9.1 is RC1.

2.1.9 = 2.2 Beta

.1 = RC1

I guess I should be clearer with versioning.

[phedot]

yeah... it would be a lot simple if you just put the version has 2.2.xxxx.xxxx or 2.2RC1 :p

[darkmark327]

Of course it would be easy to use 2.2RC1, but I can only use numbers for the version data.

[phedot]

Some Enhacements:

Add the Version Number to the TopBar of the app;

Icon in tray should be red if above a specific temperature and blue below that temperature; (I'm not sure if the app already have this...);

when I swap locations if the Radar/Satellite Map is the same I don't think that it should change (it takes a bit of CPU usage...)

[Iluvatar]

hmm unfortunatley i seem to still have the problem where if it sits for a long time the program throws an error that you cant see because it makes the output corrupted, if i right click on the program in my taskbar (not the tray) the menu options are also blank.

[darkmark327]

Add the Version Number to the TopBar of the app;

I don't really know why I would do that, perhaps you can explain to me why.

Icon in tray should be red if above a specific temperature and blue below that temperature; (I'm not sure if the app already have this...);

It does.

when I swap locations if the Radar/Satellite Map is the same I don't think that it should change (it takes a bit of CPU usage...)

I do plan on caching the radar so that it doesn't have to download it so often.

hmm unfortunatley i seem to still have the problem where if it sits for a long time the program throws an error that you cant see because it makes the output corrupted, if i right click on the program in my taskbar (not the tray) the menu options are also blank.

Argh. These idiotic framework problems that only happen after a long time will be the death of me. Worst case, I'm going to have to have the program restart itself every x number of hours. Grr.

[darkmark327]

It seems that I will be able to display the "real" weather alerts too now; I found one in the XML feed now for tropical storm Alex, so now I know what to look for. I will add that feature in too.

At the moment I am overhauling things to prepare to use the detailed forecast data, so I won't be able to release any updates for a little while.

[username]

hey, nice update, the view buttons are so nice especially with the animation, a lot better then the pulldown menu (Y)

seems a lot more stable then the last build too

awesome job mam :D

[+unabatedshagie Subscriber¹]

awesome job mam

That's nice a mother and child posting on the same board :D

[darkmark327]

Good news (for some), I've just finished rewriting the resizing algorithms, so the full release of 2.2 will be FULLY COMPATIBLE with large fonts!

I'm still working on rewriting the weather display to remove all the various threading bugs. Hour-by-hour/detailed forecasts will also be available by the final release of 2.2; this will replace the link to the weather.com forecast in the lower right of the forecast area. Cached radar is also up and running.

2.2 RC2 will be released soon (once I finish rewriting the weather display) for testing.

Edited August 8, 2004 by darkmark327

[eminem213486]

cool, this program is so awesome..

showing my support :p

one thing though, can you have a confirmation dialog for the uninstall, today i accidentally clicked it and i had to redo the settings. lol not that big of an issue but just sayin...

also on my computer, the box that hte program runs in is a lil small, the weather.com logo gets cut off a bit at the bottom.