WeatherAlert

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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.

Yeah that would probably be a good idea. I'll also fix the logo. Thanks for the support ;)

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OK folks, 2.2 has been skipped. I have completed a significant overhaul to the program, so it is only fair to call it 2.3, since much has been changed. Most of the changes are internal, in the form of better organization of the weather data, in preparation for the inclusion of detailed and hour-by-hour forecasts. One external change you might notice is that the cache directory will stop being so cluttered. It is recommended that you uninstall the program so that it can delete the junk that has probably accumulated from previous releases. Now, each location's cache is in its own directory, and when you change the location, the previous location's directory is deleted. In addition, all of the empty folders with the version number are kept in check as well. Their creation is outside of my control (they are created when I call the built-in method to retrieve the application data directory) but the current version's empty folder is deleted on exit.

I also have completely overhauled the radar system. I still consider it experimental at the moment, since I haven't done in-depth testing, so please alert me to any problems that occur; in the end it ought to be more stable. Radar is also cached now with an age of 30 minutes. The program also keeps track of the last radar image you were viewing when you exited the program, and restores it when you start the program again. A very small, if not handy, improvement. Please test out the radar and report back any problems.

So, the "to-do" list stands at this:

- implement hour - by - hour and detailed forecasts. this will replace the link to weather.com on the forecast pane

- implement full support of national weather service alerts. now you won't have to worry about getting killed by tornadoes, supernova ;), since it will be aware of and use the alerts from the national weather service. I'm fortunate that there happened to be a tropical storm (and thus a nws alert) while I was examining the XML feed, since that's how I found out how to use it.

Get it from the first page link, I am not putting this one through auto-updates until I've proven the efficacy of the new radar system. I am aware at the moment of some kinks when you are not connected to the internet.

Oh and BTW this version has basically full support for any font dpi (e.g. large fonts).

This is version 2.2.9.1, aka 2.3 Beta 1

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umm, its sorta messed up for me its no in the try but its like the blue bar(minamize,maximize,exit) then everythign else is hidden and i can resize it wihich is a pain becasue i cant see anything >.<

any fix for that? :D

It would help if all of your words had all their letters; I'm guessing you mean that you tried restoring it from the tray and it got stuck as just the titlebar. Sometimes windows screws up when it restores the window and keeps it as a stupid little half title bar only. I have tried a few different things to fix it, so I suppose now I will try something different. In the next release it should hopefully be fully fixed.

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whoops just got this pop-up after leaving the latest beta unattended for several hours.

That's extremely odd; it's certainly not a message I put in there, but it doesn't look like an official MS one; they're usually particular about formatting (i.e. capitalizing setup and not putting a period)

Also, it should throw a simple null reference exception. Very odd. Does anything look screwed up in the main window?

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It would not open from the system tray.? The reason I knew it was WeatherAlert was because this error was in the taskbar titled "Setup Error" and the icon was a picture of a yellow sun.

That's very odd. To be honest I really have no idea what it could be from; I always have fail-safes when reading resources, and the error thrown is always a simple null reference, but I guess it is from my program. I guess I'll look it up on google and see what happens.

Ha, looks like this is not the only program with the error...this was on an airport scheduling screen in munich, apparently (I found it while looking for this error):

454993municherror.jpg

Unfortunately I have yet to find an instance of the cause of this error being resolved among the many instances I've read about. I assume you have v1.1 of the framework and all.

One thing you might try is going into administrative tools->.net framework 1.1 wizards ->fix an application and try throwing it in safemode or something

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That's very odd. To be honest I really have no idea what it could be from; I always have fail-safes when reading resources, and the error thrown is always a simple null reference, but I guess it is from my program. I guess I'll look it up on google and see what happens.

Ha, looks like this is not the only program with the error...this was on an airport scheduling screen in munich, apparently (I found it while looking for this error):

http://img1.uploadimages.net/454993municherror.jpg

Unfortunately I have yet to find an instance of the cause of this error being resolved among the many instances I've read about. I assume you have v1.1 of the framework and all.

One thing you might try is going into administrative tools->.net framework 1.1 wizards ->fix an application and try throwing it in safemode or something

done....i will post if it happens again in safemode

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Thanks again everyone; your support is appreciated.

Trajik-I will have a site for you to link to by tomorrow

Anyway, here's 2.3 beta 3 (version 2.2.9.3); get it on the main page. Enjoy.

New features: National weather alerts are now displayed when they are received. The program will play a thunder sound (this will be configurable eventually, of course), show a balloon tip, and the tray icon will blink. You can see the text of the alert where the forecast would normally be.

Next on the agenda: detailed forecasts; this will be somewhat involved, so it may take a little while. Play around and break this in the meantime ; )

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