WeatherAlert

[darkmark327]

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 ;)

[darkmark327]

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

Edited August 9, 2004 by darkmark327

[darkmark327]

I believe I have fixed most of the issues with the radar as far as connection state. I have posted 2.2.9.2, aka 2.3 Beta 2 as a result. Of course, let me know if I missed anything.

[trix]

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

[darkmark327]

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.

[trix]

thanks and yeh thats what i ment, damn typos

Trix

[Iluvatar]

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

[darkmark327]

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?

Edited August 12, 2004 by darkmark327

[Iluvatar]

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.

[karma_police]

I cant see anything just the tittle bar:

[karma_police]

Another screen:

[darkmark327]

Wow, that's weird. Did it start like that or did it happen after sending to and resuming from the tray?

[Iluvatar]

that happend to me as well. It was like that right after i finished setting it up on a new install with the zipcode and such.

[karma_police]

started like that, using WXP Pro SP2. The only view that works correctly is the summary view.

Anyway a great app.

[NightWalker05]

I seem to be having the same problems as "karma_police"

/edit~ nevermind~ fixed it.. downloaded the dotnetfix from the 1st page lol thought i might of not needed it because i had sp2 lol

Excellent app good job :happy:

Edited August 12, 2004 by NightWalker05

[darkmark327]

Thank you Nightwalker, I'm glad that's one less problem to track down. Obviously karma, I'd suggest you get the latest version of the framework as well. Hopefully that will have been the cause of your issue as well.

Edited August 12, 2004 by darkmark327

[darkmark327]

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):

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

Edited August 12, 2004 by darkmark327

[Trajik 2600]

Beautiful app - can I link to or mirror it on my blog?

[Iluvatar]

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

[dmp3]

Just set it up. darkmark327, thank you sooo much for this application.

In my opinion, this is one of the best applications I have used in a long time. Right up there with Winamp and FireFox.. ;)

I just love it. I'm just so happy. Why am I so happy. Wow... weird. THANKS! :D

[Mokano]

Sweet man (Y)

I Love It :)

I had that one problem too with the weird window (I have .net thing and SP2)

but somehow It got fixed (probably after I restarted)

Anyway Great program!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D :D

[darkmark327]

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 ; )

[Mokano]

If you ever need any hosting I'll be happy to, just pm me ;)

[karma_police]

If you need a mirror just ask I could help.

And as NFDC a restart fixed the windows.

[phedot]

man I think that the Updater isn't working...I had to manual update from the first post...