WeatherAlert

[Sn1p3t]

Great program!

Just FYI: The .NET framework allocated more memory than it needs for better security (no buffer-overflows) and performance (its managed). If your computer needs it, it will free it up. The fact that it's allocating 30MB just goes to show you don't need it :p

[Sartoris]

Could you add an hourly and daily(detailed) forcast like Weather Pulse has?

Also, I like their layout for the forcasts. Other than that I think that WeatherAlert is the better program. I am not asking you to rip the features directly from Weather Pulse, just use them as inspiration to make WeatherAlert better - like many software developeders do :)

One more request would be to have additional weather sources if possible for current/forcasts/images such as http://www.nws.noaa.gov/ , http://www.accuweather.com/ , and http://www.intellicast.com/ .

PM me if there is any way that I can help (as in "I can't code") in this project.

[darkmark327]

Detailed and hour-by-hour forecasts are on the way. There's no effective way of mapping the weather.com IDs to any other service. WeatherPulse crashes when I attempt to run it, so perhaps you can provide a screenshot.

[Sartoris]

Current Weather

- This is the first screen on this program, the layout is not as clean as WeatherAlert's

10 Day Forcast

- I actually like the rows for the forcast but I don't see how it could fit into WeatherAlert without messing up the entire design.

Hourly Forcast

- Nice to see what it will be like when you are coming home from work.

Daily Details

- Could be added to the normal forcast or implimented in some way

Weather Images

- The Weather Pulse image selector is confusing and not as many maps are availible as in WeatherAlert.

Options

- Their option screen is really the only clean part of their interface.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

darkman, try this as a temporary solution to your problem.

With the groupboxes, try putting them inside a picture box, then inside the other groupbox, remove the border off the picture box, that should make the groupbox keep it's formatting, it what i had to do with vb6 and visual styles (it had weird stuff with option buttons and checkboxes as well)

E.g. GroupBox1 has PictureBox1 as a child control whose Dock is set to fill, PictureBox1 has GroupBox2 as a child control with it's Dock set to Fill, in that scenario, GroupBox2 will still have proper text formatting for it's title.

Hope that helps, Also, it's a good program, i use it on the pc when it has net access.

[Iguanadon]

could you add an option to pick a font and possibly the position of the tray icon?

I love the program.

keep up the good work.

[darkmark327]

Current Weather

- This is the first screen on this program, the layout is not as clean as WeatherAlert's

10 Day Forcast

- I actually like the rows for the forcast but I don't see how it could fit into WeatherAlert without messing up the entire design.

Hourly Forcast

- Nice to see what it will be like when you are coming home from work.

Daily Details

- Could be added to the normal forcast or implimented in some way

Weather Images

- The Weather Pulse image selector is confusing and not as many maps are availible as in WeatherAlert.

Options

- Their option screen is really the only clean part of their interface.

OK thanks. I see a few good ideas in there most notably options. As I keep promising, the hourly and daily details are planned. My plan is something similar to when you click the radar and it brings up the separate screen. I will have a tabbed interface to switch between the two of them (details/hourly) and the hourly will be a graph, with which you can toggle between 12/24/36/48 hours. We'll see how it goes. With school back though, my time is limited :wacko:

Decryptor: Thanks for the suggestion, I will definitely try that

Igunadon: I'm not sure what you mean as far as selecting the "position" of the tray icon. Adding a font option is simple enough, though, I can put it with the color chooser

[darkmark327]

Yeah throwing the nested groupboxes inside of things (I used a panel) fixes it.

[[C]Cathode]

Erk, having some problems with this; probably really simple to fix, too.... Basically, I run the exe, and nothing loads up on the desktop. I open task manager, and it's running (using approx 15mb). There's nothing in the systray either :( I've installed the .net framework, tried it with Compatability mode to still no avail. Running XP btw, with SP1...

[stpark6985]

this program is very nice

[Sartoris]

I know I must be killing you with requests. :)

But...

Could you make it so we can add more than two cities?

Instead of the Primary/Secondary option just have one city selection screen and let people add cities from there. One city can be set as default so it shows when the program starts up. When you click on the location menu it would list all of your locations so you can select one (default in bold).

Locations

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---- Chicago, IL 60612

---- Chicago, IL 60614

---- New York, NY 10006

---- Los Angeles, CA 90016

---- Houston, TX 77010

[darkmark327]

When I redo the options layout I will make that possible.

[Sartoris]

You are awesome. :D

[+unabatedshagie Subscriber¹]

What about having an option on the forecast part to allow you to see the whole weeks weather in picture format. Perhaps have a button which lets you toggle from the current forecast settup to the new pictorial one.

I have made a quick sketch of what I mean, don't laugh I know I can't draw to save my life. :p

[darkmark327]

What about having an option on the forecast part to allow you to see the whole weeks weather in picture format. Perhaps have a button which lets you toggle from the current forecast settup to the new pictorial one.

I have made a quick sketch of what I mean, don't laugh I know I can't draw to save my life. :p

That sounds feasible. Difficult (GUI-wise), but it is feasible. I'll throw that in my todo list :happy:

[Iguanadon]

Mark, sorry I have not answered sooner ...ok the tray icon for the temp seems to set too high in the tray. I would like to be able to lower, raise, move left or right. I have seen this type of setting used in several of the clock apps.

Thanks for all your hard work on this app. :D

I use it all the time with no troubles at all.

Keep up the good work!

[darkmark327]

Sure that's simple enough. Glad you like the program.

[nwBen]

Wow, I only just found this awesome app, and I love it :D

Good job

Edited September 16, 2004 by nw|Ben

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Yeah throwing the nested groupboxes inside of things (I used a panel) fixes it.

Damn, i forgot about the panel control, I'm to used to using the picturebox though

[Iguanadon]

anything new? :D

[darkmark327]

I've fixed the group thing on the main display and am in the process of redoing the settings. In between school crap that is.

[bontakun]

where does this store it's setting, could it be something that i put on a usb key without having to load settings every time i run it?

[darkmark327]

where does this store it's setting, could it be something that i put on a usb key without having to load settings every time i run it?

No, sorry, it's in the reg for now.

[aadhu]

I love this program.. but one request.. can u make it so that it displays the weather Icon and Temperature together in the system tray.. kinda like the tray weather client for Gnome Desktop.

[darkmark327]

I love this program.. but one request.. can u make it so that it displays the weather Icon and Temperature together in the system tray.. kinda like the tray weather client for Gnome Desktop.

i.e. two separate icons?