WeatherAlert

[darkmark327]

one thing I have noticed that kind of bugs me...when I dont have a connection, it pops up saying cant get data...thats fine and dandy, but it keeps doing it over and over (I assume everytime it checks?)? Can you make it so once it displays it once, perhaps have a var that set to true that its been shown during the current offline...and not show it again until it once again downloads info and then goes offline again?

basically...only show the 'cant get data' balloon once per going offline?

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Good idea. I am never offline so I didn't think of such things (I test it to make sure it works offline but didn't realize things like balloon tip annoyance).

hey there..have some feedback from a friend. I passed this prog onto him and he wanted to set the extreme temp notification when it goes below -20C? .. the prog only goes as low as 0.? It would be nice to have this accept negative values as during winter here, i'd consider -20 starting to get extreme as right now its -22 but feels like -3;) ;)

(this is all metric)

is it doable?? perhaps a max of -50C just to cover all bas:)? :)?

i've attached a screenshot of the pref dialog i'm referring to

this is why I request :(is :(

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That was shortsighted of me. I will lower that.

Ok, I have an interesting problem.

At some point, I got an alert.? For whatever reason, instead of clicking OK, I accidentally clicked on Forecast (I've done this with "RADAR" as well).? It switched to the screenshot where the forecast would be below the current conditions, and went absolutely crazy.? I've attached a screenshot for you, but it doesn't do it justice.? It's flipping up and down inside of it's window so fast, you can't click anything except the CLose button.? And, it gives me the "WeathAlert Program is not responding" error.? I have to click End Now to close it.

This was with 2.9.2, but when I upgraded just now to the latest version, it's still doing it.? The only solution I found in the past was to clear out the registry entries, and act like it's a clean installation.

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That is, I'm guessing, an issue with the window docking (it docks to the bottom, but it's still close enough to the top, so it docks to the top--you see where this goes). I thought I had taken sufficient precautions to ensure that it wouldn't do that again. I wish you'd mentioned it earlier. What resolution are you running?

Whenever I set the tray icon to transparent, it doesn't go transparent. There's a really ugly opaque blue around the temperature. WTF?

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[Spyder Veteran]

That was shortsighted of me.? I will lower that.

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excellent, thanks! i'll let him know. he'll be happy. oh btw, he loves the program:))

[darkmark327]

I have a released a small update that fixes a fwe bugs that had escaped testing.

[Spyder Veteran]

Hi there.. I have another request :o :laugh:

I was wondering if it would be possible to implement Proxy Authentication to the program? at work, only port 80 works and even then, i cant get through without putting in a username/password. i dont know if this feature would benefit anyone else but it'd be of use to me :)

[darkmark327]

Hi there.. I have another request :o  :laugh:

I was wondering if it would be possible to implement Proxy Authentication to the program?  at work, only port 80 works and even then, i cant get through without putting in a username/password. i dont know if this feature would benefit anyone else but it'd be of use to me :)

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I will see what I can do.

[shockz]

Decided to give this program a shot.

Really nice job! :)

[darkmark327]

Hmm, it seems someone is interested in buying my program:

Hi Mark,

please let me know if you are interested in selling your WeatherAlert application and all its rights: http://www.ic.sunysb.edu/stu/msowul/weathalert.htm

If you do, please let me know the price tag.

I would like to buy the program, rights and source code.

Sincerely,

...

I'm not quite sure what I should do; on the one hand money = good but on the other, it's sort of been my pet project for the last 10 months. Hrm.

[war]

Well depends on their plans. Do they want to keep it freeware or make it shareware or what?

If freeware I say go for it if you want but if shareware or worst then we need some details.

And totally up to you in the end.

Though it would be nice of you to ask your "customers" first. ;) As your doing. :)

[darkmark327]

On the one hand, I can't see them paying me to distrubute a free program; on the other, use of weather.com's XML data requires that the app is free.

[username]

i love the program... as i am sure you know, though i am sure selling out would mean no more updates, but money is nice... sell out (Y)

[enigma-penguin Veteran]

I think you've made a great program, you've worked hard on it and im sure a little money for all that hard work would be nice :yes: but I would certainly like to know how they would continue the project.

Thanks for asking our opinions mark :)

[SkyyPunk Veteran]

my opinion...dont sell until you get absolutly bored with it...i bet even though some bugs you fix are annoying, you love the challenge...keeping a great program running :)

[Clirion]

Slick Program. This one is the only weather tracker I have liked. Thanks much!!!! :)

[WebOrbiter]

It's hard to find a good weather tracking program that doesn't cost money or cause pop-ups and ads.

[JRosenfeld]

Be sure if you sell it they don't bundle it with adware/malware!! (cf weatherbug)

[darkmark327]

No update on the program sale yet, I plan to meet with a lawyer today about it. I have totally redone my website though, so please check it out and give me feedback. The weathalert section is actually complete now, so please feel free to check out the "icons" section to find out how to skin the icons, and if you make any sets, let me know and I'll post them!

[emo]

looks nice, thanks.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

I had a idea about the customizability you added.

What about making them load out of .zip files or something, so you could have multiple themes?

If you did that, it would allow someone to add a theme, but without having to wipe their old images or back them up (which everyone forgets to do once in a while)

You could also add a preview option (like firefox's), and could have a preview image in the .zip file, you could also have the ability to include a readme.txt file in the theme .zip, and have a button in your app which shows it (either in notepad or a custom window for example)

Anyway, that's just a suggestion.

As always, great program.

[darkmark327]

I have some very good news, I have finally found the cause of most if not all of those random little errors that occur when the program is open for a long time, and have also fixed a Handle leak (not as critical since the GC was fixing each time it would hit a certain threshold but still good)...apparently making icons from bitmaps (such as the tray icons and the statusbar icon) by getting handles requires those handles to be deleted. I did not know this, because I thought all of that was managed. The result is that there is a leak every time those are created, e.g. each time data is downloaded. You can see this by going to task manager and showing the columns "handle count", "gdi objects" and "user objects". Once the leak is to much, getting the icon handle fails and the program gives an error. The ever-increasing handles are due to the fact that I didn't realize registry keys needed to be manually closed (it reads the registry each time it queries an option). I am running it now and those three things are finally stable. I do need to do some more testing before I release this but this should bring a quantum leap in stability over long periods of time. In addition of course, I have fixed a few other small errors, for example the "only one instance" feature added last time doesn't work right if you don't have performance counters enabled, because it uses that to get the information needed to activate the previous instance. Expect release in a few days or so. I haven't begun working on features yet, I have not had any time lately.

[rossonthenet]

Excellent program. Been using it for the past few weeks, and its really cool, and does the job.

[AGMW]

Maybe it is just my copy of the program, but I have not been able to get maps for the last week or so. Whenever I click Radar it says "Retrieving map list..." Unfortunately it does not go away. Does anybody else have this problem?

Thanks

[darkmark327]

I haven't had any such trouble here; anyone else having this problem?

BTW 2.3.0.3 is coming, but I have been quite busy with school work : (

[DouglasLWarren]

Mark,

I sent you an email a while back about a "feature" I'd like added. You said you'd get to it. I haven't noticed you mention it or implement it. So I thought I'd mention it again.

It was about the NWS weather alerts. You show them and, say I want to go look at the radar, there is no way to re-display the alerts. Any word on when this might be added?

[darkmark327]

Don't worry, I haven't forgotten. 2.3.0.3 is mainly for bug-fixing, so it wouldn't be until at least the next release after that.

[DouglasLWarren]

Thanks Mark! I was just checking on the status.