Post your Samurize script

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bigred

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If you're using W2K the auto-reload function doesn't work :-(. Other than that check the following:
  • Check that you have RESTART set to true in DesktopWeather.vbs
  • The argument to getCacheFiles is how old the cache files have to be (in minutes) before the script will restart the client - a return value of false means that neither of the cache files were that old. If you want to test that it works, delete one or both of the cache files (weather.daily.html and weather.hourly.html) then hit the 'test' button in the config editor.
  • Make sure that you have scheduled getCacheFiles to be called by Samurize every so often.

Thanks for the reply Judge...(and by the way, great job in your designing desktop weather, and for your customer service ;) ).

I am running XP...so the auto-reload should work...

I have RESTART = true in my desktopweather.vbs script..

I now understand the getcachefiles time figure, and have it calling every 30 min...

With all of that said...everything on my config updates except the weather png's...so it seems clear it is because my script isn't actually restarting (when I hit "reload config" it updates them properly).

My question to you is:

In my script where it says "const INSTANCE_NAME = "Beacon" ' Name of the samurize instance to restart"...I do want to have the name of my config (Beacon) right? I noticed that your script had "weather" there, even though your config and script were both called "desktopweather".

Any chance this is what is causing my problems?

Thanks for your help :D

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judge

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My question to you is:

In my script where it says "const INSTANCE_NAME      = "Beacon" ' Name of the samurize instance to restart"...I do want to have the name of my config (Beacon) right? I noticed that your script had "weather" there, even though your config and script were both called "desktopweather".

Any chance this is what is causing my problems?

Thanks for your help  :D

No. INSTANCE_NAME is the name of the client.exe instance that it should restart. Basically you should run client.exe via a shortcut where the 'target' of the shortcut has the value:

"C:\Program Files\Samurize\Client.exe" "weather"

Make sure that your path to client.exe matches your installation and that you replace "weather" with whatever you have defined INSTANCE_NAME as.

You can set the target of a shortcut by right-clicking on the shortcut, selecting properties and then clicking on the shortcut tab.

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bigred

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The Beacon Config is screwed up. Besides current weather icon, the other symbols are off by 1 day. (Tonight's Icon = Tomorrow, Tomorrow = 2 days later, etc).

Doh....you are very right Caveman...

I haven't noticed it here because we've had very nice and very consistent weather...

To fix it, click on each of the small png's (icons), and change the path to the previous number...

For example, for the first one, change the path from "C:\Program Files\Samurize\Skins\DesktopWeather\tmpImage1.png"

to

"C:\Program Files\Samurize\Skins\DesktopWeather\tmpImage0.png"

Repeat this for each of the 4 small images (resulting in tmpImage0 - tmpImage 3 in the forecast).

My fault :unsure:

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Captain Caveman

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Has anyone ever tried to create a weather script off of www.theweathernetwork.com yet?..

The Canadian results on theweathernetwork.com compared to the weather.com is much more accurate for canadian cities.. I don't know if theweathernetwork is a local US TV channel or not.. it might be more accurate..

I know for truelaunchbar, theweathernetwork plugin is identicle to the local weather conditions on any of the news channels here in toronto (22-WeatherNetwork, 24 (Pulse), etc) at every hour.

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bigred

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Thanks for all of your help judge...(and others as well)

Now that I understand that I needed to set up an "instance" for my config, my problems have been eliminated, and everything is working fine.

A great addition to my desktop...now I'll always be able to watch for golfing weather in the days ahead! :D

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bigred

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A couple of people had asked for me to repost my Beacon configuration, script etc. , now that I got everything working properly.

So here it is...Unzip the file and everything should be straightforward

You'll need to edit the ini file to include your own e-mail info...

And you'll need to edit the vbs file to include your own weather info...

The desktop weather png's were too big for the zip file, so you'll need to get those from judge's desktopweather zip file, and make sure the "DesktopWeather" folder of png's is in the Skins folder.

Enjoy :)

Beacon.V2.zip

Beacon.V2.zip

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tr1kstanc3

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ive been reading thru this forum and i still cant figure how to get it working. ive tried judge's .ini file and editing it but i cant even get anything to show up on my desktop. ive tried changing the numbers for the location and pointing the directories to my computer name. i made sure my performance counters are running but when i run the client program i cant even edit the configs, nothing shows up in the editor... why am i so noob!#%! is it possible to make a default script or config (i dont know which is which anymore) to get it running for us noobs who want to play with this cool prog?! =)

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Roguefoxx

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hi, i've tried messing with judge's .ini file and just cannot seem to get it to work. I always seem to come back to the same error message. the message is as follows... 'Cannot open file "C:\Program Files\Samurize\skins\DesktopWeather\tmpImageMain.png". The system cannot find the file specified.' I began getting that message after i created the DesktopWeather folder in the skins directory myself. Before I created the DesktopWeather folder it said 'Cannot open file "C:\Program Files\Samurize\skins\DesktopWeather\tmpImageMain.png". The system cannot find the path specified.'

Anyone have any solutions to this problem? I've noticed a couple other people that has had the same problem, has anyone came up with a solution? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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bucben

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Don"t know if this helps but I ran into a problem the other day were my desktop weather wouldn"t update-after messing with it to no avail I deleted everything and reloaded-I had the zip file containing of of judges samurize stuff-after loading I got the same error message so I deleted again and this time went to Deskmod.com and downloaded judges weather script by itself and installed and everything has been fine since-hope this helps!

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bucben

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While I"m here maybe someone can help me-this has been touched on somewhat but not to where I can understand-everything on judges desktop weather works except the png"s for todays and the next 4 days weather-they always show partly cloudy even though like today its raining and tomorrows forcast is for more heavy rain-please keep the explanation if one is coming,simple(I"m computer illeterant) thanx in advance!

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