For Feather Weather 2, click HERE
Portrait Version Now Available!
The smallest weather app available has just gone on a diet, it started at 950kb and now comes in at a lightweight sub 850 kb. Its been slimmed down in size but not in weather data available. The new TotalClock cab has the full five day and current conditions within the clock panel itself. Check out the screenshots below, you only see one day at a time for a nice clean look. Hit the right soft key to advance thru the days and when you done, it has a timer to reset itself to current conditions after 60 seconds of non-flipping of the forecast pages.
For those who would rather have it seperate, the original version still uses a seperate forecast panel along with current conditions only in the clock panel. But even though it hasn't changed, I have managed to squeeze another 100 kb off of it.
On the original version clock panel you get info for current: temperature, icon, real feel temp, winds, humidity, visibility, barometer, uv level, cloud cover, precipitation, sunrise, sunset, air quality levels, and dewpoint. Also, on the clock panel you get tomorrow's forecast: conditions, hi/lo temperatures, real feel high temps, winds, and estimated precipitation.
On condensed clock panel, there is current temp, current condition icon, time, and todays Hi/Lo temperatures. So if you dock your clock, you will always have weather and time showing on homescreen.
And for a full forecast, there is a 5 day forecast panel that can be enabled or disabled. The forecast pages have info for: day, date, conditions, hi/lo temperatures, precipitation estimates, uv levels, and winds expected.
Both have a user set time interval for the updates depending on your needs, wants, or data plans. Just go to setup and specify the interval in minutes. The default is 30 minutes. The forecast data updates every 8th time weather update runs, that way you get updated forecast info every 4 hrs if you use the default for current condition updates.
To install: For now, install to main memory, I'm working on either or version.
Download the cab. After installation, it should prompt you to restart. If it doesn't, then restart your phone to set new clock panel in place. After reboot, wait about 10 seconds and the FeatherOptions will run automatically. Go to Setup and set all of your info, good idea to go ahead and set your right soft key on the clock panel at this time. After setup, exit options by selecting "Run Weather Update and Exit".
That's it, your done.
NOTE: I beleive I worked out my problem with mortscript registering itself, but if it doesn't auto start the options after 10 seconds, then go to FeatherWeather folder in Program Files and click on Mortscript.exe .
To uninstall: First download the ResetClockPanel.zip below. Unzip and then place the .mscr file on your phone. Run it with File Explorer, this will reset your clock panel. Now go to Settings/Remove Programs and uninstall the cab.
City Location Codes:
For anyone that needs to find their city code, use this link and change the location in this url to the name of your city and then go to it and it will give a list of all cities worldwide that have that name. Get your location from there and enter it exactly as it appears in the quotes, but do not use the quotes.
http://hadle.accu-weather.com/widget/hadle/city-find.asp?location=calcutta
So, for this link above, if you were looking for Calcutta, India. Go to this link, and you will see a line like this:
<location cnt="1" city="Calcutta" state="India(Bangla)" location="ASI|IN|IN036|CALCUTTA" />
So your location to enter in to options would be :
ASI|IN|IN036|CALCUTTA
This should work for cities worldwide.
Feather currently is installed with a slim panel layout only. If you want more dll or cpr options, they are easily installed with FileChanger. Those are more homescreen customizations than they are weather customization, thats why they aren't in here.
For landscape phones: If you don't want the slim panels, I have standard panels cpr and mini panels cpr that work specifically with FeatherWeather. They are in the Featherscprs.zip below. Just install with the FileChanger app or copy into windows folder. Click on the File Changer in my signature below for the File Changer thread and download.
New Portrait versions below, the last 2 cabs that names end with "P" are the portrait versions. Portrait versions updated 8/19/08 with new cpr. If you already installed, you can download the cpr zip only and install to windows directory.
Check out these new portrait layouts provided by Kron2:
Make sure you get the landscape or portrait version you need, first 2 are Landscape, last 2 are Portrait
NOTE: There was a slight change in the feed. So after installing one of these cabs, please go to Post #101 and download the forecast fix.
showaco said:
Here's the smallest Weather app available. It weighs in at only 950 kb. Its been slimmed down in size but not in weather data available. It has current conditions and a five day forecast.
On the clock panel you get info for current: temperature, icon, real feel temp, winds, humidity, visibility, barometer, uv level, cloud cover, precipitation, sunrise, sunset, air quality levels, and dewpoint. Also, on the clock panel you get tomorrow's forecast: conditions, hi/lo temperatures, real feel high temps, winds, and estimated precipitation.
On condensed clock panel, there is current temp, current condition icon, time, and todays Hi/Lo temperatures. So if you dock your clock, you will always have weather and time showing on homescreen.
And for a full forecast, there is a 5 day forecast panel that can be enabled or disabled. The forecast pages have info for: day, date, conditions, hi/lo temperatures, precipitation estimates, uv levels, and winds expected.
It has a user set time interval for the updates depending on your needs, wants, or data plans. Just go to setup and specify the interval in minutes. The default is 30 minutes. The forecast data updates every 8th time weather update runs, that way you get updated forecast info every 4 hrs if you use the default for current condition updates.
To install: Download the cab or the zip file. The zip file has the exe file for installing thru ActiveSync, just unzip it first. After installation, it should prompt you to restart. If it doesn't, then restart your phone to set new clock panel in place. After reboot, go to start menu and run FeatherOptions. Go to Setup and set all of your info. After setup, exit options by selecting "Run Weather Update and Exit".
That's it, your done.
To uninstall: Go to Settings, Remove Programs and uninstall the cab. It won't change your clock panel back, but it will remove everything else. To revert clock panel back, install an original cpr or cpr of your choice.
Feather currently uses a slim panel layout, but I will add more support if anyone wants standard or fat panels. If you want more dll or cpr options, they are easily installed with FileChanger. Those are more homescreen customizations than they are weather customization, thats why they aren't in here.
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how is it that you have 3g on that phone what service provider do you have?
RussianSolja said:
how is it that you have 3g on that phone what service provider do you have?
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show doesn't have a dash. he has a blackjack and is on the at&t network
pudgedaddy said:
show doesn't have a dash. he has a blackjack and is on the at&t network
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shhhhh!! I'm masquerading as a dash.
Nice and sweet and at that size, I'm downloading now and disabling NRG Mini Weather to see how it compares but the size is the enticing factor me, cool, thanks
First post updated with two new cabs, here are the standard sized panels and the mini sized panels cprs that work with Feather below in the zip file. I also included the slim cpr for going back to.
Good weather application. Seems nice, but I will give it a shot later to see how it works...
showaco are you going to make Feather weather for 240x320 screen i have a shadow and would love to try your weather loveing your sports app
kron2 said:
showaco are you going to make Feather weather for 240x320 screen i have a shadow and would love to try your weather loveing your sports app
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The app only needs the cpr file adjusted for the clock panel layout to be ready to go. I have no way to test the layout, so it would be a total guess. If someone wants to make the cpr, or I could post a test version. A test version would probably have to be tweaked after installed to get the layout just right. You want to test? I can take a stab at the layout if you want to finish the final tweaking of positions.
Edit: If you want to pm me your email, I have a test cpr ready if you want to try it.
When I try and run Feather Options, I get and error: There is no application associated with "FeatherOptions"
I installed the CAB to the device memory. I get a generic clock icon and some weather info.
Thanks for any help, and of course for the nice plugin (once I can get it to work) I'm on a Moto Q Global.
braj108 said:
When I try and run Feather Options, I get and error: There is no application associated with "FeatherOptions"
I installed the CAB to the device memory. I get a generic clock icon and some weather info.
Thanks for any help, and of course for the nice plugin (once I can get it to work) I'm on a Moto Q Global.
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Sometimes mortscript doesn't register correctly on my cab installs. Go to program files\featherweather and find the mortscript.exe. Click on it and it will say that the extentions are registered. Now try again.
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Sometimes mortscript doesn't register correctly on my cab installs. Go to program files\featherweather and find the mortscript.exe. Click on it and it will say that the extentions are registered. Now try again.
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Awesome, thanks for the quick reply. Now I can run setup and get a forecast, but I still don't have a image, it shown a grainy white clock placeholder.
But progress has been made!
I just tried to uninstall this until I get the display issue resolved, and I get the following error occasionally: Cannot execute \Program Filea\FeatherWeather\Feather.exe
Please help.
braj108 said:
I just tried to uninstall this until I get the display issue resolved, and I get the following error occasionally: Cannot execute \Program Filea\FeatherWeather\Feather.exe
Please help.
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download sktools lite, its free. With it you can remove the notifications which are causing the error. If you want to reinstall, let me know which version you are using and I will get your icon fixed. If its the total clock version, the reason you didn't get the icon is because of not mortscript not registering at the beginning. It writes the value for the iconpath when the reboot occurs, but it needs mortscript to do it. Its an easy fix. After install, if mort doesn't register again, then reregister mortscipt again. After that, while you are in the featherweather folder, click on install.mscr. This will setup your icon for the clock panel and start your setup when it finishes.
I just reinstalled and rebooted my phone, and when the plugin came up, all seemed good then the screen died! It couldn't come on. I just got the phone and the first one AT&T shipped me had a bad backlight so I thought the worst, then I pulled the battery and rebooted again. Now the sun is shining gloriously on my Q Thanks, it was a little rocky but it sure looks nice. I really appreciate teh help getting this running, kudos to you sir.
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I just reinstalled and rebooted my phone, and when the plugin came up, all seemed good then the screen died! It couldn't come on. I just got the phone and the first one AT&T shipped me had a bad backlight so I thought the worst, then I pulled the battery and rebooted again. Now the sun is shining gloriously on my Q Thanks, it was a little rocky but it sure looks nice. I really appreciate teh help getting this running, kudos to you sir.
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No problem, I'm still trying to figure out why mort doesn't always register correctly because thats the culprit in most problems that have been reported.
Portrait version is now available for download in post #1. Huge Thanks go to Kron2 for the work on the cpr layout for these two new portrait cabs.
I have installed the portrait total clock version in my HTC VOX. It runs fine. But it is not updating weather for my town. I live in Calcutta, India. After a lot of googling for getting accuweather codes, I tried the following in settings but none seemed to work.
ASI/IN/IN036/CALCUTTA
"ASI/IN/IN036/CALCUTTA"
INO36
CALCUTTA
Can anybody help me as to how to insert the code for my hometown Calcutta as I have liked the application very much and does not feel to ditch the same. Although it is not a forum for VOX I had to write in this forum as there are no threads for Feather weather in VOX forum.
Moreover, would anybody please give the link to the slide homescreen in Portrait version as posted in post no. 1.
Thanks in advance.
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I have installed the portrait total clock version in my HTC VOX. It runs fine. But it is not updating weather for my town. I live in Calcutta, India. After a lot of googling for getting accuweather codes, I tried the following in settings but none seemed to work.
ASI/IN/IN036/CALCUTTA
"ASI/IN/IN036/CALCUTTA"
INO36
CALCUTTA
Can anybody help me as to how to insert the code for my hometown Calcutta as I have liked the application very much and does not feel to ditch the same. Although it is not a forum for VOX I had to write in this forum as there are no threads for Feather weather in VOX forum.
Moreover, would anybody please give the link to the slide homescreen in Portrait version as posted in post no. 1.
Thanks in advance.
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You have the right code, sort of. instead of "/" , you need "|". I tried it and it works, so for you code enter:
ASI|IN|IN036|CALCUTTA
For the theme, thats Kron2's theme. You may be able to find it at allshadow.com or by contacting him.
For anyone that need to find their city code, use this link and change the location in this url to the name of your city and then go to it and it will give a list of all cities worldwide that have that name. Get your location from there and enter it exactly as it appears in the quotes, but do not use the quotes.
http://hadle.accu-weather.com/widget/hadle/city-find.asp?location=calcutta
First of all i am very sorry to ask this stupid question as you have narrated the same example in your post 1. Actually I was too excited and overlooked that part. Anyway I am trying to find out the "|" character in my keyboard. Many thanks to you.
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This is an app that will add and update, in real time, a new panel on your sliding panels theme called "Weather".
It will install two shortcuts in your Start Menu. A "Weather Update" shortcut, which you can use to update manually, as well as a "Weather Options" shortcut.
Steps to take to make this work:
1) Install one of the cabs below. Pick the "Slim" version if you want thinner panels, like in the screenshots. Pick the Slim Background option to also get a background in the panel according to the current weather condition.
2) It should ask to reboot ! (turn phone off and on.. etc). If it doesn't... reboot manually!
3) Go to your Start Menu and find "Weather Options". Set your Zip / Location Code to your zip code if you're in the US or a "location code" if you're anywhere else. More info on finding your specific code is here http://developer.yahoo.com/weather/#req . Set the "Fahrenheit / Celsius" option to either "F" or "C" (without the quotes!). Specify how often you would like to autoupdate the weather information in minutes in option 3. Specify whether you would like the application to attempt to connect your default GPRS connection first, before updating. Finally you can turnoff the autoupdate feature with the last option (7).
4) Now it might be a good idea to go to Start and find "Update Weather" and run it.
5) The cab should set your homescreen to "Sliding Panel Top Bar + Weather!" automatically. If it doesn't, you need to do it manually to see the weather plugin. If you top icons disappear then you might have to use the regular "Sliding Panel + Weather!" theme.
If you want your system font to look like the one in the thumbnails (calibri), download the .cab attached, install and reboot.
Please use the attached "unlock.cab" to unlock your device if you're getting permission errors trying to install my weather cabs. Thanks.
For now, I just released the SLIM version. Haven't had the time to create the cpr file for the regular version yet, but you'll have it tomorrow.
Pick one of the cabs below to install different icons, as seen in the pictures. Install the icon cabs, AFTER you install the main weather cab.
For people that still don't know how to manually update: you go to your start meny and find "Weather Update" and run it. Clicking the middle button on the keyboard, while having the weather slide activated will NOT do anything!
This will most likely enable ALL the panels installed on your phone, so use this utility to get rid of the ones you don't want displayed.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=392641
1) First picture. Layout #1, 7 degree icons.
2) Second pictures. Layout #2, 7 degree icons.
3) 3rd picture. Layout #3, 7 degree icons.
4) 4th picture. Layout #3, default icons.
5) 5th picture. Layout #3, Yahoo icons. (MY own preferred layout )
6) 6th picture. Layout #3, Yahoo icons, again.
7) 7th picture, Layout #1, default icons, NO background option!
8) 8th picture, Layout #2, default icons, NO background option!
Enjoy!
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This is the "addons" post.
P.S. Zip file uploaded for people that prefer installing this manually. Install the Calibri font mod cab, if you want your system font to look like the font in the screenshots above.
- Spil Icons added. 5/21/08
- Added "NRG Power Key..... .cab This will add three options to the menu that comes up when you hit the power key on the side of your Excalibur. "Power off", "Reboot" and "Weather Update". I hope they're self explanatory Have fun.
- Novaweather icons added. 5/17/08 7:36AM
Your Master Piece
Awesome, beautiful.............!
Nice work man good job.
Ummm I tried it and it gets stuck at like 10%... Seems like there is a bug or something the 1.7 worked fine but this one gets stuck for some reason.
jdoggraz said:
Ummm I tried it and it gets stuck at like 10%... Seems like there is a bug or something the 1.7 worked fine but this one gets stuck for some reason.
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Never mind I found out the problem I need to put Y for connection first.
Hell Yeah
Looks good, can't wait to put it on my phone with the regualar (fat) interface. Thanks for spending your time working into the wee hours of the morning to get this up and running.
this project is interesting and I am following it since begin but why I have toshow on my home the actual weather and actual temeperature? I guess is better to put 3 small weather icons in the slide showing the weather in the next days... no? Or first icon for the actual day forecast and then the following days...
this may sound like a silly question but will this take away any of my current panels????
not to sound like a unappreciating ass, (your doing amazing work), but i agree with Iannik next thing you work on should be a forcast type thing, like a fizz weather type thing with 5 days or something like that.
ok, so this is a very noob question, but i have to be running 6.1 to use this homescreen, correct? i installed it before on my 6.0 dash, and it did nothing...
OrganicM,
Do you still have the latest (working) version using CWelcomeCenter? While working on my new CHome Configurator utility, I might figure out a way to update the plugin without reloading the whole homescreen. If it does work, you will be able to add forecast data into multiple panel and have the manual update process directly from the panel.
evolarius said:
ok, so this is a very noob question, but i have to be running 6.1 to use this homescreen, correct? i installed it before on my 6.0 dash, and it did nothing...
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Yeah, I think this .cab only works with sliding panels (which are only available in WM6.1). I may be wrong.
Rip Syntaxx said:
Yeah, I think this .cab only works with sliding panels (which are only available in WM6.1). I may be wrong.
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thanks for the info...
LCD Font
Org, do you plan on releasing ver. 1.8 with an LCD system font?
Yes. All that is coming today. I didnd't have time to do all the regular versions last night, so I decided to at least release the slim version for you guys to try. I will get the "Fat" version out today with LCD and not, as well as a SLIM LCD version! Maybe even the IPhone layout if I'm happy with it.... hehe
p.s. I'm also working on a standalone CWelcomeCenter version based on the latest 1.8 code (which I've cleaned up a lot). We will also have forecast data with the current testui version, plus a welcomecenter panel underneath with forecast for a few days!
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Yes. All that is coming today. I didnd't have time to do all the regular versions last night, so I decided to at least release the slim version for you guys to try. I will get the "Fat" version out today with LCD and not, as well as a SLIM LCD version! Maybe even the IPhone layout if I'm happy with it.... hehe
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The iPhone version looks...awesome. I like how the center weather icon overlaps the panel--just a tad. Other people might find that a bug, but I actually like it.
LCD Front
This time use Kavana's Clock with the Staple Center scoreboard look, LA Lakers clock..............!
How!? How do you just keep killin' it O!? Great work dude!
i will offer a few options fo the lcd font
The other thread was getting a little large, plus we have a new version out.
Here's Chome Weather 2.0 with a 10 day forecast. Download the cab and enjoy, more detailed instructions to follow.
1) Install the cab in the link at the bottom of the post.
2) It should ask to reboot ! Press "Ok"
3) Go to your Start Menu and find "Weather Options", or go down to the Settings slide on your homescreen and the second slide will be the CHome Weather options slide.
Set your Zip / Location Code to your zip code if you're in the US or a "location code" if you're anywhere else (ex: ROXX003 for Bucharest). More info on finding your specific code is here http://developer.yahoo.com/weather/#req . Set the "Fahrenheit / Celsius" option to either "F" or "C" (without the quotes!). This will only affect the reading of the current conditions panels, not the text descriptions in the forecast panels. Those will always be in Fahrenheit.
Specify how often you would like to autoupdate the weather information, in minutes in option #3. It's set to 60 by default and I would not recommend seting it any lower, as that's how often Yahoo updates the information on their servers anyway.
Specify whether you would like the application to attempt to connect your default GPRS connection first, before updating. If you have a constant data connection on, leave this on "N". Finally you can turn off the autoupdate feature with the last option #7.
4) Now it might be a good idea to go to Start and find "Update Weather" and run it to update the weather data! Alternatively you can click the center button while you're on any of the forecast panels.
5) The cab should set your Home Screen to "Sliding Panel Top Bar + Weather!" automatically. If your top icons disappear then you might have to use the regular "Sliding Panel + Weather!" theme.
6) Enjoy and report any bugs you might encounter, please.
New features:
- Regular sized icons for the forecast panels, they do not affect other "welcomecenter" based panels.
- Revised layouts to ensure correct wrapping
- HomeScreen update feature. No need to reboot to see forecast or layout changes. This option is turned off by default because it doesn't work for everybody. If you turn it on and you see problems with your phone's radio turning off, phone becoming very slow etc... turn it off. (it's option #10)
- Added new panel to the Settings panel at the bottom for easy access to the weather updates and settings.
- "Spil icons" are default for forecast and regular panels.
Screenshot descriptions:
1- IPhone Layout (this is the default layout)
2- Forecast Panels screenshot
3- Slim Panels Layout with the background options enabled
4- HTC Slim Layout while updating
5- HTC Slim Layout in normal mode
6- The HomeScreen with the weather plugin in its "condensed" state at the bottom, showing current conditions
7- Regular Panel Layouy with no background.
8- IPhone Slim Layout
Download link > http://www.sendspace.com/file/0f8g23
Vox Version > http://www.sendspace.com/file/rxa13k
Look at post #3 to complete the installation for Vox phones. (or any other phones that will not install the regular version)
Current Version: 2.0.3
Changes to 2.0.3:
- completely redesigned Options panel. Hopefully things will be easier to get around. Now it tell you what the current layout used is.
- Fixed HTC Layout (5) text not wrapping down issue.
- Added option NOT to check for internet connection before connecting.
- Options panel keeps track of what layout you're running.
- added blue, purple, WM7 style or original glass panel selection to options panel.
- updated portrait CPRs.
- forecast panels should now display "N/A" icons when a forecast is not available instead of a red x.
- ability to choose between european("rest of the world pretty much...) or american style dates on the forecast panels.
If you like this application and feel the need to support my work, here's a link to donate to me via PayPal.
PayPal Donate
This is the "addons" post.
Added "NRG Power Key..... .cab This will add three options to the menu that comes up when you hit the power key on the side of your Excalibur. "Power off", "Reboot" and "Weather Update". I hope they're self explanatory Have fun.
Download the Calibri font mod if you want your system font to look like the one in the screenshots.
The Yahoo, Spil, Novaweather and 7Degree icon sets are alternative icons sets for your Forecast and Regular and Slim Panel layouts
Also using this post to keep a list of TO DO's since I always forget:
- Better autoupdate logic. *DONE*
(got rid of "weathertimer.mscr" and using the phone's notification queue... will beta test this over the next couple of days)
- Checking whether on a call, when going to update the weather info. If on a call, exit and run 10 minutes after... and so on... *DONE*
- Make option menu that lets the user chose how many pages of forecast info they can see.
- Move PNGs to storage card. Create two separate cab's for installation. Maine program and Icon packs
- Add second or third panel with more "current weather information" details. *IN PROGRESS*
Files needs to complete the VOX installation are attached. Install the Vox cab above, then unzip Vox Windows.zip and drop all the files in it in the \windows directory on your device. Install weathertimer.mscr in \windows\startup.
OrganicM said:
The other thread was getting a little large, plus we have a new version out.
Here's Chome Weather 2.0 with a 10 day forecast. Download the cab and enjoy, more detailed instructions to follow. To list some new features:
- Regular sized icons for the forecast panels, they do not affect other "welcomecenter" based panels (too much ).
- Revised layout to ensure correct wrapping
- HomeScreen update feature. No need to reboot to see forecast or layout changes. This option is turned off by default, so you need to go to Options, and turn it on. (it's #10)
- Added new panel to the Settings panel at the bottom for easy access to the weather updates and settings.
- "Spil icons" are default for forecast and regular panels.
Download link > http://www.sendspace.com/file/saqzxb
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POST OBSOLETE
Final version? wooot!!
Edit: i just installed the update....its way better than the beta, of course, the only problem im still having are the icons.... the CLinks icons are still oversized and still have no idea where to edit them ... any help would be appreciated
LOVE IT!!!
Compared it to weather.gov accurate also.
This is KICK ASS
installing cab file now... didnt have the first version, dont know why. i live in virginia beach, va and its supposed to be one of the most climate changing places in the us... ill let you know how it turns out.... judging by your pics and everyone elses responses its gonna be tits
Good Job just one question.. when i go to the weather thing on my home screen i have 1/10 options to scroll thru what do they all represent? theres no dates or anything... can you explain?
Amazing........
Hi Org,
It looks and works great, even my distorted icons are back to normal, a biggggg thanks for all your efforts and your patience with all of us demanding more stuff..........
Whoa...okay. Just disregard this whole post guys. Let this be a lesson to you--work with your program for at least 15-20 minutes before reporting bugs. I feel ridiculous for not dabbling with this before crying wolf! My bad, Org!
axv91 said:
Final version? wooot!!
Edit: i just installed the update....its way better than the beta, of course, the only problem im still having are the icons.... the CLinks icons are still oversized and still have no idea where to edit them ... any help would be appreciated
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You can edit the size of the icons in the .cpr files. Look in program files\NRG\chomeweather\cprs and edit the cpr that you are using(they're all in there). Doesn't make sense that clinks is oversized and weather is smaller, if that is case, can you upload copy of your current cpr that you are using(in windows\home.cpr.xml I think)? I would like to see something before you edit it. And after you edit, goto weather options and rechoose your layout to activate new cpr.
yea... umm.... not sayin its a bad thing, but my color icon bar at the top went back to black and white, and it wont show saturday and sunday, then skips from tuesday to saturday of next week... maybe i did something wrong?? but i could see the setup option text either... all in all i like it
turned the autoupdate off... maybe im just havin problems with it... im usin ricky's 23rd rom. im about ready to take this weather off cause i like the whole forcast thing, but not when it jumps from tuesday to saturday...
1) the last day is still on the second tab on the panel.
2) the text is still cutoff
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You can edit the size of the icons in the .cpr files. Look in program files\NRG\chomeweather\cprs and edit the cpr that you are using(they're all in there). Doesn't make sense that clinks is oversized and weather is smaller, if that is case, can you upload copy of your current cpr that you are using(in windows\home.cpr.xml I think)? I would like to see something before you edit it. And after you edit, goto weather options and rechoose your layout to activate new cpr.
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i was actually looking at the cpr in the \windows, i totally forgot about the cprs in the program files .... btw, i forgot to mention that im using a 240x320 device
so maybe that's why it didn't change text/icon size (i'll upload the cpr file anyway for u to see).... thank u vry much for the help, i really appreciate it!
http://www.sendspace.com/file/jky0kj
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yea... umm.... not sayin its a bad thing, but my color icon bar at the top went back to black and white, and it wont show saturday and sunday, then skips from tuesday to saturday of next week... maybe i did something wrong?? but i could see the setup option text either... all in all i like it
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Sounds like mine... Mine skips Sunday, June 1st on the forecast panel.
what to do syntaxx??
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what to do syntaxx??
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No clue! lol That's why I posted my issue along with yours--hopefully Org will work on this!
im removing the whole program now... sorry, but the thought is there. its just not workin out for me... maybe when the 3.0 thread comes out
oh, tryin to uninstall and it says it cant be completely removed... looks like im reflashin tonight
could be the operator and not the program tho... o well, the options text is too small and way too cursivey for me to read...
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im removing the whole program now... sorry, but the thought is there. its just not workin out for me... maybe when the 3.0 thread comes out
oh, tryin to uninstall and it says it cant be completely removed... looks like im reflashin tonight
could be the operator and not the program tho... o well, the options text is too small and way too cursivey for me to read...
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Before reflashing, try to install the weather .cab again. I had this problem with an older version and I just downloaded another over it--and SOMEHOW it uninstalled the whole thing! Try other methods before reflashing. It can be a headache to get your settings the way you like them again.
so let me get this straight.. just run the cab file again? and everything should go peachy?
This is a current conditions panel. It is a work in progress. It is based off of what OrganicM has been working on. If you want to use this, it should be safe to say that you should be running the latest version of CHome Weather, or this will not work.
The zip below has some reg keys to import. Just drop them anywhere on your phone and execute, then reboot. Once done, drop the mscr into your NRG\CHome Weather directory and overwrite Organic's original. It is identical to the original except it has added codes that operate the new Current Conditions panel. Everytime the mscr updates manually, or automatically, it will update the current conditions panel. Oh yeah, almost forgot, there is an icons2 folder in the zip. Just drop the entire folder into the CHome Weather folder. Update your screen and this should show for your area. Let me know if there are any bugs.
This is a work in progress, so it will get better looking in time. I just was wanting to go ahead and post what I have so far, so I could get some feedback on likes, dislikes, edits, pros, cons, etc.
Hope you enjoy, and if you have any trouble just recopy the old mscr over this one and all should be well, so make sure you copy your old one, if you are afraid.........
LOL
EDIT: Here is the mscr file that updates all of your condensed icons for the forecast panel, my current conditions panel, and gives all the icons and conditions for all layouts. Make sure you have installed the reg keys.
ALSO: If you have calibri font installed, it will cutoff the text, just make sure you uninstall it if you care about text getting cut off
thats actually very cool...how does it update though? real time or no? and does it replace the forecast or the current weather panel of NRGs weather? or a third panel?
No, this does not replace of NRG's stuff. You have to have his CHome Weather installed. It is a 3rd Panel, you can turn it off or on with CHome Config or do it yourself via your registry. It updates in realtime as much as CHome weather does. It uses the Yahoo server to update it's info, so that is usually done at 53 minutes past the hour, I've noticed. So once an hour at 11:53,12:53;1:53, so on. You see.
It is a standalone, it works by itself, just update your weather from CHome Weather and it will update this panel. If everyone likes this, and some do not want to run Chome Weather, I can write an updater for just this panel, so that the forecast and CTestUIPanel aren't necessary. I just use their mscr and exe. I just added my own update features to it. I CAN write a standalone update, though.
Holla, let me know what you think!!!
Edit: Just found all the attribute names from weather.com, so now I can find dewpoint, feels like,etc. to my panels. Just look at the weather.com site for your town and whatever it has there, I should be able to find out.
I am missing the point
outerdepth said:
No, this does not replace of NRG's stuff. You have to have his CHome Weather installed. It is a 3rd Panel, you can turn it off or on with CHome Config or do it yourself via your registry. It updates in realtime as much as CHome weather does. It uses the Yahoo server to update it's info, so that is usually done at 53 minutes past the hour, I've noticed. So once an hour at 11:53,12:53;1:53, so on. You see.
It is a standalone, it works by itself, just update your weather from CHome Weather and it will update this panel. If everyone likes this, and some do not want to run Chome Weather, I can write an updater for just this panel, so that the forecast and CTestUIPanel aren't necessary. I just use their mscr and exe. I just added my own update features to it. I CAN write a standalone update, though.
Holla, let me know what you think!!!
Edit: Just found all the attribute names from weather.com, so now I can find dewpoint, feels like,etc. to my panels. Just look at the weather.com site for your town and whatever it has there, I should be able to find out.
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The new panels are quite nice, but I am missing the point here. I already have ORG's weather running on my device. What info will I get in these panels that I do not already have...
I do like the fact that everything is in one panel and uses the real estate better. I also like fewer slides (10 day is an overkill and often inaccurate) Perhaps 4-5 is the best.
For those who are looking to replace ORG's weather with this one will need the updater. Also I like the blue glass panels in ORG's...
Thanks to you guys for all the effort you put into it.
No Point, Really.
That's cool. I "appreciate" the remarks, or at least some of them.
I am not replacing the forecast. I use it. I work outside a lot and it's nice to know what kind of week I have ahead. I used to wake up and go turn on my tv and check out the weather, but now I've got the Weather Radar from Tech, which is way cool. I have Org's really pretty CTestUIPanel, my fave. I just didn't want to be limited to what kind of info for the current day that I am currently limited to with the CTest panel. It gives me my basic needs.
I have written scripts that can update the CTestUIPanel to say the same stuff that my Current Conditions panel says, but the problem is that I lose all of my regular panel until I update again. I have not found a way to make it cycle through all of my "pages" and on the last cycle, display the original chome weather screen (although I AM working on it).
Anyway, this is written solely to see what kind of interface or layout people like. You obviously like the CTestUIPanel layout over having a secondary panel to display the current info. I will keep that in mind for a future release. Hopefully, Organic likes this D) and can come up with something in HIS next release that surpasses this or at least matches this as an option. Just gotta figure out how to mimic a "page scrolling" concept to CTestUIPanel without having a "hot key" assigned using SmartToolkit......
debabratadey said:
The new panels are quite nice, but I am missing the point here. I already have ORG's weather running on my device. What info will I get in these panels that I do not already have...
I do like the fact that everything is in one panel and uses the real estate better. I also like fewer slides (10 day is an overkill and often inaccurate) Perhaps 4-5 is the best.
For those who are looking to replace ORG's weather with this one will need the updater. Also I like the blue glass panels in ORG's...
Thanks to you guys for all the effort you put into it.
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I spoke too early
I guess I spoke too early. Now that I have installed "Currently," I can see what it does exactly. Somehow, it was not clear from the pictures, till I saw it on my own device...
I like it. I am replacing TestUI with Currently. So, now I will have just two panels. One with Currently, and another with Forecast. At least for the time...
However, this is what I would really like: Just one panel... The first couple of slides could be about current conditions, and the remaining 5 or so about the next 5 days. Ideally, the user should be able to set how many days in the future he/she wants to see...
If I knew enough programming, I would pitch in, or do it myself, but I am challenged that way...
Thanks to you and ORG. Keep up the good work.
No problem, I'm glad you like this. I will "look" into expanding my idea to incorporate the forecast into the current conditions as a pages in 1 panel. I like that idea.
I don't know about setting these as options, but I will definitely look into that.
Thanks for your input.
That can definitely be done and it's pretty easy. Click on the forecast panel to update the TestUI panel... each click would flip through pages, kind of a carousel effect, before finally returning to current conditions. The user can choose how many pages to display and after a certain time of "inactivity" it defaults to current conditions. OR even bettter, the first page of the forecast cycles through multiple current conditions panels and the second page cycles through forecast details.... ideas.. ideas..
thanks for direction solution
yeah, I tried this option, just never got this running to where it updated everything with just a click. It would be nice to see someone getting that going with just a click. Showaco and I did this on an older release of CHome Weather. He even wrote a script that let's you go in reverse order to in order to simulate flipping forward and backwards through "pages".
Your prog looks pretty good. Maybe you can take this one and the other ideas and incorporate them. This is so cool, everybody collaborating on this stuff. SWEET!
Just downloaded, I'm going to try it out today and see how it works. Good work.
I am having some trouble adding the registry keys to the phone. I have no issues with updating Currently, which executes no problem, but currently2 freezes when it comes to My Device. Its stopping at the screen stating "script file imported successfully press ok" but it will not accept pressing ok.
Good job on this outer, much respect for this.
Try this......
Sounds like a problem with whatever you are using to import your keys with. It should work just fine. Others are using it, and have had NO trouble thus far. Try opening up Resco Explorer or Total Commander if you have one of these, and execute it from there. Also, if you are running one of Ricky's ROMS, it has a built in reg editor that will allow you to update these. Hope this works, if not, just post again, and we'll try to get to the bottom of this. Sorry, if this isn't working for you, yet. We'll get going together, though. No worries. PEACE, mate.
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I am having some trouble adding the registry keys to the phone. I have no issues with updating Currently, which executes no problem, but currently2 freezes when it comes to My Device. Its stopping at the screen stating "script file imported successfully press ok" but it will not accept pressing ok.
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This looks good, but no love for the blackjack. The home refresh kills me unless I get rid of my testui panel, I just can't let go of it yet. If I did, I would have to set it to manually update or write something to check to make sure I wasn't using an app at the update time. Because it sux when you're in the middle of typing and you end up on the homescreen.
Updated the mscr
I noticed that on my today high and low and tommorrow's high and low, it was displaying the same info, I fixed it. Below is the zip that has the updated mscr. Also, I know some people are liking the CTestUIPanel alot. So I made an mscr that uses the weather watcher data to give you updated info in the CTestUIPanel.
Caution: Each one of these needs an exe. All that means is unzip these and put them in your nrg chome weather folder. In your chome weather folder you'll notice how each of your original mscr files has its own corresponding exe. Check this, just copy a few of these exes into this same folder. Then rename them to your newer mscr file names. For example.
Rename one of your copied .exe's to:
weathernoupdate.mscr and it's corresponding exe is weathernoupdate.exe
See, that's it. Once you do, you can assign a hotkey and these work well. This way you can keep your current CTestUIPanel. I assigned a hot key to my current and currentreverse and it allows me to scoll left and right through my CTestUIPanel. Pretty cool, it's like having pages in the CTestUIPanel. I have to give Showaco all the credit for the idea. He showed me what's up and I incoporated it into one of my mscr's. Anyway, the original weather.mscr Organic uses is in here. My updated mscr, if you are using my Current Panels is in there, it is just titled weather.mscr.
Play with others, tell me what you think, remember smartoolkit assigns hot keys to programs. It can be fun if you have some free keys to assign to these puppies. Later.
Outerdepth
Where in the mscr that you round up the numbers for visbility and wind so you don't get the values in 2 decimel points.
Thanks
New Update
I have posted an update to the mscr and there are some screenshots in the zip as well. Make sure you have the regs. I have shown this to a few so far, and it is being well received from the "higher ups". Try it. I think you'll be glad you did.
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I have posted an update to the mscr and there are some screenshots in the zip as well. Make sure you have the regs. I have shown this to a few so far, and it is being well received from the "higher ups". Try it. I think you'll be glad you did.
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So, I just tried this little gizmo out. I followed the directions you gave in the first post...
copied icon2 folder to chome weather folder
copied updated weather.mscr file to chome weather folder
copied currently.reg and currently2.red, applied currently.reg and then applied currently2.reg on the phone.
I then restarted and nothing happened, only thing that changed was the icons, but none of the other information is showing ,and there is no 3 pages to scroll in the current weather panel. What did I do wrong?
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Adrian
I don't know, try to rename the reg keys to .ccs instead of .reg. Then go to your file explorer on your phone, then open these. This should make sure they are installed correctly. Sometimes I had problems with other peoples reg keys, it would say they were updated, but they didn't. Mikey and some others had this problem too.
Just try the rename reg key deal and reboot, then update the weather.exe. This should fix your problem.
PLEASE, let me know if this worked for you.
Here's Chome Weather 3.0 with a 10 day forecast. Download the cab and enjoy.
1) Install the cab in the link at the bottom of the post.
2) It should ask to reboot ! Press "Ok"
3) Go to your Start Menu and find "Weather Options", or go down to the Settings slide on your homescreen and the second slide will be the CHome Weather options slide.
Set your Zip / Location Code to your zip code if you're in the US or a "location code" if you're anywhere else (ex: ROXX003 for Bucharest). More info on finding your specific code is here http://developer.yahoo.com/weather/#req . Set the "Fahrenheit / Celsius" option. This will only affect the reading of the current conditions panels, not the text descriptions in the forecast panels. Those will always be in Fahrenheit.
Specify whether you would like the application to attempt to connect your default GPRS connection first, before updating. If you have a constant data connection on, leave this on "N". Finally you can turn off the autoupdate feature with the last option #7.
4) Now it might be a good idea to go to Start and find "Update Weather" and run it to update the weather data! Alternatively you can click the center button while you're on any of the forecast panels.
5) The cab should set your Home Screen to "Sliding Panel + Weather!" automatically.
6) Enjoy and report any bugs you might encounter, please.
New features:
- New 6 day forecast layout (layout #7)
- Autoupdate using Yahoo's server time. No manual control over update interval anymore.
- Revised layouts to ensure correct wrapping
- HomeScreen update feature. No need to reboot to see forecast or layout changes. This option is turned off by default because it doesn't work for everybody. If you turn it on and you see problems with your phone's radio turning off, phone becoming very slow etc... turn it off. (it's option #10)
- Added new panel to the Settings panel at the bottom for easy access to the weather updates and settings.
- "Stardock icons" are default for forecast and regular panels.
Screenshot descriptions:
1- IPhone Layout (this is the default layout)
2- Forecast Panels screenshot
3- Slim Panels Layout with the background options enabled
4- HTC Slim Layout while updating
5- HTC Slim Layout in normal mode
6- The HomeScreen with the weather plugin in its "condensed" state at the bottom, showing current conditions
7- Regular Panel Layout with no background.
8- IPhone Slim Layout
Download link > http://www.sendspace.com/file/4mh11j
Vox Version (Currently still at 3.0.1) > http://www.sendspace.com/file/0bie7d
Current Version: 3.1
Changes in 3.1
- Rearranged the order the various subroutines run.
- Fixed autoupdate issue.
- Removed HTC icons and background PNGs from the cab. Please download them separately from the addons post if you plan to use those layouts.
- Added option to show extended forecast panels on the homescreen or not.
- Added detection routine to detect if your phone's keypad is locked and NOT to update the homescreen is that's the case. Should help with the "Phone - Incoming" message problem that's been reported
- Edited some CPRs for better alignment
- More verbose status messages
- Etc...
More to come soon. The next version will update your clock panel with current conditions info. Just wanted to get this update out of the way first.
Changes in 3.0.1:
- Added 6 day forecast layout.
- Autoupdate feature based on Yahoo server's time.
- Small bugfixes, revised Options panel.
- Compressed PNGs.
- Complete portrait support for the new 6 day layout.
- Background used in screenshots included in .cab.
Changes to 2.0.3:
- completely redesigned Options panel. Hopefully things will be easier to get around. Now it tell you what the current layout used is.
- Fixed HTC Layout (5) text not wrapping down issue.
- Added option NOT to check for internet connection before connecting.
- Options panel keeps track of what layout you're running.
- added blue, purple, WM7 style or original glass panel selection to options panel.
- updated portrait CPRs.
- forecast panels should now display "N/A" icons when a forecast is not available instead of a red x.
- ability to choose between european ("rest of the world pretty much...) or american style dates on the forecast panels.
If you like this application and feel the need to support my work, here's a link to donate to me via PayPal.
PayPal Donate Link
DO NOT install this to the storage card. It will not work that way!
p.s. Portrait support is included for the new 6 day layout.
p.s.s. The cab seems to take a few minutes to install, especially if you're installing over 2.0.3. So just be patient I guess...
Update to 3.1
Only install this if you have 3.0.1 or 3.0.2 installed. Otherwise, download the cab in the sendspace link above and install the whole app.
This is the "addons" post.
Added "NRG Power Key..... .cab This will add three options to the menu that comes up when you hit the power key on the side of your Excalibur. "Power off", "Reboot" and "Weather Update". I hope they're self explanatory Have fun. Take note your wireless manager might be gone, or might act erracticaly. If you have problems, just install the cab. Don't post in the thread about it, there's nothing I can do about it.
Download the Calibri font mod if you want your system font to look like the one in the screenshots.
The Yahoo, Spil, Novaweather and 7Degree icon sets are alternative icons sets for most of your layouts and extended forecast panels
Most of the icons sets install as a one time installation application. Which means you will not see it in the "uninstallable" list of program under "Settings". Once you run the cab, it will overwrite whatever icons are installed and that's it...
Reserved... the last one.. I promise
Looks niiice i will be testing on Portrait (tornado)
Good Job
So far so good on my Q9c. Last version had to be uninstalled due to a couple of crashes. The worst being when I plugged into the computer the home screen crashed and would not recover after a reboot.
Like the new layout.
Formatting on QVGA
Incredible progress!
I've attached two SS's from my QVGA, using your layout #9 (Standard 6 day which is only 4 day by the way). As you can see, the bottom Temps are not lined up in either F or C and I looked at the CPR, but it is like Greek to me... I see "Bottom Temps" but fiddling and restarting gives me either to the Right or Left - I don't suppose there is a GUI for modding these CPRs is there?
Can you assist in getting it all lined up?
Thanks and keep up the GREAT work! Expect some more PayPal coming your way!
The new layout looks beautiful. The one thing i might suggest: You may want to add an option in advanced options to turn off the 10 day forecast. Since it appears that im going to be using this 6 day testpluginui ( and several others will be too) they may not want or need the additional 10 day forecast panel.
I personally know how to disable it via the registry, but others may not. Secondly, If that option is de-selected, if you can also put in the weather.mscr file to not update that panel, so that way the weather updater runs a little faster.
Edit: I also think that today's Hi/Lo under the city needs to be removed. Its kind of redundant info, since the same info is located in the 6 day forecast located in the first day of the 6 day forecast.
This will also allow more room for lengthier weather condition names.
Damn,
Free service is at full capacity, hope someone can mirror it later.....
I'm anxious to try it
I installed on my Q9c and I still get that font issue with large text boxes in PIE, however, I'm willing to put up with it at this point since the 6-day layout means I don't have to reboot the phone to see the latest forecast.
Any idea what might be causing the font issue? Since this weather panel is basically just scripts reading XML files and making registry changes, I can't imagine that it'd be too hard to figure out what's causing the PIE font issue. The font issue isn't a huge deal and I'd completely ignore it if it weren't for the fact that the digital font makes no differentiation between upper and lower case and many special characters just show up as boxes.
I dumped the 10-day panel and added a link to the Weather Update in my links panel if I ever decide to manually update the weather.
Dees_Troy said:
I installed on my Q9c and I still get that font issue with large text boxes in PIE, however, I'm willing to put up with it at this point since the 6-day layout means I don't have to reboot the phone to see the latest forecast.
Any idea what might be causing the font issue? Since this weather panel is basically just scripts reading XML files and making registry changes, I can't imagine that it'd be too hard to figure out what's causing the PIE font issue. The font issue isn't a huge deal and I'd completely ignore it if it weren't for the fact that the digital font makes no differentiation between upper and lower case and many special characters just show up as boxes.
I dumped the 10-day panel and added a link to the Weather Update in my links panel if I ever decide to manually update the weather.
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It may be the chome_320X240.cpr file in your /windows directory. When you load a layout. his program pulls .cprs from the chomeweather directory and replaces your original chome_320X240.cpr file ... you may uninstall. copy over your chome320X240.cpr file do your PC's desktop and open it and whatever .cpr file you use for the weather layout and compare the differences.
Glad you guys like it. I'm sorry the portrait guys are still experiencing issues, like the misalignment of the bottom temps. However, the issue needs to be taken care of in the weather.mscr file, not the cpr file. I think I will switch to png rendering of the bottom temps instead of relying on text handled by the plugin. It's just not reliable at all and the temps are always a little misaligned....
Look for 3.0.1 at the end of the day... LOL
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The new layout looks beautiful. The one thing i might suggest: You may want to add an option in advanced options to turn off the 10 day forecast. Since it appears that im going to be using this 6 day testpluginui ( and several others will be too) they may not want or need the additional 10 day forecast panel.
I personally know how to disable it via the registry, but others may not. Secondly, If that option is de-selected, if you can also put in the weather.mscr file to not update that panel, so that way the weather updater runs a little faster.
Edit: I also think that today's Hi/Lo under the city needs to be removed. Its kind of redundant info, since the same info is located in the 6 day forecast located in the first day of the 6 day forecast.
This will also allow more room for lengthier weather condition names.
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I was gonna say EXACTLY what you just said. lol.
pudgedaddy said:
The new layout looks beautiful. The one thing i might suggest: You may want to add an option in advanced options to turn off the 10 day forecast. Since it appears that im going to be using this 6 day testpluginui ( and several others will be too) they may not want or need the additional 10 day forecast panel.
I personally know how to disable it via the registry, but others may not. Secondly, If that option is de-selected, if you can also put in the weather.mscr file to not update that panel, so that way the weather updater runs a little faster.
Edit: I also think that today's Hi/Lo under the city needs to be removed. Its kind of redundant info, since the same info is located in the 6 day forecast located in the first day of the 6 day forecast.
This will also allow more room for lengthier weather condition names.
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I second that, the testui pluig in is enough for me, I already remove the welcome center because is no need to get it on the screen, anyway it looks besutiful, great work......
Great work as always, man. Amazing how you fit so much information in such a small place.
Personally, I'm sticking with the NRG Slim layout for now. Going for the "less is more" effect
Whats Vox version and how do i get my NRG Colored panels with the 5 day forcast like on PIcture 4?
pudgedaddy said:
The new layout looks beautiful. The one thing i might suggest: You may want to add an option in advanced options to turn off the 10 day forecast. Since it appears that im going to be using this 6 day testpluginui ( and several others will be too) they may not want or need the additional 10 day forecast panel.
I personally know how to disable it via the registry, but others may not. Secondly, If that option is de-selected, if you can also put in the weather.mscr file to not update that panel, so that way the weather updater runs a little faster.
Edit: I also think that today's Hi/Lo under the city needs to be removed. Its kind of redundant info, since the same info is located in the 6 day forecast located in the first day of the 6 day forecast.
This will also allow more room for lengthier weather condition names.
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Point taken. I will remove the "hi -lo" in the top left corner and make enabling the welcome center an option
Excuse me for the question, but will this app work on regular WM6, or it only works with WM 6.1 Chome?
No chances to have a version for WM6?
luckyland said:
Excuse me for the question, but will this app work on regular WM6, or it only works with WM 6.1 Chome?
No chances to have a version for WM6?
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this app is specifically written for the sliding panel homescreen. The sliding panel homescreen is only available on the WM 6.1 platform. So no. it does not and will not work on the WM6 interface
I've got the shakes...
Oh man... I SO wanna download this and "finagle" while I'm here at work, but I'll need to edit my cpr and it's too cumbersome trying to do it from the phone (instead of on my PC desktop). Blast! My love for boldened titles hinders me from enjoying this .cab this instant! lol
I have started this for the purpose of having a stickied thread that points you to the three (currently) working weather apps for Windows Mobile 6.1 (Kavana and Rickwyatt ROMs). The program creators have created a post for their version of their weather application and have provided the info, screenshots and links to the original thread to obtain the application. This will allow you to judge which application suits you best and it will preserve the threads, should they get buried deep within the annals of this forum.
NRG's MiniWeather 1.0
Features of MiniWeather 1.0 :
- Autoupdate according to Yahoo servers' time + 10 minutes + 1-5 random minutes (so we don't all hit the server at the same exact times)
- Update in 15 minutes when no connection is found.
- Verbose status information as the script is running.
- Detailed Forecast panels can be turned off in "Advanced Options"
- Application will not automatically refresh the screen while the phone's keypad is locked.
- Built-in leftover notifications removal tool, in case you want to uninstall. See "advanced options".
Please go HERE to visit the original thread and to download the appplication.
NRG Weather 3.0
This is Chome Weather 3.1 with a 10 day forecast. It's the full version of MiniWeather with several layouts to choose from. It's also a much larger install...
Features:
- New 6 day forecast layout (layout #7)
- Autoupdate using Yahoo's server time. No manual control over update interval anymore.
- Revised layouts to ensure correct wrapping
- HomeScreen update feature. No need to reboot to see forecast or layout changes. This option is turned off by default because it doesn't work for everybody. If you turn it on and you see problems with your phone's radio turning off, phone becoming very slow etc... turn it off. (it's option #10)
- Added new panel to the Settings panel at the bottom for easy access to the weather updates and settings.
- "Stardock icons" are default for forecast and regular panels.
p.s. Portrait support is included for the new 6 day layout.
Please go HERE to download the application and to visit the original thread.
ODSHOWeather WM 6.1
Showaco, I are happy to bring you our weather panel. We have worked on testing this thing for a while.
We have new panels that display without affecting any of your other panels whatsoever.
We have a great feed, it is brought by our corporate sponser, Accuweather.
They have really put up a great feed for us to use, and it is updated constantly.
This is hands down the best weather app out there for the visual candy lovers. With the standard version without system monitor, it uses no battery or memory as far as hogging goes.
With that being said. Check out our link to the app for full feature info and check out the app and be amazed at its seemingly endless options you can set, like voice updates with 4 voices to choose from. Several layouts, and lite on the phone's memory, ahh, it is nice to be free...
Please go HERE to download the application and to visit the original thread.
The smallest weather app available has just gone on a diet, it started at 950kb and now comes in at a lightweight sub 850 kb. Its been slimmed down in size but not in weather data available. The new TotalClock cab has the full five day and current conditions within the clock panel itself. Check out the screenshots below, you only see one day at a time for a nice clean look. Hit the right soft key to advance thru the days and when you done, it has a timer to reset itself to current conditions after 60 seconds of non-flipping of the forecast pages.
For those who would rather have it seperate, the original version still uses a seperate forecast panel along with current conditions only in the clock panel. But even though it hasn't changed, I have managed to squeeze another 100 kb off of it.
On the original version clock panel you get info for current: temperature, icon, real feel temp, winds, humidity, visibility, barometer, uv level, cloud cover, precipitation, sunrise, sunset, air quality levels, and dewpoint. Also, on the clock panel you get tomorrow's forecast: conditions, hi/lo temperatures, real feel high temps, winds, and estimated precipitation.
On condensed clock panel, there is current temp, current condition icon, time, and todays Hi/Lo temperatures. So if you dock your clock, you will always have weather and time showing on homescreen.
And for a full forecast, there is a 5 day forecast panel that can be enabled or disabled. The forecast pages have info for: day, date, conditions, hi/lo temperatures, precipitation estimates, uv levels, and winds expected.
Both have a user set time interval for the updates depending on your needs, wants, or data plans. Just go to setup and specify the interval in minutes. The default is 30 minutes. The forecast data updates every 8th time weather update runs, that way you get updated forecast info every 4 hrs if you use the default for current condition updates.
To install: For now, install to main memory, I'm working on either or version.
Download the cab. After installation, it should prompt you to restart. If it doesn't, then restart your phone to set new clock panel in place. After reboot, wait about 10 seconds and the FeatherOptions will run automatically. Go to Setup and set all of your info, good idea to go ahead and set your right soft key on the clock panel at this time. After setup, exit options by selecting "Run Weather Update and Exit".
That's it, your done.
NOTE: I beleive I worked out my problem with mortscript registering itself, but if it doesn't auto start the options after 10 seconds, then go to FeatherWeather folder in Program Files and click on Mortscript.exe .
To uninstall: Go to Settings, Remove Programs and uninstall the cab. It may not change your clock panel back, but it will remove everything else. To revert clock panel back, install an original cpr or cpr of your choice.(note: the cpr should revert back to original on uninstall by itself if you reboot.)
City Location Codes:
For anyone that needs to find their city code, use this link and change the location in this url to the name of your city and then go to it and it will give a list of all cities worldwide that have that name. Get your location from there and enter it exactly as it appears in the quotes, but do not use the quotes.
http://hadle.accu-weather.com/widget...ation=calcutta
So, for this link above, if you were looking for Calcutta, India. Go to this link, and you will see a line like this:
<location cnt="1" city="Calcutta" state="India(Bangla)" location="ASI|IN|IN036|CALCUTTA" />
So your location to enter in to options would be :
ASI|IN|IN036|CALCUTTA
This should work for cities worldwide.
Feather currently is installed with a slim panel layout only. If you want more dll or cpr options, they are easily installed with FileChanger. Those are more homescreen customizations than they are weather customization, thats why they aren't in here.
For landscape phones: If you don't want the slim panels, I have standard panels cpr and mini panels cpr that work specifically with FeatherWeather. They are in the Featherscprs.zip below. Just install with the FileChanger app or copy into windows folder. Click on the File Changer in my signature below for the File Changer thread and download.
New Portrait versions below, the last 2 cabs that names end with "P" are the portrait versions. Portrait versions updated 8/19/08 with new cpr. If you already installed, you can download the cpr zip only and install to windows directory.
Check out these new portrait layouts provided by Kron2:
Make sure you get the landscape or portrait version you need, first 2 are Landscape, last 2 are Portrait
Downloads located here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=416321