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wm6.1 weather

is there a way to make one of the panels in the sliding panels of wm6.1 display the weather

no.... and no.

The Weather On A Sliding Panel OH! YES! YES!
Good question, whatsoever the mind can conceive and believe it can achieve, dream it in the mind then bring it into yet to be technology. That's exactly what "xfaith" has done already, check his thread out "Mini Weather (English Weather Beta) WM6.1, also be sure to check out the screen shots of the "Mini Weather" on a sliding panel. Go here to his thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=389027. He has the software that you need (mini weather 1.1 English version.zip. You can get more weather software here at http://rotlaus-software.de/forum/viewtopic.php?id=270..........!:D

Technology said:
Good question, whatsoever the mind can conceive and believe it can achieve, dream it in the mind then bring it into yet to be technology. That's exactly what "xfaith" has done already, check his thread out "Mini Weather (English Weather Beta) WM6.1, also be sure to check out the screen shots of the "Mini Weather" on a sliding panel. Go here to his thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=389027. He has the software that you need (mini weather 1.1 English version.zip. You can get more weather software here at http://rotlaus-software.de/forum/viewtopic.php?id=270..........!:D
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Hmm...interesting. I think I'll check out this "mini weather" you're rapping about.

Interesting indeed... although not a very elegant solution Maybe we can use the other app that writes info to the registry and then read that info into a "welcome center" style panel that we can place anywhere. I guess the problem with that is, it wouldn't update very often... :/

Checked it out, works quite well for Memphis, TN, where I live. Haven't figured out how you could auto update in a useful way. Other than that and getting the cool icon panel interface, this looks promising.

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Interesting indeed... although not a very elegant solution Maybe we can use the other app that writes info to the registry and then read that info into a "welcome center" style panel that we can place anywhere. I guess the problem with that is, it wouldn't update very often... :/
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That whole making a welcome center style panel idea is a pretty good one...

It is, because it's pretty flexible... We can have PNGs (weather icons) as well as text that can place anywhere on the panel. But some of us know, the text won't update unless the homescreen is reloaded. Maybe I can write an app that will write the weather values in the security and software/chome sections of the registry as weather gets updated... Hmm...

i copied the files inside of the zip file to my phne and ran the program when i choose update now it tells me "read configuration file fail!" help!!!

You have to open your Config file in notepad, change where it says Paris, change that to your city. Next copy it to your mini weather folder.
Also where it says: "CityStartStr="
Make it say: "CityStartStr=postal_code data="
Now, do that for every line in the notepad file that says CityStartStr=.
Once you finish save and copy/paste to the appropriate directory and viola, your'e all done. You should read the readme file you got in the zip of this. It tells you how to update automatically, as often as you want. HOLLA!

does this work with the 5.99 internet hack?

OrganicM said:
It is, because it's pretty flexible... We can have PNGs (weather icons) as well as text that can place anywhere on the panel. But some of us know, the text won't update unless the homescreen is reloaded. Maybe I can write an app that will write the weather values in the security and software/chome sections of the registry as weather gets updated... Hmm...
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I got the rafer weather to update reg values in a welcome center panel but to see the update you have to reload the homescreen. Does anyone know a command or someway to reload homescreen without selecting new home from settings panel? I know that facade has a command for this but what is it? Also, I wrote a mortscript for updating and called it from SK2URL.

that's the problem i've predicted. the only panels that update in real time that i can think of are: cclock, messagecenter, notifications and of course the appointments panel. hmm... any ideas....?

New Idea: CTestUIPlugin
I was playing with it and if you change the registry value for update in CTestPlugin, it auto updates the CTestPlugin panel on the homescreen with any new values including icons added in image registry. I think it could be possible to use this panel for weather(possible that is why it was being tested?). ! haven't tried adding pages yet.

Reaaaaaaaaalllly !?! Wow.. I gotta check that out. I always that it behaved like ht welcomecenter sytle panels. Hmmm

showaco said:
... with any new values including icons added in image registry. I think it could be possible to use this panel for weather(possible that is why it was being tested?)....
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Got a path to that? I would REALLY love to get weather working in a 'notifications'-style panel. With the current conditions and a tiny icon when unselected, day-by-day on the pages when it has focus.
BTW, what writes the weather to the registry? Is there a way to make a pass-through the registry to a xml file, or some other output of an existing weather app? It would give a nice UI for config, detail-view, and something for the button to trigger.

Weather In A Sliding Panel
I have MSNDirect weather in one of my 26 slides and I have the national weather radar in another panel in real time. I believe this is enough weather data for me. Naw, oh I almost forgot that I have another app that connect me to the weather channel. I'm a weather freak always try to track the perfect storm...........!

I think it's possible with SPB weather. It writes its weather info to the registry. then it would be a matter of someone (maybe myself) writing a small to copy the registry entries from SPB, over to our TestUIPLugin

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I have MSNDirect weather in one of my 26 slides and I have the national weather radar in another panel in real time. I believe this is enough weather data for me. Naw, oh I almost forgot that I have another app that connect me to the weather channel. I'm a weather freak always try to track the perfect storm...........!
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Okaaaay... care to share how you got the national weather on a slide ? Or even the MSNDirect ?

Ask The PudgeDaddy To Send You a copy
OrganicM said:
Okaaaay... care to share how you got the national weather on a slide ? Or even the MSNDirect ?
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Just create the paths in the two places in the registry, you know how to do it already. The PudgeDaddy is the man you want to see for the weather radar.............! As a matter of fact, I have 6 of your slides and 20 of Ricky's slides on my test device, the 6 with the TCPMP player is yours, now that one is slick.........! Now with Ricky's 6.1 ROM, I have v14 and v20 on my devices, because I believe with these versions you can be very creative, some of his other versions restrict you from being creative.....!

Chome Panel Chooser

Hey guys. Whipped this thing up to help people choose the panels that can be displayed on the homescreen. So far it only contains 7 entries, the ones I found on my phone. You can turn the panels off or on, by selecting a panel and typing it "off" or "on" respectively. After you make the changes, you need to reboot to see the changes. The last option will make that easier for you. Choose "Reboot", type "yes" and it will reboot for you. Let me know if there's any other panel names you would like me to add, or if you find any bugs. Thanks!

Look good but isn't this just like the chome settings (neoOrder) that is in Rockys ROM where you can enable and disable the windows you want and change which position they are in on the screen?

Clydeisthe**** said:
Look good but isn't this just like the chome settings (neoOrder) that is in Rockys ROM where you can enable and disable the windows you want and change which position they are in on the screen?
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Everyone isn't running rickwyatt's ROM. Some are still with Kavana's. Like me.

Rip Syntaxx said:
Everyone isn't running rickwyatt's ROM. Some are still with Kavana's. Like me.
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ohh ok I didn't know that it wasn't in Kavana's ROM I have never flashed one of his just Rickys .. my bad

Clydeisthe**** said:
ohh ok I didn't know that it wasn't in Kavana's ROM I have never flashed one of his just Rickys .. my bad
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To Clyde: It's cool. Contrary to popular belief, there are still some users that are on Kavana's ROMs. lol I have no problem with rickwyatt's, but I found them to have too many apps and tweaks that I found unnecessary for me personally.
To Org (and anyone who'll listen): This is great idea for those who aren't quite comfortable with editing their .xml files to rearrange the slider panels (like me)! I've noticed that many users have a panel called "My Programs". What do I need to do to create this? I think it's a really useful tool to "slide" straight through the programs you use on a regular basis. I've already read tons of posts on this, but it's not registering. Thanks in advance, guys.

It's difficult to sit here and do a step by step, but I'll point you in the right direction and answer your questions later.
1) Download a registry editor or use the one on the phone.
2) First off, keep in mind there's TWO places in the registry where you need to make changes. One is HKLM\Security\Chome\DefaultSettings\CWelcomeCenter and HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Chome\CWelcomeCenter
3) Look for a key that says "Disabled" and make sure it doesn't say "1". Or use my utility to turn the welcome center on.
4) When you're in the registry you'll find Page1, Page2, Page3 etc etc in both places. Each Page represents ONE slide. For each page you can makes changes such as... ACTIONURL is the path to the program you want to execute when hitting the middle button. for example "\program files\NRG\Chomeweathersettings\weather.exe" will run the weather program
SK2URL is the same, but for the right softkey. SK2Text is a label for that softkey. The "pictures" key points to the .png file you will be using as an icon for your program. Right now it probably says "2500". Change it to "\windows\weather.png" and you'll get the weather icon in its place, for example. The Title text is self descriptive... put in whatever you want the title of the slide to be.
I hope you can figure it out from here

OrganicM said:
It's difficult to sit here and do a step by step, but I'll point you in the right direction and answer your questions later.
1) Download a registry editor or use the one on the phone.
2) First off, keep in mind there's TWO places in the registry where you need to make changes. One is HKLM\Security\Chome\DefaultSettings\CWelcomeCenter and HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Chome\CWelcomeCenter
3) Look for a key that says "Disabled" and make sure it doesn't say "1". Or use my utility to turn the welcome center on.
4) When you're in the registry you'll find Page1, Page2, Page3 etc etc in both places. Each Page represents ONE slide. For each page you can makes changes such as... ACTIONURL is the path to the program you want to execute when hitting the middle button. for example "\program files\NRG\Chomeweathersettings\weather.exe" will run the weather program
SK2URL is the same, but for the right softkey. SK2Text is a label for that softkey. The "pictures" key points to the .png file you will be using as an icon for your program. Right now it probably says "2500". Change it to "\windows\weather.png" and you'll get the weather icon in its place, for example. The Title text is self descriptive... put in whatever you want the title of the slide to be.
I hope you can figure it out from here
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Thanks a bunch, man. I'm gonna finagle with this as soon as I get off.

OrganicM said:
It's difficult to sit here and do a step by step, but I'll point you in the right direction and answer your questions later.
1) Download a registry editor or use the one on the phone.
2) First off, keep in mind there's TWO places in the registry where you need to make changes. One is HKLM\Security\Chome\DefaultSettings\CWelcomeCenter and HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Chome\CWelcomeCenter
3) Look for a key that says "Disabled" and make sure it doesn't say "1". Or use my utility to turn the welcome center on.
4) When you're in the registry you'll find Page1, Page2, Page3 etc etc in both places. Each Page represents ONE slide. For each page you can makes changes such as... ACTIONURL is the path to the program you want to execute when hitting the middle button. for example "\program files\NRG\Chomeweathersettings\weather.exe" will run the weather program
SK2URL is the same, but for the right softkey. SK2Text is a label for that softkey. The "pictures" key points to the .png file you will be using as an icon for your program. Right now it probably says "2500". Change it to "\windows\weather.png" and you'll get the weather icon in its place, for example. The Title text is self descriptive... put in whatever you want the title of the slide to be.
I hope you can figure it out from here
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I'm understanding how to read the code. Thanks for breaking it down. I'm just having trouble finding the .pngs for my icons and also (noob moment) finding the target file for certain applications. It's keeping me from being able to input the file address for ACTIONURL and SK2URL.

Not Hard to Find
Just think of your program, "Where is it stored?"
That should be your only question when finding your target file. That simple, you should look in your Program Files directory on your phone or you storage card, that will then tell you where the link is.
2ndly, you can find other programs in your startup folder. They will be listed in link format, but this is fine, the link can be treated basically as the exact file itself (as far as your phone is concerned).
Long story short, use these locations for your entries for ACTIONURL and SK2URL. Have a blast!
Rip Syntaxx said:
I'm understanding how to read the code. Thanks for breaking it down. I'm just having trouble finding the .pngs for my icons and also (noob moment) finding the target file for certain applications. It's keeping me from being able to input the file address for ACTIONURL and SK2URL.
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outerdepth said:
Just think of your program, "Where is it stored?"
That should be your only question when finding your target file. That simple, you should look in your Program Files directory on your phone or you storage card, that will then tell you where the link is.
2ndly, you can find other programs in your startup folder. They will be listed in link format, but this is fine, the link can be treated basically as the exact file itself (as far as your phone is concerned).
Long story short, use these locations for your entries for ACTIONURL and SK2URL. Have a blast!
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Thanks, OD. I've figured out the file locations and such. I just need to know where you guys edit the .pngs for icons. I've found some icons, but they sucketh. I want them glossy and polished looking like the default icons.

By "where" , I assume you mean what programs do we use?
I use Photoshop do edit my pngs. I think other, cheaper software is available. Don't quote me on that. Photoshop can also be attained other "ways" (cough,cough).
Anyways, you can easily mod any pictures, turn them into anything you want, .png,.tga,.gif,etc. Look around.
Rip Syntaxx said:
Thanks, OD. I've figured out the file locations and such. I just need to know where you guys edit the .pngs for icons. I've found some icons, but they sucketh. I want them glossy and polished looking like the default icons.
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outerdepth said:
By "where" , I assume you mean what programs do we use?
I use Photoshop do edit my pngs. I think other, cheaper software is available. Don't quote me on that. Photoshop can also be attained other "ways" (cough,cough).
Anyways, you can easily mod any pictures, turn them into anything you want, .png,.tga,.gif,etc. Look around.
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I understand how to make any pic a .png, .jpg, .gif, etc... It's not the icons that I need, but rather, the program. I'll search for "alternate" ways to get photoshop. lol

Rinku has a pretty good description on how to add CProgs on his blog. It at the bottom of the page.

Thanks guys for all your help and input! I've figured it out, and in the process figured out how to change the small icons in the upper lefthand corner of the panels as well. It's kinda tedious at first, but once you get the hang of it--it's not bad.

Rip Syntaxx said:
Thanks guys for all your help and input! I've figured it out, and in the process figured out how to change the small icons in the upper lefthand corner of the panels as well. It's kinda tedious at first, but once you get the hang of it--it's not bad.
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For photo edtiting, i use GIMP,,,, it's the same program i used to modify the yahoo weather icons for ORG...... it's free and works just as well as photoshop CS3.
Go here if you want to try. www.gimp.org

pudgedaddy said:
For photo edtiting, i use GIMP,,,, it's the same program i used to modify the yahoo weather icons for ORG...... it's free and works just as well as photoshop CS3.
Go here if you want to try. www.gimp.org
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Thanks, Pudgemeister. I'll check it out.

pudgedaddy said:
For photo edtiting, i use GIMP,,,, it's the same program i used to modify the yahoo weather icons for ORG...... it's free and works just as well as photoshop CS3.
Go here if you want to try. www.gimp.org
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I used GIMP for my icons, it was easy and I think they turned out quite nice. Here are a few that I found/made they all have transparent backgrounds. Feel free to use which ever you like.

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Editing Slider Panels
Does anyone know the default setting for this registry key: \HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\CHome\CMessage\ICONPATHS? I changed it trying to change the condensed icon (upper lefthand corner) for the message notifications panel. Instead, my weather panel's icon was changed. What're the default values for the key? (ex. 2xxx;2xxx)

It is 2201;2201

New Weather Panel Update (Currently) (Updated)

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.........
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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......
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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.
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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.

outerdepth said:
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?
Thanks,
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.

CHECK OUT NEW WEATHER APP & THREAD! (This Thread Retired) ODSHOWeather.CAB (8-07-08)

CHECK OUT NEW WEATHER APP & THREAD! (This Thread Retired) ODSHOWeather.CAB (8-07-08)
**Note**Thnx to Rafer,NRG/Z28,Pudgedaddy, Luckybandit!!!
WE HAVE A NEW WEATHER APP!!!! IT IS BETTER AND MORE EFFICIENT
CHECK OUT THE NEW THREAD!!!
Updated: (7-08-2008) ODSHOWeather v1.0.2b (8:37 p.m.)
Please read all instructions before posting. Thanks.
Showaco, I are happy to bring you what will be one of the final installments of the weather panel. I have worked on testing this thing for a while. The new addition is the radar page to the forecast panel. This includes a new app that is included in the cab. It's called Weather Radar. It is located as your right soft key link. Just click it from your phone to set it up. This is a separate app that runs in our panel, but is not required to use the panel at all. I just included this, because it is frickin' sweet. Just input your location and it shows an updated radar image for your area that is updated by the NOAA every 6 minutes. Trust me, if you work outside for a living, this is a godsend.
Like I said, this weather radar app is not part of our weather update or any panels display properties or anything, it is simply a link to a separate (yet related) app. That's all.
With that being said. This radar page is pretty sweet. Follow the instructions below to make sure your clock weather, forecast panel, AND radar are setup properly, before you use this. Hope you enjoy, there are 4 wavs for you to check out as updated voice messages. There are 4 panel borders that you could display. You have an option for now forecast panel (lite version) and an option to display a forecast panel (full version).
Look at the 3rd url below, in it is a zip that you can use to replace your digits in your clock panel. The digits1 are the originals, the digits 2 are the HTC Diamond Font numbers. If you are curious as to what they look like, just search HTC Diamond. Luckybandit posted these, so thanks to him. In order to have these display, just rename either folder to digits and drop it in your \Program Files\Outerdepth\KPWeather folder. They will overwrite the ones you have, but don't worry, I have supplied you with both. They will not completely show up until the forecast panel update has run, so set your fupdate value to 1 in your reg, and then run the update. The location in your reg is HKLM Software\Outerdepth\KPWeather.
Lastly, we do have a banner, so you can also edit your banner's display text. It is located in the options menu as well. It will be displayed in the scrolling texts in your clock panel. ENJOY!!!!!
CHECK OUT SHOWACO'S POST #2!!!!!
Instructions:
1. Download cab from link below.
2. Copy cab to smartphone. Using explorer or Total Commander, click on the
cab. It will install. If you have downloaded the cab before, don't
worry about uninstalling it, it will do all the work itself. That's it. All installations are done.
3. Go to your weather options and set them up. Do all of the options, if you want or expect all of the features to work!!
4. Run Weather Update. It will write your forecast panel and radar. That's it.
Link: Updated (7-07-2008) (8:37 p.m.) 3 Direct Link Downloads !!
URL #1: the ODSHOWeather v1.0.2a.cab NO RADAR
http://mobile.txcaesar.net/mobile/a... Showaco Productions ODSHOWeather v1.0.2a.cab
URL #2: the ODSHOWeather v1.0.2b.cab RADAR FOR YOUR PHONE!!
http://mobile.txcaesar.net/mobile/a... Showaco Productions ODSHOWeather v1.0.2b.cab
URL #3: the extra digits you can replace in your panels!!!
http://mobile.txcaesar.net/mobile/apps/homescreens/DigitsforYourPanel.zip
For our wavs, we have male, female, and even ones for our Latino(a) compadres!!!!

More Links
Here's links to a blackjack site:
http://mobile.txcaesar.net/mobile/m...pic&t=79&sid=a6200f782cbb757e6528f21c4214369a
and a moto q site:
http://www.everythingq.com/forum/software/kp-weather-plugin-for-clock-panel-23881.html

Here's the original 320x240 sliding panel cpr file for anyone who needs it to remove cclock weather and fat panels.

Looks nice! I'll have to try it out soon.

Looks great
The thumbnails look great. I have a couple of questions:
1. Looks like you are using the fat panels. Is it possible to use just a fat panel for this, and slim panels for the rest of the panels?
2. Will you be posting a cab anytime soon that automates the installation?
Thanks.

Great job
Can't wait to load your app on my Excalibur and try it out but I am at work and need to wait until I get home since you do not have a cab file.
Looks great but !!!! Even though I have added quite a few things to my phone your installation instructions are beyond my knowledge.
Step #4? More explanation needed. Are these registry files. Are they exe files? Where do I copy them and how do I run them.
Also, one other thing that I would like you to include. When you include the new option of radar, can we choose our own radar. The local TV station has an great radar screen for mobile phones that I would like to use.
Thank for all your work,
Tim

debabratadey said:
The thumbnails look great. I have a couple of questions:
1. Looks like you are using the fat panels. Is it possible to use just a fat panel for this, and slim panels for the rest of the panels?
2. Will you be posting a cab anytime soon that automates the installation?
Thanks.
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1. In sliding panels, as of now, all panels must be same size, no exceptions. But if there is interest, it is possible to kinda create the illusion of different size panels using panel backgrounds.
2. We hope to have cab up in a few days.

tf442 said:
Can't wait to load your app on my Excalibur and try it out but I am at work and need to wait until I get home since you do not have a cab file.
Looks great but !!!! Even though I have added quite a few things to my phone your installation instructions are beyond my knowledge.
Step #4? More explanation needed. Are these registry files. Are they exe files? Where do I copy them and how do I run them.
Also, one other thing that I would like you to include. When you include the new option of radar, can we choose our own radar. The local TV station has an great radar screen for mobile phones that I would like to use.
Thank for all your work,
Tim
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To run the reg files, you need to use a reg editor, I use resco explorer which does a great job but there are others.
As for as radar, It is possible to use custom radar, but that isn't the way we were headed right now. But we will consider it.

thats sweet.....its goin on mine as soon as I get home

The one thing I might like to add it that if you have any issues after uninstalling NRG's Chome Weather , where it gives a whie screen with an error unable to find weather.exe it's because it's still stuck in your notifications queue. Run Sktools and locate your notifications and find the offending notification and check it, then remove it. This will stop that error.
I'm only mentioning this in this thread as to warn others about this possible issue just avoid any confusion that by installing outerdepth's weather app, it does not cause this error.

Locked out of Messaging
After following your directions I am unable to acces messaging on my Dash and there is no weather. Please give more detail on step 4 on how to actually "Run" and reg file. Is it an import?

You're going to have to tell me where to edit the scrolling marquee stuff. I dont see where to customize it.
Nevermind: I found it.... for anyone who wants to know, you have to edit the KPWeather.mscr file in notepad or other text editing software and locate the txt8 value about a little past half way down the page and edit it. then overwite other original .mscr
Update: Where would i go to edit the Condensed Text in the forecast panel. I want to read something else besides CWeatherODSP
Nevermind on update: I figured out how to change the condensed text in forecast panel too.... i'm such an idiot sometimes... was an easy find.

pudgedaddy said:
You're going to have to tell me where to edit the scrolling marquee stuff. I dont see where to customize it.
Nevermind: I found it.... for anyone who wants to know, you have to edit the KPWeather.mscr file in notepad or other text editing software and locate the txt8 value about a little past half way down the page and edit it. then overwite other original .mscr
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For non weather related additions to text loop, it can be easily added in the loop.mscr as a regwritestring added to bottom of current list.

showaco said:
For non weather related additions to text loop, it can be easily added in the loop.mscr as a regwritestring added to bottom of current list.
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It would be nice to add that as an option in the weather options .mscr.... other folks may not be saavy enough to use a text editor. It would kinda of "idiot proof' that function

Awesome App
Congrats Outer & Showaco. It's a great app & it works flawlessly. Only suggestion I have is if it's possible to make this for normal panels (I use normal, not slim). I know it's very difficult to put that much of information on this size (and I must say the clock panel looks AWESOME) but my other panels look really fat with too large fonts.
Anyway it's just a suggestion. The app is really cool and I have to say thank you for all your hard work
Cheers

Hey Outerdepth, this is awesome. We're finally going away from CTestUIPlugin. However, after copying my weather script line for line, even down to the directory names and graphics used... I would at least appreciated a little statement that this is all possible because you're using my application But hey....

pudgedaddy said:
It would be nice to add that as an option in the weather options .mscr.... other folks may not be saavy enough to use a text editor. It would kinda of "idiot proof' that function
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Will be done later tonight, thanks for the input. We will add a user text line that can be edited from options panel.

You may also want to edit the Title on the consensedtitle panel. It currently reads: CWeatherODSP .... which to me doesn't seem to descriptive. I personally changed it to read "7-Day Weather Extended Forecast". that seems a little more descriptive to me. Of course you can do whatever you want to it, but using the title i use or some other variation of what i use may be a little more descriptive.

Slim Panels
showaco said:
1. In sliding panels, as of now, all panels must be same size, no exceptions. But if there is interest, it is possible to kinda create the illusion of different size panels using panel backgrounds.
2. We hope to have cab up in a few days.
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If possible, I would like the slim panels. I hope that there are others who would want it enough to motivate you to create the illusion you are talking about. Thanks, and waiting for the cab...

Yeah! A Real Weather App
Great job guys and will be even better when you add the "Doppler Radar" with automatic updates. Please use the newly released "Doppler Radar" for smartphones and pocketPC devices, again guys, this is a super awesome job.................!

New Touch Pro2 Owner with a couple of questions

Hi guys-
this is really a great forum - thanks for the great work! Excellent help for a TP2 newbie.
Touch Pro2 impressions: I just upgraded (vzw) from my ancient (and yet incredibly reliable) Motorola Q, and this thing is truly awesome. I used a Touch Pro almost a year ago, and returned it because it felt sluggish and a bit buggy. I think the 2 is a major improvement. Very responsive, great phone and speakerphone, great wifi and bluetooth and gps, great keyboard (but no tab key?), better battery, surprisingly inexpensive.
Questions that I couldn't find answers to in previous threads:
1. Reminders: I see that the calendar reminders do not allow any option for changing the snooze time - it is just 5 minutes. Weird, as my WinMo 5 Q would let me choose a range of time, from 5 minutes up to a week, as I recall. This is disappointing. But even more disappointing is that when it is attached via usb to my pc, synched, and a reminder pops up in Outlook (2003), I can snooze on the PC, but that snooze does not synch with the TP2. Any ideas or suggestions? This is actually very frustrating.
2. Calendar: I have seen screen shots of the day view that has weather, even for future dates. I don't have that - anyone know how to enable?
thanks in advance for any help!

This worked for me to get the snooze options back:
Start a registry editor and navigate to key:
HKLM/System/Shell/Notification/OEM
Change the value of CustomUIDLL from NotificationLayout.dll to NotificationLayoutNew.dll
Just add New, it won't find that .dll and starts the old interface, with the snooze option.
Don't forget, after the registry change, turn the TP2 off and back on to activate.

Regarding your question about the weather forcast in the calendar day-view, you need to set your city in the World Clock screen (ie, tap the large clock on the Home tab).

There's a great hack (cRaCKwHoRe's Snooze Options) which gives you the snooze options back.
Also worth looking at are "InboxExtender", (allow read all, delete al options) and "Smaberg X1 Powerbutton 12 icons actionscreen" (12 options on holding the power button down)

You guys rule!
@itm - reg fix works great - thanks
@ohyeahar - that's it, thanks
@en_croute - I will try it as soon as i get some time, sounds useful, thanks

Weather not shown on current date
ohyeahar said:
Regarding your question about the weather forcast in the calendar day-view, you need to set your city in the World Clock screen (ie, tap the large clock on the Home tab).
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I just noticed that the current weather is not shown for me either.
I do have a city selected. In the "day" view on the calendar is just shows the single appointment I have. If I change to yesterday. I do see a weather picture. I went to the TF3D weather tab.. it was initially blank.. it updated and showed the current weather. I went back to the calendar view.. still nothing for "today". Only yesterday. Any ideas?

What is a good registry editor?
Never used one before and I need to find one so I can get my battery icon back after doing Battlevel.cab .

d1hamby said:
Never used one before and I need to find one so I can get my battery icon back after doing Battlevel.cab .
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PHM_Regedit or Total Commander are the two most recommended ones here.
PHM is a little easier to navigate/use (mostly due to visual elements), but Total Commander also has a full set of file-explorer functions that PHM does not. Both are free.

Thank you so much sirphunkee. I was beginning to think nobody talked to newbies on this forum. I'll definetly be looking both of these up.

Okay I looked at both of them and downloaded the PHM_Regedit. Now I can't figure out if I should use MyMobiler to drag the Zipped cab file over or if I should unzip it first? When I unzipped it it did not look like a cab file. Does this work on a Sprint phone? Some of the cabs don't work on a Sprint phone. I'd hate to do another hard reset to get it to work like it is.

d1hamby said:
Okay I looked at both of them and downloaded the PHM_Regedit. Now I can't figure out if I should use MyMobiler to drag the Zipped cab file over or if I should unzip it first? When I unzipped it it did not look like a cab file. Does this work on a Sprint phone? Some of the cabs don't work on a Sprint phone. I'd hate to do another hard reset to get it to work like it is.
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Hey there, no problem...we were all new here at one point, and asking the same types of questions
I'm not sure what source you downloaded it from, so I'm not entirely sure how it might have been packaged, but I would have guessed it should have just been a regular .cab file inside of a .zip. Either way, you can just download and use the cab I've attached here, I can confirm this one works just fine.
You can use MyMobiler to drag the cab over to your phone (it drops it in your "my documents" folder by default), and it will start the install automatically for you. Once you have it installed, you'll just find the icon to run it in your regular list of programs. And yes, it will work just fine on the CDMA (Sprint/Verizon) versions of the TP2...it's specific to what type of processor your phone has, not what type of radio.
Now, if you're not entirely familiar with registry editing, it's a good idea to read up on it a bit...it's very simple to do, but also very simple to create issues by doing the wrong thing. Also, it's always a good idea to create a backup of your registry (PHM can do that for you, just store it the backup on your SD card for safe keeping), in case anything goes wrong, you can just revert back to the working version