[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] mfrazzz:
Hi all,

After flashing a new rom, I got tired of setting up my customized Weather Panel setup (includes a fixed dll so moon phases are accurate through 2008 and the Chameleon-240 QVGA theme), so decided to save off the directory and make my life easier. Thought I'd provide this for those of you that use Weather Panel (The "trial" version never expires, so this is a "free" app). I used to use PocketWeather, but after seeing the Chameleon 240 QVGA skin and the other features of Weather Panel I've switched to it and really like it.

[Edit - 12-Apr-08]Updating this today for anyone that may still find this thread. The WeatherPanel cab you want to install is found here: http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showpost.php?p=75926&postcount=2 . This has moon info updated and corrects another connection issue that started a couple of months back. Also as a note, I'm on AT&T and have had issues on WM6.1 roms where the network connection setup script runs. I now do not allow that to setup my connections but instead install the attached connection setup file (again, this is just for AT&T. Other providers may or may not have this issue). Also, I recommend searching for the theme "Phatfinger" by storyr. I'm now using that one over Chameleon.

[Edit - 19-Aug-07]As of a few days ago, WeatherPanel is no longer updating properly due to the authorization code not being available that it looks for. storyr on PPCgeeks.com has posted fixes for this in this thread:

http://www.ppcgeeks.com/weatherpanel-freaks-weatherpanel-authorization-update-t8164.html

You need to either patch your current version, or use the full cab. Patches and the CAB are in the ppcgeeks thread.

Here's the steps:

If you don't have Weather Panel installed, then download and install the WP_Auth_Moon_TRIAL08.CAB (from the thread on ppcgeeks listed above).

Go to Start > Settings > Today > Items and uncheck Weather Panel (since we are overwriting files in its directory, it can't be active)

Unzip the "WP-Chameleon.zip" file (attached to this post) onto your PC. Drop the entire MarsWare folder onto your phones \Program Files folder and tell it to overwrite the files.

Go to Start > Settings > Today > Items and check Weather Panel to activate it. Click on Weather Panel and then click on Options and configure it. Set your theme to Chameleon-240 QVGA. Change the layout to your preference. To learn how to decifier all of them Go to this thread and scroll down about halfway to a post by Storyr where he gives all the info on this Theme.

I recommend you install WP-Pilot (see zip file attached) so you can do "One Handed" control of WeatherPanel. Readme in the zip will explain what to do.

There you have it! You'll have a cool WeatherPanel theme, and correct moon phases after doing this.

What I've done is put the WeatherPanel Cab, WP-Pilot Cab, and the Marsware directory from the zip file all in a folder on my SD card. Then when I flash a new rom, I can do all of this fairly quickly to get WeatherPanel back up and running in just a few minutes.

A big thanks to Storyr at PPCGEEKS for doing this Theme, creating the WP-Pilot plugin, and doing the Moon icon fix (and the much nicer moon icons included).

Here's links to the threads for each of these (my zip file just has all of it all together so you don't have to do each install step, just the one copy of the Marsware folder):

Moon Phase Fix

New/Better Moon Phase Icons

WP-Pilot Plugin

Here's are links to the WeatherPanel Wiki for Icons and Themes

Icons -> http://pixel.citadel.org/weatherpanel/wiki/index.php/Weather_Icons

Themes -> http://pixel.citadel.org/weatherpanel/wiki/index.php/Custom_Layouts

To give you an idea, here's my Today Screen with the Chameleon-240 QVGA theme active

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