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[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
Alright. I will release update cabs from now, instead of reuploading everything. It's getting tiresome for me. So... here's an update cab that will fix the forecast routine. Please try it. Install it... It will overwrite your weather.mscr script. Then update manually and see how it works. Thanks :)
[HTC Excalibur] outerdepth:
Workin on it

Just now got it copied over and am trying to get everything up and running.
[HTC Excalibur] lukybandit:
Do I need this Organic? My weather's working fine. I'm using Version 1.5 - Let me know.
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
If you want the latest version posted in post number to work.. then yes you do. If you have the older version still installed, then you're fine. I will incorporate this small fix in the next release... In about an hour or so :)
[HTC Excalibur] Rip Syntaxx:
((exhaling)) Finally...success. After downloading Org's latest .cab (along with his update.cab) my weather panel continued to freeze at "Forecast...25%". I then went into the Weather Options and changed my "Y" in the 'Check for GPRS internet connection' to an "N". After updating again, the panel finally worked. It's ten minutes slow...but the point is--IT WORKS. lol Thanks Org (NRG). I'll be looking out for your .cab update (with the fix included).
[HTC Excalibur] outerdepth:
Hells Yes!!!!

Agreed, when you do that, both of these worked on manual download. I don't know why, but thanks you for your post. I've been messing with this for HOURS and HOURS. Thank you. Also, did you notice that it says:

10% Starting

50% Current Cond

25% forecast

Weird that it does the forecast 2nd. It's probably because it is written in the xml feed 2nd, so has to be updated to the registry 2nd and the way it's currently been updated was forecast 1st and current cond 2nd. Thanks, so much again for the heads up. GO RIP SYNTAXX! GO ORGANICM!!:cool:
[HTC Excalibur] Rip Syntaxx:
Yes, OD! I noticed the "10% Starting, 50% Current Conditions...etc." It began to bother me, until I remember reading in earlier posts that someone changed their "Y" to an "N" to keep the internet login screen from popping up. I figured that it might work with this "Forecast...25%" thing!
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
I changed the order of the subroutine executing... current cond.. forecast.. update plugin. I forgot to change the percentage labels accordingly :D I will update this soon.... :) I'm sure you can live with it for now :):p
[HTC Excalibur] outerdepth:
Ch, CH, CHeck It Out!!

Wanted to show OrganicM his brain child on my phone. Granted I have no real mods right now other than this, but Damn it's working smooth. I even changed the forecast to say 75%. I just did it for a quick fix. Organic already has the situation under control. HOLLA!!!:D:D:D
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
Looks good man :p

Let me show you what I got on my phone....

It's a pain in the ass because I can only control TWO lines of text :( I hate the testui plugin. It's so limited :(

I wish I could put the current conditions wording under the big temp, but... no can do. Besides leaving a space between H:79 etc and Wednesday.. any suggestions ?
[HTC Excalibur] pudgedaddy:
is there a way that you can just place the temp in the header above and place the current condition weather icon in the current temperature place?

something like this: sorry for the very rought draft
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
Yeeeeeaaaaa... but how would that make it look like the IPhone's layout ?
[HTC Excalibur] pudgedaddy:
sorry, i thought you were just inspired by the iphone weather, not that you were trying to clone it
[HTC Excalibur] outerdepth:
Amazing!

Gotta say 2 things.

1st, I don't know how you keep making this better and better, but man, that looks frickin' cool.

Anyways, Maybe underneath, you could have it say the current condition under the temp. Maybe it would take moving the icon around and shifting the text to make it fit, but that would be pretty cool. Otherwise, what you have shown on your phone is pretty much perfect. It's what I would want and DO WANT. That being said, I've got a problem.

Here it is. When I leave my phone plugged into my pc, it will manually update just fine with the settings that RipSyntaxx mentioned earlier. BUT, when I unplug it from my computer, it's like it has no data connection and therefore cannot update. I do have the expensive T-Mobile data plan. When I click on pocket IE, it loads. If I click on a link on my internet links panel, it loads. I don't get it. What do you think is wrong with this program. Something tells the updater "Hey, I'm connected to a pc with internet, I HAVE INTERNET." Then, when you unplug it's like "Hey, what happened to my internet connection? I thought I was connected all of the time for a REALLY EXPENSIVE AMOUNT OF MONEY!!!!!!!!!!!AAAAAHHHHH!!!!"

All kidding aside, what do you think can be done about this. The program obviously works. It works well, *if plugged into your pc, and connect GPRS to the internet=No, otherwise the thing just has no idea what to do about updating the screen. Granted, some people are getting this to work, but I think it's only if you are using Wi-Fi or directly connected to your pc. Otherwise, I don't think it's recognizing the Edge/G Network on the phone.

Totally!!

Tell me what you think can be done, PLEASE.:):confused::)

Edit: Jus now noticed you said the thing about the Big temp and current cond.
[HTC Excalibur] goyjuss:
I'm stuck on Forecast... 25%.

I lost my regular 'Sliding Panel' theme where I had added this to.

Every time I update I get:

'Couldn't remove value in GKLM\Software\NRG\CHomeWeatherSettings\Weather\\Wed

Line 53 (Program Files\NRG\CHomeWeather\Weather.mscr): RegDelete("HKLM","Software\NRG\CHomeWeatherSettings\Weather\",TomDay
[HTC Excalibur] Profezza:
A tangent idea

I remember that the CWelcomeCenter-approach was a no-go because of all the annoying updating issues. However... while it doesn't load text on the fly, it does load the icons fresh each time. Organic, how much control do you have of image arrangement, and how many images could theoretically be loaded in to one page of a panel? If it is possible to load more than one image at a time, there is a way to have all the advantages of the two previous approaches at the same time...
[HTC Excalibur] xfaith:
Hey you need to add Wed to the registry looks like it got lost in the last update :), after that it will update correctly. ;)

So far looks good

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[HTC Excalibur] illi:
Ideally on the CClock:DAny chance Org?
[HTC Excalibur] goyjuss:
All I have under Weather is: Default, Today, Tomorrow
[HTC Excalibur] lukybandit:
Sorry, Off topic guys but I just got a replacement Dash on rogers because mine was freezing, had reception problems at times etc and battery was dying pretty fast too. My concern:

I bought an ebay battery a while ago which has lasted me 4-5 months because the original battery died in 5-6 months as well. Now they said incase they find no hardware fault with this phone, they would bill me. Is it important that I send back the "original battery" or the e-bay "battery is just as good" btw it looks ditto like the original battery.

Problem is I Can't find my old battery anywhere. Is there anyway for them to find out I chanted batteries? I hope not. These are the battery specifics:

Simplo

Product of China

Model EXCA160

3.7 VDC - 960mAh

S/N: KERA16A3002474

P/N:35H00080-00M

Can someone tell me if they have the same specifications? Let me know, Thanks..

Sorry I know this is off - topic.
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
That's because you need to read the last few posts in this thread and install the update.cab that was just posted.
[HTC Excalibur] illi:
An Off Off Topic

I noticed Org have been working day and night on this with full of enthusiasm.

And I also noticed that this is the most active thread since 09May.

THANKS ORG:cool:
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
Way off topic, and I'm not sure just saying "sorry" makes it all okay.
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
Thanks for that lovely insight. Not necessarily offtopic, because it's about THIS topic! heh

On to the CClock idea... i was just thinking that a couple of hours ago. Problem would be... can't control the text on it. But we can put the current state icon on it somewhere... So a quick glance would tell you if it's sunny, night time, windy, cloudy, etc etc :)
[HTC Excalibur] illi:
It would be fantastic! A glance tells the day's condition. Can you also add sun-rise/sun-set info too?

Go for it man!
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
Sunrise and sunset times could be easily added. I'm thinking of moving back to a welcome center style panel. It's more flexible and I can have two images and three lines of text instead of two. :/ I just dont like the fact that I cant update the panel programatically and I have to reload the screen manually.
[HTC Excalibur] outerdepth:
What about this?

I tried changing the name "The Internet" on the .mscr where it talks about connecting at the beginning. I tried T-Mobile Data, but had no luck. Actually it started hanging again no matter how I had my phone configured.

I was wondering, have you toyed around the way it says connect? Maybe there is another phrase to input instead of "the internet."

Also, I know Mini-Weather might be a DEAD topic, but maybe for that 2nd panel you're talking about, you could use Mini-weather to update a calendar panel, without affecting the actual calendar panel. See what I mean.

Like, try a GUID for the calendar panel, accept name it something like weather Forecast, then you could have it update the weather on a SET TIMED sequence. It could have new icons, that are updated, and it would not mess with the homescreen (I don't think).

What cha think?:)
[HTC Excalibur] pudgedaddy:
Am i missing something?

Outerdepth posted a SS of his homescreen 2 pages ago and i noticed that he has the words "low" and "high" before the temps. Is this supposed to be part of the new .cab or did outerdepth edit the weather.mscr file?

here's the two examples: the first one is outerdepth's. The second one is mine.
[HTC Excalibur] outerdepth:
Not Meaning to Confuse

Sorry, about that, yeah I edited mine. I couldn't get what I wanted,yet.

OrganicM is a busy person. Anyway, no mean to confuse anyone. :rolleyes::p

Edit: Sorry about the rainy weather. Hope it's nicer outside soon.:)
[HTC Excalibur] pudgedaddy:
actually i quite liked yours. can you pm me with where your changes were in the weather.mscr?

edit: nevermind.... i figured it out
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
"The internet" Is not actually what it seems. It's actually an internal name used by microsoft. When you setup a GPRS connection, you specify how it connects . You have options like Connec to :"The Internet", "Work", "VPN" etc... I just generalized and thought most people would use "the internet". In the future I plan to query the ACTUAL name from the registry and give a list of options of connection to use, in the options panel.
[HTC Excalibur] Rip Syntaxx:
Has anyone noticed their text message sounds don't...resound after downloading the .cab? I noticed several texts came in silently. After rebooting, the sounds seem to work again.
[HTC Excalibur] illi:
I had the same problem but was due to using GroupSMS to sent msgs. Yes, a reboot takes care of it.
[HTC Excalibur] outerdepth:
What about the mini weather idea?
[HTC Excalibur] Technology:
Auto Update

outerdepth, which one of these weather apps auto update the weather data without any problems............!:confused:
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
mini weather doesn't...
[HTC Excalibur] Profezza:
That was the answer I was looking for. IF you can have two images, maybe 3 or 5 or whatever???

The panel can be updated in RT. I think! Here's my theory...

When I was dabbling with the new bookmarks, I notice that changing the text requires a reload of the CHome, but that I could swap pics with the same name and they are loaded each time a page is viewed.. See where I am going with this?

Make all the data as images, aside from stuff that never changes. Now, instead of rewriting the registry, the registry stays the same, and points to a bunch of pictures in a single floder, like currentcondition.png, currenttemp.png,todayshigh.png, etc. These pics are overwritten with a script on each update, from source images in another set of folders altogether.

Am I making any sense?
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
im on the phone so please dont mind the punctuation.. you are a very smart guy. you actually gave me a great idea. for the current status pictures i can edit the picture and add static text at the bottom of it with name of the current conditon. its a huge pain in the ass, but doable. however trying to make a png for every possible text combination could be a huge pain.
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
Alright... I got a few more time to work on the new layout. What do you guys think ?
[HTC Excalibur] iamanalog:
Wow, that is really amazing man. I cant wait to see that on my phone.
[HTC Excalibur] illi:
Mini Weather 1.3.4

!!!Error!!!
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
First post updated with release 1.7. Hopefully it's a solid release. It works very well on my phone and I took the time to test it in various configurations (internet, no internet, on wifi, on activesync etc...).

A word about option 3 where you can set it to attempt to connect to GPRS first. This is for people that don't have a constant, always on connection. This will attempt a GPRS connection that is configured to connect to "The Internet" as specified in the GPRS settings (found under Start/Settings/Connections/GPRS) under your carrier's specific connection. If you select it, you can specify the "Connect to:" parameter. Please make sure it says "The Internet".

Please let me know if you encounter any bugs, and always try to uninstall first, before trying to install a new version. :)
[HTC Excalibur] Profezza:
I agree. It would be better, if using this approach, to avoid as much text as possible. A lot could be communicated with a few just a few snips that are used a lot like hi, lo, C, F and some numbers.Have to drop the location info and the time from update would likely need to be simplified to an icon that just means it is up to date or not.
[HTC Excalibur] ryanh11:
Great job Organic!!!!!!!! Works like a charm!!! I've been waiting for a weather program to come out for a panel in wm6.1 for a while now. Thank you!!

Curious: will you be putting more pages later for 3,5,7 ect. day forecasts? Just wondering it would put the icing on the cake.
[HTC Excalibur] pudgedaddy:
Lo / Hi words on tomorrow temp line

I was inspired by Outerdepth's change he made by adding Low(temp)|High(temp) in todays temp , so i also changed it to read that. I knew that you couldnt spell out the whole words low|high in the tomorrow forecats line,

but i still wanted something like that. I modified the .mscr to look like:

Tomorrow Lo(Temp)|Hi(Temp) (Time) (AM|PM). but it kept cutting off the (AM|PM) so i tried modding the .cpr file and moving over the text to the left and even making the width larger, but it still would never show. Is there any way you can get it to do this without removing (AM|PM) ? I think you could make it work if you scooted the time a little closer to the temperature.

Here's my current screenshot btw: (using my modded yahoo icons w/ Low|High in the header)
[HTC Excalibur] Mikey:
have you thought of going with a 24-hour format?
[HTC Excalibur] pudgedaddy:
if you're asking me, i hate 24 hour formats. maybe something organic can put into his weather options though.
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
Did you guys find any bugs in 1.7 yet ?
[HTC Excalibur] pudgedaddy:
Haven't found any bugs, yet. More of suggestions. But if you intend on completely revampling the layout, my suggestions are a moot point, since they are only minor requests with the current layout
[HTC Excalibur] ryanh11:
no bugs here.....im lovin it

@organic did u get my last question?
[HTC Excalibur] Mikey:
Same here...no bugs.

Suggestion. 24-time format.
[HTC Excalibur] ryanh11:
i would love this change
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
please make any suggestion you want, pudge. i can always just add a new layout option.
[HTC Excalibur] ryanh11:
adding pages for a furture forcast would be great too
[HTC Excalibur] pudgedaddy:
Suggestions?

posted earlier above....

so i'd like to see that change (ex: in the header, read: Dallas, TX Low 60°|High 82°) and (ex: in the field text on the tomorrow line, i'd like it to read: Tomorrow Lo 65°|Hi 82° 6:52 PM )
[HTC Excalibur] Mikey:
Quick question (wondering)

If i change the time interval to lets say "10"

shouldnt it update every 10 minutes?

although the time doesn't change on the panel or no vibes.

Is it set to only 60 minutes even if we change it?
[HTC Excalibur] Mikey:
Or how about moving the time to todays forecast? giving you more room for your high/low
[HTC Excalibur] Mikey:
He has tried, no can do. Yet!
[HTC Excalibur] Reeg:
Works great so far O! The test will be overnight. Every morning I've woken up to an Error screen.
[HTC Excalibur] Mikey:
Daddy,

Did you get my PM?
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
I will implement all these changes today. Thanks for the suggestions!

To answer Mikey's question about the update interval... If you change it now, it has to wait for an hour before it starts updating every 10 minutes. The wait the logic works now is it waits for 60 minutes, then updates. If you make a change inside those 60 minutes, it will wait the remainder of the original interval, before it will update at the new specified interval.
[HTC Excalibur] pudgedaddy:
yes i did! glad it worked
[HTC Excalibur] Mikey:
Thank you for that answer :)

Also, can i for my own. Change it from yahoo weather to weather.com?

I hate yahoo services. lol It lags at times. Specially with their homepage sports scores. (can be 2 hours later and shows the game, still in progress)

Let me know. I figure you cant go wrong with a site dedicated to weather.
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
Yahoo DOES use weather.com to pull the information from :p

Anyway, looking into the 24 hour time request... It's possible, but we would have to resort to a display of the last update the phone did. Right now it display the last update time on Yahoo's servers. Unfortunately they only provide the time in am/pm format and for me to format it to military time would be a huge pain, that's not worth it, IMO :)

I could make it an option where you can have the last update time display from Yahoo's servers in AM/PM or from the phone in military or am/pm format. Does that sound good ?
[HTC Excalibur] pudgedaddy:
yea, personally i'd prefer the time the phone last updated. as opposed to yahoo time... but i still like am\pm vs. military , so also make that an option

edit: also to respond to your answer that mikey asked regarding weather.com..... although they pull from weather.com, there definitely is some lag on when their (yahoo's) weather info is updated. So if you go right to the "horses mouth" ( if possible) you'd get a closer to the minute current weather reading.
[HTC Excalibur] Mikey:
WOOOHHOOOO Daddy is getting demanding. :D :rolleyes:
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
Good point. I'll look into that... Although I would have to rewrite the whole update routine. :)

How about RSSweather.com ?
[HTC Excalibur] Technology:
Yeah!(LOL)

The PudgeDaddy, My main man..............!:D
[HTC Excalibur] pudgedaddy:
dont know about them... are they more updated? i'd really like to go back to the 15 to 30 minute update interval, so if they update it that often that'd be great, but if they don't, its a moot point
[HTC Excalibur] Mikey:
DID HE CALL ME A HORSE!!!!!:mad:

:cool:
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
Hey Pudge... I think Tech is in love with you man. That's... umm.. scary... :eek::p
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
Yeah, I like up to date info as well. Let me look into it and see how often they update...

Edit: They update every hour as well. Bummer...
[HTC Excalibur] Mikey:
here is another site to look into

WEATHER.GOV
[HTC Excalibur] pudgedaddy:
<<In my best soap opera announcer voice>> " like sands through the hourglass. Those are the days of our lives" :o anyway. he just has a .... let's say... different way of expressing appreciation.
[HTC Excalibur] ryanh11:
thanks for the answer it seems as if hes ignoring my posts
[HTC Excalibur] Mikey:
not ignoring. If i know and i answer prior to him reading it. why should he answer as well. ;)
[HTC Excalibur] ryanh11:
cuz ive asked several questions and posted comments throughout the thread and he then directs his replys to other members, but thats ok
[HTC Excalibur] Rip Syntaxx:
Don't take it personally. Just continue to build YOUR knowledge base as you read these forums. If you have to get your answers from some other source, then so be it! I doubt that he's ignoring you, as Mikey said, but if you can't get your answers one way--try another. Have you tried PMing him? He may give you the answers you need that way.
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
Syntaxx is right, I'm not ignoring you man. I just overlooked your posts. I mean.. look at the size of this thread. The post count per minute is too high for me to keep up with the every single post. Best way to contact me is through Yahoo or PM! That said... what can I answer for you that I hasnt been answered before ?
[HTC Excalibur] ryanh11:
thanx for the reply, but i think ive answered a lot of my own ques....the main reason for asking first is so i dont have to mess up my phone playing around wih things especially if im not too familiar messing around with mscr files and such...but thanks anyway...ill continue to ask and learn
[HTC Excalibur] qwikndrty:
No worky for me

I've tried many different ways to get it to work but no success.

When I initially install it and reboot my theme is half blue half green and the weather panel is stuck at 25%.

When I try to change the home screen to either of the "Sliding Panel + Weather" or "Sliding Panel Top Bar + Weather" I get this blank home screen now. And it remains blank (no other home screens work either) until I uninstall your program.

The only weather program that works is your older one... :(

Screen shot attached...
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
New layout options... What do you guys think about this ?

The background of the panel changes according to the current weather condition. The background is a little streched out right now, but it's just in the testing phase... :D

Three layout options so far.. White text, city name aligned to the left. White/Black text city name centered at the top. Maybe we can even bold the text. I can fade out the background even more to make the text more readable as well.
[HTC Excalibur] gottifour:
That looks great...
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
Oh.. there's a CRAPLOAD of weather icons options coming (as in.. different icon PNGs)... I think I'll start a new thread so I can have more room to upload stuff in the first 3 or 4 posts. This one.. just like the old one.. is getting a little too large.
[HTC Excalibur] Rip Syntaxx:
I had this problem in the early versions too. Have you tried rebooting after the blank screen came up? Also, have you installed the weather update.cab that Org posted yesterday? I know that fixed my "Forecast...25%" issue. The update.cab is located in post #447 of this thread (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=391147&page=45).
[HTC Excalibur] ryanh11:
genious...sheer genious...looks awesome!
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
Alright, I need to clear up a few things. the version posted in the first post of this thread works fine. no need to install the update.cab mentioned by syntaxx. in fact i will remove it shortly. second.... i was under the impression that its a known issue that the current version of chome weather will not allow homescreen chages o any kind without having to reboot. if you want to make changes... change whatever you need to change... then reboot. i will continue developing the older version that used the welcomecenter style plugin, but its not a top priority right now.
[HTC Excalibur] pudgedaddy:
love the layouts man! way to think outside the box! still want to see low|high or lo|hi before the temps though.
[HTC Excalibur] ryanh11:
even the percentage of rain chance would be great
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
yeah... they'll be there. i just took the screenshos with layout #1 which my fav.