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[Windows Mobile Themes] Rumball:
Might want to try Second Today. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=401907
[Windows Mobile Themes] kaanHAN:
thank you dwallersv and Rumball.

it should be great if weatherpanel could be used as program. by the way second today looks great...
[Windows Mobile Themes] chrisg92:
is this theme for a g1?? :confused:
[Windows Mobile Themes] heartpumper77:
Ok dumb question, Everything looks great, but I can not for the life of me find the fonts folder in weatherpanel..

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Themes] kbywg:
If u r referring to where to put the 2 fonts supplied, they go in your Windows/Fonts folder on your device. Most times you will need Resco or another file manager than the one that comes with your device but give it a try first.
[Windows Mobile Themes] heartpumper77:
I cannot find the 2 fonts that are supposed to be supplied, does anybody have a download link...

Michael
[Windows Mobile Themes] kbywg:
...or you could go back to the first page of this post, read the instructions again and then get the fonts file at the bottom of the first post. Hope this helps.;)
[Windows Mobile Themes] heartpumper77:
Sorry about that, skipped over it everytime..

Just got off a 72hr clinical lolol

thanks
[Windows Mobile Themes] DanQ:
Vga large icons

Rumball, a while ago I bought the icons for QVGA when I had my Tilt, but now I have a Touch Pro and I really miss your WP Theme.

What are the chances to see the animated icons for VGA devices? are you working on them? I'm willing to throw you a bone again for your exceptional work.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Psyki:
I would pay in a heartbeat for animated VGA icons!! :) Space is not an issue for me.

I customized some of your pages and added some of my own, and by doing so was forced to learn all the ins and outs of the wpl/wpx files. My respect for you went up 10-fold once I realized just how much work you have done, and continue to actively support! If only everyone else spent as much time as I learning how the config files work, 3/4 of all the questions here could be solved on their own ;)

That said, it's really not that hard to figure out what goes on behind the scenes of WeatherPanel. You just gotta dig in and know it will probably take at least a few hours to get it to work just the way you like it. Simple stuff like re-sizing the main .wpl files, placing/formatting different text and data displays. What finally sold me on learning/hacking my own config files was shoe-horning WP into a pocket plus tab, then I realized "oh wait, I can mod so much more!" :)

So again, kudos for an amazing job. But when can we see animated VGA icons? (in Seattle we only see a few different weather icons anyway like the one attached ;)) :D:D:D
[Windows Mobile Themes] nosmohtac:
Anyone having problems updating weather data? I haven't been able to for a couple of days now. I run diagnostics and get the ubetcha at the end, but It just keeps trying to update. I had to turn off automatic updates 'cause it was killing my battery.

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling with no change.

I too would pay for VGA animated icons.
[Windows Mobile Themes] kbywg:
No problem here in central Canada. Just upated 8:14 pm.
[Windows Mobile Themes] albertequisdea:
Count me for another donation for an animated VGA icons.

I have donated for the QVGA animated theme but I would donate again for such effort from you.

Anyway thanks for this great theme that makes me return to WP.
[Windows Mobile Themes] ark906i:
Thank you! your animated theme is awesome and works flawlessly. I love it so much.
[Windows Mobile Themes] avnishb:
Diamond theme under SPB menu

Rumball,

Let me first of all thank you for putting up such a nice theme. I was able to install it on my HTC Touch pro (VGA) under spb menu software by making few changes in the layout and using QVGA icon. However, I have couple of questions.

1) 24 hour combined temp/preci. graph looks wrong to me coz. temp graphs shows up below feel like temp. I am attaching the screenshot.

2) Y axis scale of hourly temp graphs is not correct because numbers on that scale doesn't match with actual temp at a given time.

Thanks

Avnish
[Windows Mobile Themes] johnny2678:
Awesome work... here in Virginia, I just got a "Blowing Snow and Windy" current forecast... never seen that before and there is no graphic for it ;)

just an FYI... love the theme
[Windows Mobile Themes] J0nas:
Hi Rumball!

I don't have T-Storm (not T-Storms) icon... in Single-Play Animation... Did you have it?

sorry my english...
[Windows Mobile Themes] kdmorris777:
Does this work on the Samsung Omnia i910?

Help! I have a Samsung Omnia i910 and I installed Weatherpanel 2009 (trial), and then I installed your mods as instructed, but I get nothing working. I have the files (icons and themes) installed also but no program runs to display the Weatherpanel screens. What could I have done wrong. I'm new to this also (modding). Thanks for any help I can get. Maybe I need a step-by-step instruction (I'll gladly pay) since this is my very 1st mod attempt (and the only one I've seen that's worthy of trying). Thanks in advance. Email: kdmorris777@hotmail.com :confused:
[Windows Mobile Themes] avnishb:
Psyki,

Where did you get the traffic and dopplar map shown in your post ?

Thanks

Avnish
[Windows Mobile Themes] Rumball:
I've fixed these two bugs in the "TouchFlo2D Mod" to the weatherpanel theme. You can download this at the bottom of the first post. Since you've already modified the theme to work with SPB Menu, you'll only want/need the detail-forecast.wpd file to get the fix.
[Windows Mobile Themes] J0nas:
And the light rain also... don't show icon... :\

In "LARGE" folder, I have only your single play animations... I should have another files\icons?
[Windows Mobile Themes] Rumball:
If no program runs then that sounds like you have not enabled Weatherpanel as a today plugin. You need to go into what ever today program you are using (SPB Menu, ThrottleLauncher, or UltimateLaunch) and enable the WeatherPanel plugin. If you don't use any of these and just have a regular today screen then go to Settings>Today>Items and ensure that Weatherpanel is selected...however in this case you'll probably want to select only the 1-line layout.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Rumball:
You should have a 43.wpa animation file in your icons folder. This is the "Blowing Snow and Windy" graphic.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Rumball:
Those animations exist...you should have a total of 35 of weatherpanel animation files (.wpa) in your LARGE folder.
[Windows Mobile Themes] J0nas:
but I have all 35 files... :s I downloaded today and copy into the folder again, but don't works... other Weather situations, works.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Psyki:
Simply find the .jpg files you want on the web and add them to radars.txt. In my case the radars.txt file contains these two entries (among many others):

WSDOT

http://images.wsdot.wa.gov/nwflow/flowmaps/bridges.gif

Intellicast - PNW Satelite

http://images.intellicast.com/WxImages/SatelliteIR/tiw.jpg

EDIT

Oops, here are the pictures I attached (but I use the ones above as well)

Intellicast - PNW Doppler

http://images.intellicast.com/WxImages/Radar/tiw.gif

I5 - 45th

http://images.wsdot.wa.gov/nwflow/cctv135.jpg

I got the traffic cam from this website http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Traffic/seattle/i5_NE45st.htm#cam. Just right-click the camera image, select properties and use that in the radars.txt file.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Psyki:
Rumball:

After playing with my weather images for a while, when I play back queued images the time in the bottom left-hand corner is tiny, like impossible to read tiny. Here is a screenshot, you can just barely see the time in the corner.

All I did was modify the top bar to remove the text and re-size the image tag.

Any idea??
[Windows Mobile Themes] Psyki:
So I took a stab at making my own VGA animated icons....

First I renamed the .wpa file to .mng, then I extracted all the .png files using MNGeye. I up-sized all the images to 480x480 in photoship and reconstructed them into a large .mng file using MNG Construction Set. Then I renamed the file to .wpa and put it in the LARGE folder, but the image will not play in weatherpanel. Any ideas why? The .mng file plays fine in my mng editor but will not play in weatherpanel.

Yes I know the images are blurry due to the upsizing, but they should still work, right? Are there any special settings in creating the mng file? Thanks!!
[Windows Mobile Themes] sinoo:
Thank you so much for this amazing theme. Tried it today and it looks awesome. :eek:
[Windows Mobile Themes] pbballin:
so does this work with Htc touch? I have the new throttler launcher downloaded and using the gsmart theme
[Windows Mobile Themes] storyr:
You may need to run your .mng's through FixMNG, which fixes some incompatibilities. Do this prior to renaming it, of course...
[Windows Mobile Themes] kbywg:
Yup, I have it running on my Touch in Throttle Launcher 0.9.7 on the weather tab using tflo3d theme. Worx awesome.:D
[Windows Mobile Themes] Rumball:
That's awesome Psyki. If Storyr's suggestion doesn't work, you may want to try imagemagik (freeware available here:http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php) which is what I used to generated the WeatherPanel-compatible MNG animations. Generating the animations is easy once you have the PNG frames (which you do)...for example...

In this example, delay 5 is the standard delay I used between frames...the delay 200 in the middle of the sequence list is where the animations pauses in the repeating animations (just don't forget to set delay back to 5 afterwards). Set -loop 0 if you want endless animations or -loop 1 if you want single play animations.
[Windows Mobile Themes] pbballin:
thanks man, i'm gonna try to install this now...hopefully i get it right! haha
[Windows Mobile Themes] pbballin:
i installed it wrong then, only thing that comes up in programs is WP config...and its just the WPHourlyDataFix....thats the only thing i can get to. All the other files on storage has nothing to click on to pop up either.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Psyki:
Thanks for the replies!

Hmmm, the convert program seems to work ok but the output .mng has lost its transparency. The original .png files are unchanged, so why does it put a white background for each frame in the .mng file?

Edit: I tried putting the larger .wpa file (with the unwanted white background) in the weatherpanel\icons\large folder and it still doesn't play in weather panel. Do I need to modify the .wpl file?
[Windows Mobile Themes] Psyki:
Weatherpanel is a today screen plugin, so you must have it selected in your Today settings, or in whatever today screen manager you are using like Pocket Plus.
[Windows Mobile Themes] kbywg:
Are you using the Touchflo 3D theme in Throttle Launcher? If so you need to go to the Weather Tab in the Setup Config for Throttle and choose Weather Panel as your plug in and configure it from the resulting tab in Throttle. Follow Rumball's instructions to a tee and you will get it.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Rumball:
Weird...if you want to post one of your PNG sets I can try imagemagick on it to. You shouldn't have to do anything to the MNG file other than rename the extension to .wpl.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Psyki:
Attached are the resized .png files I used.

I did use imagemagick to convert them to a .mng file but when I play back the .mng file there is a white background. Even still, when I rename the file to .wpa, weather panel will not display any image.

Btw the image I chose is 34. To extract the .png files I opened 34.wpa from the root /Manila WP Icons/ folder, NOT from the /small/ folder. Then I resized each of the outputted images to 480x400, then resized the canvas to 480x480 for them all. (thank god for batch jobs!)

For what it's worth, when I used MNG Construction Set (shareware), it appears to leave the background transparent.

Thanks for your help!

EDIT:

Actually my mistake... Using imagemagick does NOT insert a white background. My mng player had a white background DUH :P

Nevertheless I still cannot get the 480x480 .wpa files to play in weatherpanel...
[Windows Mobile Themes] pbballin:
thanks a lot man. got it working perfectly

and thank Rumball for a great program
[Windows Mobile Themes] gropich:
hi everybody:

first 1 question: weather panel is ot present in "PROGRAMS" ?? it's only a "TODAY" plugin?? cause i dont have it in my programs, i only have it as a TODAY plugins and OF course he is SELECTED .

i installed Weather panel ,Omnia i900 version.But i have a bad result,dont know why cause i follow exactly the instructions of the 1st page :

i dont have any layout or any icons:

some suggestions ?
[Windows Mobile Themes] Psyki:
I just re-read this... Do you mean that the .mng files have to renamed .wpl when placed in the LARGE folder? In the SMALL folder they are all .wpa...

Sorry for all the questions :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] Rumball:
Oops...no, you're correct. The file extension should be .wpa
[Windows Mobile Themes] Rumball:
That's correct, weather panel is a today plugin only. From your screenshots it looks like you have it installed correctly and you just need to connect your device to the internet to allow it to download the weather information. On your first screen shot click on the icon in the top right to perform the download. Also, on the connections tab in the weatherpanel settings menu make sure you have it set up to connect and perform updates automatically.
[Windows Mobile Themes] gropich:
Tahnk you Rumball,

i was sure that even if there is not connection data ,the layout will appear a minimum (i dont know if i am clear) ..

when i search for my city,WP connect to server and find my city,it means that connection works,no?

anyway, i will try another way ..
[Windows Mobile Themes] lufc:
NICE keep up the great work !!!
[Windows Mobile Themes] cmcfalls:
I really like the 5 day display, but it takes up too much of the screen. Would it be possible to create a smaller 5 day display, like the 5 day display in the PhatFinger theme?

BTW - I'm using this as a Today plug-in, not as as full-screen weather tab in touchflo like the screen shots show. I have an Omnia, not an HTC.

For reference, here is the PhatFinger 5 day display on my Today screen.

Isn't there anything for this theme between 1 line and the large 5 day forecast? I'm really just looking for the PhatFinger Today display with the Diamond animated icons that then goes to the Diamond theme when clicked.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Rumball:
If you post the theme you show here (I just need the WPL file) then I can modify it to use the Diamond WP animations and layouts.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Rumball:
I've tried this out and there's a bit of bad news for the VGA users....it doesn't look like weatherpanel will support 480 wide animations. When I convert the frames to an MNG animation I get the same result as you: no image. I then iteratively reduced the size of each frame by 10% and regenerated the MNG animation file. The animations wouldn't start to display in weatherpanel until I droped the frame size down to 348x348. So it looks like there are limitations in WP. You can probably get the animations working with a slightly higher resolution since, as I said, I only tried in increments of 10%.

Oh ya...to make things easier for you...again imagemagick is highly recommended. You can resize all your images at once by simply using the mogrify command. For example; "mogrify -resize 50% *.png" will scale all your png files by 50%
[Windows Mobile Themes] Psyki:
EDIT: Sorry, did not see your reply. I will experiment with the 348x348 resolution and see if that is big enough. Still would love to see proper .png frames in 348x348 but thanks for your help bro!! :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] cmcfalls:
Rumball - the forum won't let me upload a wpl file. Any suggestions?

It is Phat+114 from the PhatFingers theme (theme is here).
[Windows Mobile Themes] Rumball:
To assign radar images to a city go into the WP setup menu. In the "Cities" tab select your city and then click "Edit". Now click "Weather Images" and add the images that you want via the "Add New" button. This will allow you to select images from your radar.txt file. After you've set up your images you'll need to perform an update in order for WP to connect and download the images. After this you should start seeing your images.

I should also point out that I checked out your added images and they don't seem to be the correct URL. When I copy and paste them into internet explorer I get an error.
[Windows Mobile Themes] crazychef:
hey thanks, i didnt even think to dbl check the links.. i found a new source and now everything works...

anyway to "activate" the cams as u highlight em so that it actually refreshes in the every few seconds manner? its still cool, but its just stills really
[Windows Mobile Themes] lacob sam:
very useful app

thank u very much................
[Windows Mobile Themes] cmcfalls:
Rumball - Attached is the wpl file that I showed in that screen shot. Thanks for this!

I'll keep an eye out for the update concerning the temps / radar I PM'ed you about.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Rumball:
Here you go cmcfalls. Unzip and copy the two files into my weatherpanel theme folder and then select the new Manila-5day-short layout. I have fixed a few layout bugs in the omnia detailed forecast page...but haven't figure out yet why the temps aren't displaying.
[Windows Mobile Themes] cmcfalls:
Thanks Rumball! Looks great. And no rush on the temperature thing...it's a minor thing that is really overshadowed by the robust beauty of WP.
[Windows Mobile Themes] kbywg:
@Rumball.

Could you have a look at my radars.txt file if you have time? The CTV camera link that has always worked, stopped working, no matter where I put it in order. The link works on the internet but not in the program. Can you see something I am missing, or is there somewhere else I should be looking? It is an ANSI file, but should it be Unicode? or UTF-8? All the others work the way they are and I could display 8 before no problem. :confused:

Thanx in advance.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Rumball:
Looks fine to me. The only thing I'd recommend trying is go into your WeatherPanel config and re-setup and re-associate the CTV image with one of your cities. So try unselecting it, exiting WeatherPanel config, go back in and re-enable it.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Bigbest:
HTC Home

hi,

i've a htc Polaris with htc home. Is it possible to install/lunch WeatherPanel with animated Diamond WP Theme v6 when i click on the "sun" icon ?

thx

B
[Windows Mobile Themes] Rumball:
Nope....not that I know of.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Psyki:
Can you assign any program to the "sun" icon? If so I recommend using Secondtoday. I use it to view weatherpanel, it's basically an additional "today" screen where you can put any number of today screen plugins. It works fantastic for viewing weatherpanel full-screen.
[Windows Mobile Themes] devdarshan:
Hi Rumball

have changed my phone to TouchHD and am trying to install your icons - but with all permutation/combination- I still cannot get the thing to work...See screenshots.

Please help - which combinations should I install?

I need the Animated (center) and 5 days in bottom...please giude me on which files to install.

thanks

Dev
[Windows Mobile Themes] Rumball:
There are currently no large animated icons in VGA (maybe soon). So your options are to either use the static VGA icons or you can continue using the QVGA large animations and edit your manila-5day.wpl file to centre the animation on your VGA screen.
[Windows Mobile Themes] kbywg:
Throttle your Today Screen!!!!

Hey man, you should try Throttle Launcher as a Today Screen replacement. I use it on my HTC Touch. You can use Weather Panel full screen from the Sun logo and much much more. You would totally dig the easy customization of it. Here's a link to the latest version. :cool:

http://www.throttlelauncher.com/portal/downloads/56-tlauncher/110-097release
[Windows Mobile Themes] Psyki:
VGA animations!

So I took a stab at creating some VGA animations and as Rumball can confirm, they are a ***** to make! It took me a about night to make each of the 4 more simple animations. I learned a few things discouraging things about weatherpanel when I made them which do not bode well for a full suite of animations, I hope someone can correct me...

1) weatherpanel doesn't seem to like large animations with any more than 22 frames (won't play or show anything if there are more than 22 frames). some of rumball's have 40+ frames. I hope I'm wrong about this!

2) takes several seconds longer to load weatherpanel and switch screens (I run it in secondtoday) and the animations do not play as fast as rumball's smaller animations. file size does not seem to affect playback speed while frame size does. IE a 600k 480x400 animation plays at the same speed as a 2mb 480x400 animation. I had them playing from the internal memory so I have no idea if load times are worse if loading from storage card.

3) looping animations is out of the question as memory usage shoots up to 20mb+ program memory usage. also all other animations on the screen slow to a crawl such as in manila 5-day. point is: these animations only play once. Just switch layouts to see them play again.

4) the most simple animation is still about 1mb, some could easily hit 4mb each

That said, here are some I made that just happened to be the weather in Seattle when I made them. Simply copy them to the LARGE folder and rename or delete (backup first!) the original .png files. If you want to see them no matter what the current weather is, rename the .wpa file to whatever the weather currently is and refresh weatherpanel.

The animations included are:

11 - light rain (I know the rain looks nothing like TF3D, I suck at animation, working on it :P)

26 - cloudy

31/33 - clear night/fair

29 - partly cloudy night

These all work for me on my Touch Pro, and I believe they will require your weatherpanel layout to be at least 400 pixels high. Please let me know how they play on your device, or if they play at all! The way I see it I will continue making animations for weather in the Seattle area but I might be convinced to make some others if demand is high enough. Maybe a few of the most common weather patterns?

And of course mucho thanks to Rumball for an amazing theme and for giving me tips on how to make these! I probably wouldn't have even bothered using WP if not for this theme as a base.

:D https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=4220479 :D

Edit: having upload problems, here is the URL: http://switz.org/junk/VGA_weatherpanel_animation_samples.zip
[Windows Mobile Themes] albertequisdea:
Thanks, I'm goig to try. Don't give up please.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Rumball:
Great stuff Psyki! Hopefully it won't be too long before I upgrade to a VGA device. What I could do, and if people are interested, if you provide me a list of the animations you plan to create in full VGA, then I can take the remainder of the animations and simply resize my QVGA animations to VGA (and trim any longer than 22 frames).
[Windows Mobile Themes] Psyki:
Thanks! I don't really have a plan of attack for exactly which ones I'm going to make but in Seattle I pretty much never see snow, thunderstorms or severe wind, heheh. I'm still learning how to do more complex animations like wipers or raindrops but I'll at least get the sunny and cloudy ones done. I'll post when I get more finished :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] Bigbest:
Thanks !!!!

B
[Windows Mobile Themes] Desmond60:
Rumball, did you actually post the mobileshell theme that only uses the program launcher....It looks very neat and tidy.

Desmond60
[Windows Mobile Themes] Rumball:
Yep...there are three versions;

TouchFlo2D (blue): http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=428790

Diamond (black): http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=401781&page=3

PipBoy-3000 (green): http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=491422