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[HTC Excalibur] psybill:
well well!!

we have some improvement here. I just edit the xml file and.... here we are

so, I have some more questions/comments:

1)in the first pic you see that I have the same problem as parthabhatta mentioned before with F temperatures. waiting for fix...

2) Why I take a sun icon in detailed weather forecast (second pic) while I have a cloudy weather in main homescreen?

3) pulling the joystick down in detailed weather I take the third pic with the red icon. what is supposed to be there? has something to do with the city I have selected?

4) I can't return to main homescreen unless I go to pic 4 and press back. on the other pics, pressing back gives the error message "can't find forecast". is this normal?

thanks for everything, guys!!!
[HTC Excalibur] rnadolny:
using 64157. Says it is updating.

Soft key does not say weather. cannot find forecast pages. tried all keys. when load up my contacts do go to back key. but also stay at right soft key. tried all different settings to move forecast key but could not find anywhere

Thanks
[HTC Excalibur] parthabhatta:
I had the exactly same problems as pointed out in psybill and I have disabled forecast panel through CHome Configuarator. A few more things

(1) One battery panel is created when forecast panel is set for thr first time through "Feather Options" Menu but it is hidden and can only be seen if made "visible" through CHome Config. Moreover, although I could delete the forecast panels (through CHome Config ) I could not delete the battery panel - as delete option in the Chome configuarator menu is disabled for this particular panel.

(2) Once I set the forecast panel there is no way to delete the panel in Featherweather options. So, if I don't want to use it I will have to delete the panel through CHome config. I would suggest for some options to disable the forecast panel.

(3) Some more panels (6 i remeber) are created with names alt1 to alt6 which are normally hidden. I think they are 6 days' forecast but if I enable them the information shown in these panels are incomplete and staggard. So what are they for and does they need user intervention o to leave them as it is.
[HTC Excalibur] showaco:
What phone and rom are you using?
[HTC Excalibur] showaco:
Are you using latest cab by lagasi? It sounds like your using forecast panel from original featherweather portrait version.:confused: There should not be a forecast panel on your main homescreen at all. You should only have info in clock panel and in Feather options you can set a link into either Settings panel or Programs style panel. From this link, right soft key is to take you to the new forecast fullscreen panels(alt1,alt2, etc). This should all be working in latest cab, except for the "Rose" fix needed to set default panels to Chome. I don't have these new "rose" panels to test else I would make a option to set for use with these.
[HTC Excalibur] parthabhatta:
Yeah I have set a separate forecast link in settings panel (and not in main homescreen) from the featherweather2 earlier cab (800+) and not from the latest one(688kb). But I think psybill has installed the latest cabs and it showed the same problem. I did install the latest lagasi cab (688 kb) but uninstalled it as temperature was shown in F instead of C (shown by psybill) . I will reinstall the latest cab if that has been fixed. Please confirm if F/C thing has been fixed in clock panel.

By the way, I had loaded the ROSE cpr and xml files in featherweather thread if you remember. In case you require something more I can reupload them.

Thanks
[HTC Excalibur] showaco:
Oh ok, I gotcha now:D. I haven't had a chance to talk to lagasi, so I don't know if he has it fixed yet.

Yeah, I got those cpr and xml files(plus some more stuff from rickwyatt) but I haven't had any luck getting it to install on my blackjack. So I have limited knowledge of them and don't have a way to test anything for the new rose panels.:(
[HTC Excalibur] parthabhatta:
I installed the latest cab 2.1p and then overwrote the feather.mscr and forecast.mscr from ffp.zip previously uploaded by lagasi (was just trying different combinations) and now the F/C problem is solved. But the forecast panel only shows one panel correctly (excepting the weather icon). the other panels are all blank with a big red cross on them. No problem, take your time. We have got a great app which will take shape in due course. Moreover, the ROSE rom has its own bugs while running in VOX.
[HTC Excalibur] rnadolny:
using wm6.1 standard from epoch. Have cingular 3100 variant of the 3125 but without camera. Have Black theme loaded from Freddyreyes also. Tried changing theme and still no luck finding forecast button. If i remember tried loading first featherweather and slide bar was good but no forecast button so I thought i would try version 2

Thanks Randy
[HTC Excalibur] showaco:
In FeatherOptions\Setup, did you go to last option of setting feather's location in a panel? I normally choose the Settings panel(there will be a list of choices based on your panels), and when you choose the panel you want it to appear in, it will set it to last page of that panel. If you choose a panel and Feather page doesn't appear there, then it may be a permissions problem on writing to registry. If thats the case, try running SDA Application Unlock.
[HTC Excalibur] rnadolny:
I have four options on that screen

return without changing

set last page of setting

last page of cwelcome

last page of clinks

tried all will try your SDA Application unlock
[HTC Excalibur] showaco:
First Post updated with new landscape cabs:D

So after choosing one of the panels you listed, when you returned to homescreen, did you not have Featherweather in that panel's last page?

If so, then try the unlock and see if that helps. If not, then you may have to check in your rom's thread about compatibility with mortscript writing to chome registry.
[HTC Excalibur] rnadolny:
Showaco and lagasi

Thanks you guys are great. Great program works great since unlocked.

Thanks again
[HTC Excalibur] blackjack2:
Nice job, looks great, very impressed, its now become my defacto weather app but I have a quick question perphaps anyone can answer: When I run Chome Configurator to rearrange my panels I see a bunch of Alt 1, Alt 2, Alt3 and upto Alt6, do I have to "Show" them all, I just showed Alt1 but do the others do. thanks
[HTC Excalibur] lagasi:
Portrait Version 2.11

11/8/2008

2.10p

Fixed: Temperatures with only 1 digit not showing properly

Fixed: When location or units are changed, next update will be a full update

Fixed: Only show the number of forecast days received (only 4 days are received around 12am - 2am)

New: Checks for invalid location

New: Update at user defined time intervals

2.11p

Optimized: Massive speed increase!
[HTC Excalibur] psybill:
nice job lagasi!!

5 days detailed weather panels work fine now. I can also return to main homescreen by pressing back button from any panel.

In previous post I said that I have different weather icon in clock panel and detailed panel. looking in accuwaether.com I noticed that happens the same. in clock panel we can see the current conditions icon, and in the detailed panel the icon for the whole day. so this is not a problem of the application.

now, what about another challenge for showaco and lagasi??

I live in Greece and we count winds with beufort system and not with km/h. accuweather doesn't have this feature, but maybe an internal converter can do the job. other countries use other units like m/s, miles/hour or knots.

I don't ask for it, I just write my thoughts. I understand that it must be difficult, if not impossible

keep on good work!!
[HTC Excalibur] parthabhatta:
This one (version 2.11) is marvellous. Everything is working perfectly. All variables are populated All forecast panels are nicely shown. I could not find any bugs till now. I am going to keep this till I am allured by one of your upgraded / valueadded package in future.

To lagasi & Showaco

You guys are great and wonderful. I think this is the one of the best software I have installed in my VOX and that too free. Kudos again to both of you.

Lastly, to both of you, can I post a link in a separate thread in the VOX forum ?
[HTC Excalibur] chelsea_fc:
nice update, thanks :)
[HTC Excalibur] showaco:
Thanks for the appreciation:D

The Alt panels should NOT be picked in chome config, they are the special panels that are called on by Feather when it changes to forecast display. They will show on normal homescreen but will look funny.
[HTC Excalibur] blackjack2:
Thank you very much sir, as usual world class service here, does the looping text not work and if it does, how many characters does one have, I wanted to put the Nike anthem of "Just Do It" without the quotes, hehe
[HTC Excalibur] chelsea_fc:
Tried the Feather Weather Landscape 2.15 on my dash and found some issues:

1. the temperature won't change to celcius on the homescreen and stayed 40F on whatever city

2. all icon in the settings panel seems bigger so doesn't look nice.

hoping for fix..thanks
[HTC Excalibur] showaco:
1. 40f is default install temp. After an update is ran, it should change. If for some reason it doesn't, try this. Open any app and close it, this also triggers the image change on homescreen. If that works, let me know and I'll work with on getting the homescreen refresh to work.

2. New version has smaller settings icons, they were 60x60 and now are 48x48.

Speaking of new version, version 2.11 and 2.16 for landscape are now posted and version 2.11 for portrait as well.

These have cut the new improved update times(which I thought were quick) in half again. Once connection is established, on my blackjack full updates are about 7-8 seconds and current only updates time about 2 seconds. Thanks to lagasi, the master of speed:D
[HTC Excalibur] lagasi:
Thanks for everyone's comments and suggestions. I think that's about it for my speed enhancements. I was picky about the speed because it translates to better battery life especially on the Shadow.

Here is what I am planning for the next version:

Reformat the scrolling text for better readability

Turn scrolling text off completely or just have your custom test shown

Maybe - layout change for Clock panel

Maybe - different measurement units (suggested by psybill)

Maybe - new icon choices

Unlikely - download radar image (suggested by bipinsen)

Let me and showaco know your suggestions and requests. We might actually implement them :)

@showaco

For the alternative icons version, you might want to use something like 2.11a instead of 2.61. It might be confusing since people will naturally think 2.61 > 2.11 which is not true.
[HTC Excalibur] chelsea_fc:
the 2.16 works great, thanks for this...
[HTC Excalibur] rnadolny:
2.11P

Everything looks great. Does not seem to auto update for me. Have to manually update. IS this because I have flip phone and will not let app run if closed? And question about forecast update. If I have updates set to 1 and have time of updates set too 5-24 will it update forecast at 5 for me? I have weather update set to 60. It would be nice to get radar pic. Even only link to pic. When I go to radar have to enter type of service att each time then goes to radar.

Thanks
[HTC Excalibur] parthabhatta:
Showaco can you give a link to the portrait theme used in your 2nd post.
[HTC Excalibur] blackjack2:
Landscape Version 2.16, works great including the looping text, I love it, there should be no doubt that this is the best weather app out there.

Question for Showaco,

can you talk about the technicality of a reset and FeatherWeather2 recovering from that and running properly after, thanks
[HTC Excalibur] kzboray:
Just installed 2.16. Amazing app. Thank you so much! It is so much faster, really a terrific update.

I noticed a couple of things that I thought I would mention. Running Bogart ROM Rev. 3, WM 6.1 on a BlackJack I

1.) Day 5 forecast information is blank and the icons are red X's. I removed and reinstalled the app just to make sure I hadn't missed something. Day 5 is blank.

2.) Under Panel Options, selecting last page of CWelcomeCenter isn't working. I lose all access to the extended forecast. It disappears. Using Last page of settings works fine.

I was hoping to have an option to add the extended forecast in as panel below settings as it was in the older version of FW. If that is still an option I would love to hear how to enable it.

Thank you again!
[HTC Excalibur] kwoodall:
Some suggestions, and BTW, I like the inclusion of my Clock/Weather panel design. Feel free to check out my feather mortscript code for my rewriting of the scrolling text to make it more readable.

Add the following to the date area to put the day of the week ahead of date in the clock/weather panel. Adjust left/top/etc to align:

Code is in the attached zip as well.

Make the forecast display use the same sort of graphics as the main panel so it can visually match. BTW, the info layout here is terrific.

Change it around so that selecting the FeatherWeather panel will go the forecast and put the weather options as the RSB. The way it works now is backwards from all other apps.

BTW, I agree about the version numbering.

Kermit Woodall

Managing Editor

GadgetNutz.com
[HTC Excalibur] lagasi:
It could be your phone that makes the auto-update not work. In options, set "Connect to GPRS" to "Y". This will make FW attempt to get the phone to turn on its data connection before it tries to update. To check if the auto-updates work, set the weather update interval to 2 minutes, do a manual update, wait 2 minutes and see if the update occurs while making sure your phone doesn't go to sleep.

Midnight is hour 0 not 24 (I will changed this in the next update so it recognizes both). With the hour 24, there will be no OFF period. Also, the update will occur 0-5 minutes after the ON hour. This is done on purpose to spread the load out on accuweather's server.

A link to the radar is possible. Where would you like the link placed?
[HTC Excalibur] lagasi:
There is no theme. It is just sliding panels in WM6.1. The toolbars are set to black (or very close) using Hue Base Express. The background is available here.

A notification is set so that FW2 turns ON at power-on. The only time this has a chance of not happening is if FW2 somehow crashes during an update. A manual update will turn FW2 back on.

I really liked your panel design from FW1.

Since there are so sliding panel themes out there, it is hard to get it to match. I will put a screenshot later with how it might look.

I have been thinking the same thing. @showaco, do you agree?
[HTC Excalibur] blackjack2:
Weird Behavior 2.16

I'm noticing an auto update problem with 2.16, which I didn't have in 2.15, its updating sporadically
[HTC Excalibur] showaco:
Yeah, I agree, easy switch also.:)

There's no option for this and I have no plans of putting it back any time soon.

Another thing, give some opinions here:

Do we need the forecast update interval any more since lagasi has done such wonderful work at minimizing update times? I originally had it in there since the full update took so long, but now the full is slightly shorter than the current only used to be. So, who wants to keep it and who thinks it should go?
[HTC Excalibur] showaco:
What do you mean by sporadically? random times or something else?
[HTC Excalibur] bipinsen:
For the sake of "user control" I like the idea of being able to select how many times the program updates. Otherwise it's a blackbox to me, and I don't like things I don't have a control over... :rolleyes:

Re. radar maps: My default weather app used to be FizzWeather. There you had the option of downloading radar maps, or what the program calls "short," "medium," or "long" animations. I suspect it is basically downloading GIF files and showing them. I have no idea what servers it gets its information from, or even if that info is available for free. But boy... if we get that here.. what a coup! :p

I don't have a way of capturing screen video otherwise I could show you what I mean...
[HTC Excalibur] jonnythan:
I'm not getting the Feather Weather sliding panel, so I have no forecast. What am I doing wrong?
[HTC Excalibur] showaco:
then I'll leave it for now, so that current and full forecast can remain seperate.

yeah, I know what you mean, accuweather has the animations as well. I don't know a way to have mortscript(which is what feather uses) to download images. A long round about way that Outerdepth used, was to open image with PIE, save image from there, and then copy to location so that it would appear in a panel. It never worked very well, mainly due to the fact that it has to work different for different types of phones, since they would use different apps for saving/viewing images and all apps had to be closed when opened.:( I'll look at getting a direct link to mobile radar url based on location entered in feather options, thats probably the best we can do for general use.

Did you set Feather to a panel location in the FeatherOptions/Setup? If you did, that is where the "forecast" soft key is located to access the forecast panels.
[HTC Excalibur] jonnythan:
I did. Seems to have no effect.
[HTC Excalibur] blackjack2:
Randomly, for example, I have my updates to 60 minutes and it does it sometimes but other times, it just skips the update, mine was behind today for 4 hours.
[HTC Excalibur] showaco:
Is it possible that an internet connection wasn't available during that time, I'm not talking about the whole time, but just a for a small portion of that time? I need to add a reset to the update run time when internet connection fails, is why I ask. Currently, a manual update is necessary to trigger the reset, I'll fix this in next release.

So you set it to a panel and it the link didn't show in that panel? Try using the settings panel as the location and let me know if it shows.

Or the link showed in the panel but didn't open the forecast?
[HTC Excalibur] lagasi:
Forecast matching theme

Here's my attempt to match the forecast screen to phone's theme. Let me know you guys/gals think.
[HTC Excalibur] showaco:
It looks good on your background, but if they choose a background with lots of color, it will be very hard to read. The hard to read on different backgrounds is why it has the dark background to begin, although it could be optional, either enable or disable the forecast background. It would be easy to do, it would just require one extra backgound image. One would be same as now, the other would be transparent except for the text and images necessary for forecast. Then we could add it in options to enable/disable the dark background or transparent.

Thoughts?
[HTC Excalibur] rnadolny:
Tried with your changes and did not happen. Has been set to GpRS y before also. changed time for updates for 5-0 instead of 5-24. Link would be nice in accuweather panel after forecast.
[HTC Excalibur] jonnythan:
Ended up doing a hard reset because the phone had been acting a little wonky in recent days.

Fixed it right up. Looks good. Great little program.

It would be nice to have some way to get more forecast details. I keep wanting to click the OK button from the forecast window to see more info.
[HTC Excalibur] lagasi:
@Everyone

For now, browse to \Program Files\FeatherWeather and execute Feather.mscr or change ON/OFF times in options. Do NOT run the manual update in options. The manual update messes up the auto-update.
[HTC Excalibur] showaco:
Great to hear.:)

What kind of details would you like to see? We still have more info available, that could be implemented into more screens. There is also night forecast besides the day values we are showing.
[HTC Excalibur] jonnythan:
The more I look at it and see the details, the less I see missing!

The only thing I could think of that would be reasonable would be for the Forecast box to bring you to Accuweather's hourly forecast for that day when you hit OK or a soft button. That and getting the night forecast in there somehow would be excellent. I would definitely not mind scrolling through "Monday, Monday Night, Tuesday, Tuesday Night," etc, instead of just "Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday."

Excellent app!
[HTC Excalibur] parthabhatta:
Forecast panels

Good suggestion. One more option may be to add user defined panel.

Secondly, once featherweather is installed its ok for sliding panel screen. But if we revert back to plain home screen it interferes with the cloack panel and a scrolling message is diplayed over the clock panel making it unreadable and messy. So can anything be done to temporarily disable something so that the scrolling display does not mess the clock display in normal screen.
[HTC Excalibur] blackjack2:
I second this idea, very cool
[HTC Excalibur] blackjack2:
Possible future Options

I was just cruising Accuweather(33174) on my desktop to see what other stuff might be of interest and I came upon "Severe Weather Potentials for the Next 6 Hours" that would be great.

Heavy Rain Possible Dense Fog Minimal

High Winds Possible Ice Build Up Minimal

ThunderStorms Possible Rapid Freeze Up Minimal

This could be another panel in the forecast, perhaps a scroll down or side scroll, I like it because down here in Miami, it rains kind off a lot and this would be very beneficial especially for planning outdoor activities, ie. beach and sports :)

Another thing might be Hourly Weather Summary but if I had to pick I'd pick Severe Weather Potentials for the Next 6 Hours as it is FW2 is a great application with lots of functionality, these two or this one would just be icing on the cake :)

PS. version 2.15 autoupdates 100% reliably for me and version 2.16 randomly, just as a heads up, I've now reverted back to 2.15 eventhough the "

Defined Text in Loop

" does not work for me in this version
[HTC Excalibur] showaco:
Just about done with code to turn off each line of text individually(so you can choose which lines will display in loop) or turn all off and revert to carrier name. Will be in next release:)

Will release before days end, including fix for updates incorrectly, and transparent/dark background forecast panels.
[HTC Excalibur] bipinsen:
This thread seems to have really come alive! I like it. I was feeling a little bit disappointed because these guys were putting in such hard work, and there wasn't a lot of feedback.

@lagasi: the iPhone theme looks OK. I'm not a big fan of that icon set, so overall it's not very appealing.

Last night I was going to write in about auto-updates not working, and having to force a manual one. Now I read that doing a manual one screws up auto-updates. A fix for this is probably more important than releasing new features, don't you think? Unless both are right around the corner.

I noticed something in the display the other day. For the value display of "Bar" I first have "Unavailable" and then the actual value. Bug?

Ohhh.. just noticed this. Cloud cover.. value display down to 3 decimal places?? I have a current cloud cover of 92.905% You guys remember sig figs from Chemistry or Physics? Hehe.. I don't think we need any decimal places. A cloud cover of 92% is indistinguishable from 91 or 93% :p
[HTC Excalibur] parthabhatta:
Showaco/lagasi

One more thing which I forgot. The "uninstall" option in setup menu should have one more screen of user intervention (like "Are you Sure") to prevent accidental / unintentional press on the uninstall option by the user.
[HTC Excalibur] rnadolny:
Update worked when I did not manually update. Thanks.

Seem to have another issue. I listen to internet radio sometimes and now it does not seem to want to connect. Did see error about line 87 featherweather but think that was when trying to update. Even when not updating will not work. Asking about internet connection. All my other internet connections work fine

update worked fine this afternoon will keep eye and ear on

I use freddyreyes black theme and that looks good on my phone.

One question about forecast update. If I put one in setup will that give me forecast first update of day at 5 if I have update hours 5-0.OR does it matter because forecast update does not take much more time than other update.