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[HTC Excalibur] lagasi:
You're right. The variable is not being populated. I have it already fixed and will post the update soon. I am working optimizing the code and maybe adding some features as well. I have gotten forecast update time shortened by about 1 min.
[HTC Excalibur] lagasi:
Portrait Version changes

FeatherWeather Portrait v2.01

Fixed: Home screen text wrapping to 3rd line

Fixed: Feather options texts fits in screen

Fixed: Bar and UV showing extra chars ">

Fixed: Current wind gust not showing

Changed: Forecast page 6 url goes to mobile version of AccuWeather with your location

Optimized: Updating current weather and forecast is faster now
[HTC Excalibur] bipinsen:
Nicely done. I can confirm that wind gusts is showing now. I will play around with it tomorrow some more and write back if needed. For now, great job! Thanks so much for taking the time to do this!
[HTC Excalibur] notaliberal:
that's what i thought would be the case...

delete the mortscript entry from the startup folder, and your issue will be an issue no more! it only needs to run that very first time you run feather, and should NOT be in the startup folder. Feather will still function just as it is supposed to.

good luck, enjoy.

many thanks to Showaco for this awesome app!!!!

jeff
[HTC Excalibur] Fantasigraphic:
Thanks for the help!!!!
[HTC Excalibur] Fantasigraphic:
Was wondering how would i move the carrier service (ATT) to the left below the time and date. Which File and command line would i edit?

If this isnt a feather weather thing then im sorry!!!
[HTC Excalibur] Fantasigraphic:
notaliberal:

Thanks it worked!!!
[HTC Excalibur] notaliberal:
Here's the icons I said I'd send. Try them out, see how they look. I don't think they take up quite as much room, and I like the less "cartoony" look of them.

Dont forget to back up your original "condicons" folder first though, in case you don't like these.

Good luck!

Jeff
[HTC Excalibur] bipinsen:
What would it take to move this to WM6.5?

I've been playing around with the different versions of WM6.5 that show up (I have a Shadow/Juno). They all seem pretty slick, but the built-in weather utility can't hold a candle to this one! However, the new Titanium Panel layout doesn't play well at all with our humble utility. Has anyone been able to successfully port this over to 6.5? What would it take? Man, I'd love to see this live on in the next generation of OS! Haven't heard from @showaco or @lagassi for a long, long time. I don't know about the app, but *I* certainly am going through feelings of abadonment.... :p
[HTC Excalibur] kctnaples:
Help

Good evening everyone I have a Sprint MotoQ 9c running WM 6.1 with Net3.5 installed I have read every post from 1 to the end and I simply cannot get Feather to run. It connects to accu weather downloads an update says finished but nothing on my screen changes. It is still displaying 56 degrees and a little red x above the time display, the entire Feather Panel is all red X's and I am stumped, I have version 2.14a portrait installed. I have had a problem since the beginning as Showaco Feather weather does not show up under settings/remove programs, I have always used the uninstall feature in the program and then tried to go in and delete all instances of the program by using active sync and delete, but when the new CAB tries to install is still sees an instance of the Feather Weather program says it will uninstall and then says it cannot uninstall so I install the new CAB over the old one and it says the installation was unsuccessful but the program still runs. I appreciate any help anyone can shed on me and look forward to hearing back from the group.

Thanks ! :) Kevin in Naples Fl
[HTC Excalibur] Fantasigraphic:
The accuweather is using an old website. Do this:

Open Feather.mscr with notepad and look for Sub Accuweather and below it youll see link=ReadFile.

Replace with this:

link=ReadFile("http://wwwa.accuweather.com/adcbin/forecastfox/weather_data.asp?location="&location&"&metric="&metric)

Thatll update your forecast for you

** last word is metric NOT me tric!!! some reason it spaces the word
[HTC Excalibur] notaliberal:
I have a feeling his problem is bigger than just the URL fix, I just can't remember where I've seen or what the solution was.

Perhaps, if it's not all fixed by the URL change, try this...

1) Have you tried uninstalling it using the active sync Tools -> Add/Remove Programs menu?

2) if that doesn't work, try reinstalling the cab, but when it says it's going to UNinstall the current version choose the cancel option. THere's a similar situation where canceling at a certain spot during the install fixed some issue. I just can't remember where I saw that.

3) After you do that, first see if you can (after the URL change, which you may have to redo) get it to work just my manually updating your weather.

4) If it still shows red X's Now try to reinstall it and see if perhaps the canceling fixed the install process bug.

Let us know what works.

Good luck,

Jeff
[HTC Excalibur] kctnaples:
thanks guys

Fantasigraphic, how do you open the feather.mscr in notepad? I have tried looking in every manner i know how and there is no open feature for this file, your help is greatly appreciated.

notaliberal I tried to use the uninstall feature of activesync and it does nothing, but feather weather is showing up like a non program with 0 showing for its content, so something is amiss, I also tried to use the uninstall in the program and then reinstall the cab and say no to the uninstall but it terminated the install saying it was unsucessful.

Ideas are greatly aprreciated thanks guys !!
[HTC Excalibur] kctnaples:
I got feather.mscr opened !

ok I got feather.mscr opened in notepad and replaced the website, but now the program says it cannot open the file with new website in it, what next?

Thanks,

Kevin
[HTC Excalibur] Fantasigraphic:
Open feather.mscr w/ notepad, go to Sub AccuWeather and at the end of the website make sure it reads metric and NOT me tric.

Make sure you hit File -> Save the replace Feather.mscr from desktop back to the feather weather folder and when asked replace hit yes.

Like the post before mine talking about uninstalling it. What ive done in past is uninstall it thru Feather weather, but not thru the settings, and install a different version like for me was 2.13b, and that usually overwrite the existing files and it cleared up the issue. then after rebooting my phone i hooked it up to activeSync and added the link to feather.mscr. saved it the re-sync it and reboot then did the update.

Again this is what i did on my phone im not saying it will work for you but you can try!!!
[HTC Excalibur] Fantasigraphic:
NOTALIBERAL:

Thanks for your help. Here's what the final looks like, still debating whether to move icon over to right a little..

Thanks again for your help!!!
[HTC Excalibur] kctnaples:
I screwed up

ok, I have completely erased or hidden my clock in my sliding panels layout, the feather weather application is till running because I changed my layout to get a clock to another format I have and I am getting the weather feed ( although it is still all empty or zeroes) and feather weather is still accessing my internet and downloading something but nothing loads to the screen. Can anyone tell me how to get my clock back on my sliding panel screen and then how to get feather weather off my phone so I can try and do a clean reload, nothing seems to have worked so far. I appreciate anyone's help, thanks,

Kevin
[HTC Excalibur] track909:
Hi,

It's possible to change the program so as to have only the forecast weather and not the current weather?

What is the mod?

Thanks!!!
[HTC Excalibur] xtrememadness:
ok so i got feather weather working on my verizon q9c 6.1 but when i go to update radar i get "a problem has occurred with dlfile.exe." what went wrong. i have the accuweather default image but no radar activity! everything else works perfect! please help thanx!!
[HTC Excalibur] dermann:
using ookba's 6.5 with showaco's weather and love it!! but i'm not to found of accuweather, was wondering how to change where it gets it weather information. i prefer to us www.wunderground.com but i don't know how to point it in that direction. i know it's in a .mscr... can anyone help?
[HTC Excalibur] buteo:
My wishes for 2.15

Hello, I think Feather weather is a very nice app, light and effective.

With some new features it would be IMHO the best choice among weather apps for WM6.1 smartphones.

So, here are my wishes:

(Easy, I guess) Clock panel should show only updated current conditions. If they are no more available (say, they are 3-4hours old) Feather should show weather forecast for the current day.

(More difficult...)

I would like a separate panel for FeatherW. It could diplay a 7-day forecast summary (one icon per day, maybe with temperatures) and not just the program icon.

(even more...)

A multi-location feature would be very useful.

I wonder what Showaco thinks about that...
[HTC Excalibur] bipinsen:
@showaco hasn't been seen in these parts for a long, long time. No one else has taken over the development of this app, so I'm not sure if your wish list will be anything more than that... :)
[HTC Excalibur] ipkis_roger:
Hi All,

Instead of icons, all i get is a "RED X", anyone knows how to fix it? I have 2009 Shadow running 6.1

Thanks,

Ipkis
[HTC Excalibur] stylez:
The update url changed needs putting into .mscr you will have to search thread as has been posted already ;)
[HTC Excalibur] texastig:
wrong post
[HTC Excalibur] texastig:
Could you post your example of your link=ReadFile

Thanks
[HTC Excalibur] aspiresvt:
Hello Forum! Ive been around the windows mobile world for a while although i am no programmer or developer. I have an Axim v50v running 2003SE, a Blackjack II running 6.0 Standard. I have had no success in getting any of the feather weather apps to function on my phone. The phone i am trying to get it to work on is a USA Samsung Jack SGH-637 on AT&T running windows mobile 6.1 standard with the sliding panel display. I have App unlocked it using the mobi Clearsecurity/ Security configuration manager method as sda unlock did not work. is it possible that i need to use the sda AFTER the clearsecurity method. i think i tried that but i dont remember as ive been messing with this app for about a month and have tried numerous versions and overwritten the feather.mscr. in program files on a few of them as well with no luck. i installed FeatherWeatherL214C.CAB (1.28 MB, 648 views) to the device with no problem. i believe this is the version i currently have installed. the feather options menu works and i was able to change the right soft key but the sliding panel doesnt display any of those sweet looking icons or a temp, just a really tiny sun icon on top left of the sliding panel clock. and when enter my zip code or any version of a location code i get an error message that pops up about invalid hadle...widget .....metric line 88... if i switched to an htc layout it will do a looping text on the top but fror some city called crawford even though my zip is 60430 and i think my code is NAM|US|IL|HOMEWOOD|60430 also tried different variations of this. ill make some screen shots when i get home. i just hard reset. anyone im lost on something apparently simple and its personal now....lol. Thanks
[HTC Excalibur] notaliberal:
Not sure about your error message, but as far as not seeing anything for icons or temp in the panel, look at my post from page 12. I'll link it here:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=4005320&postcount=563

You'll have to edit your cpr file. That's all the help I can be, I'm using a Touch Pro 2 now so I don't have my shadow anymore...

Good luck,

Jeff
[HTC Excalibur] buteo:
WM6.5 SlidingPanels

Hi, are you using featherweather on new 6.5's SlidingPanels?

I tried but I have neither current conditions near clock nor all icons in detailed forecast
[HTC Excalibur] s3mtex:
Need some help

Hi,

I have installed Feather Weather yesterday and i have a little problem.

See attachments.

I have read all posts, i think that i have to modify something in Feather.mscr, but i can't figure what.

I use a Samsung i600 (320x240 QVGA)

Thanks!
[HTC Excalibur] :
WTF i have windows mobile standard 6.5 and he wil not start when i click on the shortcut in menu start > optionfeather... I have done 3 reboots.

Don't working anymore? :confused::confused:
[HTC Excalibur] showaco:
New landscape version coming soon! Thanks to tweaks by lagasi, download times are less than half what they were. Will have new icons and new forecast layout as well. Here's some early pics, give me a few days:)
[HTC Excalibur] blackjack2:
Nice pics, I dig it, where would the alarm icon show up though and its the install going to be a single cab. I definitely would want to try
[HTC Excalibur] pudgedaddy:
ha!.... those are my icons i gave to outerdepth! good to see someone is still using them!
[HTC Excalibur] blackjack2:
Also does the icon have to necessarily be that big, could it be smaller, the icons look cool as hell but my personal taste would be for smaller icons, so it does not look like an overwhelming takeover by the icons
[HTC Excalibur] showaco:
yep, I've been using those ever since you made them, they're awesome!:D
[HTC Excalibur] showaco:
it will definitely be a single cab install and the layout isn't finished yet. I'll probably reduce clock icon slightly and alarm icon will either endup at end of clock or bottom left corner. Any thoughts on rest of layout? Now is the time to speak up:)
[HTC Excalibur] bipinsen:
Looks good! Oh one thing - in the extended forecast, if the wind direction is 3 letters (like NNW), then the last character ends up being out of the box. A cosmetic point.

Any thoughts on my feature request of downloaded radar maps? :)
[HTC Excalibur] blackjack2:
bottom left corner is great, a little reduced is cool as well, will it be in color if so a nice little bell or perhaps a little old school clock will rock also, hope to see it soon.

Thanks for your great work, I think this app is really comprehensive and it has everything I've always wanted, the "feels like" is so crucial

Congrats
[HTC Excalibur] blackjack2:
As far as layout please make sure that the time does not overlap with the weather icons. I think this is important to keep the layout fresh and not to crowded.
[HTC Excalibur] kwoodall:
Any chance these tweaks can be applied to the scripts I revised for the portrait scripts I redid for FW?

Kermit Woodall

Managing Editor

GadgetNutz.com
[HTC Excalibur] blackjack2:
Perhaps the actual temperature font can be reduced a bit as well
[HTC Excalibur] showaco:
Yeah, these speed increase tweaks can be added. It'll be a few days before I get an update out on it, but you can download the last zip posted by lagasi amd get the feather.mscr. In it, just get the Accuweather and Forecast Subs out and copy over the ones in your feather.mscr. Should work, but make a backup first, just in case.
[HTC Excalibur] bipinsen:
Ummm.. didn't quite work as advertised.

1. I uninstalled the version I had

2. Rebooted

3. Installed just the cab in this above post

4. Many installs and uninstalls later - nothing.

The clock panel is not showing the weather icons, and there are other weird icons here and there.

Was I supposed to go back to lagasi's post and copy over his files? Or did you package them all in this?​
[HTC Excalibur] lagasi:
I took a look at showaco's cab and the files in there look right. Try forcing an update first. If that doesn't work, go \Program Files\FeatherWeather\panelicons\ on your phone. Those are the icons that get loaded.
[HTC Excalibur] showaco:
What rom are you using? Those icons look like the ones for touchflo2d and shouldn't be in there. Check like lagasi suggested as those images are read from the panelicons folder and please let us know what you find.
[HTC Excalibur] lagasi:
It only happens if there is a W. I will try to fix that.

This app uses Mortscript which has a download function, but it isn't supported for smartphones. I will look around to see if there is a workaround, but don't get your hopes up.
[HTC Excalibur] showaco:
@ blackjack2

Here's a revised clock layout, changes:

clock font from bold to regular

moved alarm to bottom left

reduced size of weather temp

reduced size of weather icon and moved slightly to right
[HTC Excalibur] bipinsen:
Check the icon files in the cab, guys. What I see in my folder looks nothing like what's shown on the screenshots. It's actually what I'm seeing on my screen (as posted earlier).

I'm using myHTC's Shadow ROM 5.2.19202
[HTC Excalibur] showaco:
your right, i installed on my blackjack to check the icons, for some reason the cab builder replaced the icons with some other theme icons I had. Who knows, because I imported the whole folders and I checked them on pc and they are correct. Give me about 10 minutes and I'll have new cab up. Sorry about mix up.
[HTC Excalibur] rnadolny:
Where is the cab. portrait? Is this all I have to install? Do i need the pfix.
[HTC Excalibur] blackjack2:
Showaco, thanks, it looks super cool, one more thing, do you think the weather icons can be reduced just a little more so they can stay within the panels, also in the example you have "Crawford" it also say 55 degrees, do you think its a bit redundant to show 55 again, after all, its above already know what I mean, it just my humble opinion and where it says "Clear" its blurry, its that an effect you give, perhaps it can be sharp with the same color and that's it my friend, the application looks cool as hell, smooth, it just easy on the eyes, I like it, straight forward yet informative, conveying what you need to know at all times, if you want more detail then scroll down, perfect Showaco, could you possibly show a pic of the extended weather panel just to see, thanks otherwise congratulations on this upcoming release :) its a job well done
[HTC Excalibur] rnadolny:
portrait featherweather2 cingular 3125

Installation:

Had to remove cab due to problem with icons, to install for the moment, install cab file in post 1 and then get the zip file by lagasi in post 59 and overwrite files. Should have new cab ready tomorrow.

Loaded new and old cab. both just gave me one scrolling line on top. could not open up for extended forecast. could not set or find options anywhere to view. Once I opened up phone and had full day forecast and could scroll through the days. I have 3125 with wm6.1
[HTC Excalibur] showaco:
Feather options should be in your start menu files.
[HTC Excalibur] lagasi:
Portrait verison CAB

Here's the install CAB for the portrait version...finally. Sorry, it took so long. I had to figure out to make the cab file.

FeatherWeather Portrait v2.02

Fixed: Forecast page wind speed text alignment

Changed: Clock text will update to user defined text when a call is active

Optimized: Full update is about 33% faster (3x faster than original)
[HTC Excalibur] bipinsen:
Thanks. Downloading and installing now.

By the way, there's a bug in the regular install. In the extended forecast screens, clicking "Back" gave an error of the home file not being found. On looking, I saw that the action link was for a file called feather.home, not feather.mscr for all five days. Changing that to feather.mscr solved it. I'm not sure if the same bug is going to be in this one. I guess I'll find out...

By the way, why is there an almost 200k difference between the regular and portrait cab files? Different icon sets?
[HTC Excalibur] lagasi:
Yes, I was having that problem too, but couldn't figure out why the link changed. I couldn't find it in any of the code. After you mentioned it, I found it in registry under HKLM\Security\CHome\DefaultSettings. I will update the CAB.

Showaco included the "Thumbs.db" files too.
[HTC Excalibur] bipinsen:
Ooh... I just installed your previous cab. Didn't see a problem with it (maybe the registry settings don't get deleted?).

Nice work on the extended forecast page! A few times I had noticed that the storm percentage value was not showing because it was pushed out on the right side. This one seems to have corrected that, and also the wind direction.

Does that do anything for the application? Or is it just the db that got added because windows insists on every folder having one...? :p
[HTC Excalibur] lagasi:
In Windows, when you view a folder in "Thumbnails" view, it creates a cache file (Thumbs.db) to the thumbnail previews.
[HTC Excalibur] rnadolny:
portrait cab

loaded. still only have one line scrolling. says current condition for ..... no temp or anything gives me wihd and baro and cloudy and air quality good that is it. cannot get forecast anywhere i can see. still cannot get to forecast. start only has feather icon and I can only update setup uninstall and exit. cant ever get to forecast pages. try to change panel location but nothing ever changes.
[HTC Excalibur] lagasi:
What the location or zip you are using? I want to check if the feed is ok for you. Is the update working (you will see something like "Updating Current Conditions")?

To the get the Forecast pages, press the right soft key instead of the action/center key.
[HTC Excalibur] parthabhatta:
To both Showaco and lagasi

While thanking you both for your enormous efforts in constantly improving the app as well as bipinsen for pointing out the shortcomings I would request you to post the upgrades preferably in the first post if possible (with a version no). It becomes difficult to keep track of things if upgrades are posted elsewhere.
[HTC Excalibur] lagasi:
I mainly work on the portrait version. I will continue to post my updates as I want to get them out as soon as possible but I will add version #s as you suggested. Only showaco can edit the first post so we just have to wait for him to update my cab when he gets a chance.
[HTC Excalibur] showaco:
I have made post #2 on first page for the portrait version now and updated it with the portrait cab. I also dated the post for cab reference. I will keep post updated asap when lagasi has updates available.:)
[HTC Excalibur] psybill:
Hi there,

guys please give me some help, I can't make it work properly!!

I installed the latest portrait cab, but I can't see the big weather icon.

also in settings panel when I press forecast it take this

what's missing? another cpr file maybe?
[HTC Excalibur] lagasi:
Sorry, I did miss a cpr in cab. Please re-download the cab at http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=128300. That should fix the the Clock. It seems like the forecast cpr (fullscreen.cpr) is not getting load...
[HTC Excalibur] psybill:
thanks lagasi for help and all your work.

I'll perform a hard reset and try again. I use an S740 based rom in my tornado with HTC home if that does matter...
[HTC Excalibur] parthabhatta:
Thanks lagasi for your version nos and showaco for your portrait updates in post #2.

@psybill

If your problem is solved with lagasi's updated cab its ok else I don't think its a problem with lagasi's cab. Actually I had the same problem with my VOX loaded with 740 customised ROM. What I found is none of the slide panel xmls use CHome cpr files. So I had to edit my xml and make it use chome*.cpr files and then the full window came. Go to featherweather (not featherweather2) thread and look my posts of 4/5.11.2008.

lagasi

In your last cab (600+ kb cab) I find that temp is shown in F whereas I set them as C in setup. In fact in narration it was shown as C but just above the weather icon the large temp display showed temp in F. Is it a problem with my set or something at your end.
[HTC Excalibur] psybill:
you are right, it did't fix the problem. the problem must be the new HTC home panels.

I'll try your xml files and post feedback

thanks!
[HTC Excalibur] lagasi:
Looking closely at showaco's code, the degree symbol (big F or C) on the clock screen should correct itself after an update. You will not see the change after changing it in options. I will change this in the next version.

You just gave me some more ideas in speeding up the code :). Every little bit counts.