Hey;
Hope everyone is doing great!!!
I posted a link to an image of my 5 Day forcast and the way it's layout is. Image Below:
Hey RomanDA ; I there guy we have typed in the past a lot on mods for Desktopx. Where you at on this one buddy?
I want to use the Weather XML but I don't or haven't had the time to look into all of the weather widgets for DesktopX and also the Objects for Forcasting in DesktopX.
I am trying to make my DesktopX Weather come out the same as i the screenshot link and can't seem to get the images to show or get it with in the same layout.
I always keep it on and it checks the weather XML every 30 mins. I am using Samurize to don this as the program had a Weather 2004.dll that makes it wasy to set-Up the 5Day forcast.
So can some one give me some help on the switch to DesktopX. When the Prometheus Dark DesktopX Pro Theme comes out I will give all of the weather related accomplishment CREDITS to who ever might help on this.
I hope some one can help as I don't want to pick someone elses weather Object or Widget apart and make it work with this theme.
Thanks
Automan
Hey RomanDA;;
What happened to you bud, did ya give up? I saw that the screen shot of this desktopX theme I am preparing to release soon made it into the "I Love DesktopX" area on the main WinCustomize page. thats cool. Now if I can just make this weather thingy I will be able to do the rest and release this monster.
Folks from the comments on the screen shots are really wanting, this theme.
I appreciate it all and I hav an idea.
I will use the weather example that is posted and grab all the 5Day info, if someone can tell me through a vbscripting how to point to another image when the weather widget shows the number of the XML icon for the 5Day weather.
Thanks guy...Hope you are doing well.
I think the problem is we're not exactly clear on what you have working and what you still need to do. Also, modifying/creating weather widgets take a LOT of hours, of which there aren't enough in the day.
So first, let's clarify what you have done and what you want to do?
WORKING:
1. Radar
2. Wind/Pressure
3. Today weather
NOT WORKING:
1. 5-Day forecast
Right? Second, what about the 5-Day is not working? Can you get the information and display it at all or do you need help doing that? OR you can get the information and display it, but you just want to change the icons?
Also, are you talking about using Base Weather to build the 5-Day?
I'd like to help, but I'm useless if I don't understand exactly where you're at, what you're doing, and what the problem is.
Sorry.. SViz is correct, i have no time to work on anything right now. Im right there with him 100%.
Hi sViz;
I am going to take the weather XML that is on WinCustomize and place my info for downloading the XML file to a C:\Weather\XML directory, then I will pull all the info from the file like you guys mentioned, it's just easier.
Then I just want to vbscript the icon number to look at another directory called C:\weather\42, which has all the png numbered images and use them instead od the one that the original weather widget uses, then I will take the today weather and redirece the icon number to use C:\weather\80 for the correct size Today weather.
I think this is a good way to go and I will take the widget and import it into my theme and pull all the correct info for the Todayand the 5Day weather and make them look just like the ones I have now.
The only thing I need to do is when it has the number like " 24 " for the 5Day "1st day" it will show the "24.png from the C:\weather\42 directory.
Thats the part I can't figure out yet. I will keep looking for a way to VBscripy that Icon number to use the png file from the other directory. Once i get that small section of the script I can handle the rest of the weather.
Thanks guys, I do understand that you nare very busy, and I shouldn't have expected you to just drop everything you are presently doing and get into this thing.
I will look deeper into a re-direct script sectionand place it into the script file for the 5Day and the Today weather and ake another section and stop using another program for the weather, tha will free up the system here and I will have weather built right into the DesktopX theme.
I do want to thank you folks for all the help though, because I have copied all the scripting and I am looking over it and I will get it going.
There will be a comment section in the theme for all of your help.
I really thank you for all the help!! you folks are great vbscripters and I do appreciate you help. Dam*, I think I said that already, oh well you do deserve it.
Col. Larry Hutchesonaka Automan
If you are using Base Weather (different widgets have different methods) then the easiest way to get your icons to show up is to just include them all as custom files.
Find the object called "Weather_Output". Go to Properties > Summary and click on Custom Files. Remove all the images you see there. That done, start adding your images.
DX will copy all custom files to the object directory and they will be included on export. The script will now use all of your images, providing that you name your icons the same as the originals. The original "00.png" is a thunderstorm, so your "00.png" should be a thunderstorm, and so on.
As far as having different icon sizes, I think it'd be much easier if you just made large size images (for the Today weather), then scaled them down in DX for the 5-Day...unless of course they're animated?
sViz is correct on all the above. Making 1 object for each wather icon is the best and easiest way to go (see post #21). Again, it is much easier to take existing code and just change the images, and then your done.
RomanDA;
I agtree ad will look for the directory where images are kept and get this devil built..
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