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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app)

« on: July 03, 2014, 06:32 PM »

Here you go, Dirge:

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v1.5.3 - 2014-07-02
    + Added DMS (degree, minute, second) format option for latitude and
      longitude readings.  (Thanks, Dirge)
    ! Fixed missing "na.ico" file in the Fat Cow tray condition theme.
      (Thanks, Brothbeard)
    ! Converted wind speed text string was incorrect.  (Thanks, Dirge)

-skwire (July 02, 2014, 01:43 AM)

Excellent ... I’m feeling more nautical already.

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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app)

« on: July 01, 2014, 12:00 PM »

>> 1) The ancient mariner in me would like to see latitude and longitude displayed in degrees° minutes' seconds" N/S E/W format.

> 1) I can add an option for this.  To save me some research time, is there an easy way to convert the current data to this format?

Thanks for the quick reply.

Converting from decimal degrees to degrees/minutes/seconds is a simple but tedious little process; there’s probably a pre-written subroutine floating around to accomplish it in whatever language/framework you’re using, but I don’t know where you’d get such a thing. (The last time I wrote any code or did any programming, Jimmy Carter was in office and FORTRAN and punch cards were the computer status quo.) I thought that Yahoo! might provide feeds in both formats and that you could simply choose between them.

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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app)

« on: June 30, 2014, 12:25 PM »

I’ve encountered four minor bugs with sWeather v1.5.2.1:

1) When the mouse cursor is placed over the current Wind readout in the main window, the conversion message in the status bar at the bottom of the window says “Converted visibility: [...]” instead of “Converted wind: [...]”, though it does give the properly converted wind speed.

2) When the text message (“PM Thunderstorms,” “Few Showers,” “Scattered Thunderstorms,” etc.) in the extended forecast box for a given day is more than two lines/rows of text long, the additional lines are cut off and can’t be read; all that can be seen is the top two or three rows of pixels of the third line of text. Perhaps a change could be made to show the complete text in the status bar when mousing over such truncated text(?).

3) When the main window is displayed and the mouse cursor is off to the side (not hovering over the window), the message in the status bar doesn’t always display “Conditions as of: [date & time of last Yahoo! update]” (as I suspect it should); it often displays the Converted temp of some random day of the week.

4) The “Feels like” temperature displayed on the main window is always the same as the actual current temperature (for all locations) and does not reflect the “Feels like” temperature on the Yahoo! Full forecast Web page.

While I’m at it, I have three simple (to me, pains in the butt to you) feature requests:

1) The ancient mariner in me would like to see latitude and longitude displayed in degrees° minutes' seconds" N/S E/W format.

2) A Moon Phase indicator in the main window, preferably an icon with text (e.g., “Waxing Crescent”), but text-only would get the job done too.

3) A Precipitation indicator in the main window showing the amount of precipitation received in the last 24 hours or since midnight (or both). The Yahoo! Full forecast Web page doesn’t seem to show this info, so I don’t know if this info is available in its feed, but the associated Weather Channel page does provide this info.

I like the simple and efficient nature of sWeather, especially as I have an old, out-of-date computer that doesn't handle lots of fancy graphics too well. Thanks for going to the trouble of providing the program.

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