Author Topic: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app) (Read 755,706 times)

skwire · « **Reply #625 on:** January 21, 2019, 12:44 AM »

Just uploaded interim build 35 which adds back in the custom location name option I mistakenly took out when redoing all this.

~~http://www.dcmembers.com/skwire/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/apps/sweather/sWeather_v1.7.5.35.zip~~

worldwide · « **Reply #626 on:** January 21, 2019, 06:30 AM »

Works fine except for the thing below as you said.
Thank you, Jody!

Quote from: skwire on January 20, 2019, 05:24 PM

The data shown is the data given by Yahoo!. However, as best I can tell, that wind chill data is not being coverted to Celsius. Basically, it's a Fahrenheit value no matter if I'm requesting Celsius values. Of course, I could do the math and fix it, but I've written an email to Yahoo! to see if they'll fix it first. If they don't, within a fair amount of time, I'll fix it manually.

Drugwash · « **Reply #627 on:** January 21, 2019, 01:04 PM »

Quote from: skwire on January 20, 2019, 11:40 PM

Quote from: Drugwash on January 20, 2019, 11:19 PM
- Bug?: no more minimize button in titlebar.

Eh? Did you enable the "Do not show taskbar button" option or something?

Indeed I did. Reasoning: there's no need for the taskbar button as long as the window can be brought to front by a single icon click; extremely rarely do I use task switcher (Alt+Tab).
Apparently M$ don't allow a "normal" window style with no taskbar button. Oh well, we can't have it all, can we… But why does it lose the date/time in the window title, in the 'ToolWindow' mode?

One way of keeping the 'minimize to tray' option while in ToolWindow mode is to hook WM_NCRBUTTONDOWN and send the command to minimize the GUI when user right-clicks the titlebar:

Code

; somewhere in autoexec
OnMessage(0xA4, "RClick")			; WM_NCRBUTTONDOWN
; somewhere among functions
;===================
RClick(wP, lP, msg, hwnd)
;===================
{
Global GUI_ID
if (hwnd != GUI_ID)
	return
if wP=2		; HTCAPTION
	{
	Gui, 1:Minimize
	Return 0
	}
}

sportman12 · « **Reply #628 on:** January 21, 2019, 09:40 PM »

I can not add my location with the new version how do I do it ?

skwire · « **Reply #629 on:** January 21, 2019, 09:42 PM »

Quote from: sportman12 on January 21, 2019, 09:40 PM

I can not add my location with the new version how do I do it ?

In sWeather's Options dialog, click the button next to the WOEID field for instructions on how to do that.

sportman12 · « **Reply #630 on:** January 21, 2019, 10:15 PM »

skwire I am a disabled person can not find the In Options the button next to the WOEID field for instructions can you give me a screenshot please

skwire · « **Reply #631 on:** January 21, 2019, 10:22 PM »

Quote from: sportman12 on January 21, 2019, 10:15 PM

skwire I am a disabled person can not find the In Options the button next to the WOEID field for instructions can you give me a screenshot please

Did you update to the latest sWeather I posted? If not, update to this version here, first:

http://www.dcmembers.com/skwire/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/apps/sweather/sWeather_v1.7.5.35.zip

sportman12 · « **Reply #632 on:** January 21, 2019, 10:54 PM »

skywire I update to the latest sWeather

http://www.dcmembers.com/skwire/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/apps/sweather/sWeather_v1.7.5.35.zip

I do not see the same picture as in your screenshot can you please give me step by step install directions I did have old version please

skwire · « **Reply #633 on:** January 22, 2019, 10:42 PM »

sWeather has been updated to v1.7.6. Thanks to all for your testing and patience.

I also received word from Yahoo! that the wind chill reading for Celsius has been fixed.

Website v1.7.6 - 2018-01-22 + Added support for the new Yahoo! Weather API. The old API was retired on 2019-01-03. The new API seems slower than the previous one but I don't know if it's because of the new OAuth requirement for this new API or something else. Whatever...it works, so please be patient with it and apologies for any inconvenience. + Hovering over the "Full forecast", "Radar", and "Powered by Yahoo!" links shows their URL in the statusbar. (Thanks, Drugwash) + Right-clicking the "Full forecast", "Radar", and "Powered by Yahoo!" links gives the option of copying the URL to the clipboard. + Added "Minimize to tray" option. (Thanks, Drugwash) + Added menu option to display raw weather data. + Added tooltips to statusbar icons. + Option to break location menu into multiple columns. * Eliminated dependencies on resources.dll and temp directory. - Took out the WOEID search feature because the new API doesn't support that currently. Had to go back to the old method of manually getting the WOEID from the URL of a location on the main weather.yahoo.com website. Yuck, what a travesty. >=[ ! Right-click clipboard context menu was broken. ! Fixed an extra line in one of the tray tooltips. (Thanks, Drugwash)

Brothbeard · « **Reply #634 on:** January 22, 2019, 10:54 PM »

Thanks for all your hard work Jody, great job.

sportman12 · « **Reply #635 on:** January 22, 2019, 11:18 PM »

skywire please give me step by step install directions I did have old version do I delete old version first or ? please

skwire · « **Reply #636 on:** January 22, 2019, 11:32 PM »

Quote from: sportman12 on January 22, 2019, 11:18 PM

skywire please give me step by step install directions I did have old version do I delete old version first or ? please

Shut down sWeather.
Make a copy of your current sWeather folder for backup.
Download new version of sWeather.
Unzip the version into your current sWeather folder, overwriting current files.
Start up sWeather.

Mboxer511 · « **Reply #637 on:** January 23, 2019, 06:53 AM »

I'm having an issue with the time not displaying correctly and the forecast not working. Not sure if this is a known issue? This is running on Windows 8.1 with your newest version of the software. I completely removed my files of the old program and restarted this new program after saving the new settings. I included a screen shot of what I'm seeing and the settings I chose.

click-click · « **Reply #638 on:** January 23, 2019, 10:24 AM »

Hello, previously my sweather tray icon would show a weather condition icon such as clouds, sun rain, etc. depending on the weather for my location. Now I only see a square box with the temperature in it. Is there a way to show the nicer weather icons instead and not the temperature?

I see now there's a checkbox for the weather condition icon that can be enabled/disabled, but how do I hide the temperature icon? I don't need both (need the space). The drop-down in the settings for temperature doesn't include none and there's no enable/disable checkbox for the temperature.

The hover info for the condition icon doesn't show the same info (less) as the temp icon

Also the settings GUI button is chopped off at the bottom when using a dpi setting of 125%.

Thanks for getting sWeather working again.

Drugwash · « **Reply #639 on:** January 23, 2019, 01:05 PM »

@ Mboxer511: You're probably having the same problem that I had (the underlying IE library used to connect to the TimezoneDB site doesn't support the required SSL protocol) so you'd have to untick 'Use https' in the configurations panel to get it work. But first, please go into your Internet Explorer advanced options and make sure TLS 1.2 is enabled (if available); that might get it work properly. IE8 (in my case) doesn't have such option available but disabling HTTPS in sWeather worked.

@ skwire: There's a problem with the GUI icons in XP, noticed it right after you eliminated the resources DLL but thought it might just be a different icon set. Apparently it's a rendering error for the transparent PNGs.
Here's a comparison of the old 1.7.5 GUI versus 1.7.6:

Also noticed 'Minimize to tray' is missing from the configuration panel but it does work as such; maybe you made it permanent?
Reminder: date/time still dissapears from titlebar when in TooWindow mode. The tray click is the trigger.
A funny side-effect of the ToolWindow mode: the SysCommand menu still sports a Maximize option which works although it shouldn't, since it's not a resizable window.

The rest seems to work as intended. Thank you!

skwire · « **Reply #640 on:** January 23, 2019, 04:29 PM »

Quote from: Mboxer511 on January 23, 2019, 06:53 AM

forecast not working

http://www.dcmembers.com/skwire/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/apps/sweather/sWeather_v1.7.6.2.zip

Please try that build and let me know if the forecast works. Thank you.

click-click · « **Reply #641 on:** January 23, 2019, 05:45 PM »

Why does the 'Do not show taskbar button' need to disabled to get the 10-day forecast?
I can enable the buton for a 5-day forecast, but not for 10.

Nevermind, I had to restart sWeather for it to take affect.

Mboxer511 · « **Reply #642 on:** January 23, 2019, 06:48 PM »

Quote from: skwire on January 23, 2019, 04:29 PM

Quote from: Mboxer511 on January 23, 2019, 06:53 AM
forecast not working

http://www.dcmembers.com/skwire/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/apps/sweather/sWeather_v1.7.6.2.zip

Please try that build and let me know if the forecast works. Thank you.

Yup, version 1.7.6.2 worked! Forecast and time are now appearing. I also disabled "use https:// (SSL) when possible" just to be safe.
The time of day, in the top of the window, is now shown in 24 hour time (not sunrise/sunset, that is working). Is there a way to revert it back to the 12 hour time format?

Included a screen shot of the new version with settings:

Mboxer511 · « **Reply #643 on:** January 23, 2019, 06:52 PM »

Nevermind I fixed the time issue not appearing in 12 hour format in the title bar. Had to change the "Date/time format" from:

Code

dddd, MMMM d, H:mm tt

TO

Code

dddd, MMMM d, h:mm tt

It originally had an uppercase 'H' which denotes 24 hour time and needed to be changed to a lowercase 'h'

skwire · « **Reply #644 on:** January 24, 2019, 12:07 AM »

Quote from: Mboxer511 on January 23, 2019, 06:53 AM

I'm having an issue with the time not displaying correctly and the forecast not working.

As Drugwash mentioned, for the time issue, try disabling the "Use HTTPS when possible" setting. For the forecast issue, thank you for testing and I'm glad the interim build fixed things. I've included those changes in the v1.1.7 mainline release below.

Quote from: Drugwash on January 23, 2019, 01:05 PM

There's a problem with the GUI icons in XP, noticed it right after you eliminated the resources DLL but thought it might just be a different icon set. Apparently it's a rendering error for the transparent PNGs.

They're actually icons but I tested with PNG files and got the same results. I can't win here.

I really don't want to go back to extra loose files if I can help it.

Quote from: Drugwash on January 23, 2019, 01:05 PM

Also noticed 'Minimize to tray' is missing from the configuration panel but it does work as such; maybe you made it permanent?

No, haha. I mistakenly deleted that line when adjusting the Options GUI.

It's back in the v1.7.7. build.

Quote from: Drugwash on January 23, 2019, 01:05 PM

Reminder: date/time still dissapears from titlebar when in TooWindow mode. The tray click is the trigger.

Still working on this. Sometimes it goes away, sometimes it stays. There's really no rhyme or reason to it.

Quote from: Mboxer511 on January 23, 2019, 06:52 PM

Nevermind I fixed the time issue not appearing in 12 hour format in the title bar. Had to change the "Date/time format" from:

Yep, that's why I made it completely configurable.

Website & Download 2019-01-23 - v1.7.7 ! Fixed speed issue when getting weather data. It was my fault and not the new API. ! Fixed 5 & 10 day forecast data not showing for some users. ! "Minimize to tray" option is back. I must have erroneously deleted it in the last build. (Thanks, Drugwash) ! Pressure reading wasn't correct for imperial values.

sportman12 · « **Reply #645 on:** January 24, 2019, 01:12 AM »

Which is the latest sWeather version ?

skwire · « **Reply #646 on:** January 24, 2019, 06:22 AM »

Quote from: sportman12 on January 24, 2019, 01:12 AM

Which is the latest sWeather version ?

You can always find the latest version on the sWeather website: http://www.dcmembers.com/skwire/download/sweather/

Mboxer511 · « **Reply #647 on:** January 24, 2019, 07:36 AM »

Quote from: skwire on January 24, 2019, 06:22 AM

You can always find the latest version on the sWeather website: http://www.dcmembers.com/skwire/download/sweather/

Is 1.7.7 up on the website now for download? I just checked and it's still showing 1.7.6.

Brothbeard · « **Reply #648 on:** January 24, 2019, 07:51 AM »

It's just a typo in both the website and (a giveaway this) the change log. Download and install it and it is V1.7.7 build 1.

sportman12 · « **Reply #649 on:** January 24, 2019, 08:33 AM »

I to want to know also Is 1.7.7 up on the website now for download? I just checked and it's still showing 1.7.6. will 1.7.7 be up or is it 1.7.6. ?