It’s stored right there where it is supposed to be.
My user string is different from yours, but the first thing I did was to edit that, and then import it - but I verified that, although it said the file was imported successfully, the changes are not there - but that is the correct way, because when I started having the problem, I went into the options panel and hit the “Use Default” on export, which was still unchecked.
Other than my user string being different the path is the same - but the error still occurs with the default settings in place, and AFAICT nothing else was in that registry key, so it is not to blame.
So, something else is at work here (and it might even be a ‘re-manifestation’ of Vista issues…though that it doubtful because I was able to adjust the Splendid options before and it had no problem saving the settings before, so it should not be cycling the options panel.
The really weird thing is that I can open options from the tray icon just fine - it opens once and closes it. Only from the viewed does it go awry. I just thought it had stopped doing it but it has not - I checked the ownership of the folders and they are like every other app installed, so I am not sure what is causing the problem now, and other than uninstalling, cleaning the registry, and re-installing, I am not sure where to go.
Well WW is fairly well self contained. You could try installing it on another machine and see if the problem reoccurs.
Set a System Restore point first, install it, test it, install my skins (and do nothing more what the WW Skin Wizard installs :iconbiggrin: ), test it, uninstall it, delete the WW folder, do a System Restore.
I don’t have Vista up so I can’t help much. Sorry.
There were some problems with WW when IE 7 1st appeared, but not what you describe.
If you change Interface skins do you still have the problem? The Options button is tied to them rather than the Forecast skins.
happens on all skins, but only started happening after I installed your set of skins. But I cannot honestly recall the last time I used the options button from the app view to begin with, so I really should say I first noticed it after installing your skins.
I don’t have another computer to try it on (well, I do, but cannot get to it for a day or so) so I’ll go the uninstall / clean / reinstall route for now.
Uninstalled, removed files left over in directory and pruned Registry of all mention to ww.exe / weather watcher. Reinstalled latest version from new download.
Still happening, and regardless of skin choice. I am ceasing discussing this further here as it appears to be more of a WW issue than a skin issue.
Running the most recent Ed’s package skin tray icons and find the Cloudy night time condition icon displays the Couldy daytime icon. It’s currently 12:50AM on 08/25/07 and the icon is blue as can be with a single cloud in the middle. Yes, weather was retrived a couple of times; and the most recent manual retrive 12:53AM.
Hey, someone get a icon creator and make a night time Couldy icon for the tray. Send it to weather.com and say, here’s the icon you need to be in compliance with night time.
Update: Next day, it’s 1:42PM and the icon is showing Thunder in the Vicinity as a night icon. Wah… I want it to be blue. hehe
That icon goof by weather.com wasn’t nearly as bad as when all the forecasts in Iraq were off by 20-25 degrees. I called the main webmaster at the Weather Channel office in Atlanta and they corrected it. So thy do listen to its consumers.
:icon_smile: It’s not a question of creating an icon, there are several that represent a night time cloudy scene, it’s a matter of weather.com referencing/indicating a night time icon rather than a day time one.
It’s possible that weather.com is considering the phase of the moon with their icon choice. We are close to a full moon so the nights are fairly bright at this point.
Nice job! About the only thing I can suggest to improve is an option to use Barba’s thermoniter and to list the wind direction in the forecast in the Current Conditions screen (both in the Today/Tonight/Tomorrow forecast and the hourly/7 day forecast at the bottom of the current condition screen).
Thank you for crediting me in the About window. I was too humble to mention it. But it was Barba’s and Flugger’s idea to rotate the moon 180 degrees, so you need to put Barba’s name in the credits too. But I will take credit for detecting the night wind direction bug. Thank you for fixing it for us.
And it was your .CSS file that I looked at for how you accomplished the change. I did not look at Barba’s code or Flugger’s, though I have looked at his work in the past and I wouldn’t be surprised if your change came by way of his work :icon_smile:. But my moon change is definitely rooted in your efforts.
And of course so is the night Wind fix. I had noticed the problem for a long time but never looked into it to determine a work around. Finding a tag with the correct data was the key to this change.
For a guy that says he doesn’t know what he is doing you’re doing quite well. :iconbiggrin:
It’s nice to hear someone standing up for the right of others, but I’m with EdP on this one - his solution has nothing to do with mine [and probably Barba’s]… And if credit for the idea should be placed, it should go to drawdeselrahc who originally requested the feature… I can’t, however, see how dlbryant’s post was the convincing factor - drawdeselrahc himself lives in Australia and should be able to see what the moon looks like
But credit for the windfix has only one place to go, and I’ll be sure to grant too, when I make my next version of CSSplendd… I know I’ve seemed dead lately, but now I’m awake again, and I hope it won’t be too long…
I remember our discussions with drawdeselrahc but I thought the solution to his problem was the replacement of the weather.com moon-like images with actual moon images.
There were two postings actually that dlbryant posted that made me see the lignt, so to speak. :icon_smile: (And I’ve updated my posting to reflect that.) Up until then my web search had left me believing we all saw the same thing since the north pole of both solar objects never changed in relation to each other and the web graphics made the images look closer to being the same size.
So, now we are all on the same page in our understanding of the moon and it’s view. And how compasses work. And the wind. :iconbiggrin:
I included the wind direction to everything in the current condition screen (all forecasts on the current condition screen).
I moved the Options window up so it would not block the moon images and the day abbreviations above them.
I gave the forecast screens a splash of purple.
There seems to be a mouseover bug in the Daily Forecast Screen. I put my mouse on the day tabs, and it refuses to give me a forecast for the first day, and only gives me the night forecast of the second day. It looks like it does it after the afternoon forecast becomes N/A and fixes itself when the night data switch occurs. Looks like some coding can fix that.
UPDATE: The mouseovers are working as of 3:30PM EDT. The real test is what happens after midnight. This could be a problem with weather.com and not the skin.
What’s that old saying, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. :lol:
You are welcome to create a Daves Soup using Eds Stone Soup as your basis and enhance/change/improve/customize it to fit your needs/desires/wishes. But I don’t think I will be adding your changes to my version at this time. (However if I see something clever in one of your versions… )
It might be a good idea at this point for you to start a Dave’s Skins thread where you post images of your versions of the skins you create together with their download links. You’ve earned the right to have your own thread. :icon_smile:
I would think the process to add it would be a two step process.
Resize the gif to the size necessary to fit the space used by the Splendid window for it’s thermometer.
a. Add a border=1 to the Table controlling the thermometer (line 336) so you can see what you have to work with. Change it to 0 when done.
b. Enlarging or shrinking the image may distort it in which case you may have to recreate it on your own, (Or ask mom to help. :icon_smile: )
Add it to the Table’s 1st TD tag as a background either as CSS code or the tag’s BACKGROUND parm.
a. Adjust the width of the Splendid thermometer temperature images to be narrow and centered in the TD.
There may be other approaches but that’s what I would start with.
Good luck.
BTW I will be on vacation starting tomorrow so my online time will be greatly reduced. See you all in a week or so. :icon_smile:
