He could embed the CSS changes into the Current.wtp so they wouldn’t impact the other forecasts.
BTW dlbryant, have you looked at these skins?
Laguja: http://www.singerscreations.com/Files/Skins/Laguja.gif
Huracan: http://img66.imageshack.us/img66/1408/huracanenis9.png
Yeah, I have tried these skins. I tried to edit hurcan, but most of the changes I want to do with it is beyond my knowledge of the programming language. I would want it to be like marmol without the scrolling ticker.
The reason why I love the Marmol skin is that Barba’s ideas on how to create that skin are almost exactly how I would do one, one with all the bells and whistles. That is why I’ve had so much enthusiam in working on it. His skin has so many features that I would have have used on my skin, that is pointless to create a skin from scratch, not to mention that I don’t know about the language to make one.
One change I wonder if Barba can do: Can he totally get rid of this afternoon’s forecast on the daily forecast screen after the forecast is no longer valid? After midnight until 3AM, weather.com puts useless data back into the afternoon forecast. Is there any way to get rid of that data or change it back to N/A?
David
Yup, which is why my skin does the day switch based on different data tags than Splendid. There is also a test I believe in both mine and Mike’s to handle NA data. I really haven’t looked at barba’s code to see what he does where and/or how.
An option I would like to see barba add, after the animated barometer change :icon_smile:, is the ability to change the scroll speed. It’s too fast on the newer machines.
When I first worked on Marmol, I fixed the data switch on the forecasts on the current conditions screen.
I’m talking about the 10 day forecast screen. Can we get rid of expired forecasts on that screen? Like if it was 5PM on Friday, can we get rid of the Friday afternoon forecast and just have Friday night forecast and the other 9 days in the 10 day screen?
I’m with you about the ticker. There should be an option to slow down the ticker.
David
Slowing the ticker down is easy.
http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/_MARQUE … DELAY.html
The default speed of SCROLLDELAY is 85. On 85, it takes 30 seconds for the data to completely scroll on my computer.
I set my copy of Marmol to 140, which takes 55 seconds.
It should be a piece of cake to have the user set the delay.
David
You mean the Daily Forecast screen? Personally I don’t see the problem. It’s 12:45AM and the only field that is N/A is the Hi/Lo field for Thursday AM. Everything else is valid from what I can see.
http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/3812/marmol1245amdailymk8.th.png
No, I doubt the forecast can drop 1/2 a day and still be called a Daily forecast. :icon_smile:
Or at least be able to choose one from a set of speeds.
From 2PM to 12AM, the entire forecast is N/A. I wonder why weather.com fills in those values (except for the daily high) from 12AM to 3AM? It only does that for the United States and Canada. But I do get your point.
The names of the ticker speed setttings are as follows:
David
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In that the data displays properly in the Current forecast’s Day 1 Day Forecast window I’d say it’s a coding problem or if its a data problem something that can be fixed via coding.
Oops!! :oops: Scratch that. The Current forecast’s Day is for Tomorrow! Sorry.
I’ve been playing with the scroll speeds… 85 (the current speed) takes 30 seconds to completely cycle on my computer. 200 takes 1 minute and 17 seconds to cycle, and 145 takes one minute.
Currently my copy of Marmol is on 145. That should be the medium setting. Maybe it will be best just to make that the default speed and not to worry about having the user select the speed.
Play along with your settings and tell me how fast your computer goes.
http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/_MARQUE … DELAY.html
David
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