Pocket Weather

[digitaldon37]

Originally Posted by klaus

Hi Don,
What words are overlapping or running together, I tried mainly in English,French and German and have not yet found overlapping words.
Is it the first line with Today and the date, the 2nd one with the day name and the temperatures or the 3rd one with the conditions? Is it on the device only or on both?
Did you also have a look at the desktop version, what about having two arrows up and down before the temperatures instead of the two letters?

Best regards.

I got the overlaps on my PC (the temp was overwritten by the German day word) as well as on my PDA.

I've been trying to create a routine to justify text, but I'm not having much success because I don't have much experience with font sizes and calculating spaces. Here is what I'm trying to print, I think this may get everything in the spaces needed:

Today (left justified, font 12) - mm/dd/yy (right justified, font 11) - image
Day of week (left justified, font 11) - high / low (right justified, font 11) - image
Weather conditions (left justified, font 11)

The text that is right justified (date, temps) will be consistent so they will always align properly, and most of the language text seems to fit left justified (we can truncate if necessary)

[update] Attached is screenshot of what I have working, I'm going to clean up the code and upload that shortly
[update2] Attached is 46.2

[klaus]

What is your default Font on the desktop, I use Arial, yours look wider.

The DrawText routine has text justification already included, cLeft, cRight, cCenter !

[digitaldon37]

Originally Posted by klaus

What is your default Font on the desktop, I use Arial, yours look wider.

The DrawText routine has text justification already included, cLeft, cRight, cCenter !

I use Arial. If there is not a font name listed in the theme.ini it defaults to Arial on the desktop, and Tahoma on the PDA.

By the way, your finger swiping to change locations is really cool!

[klaus]

I use Arial too, and get the attached image.

But anyway, yours is OK too !

[digitaldon37]

Originally Posted by klaus

I use Arial too, and get the attached image.

But anyway, yours is OK too !

I added the condition description to the top "current" weather - I had to change how the city/region is displayed and check for string length & set font size for long city/region

current version=.46.4

[update] I changed the sorted lists for city from "index/city" to "city/index" with a check before inserting. The cities were not sorted in the drop down list.
[update2] fixed bug where "today" was listed in "tomorrow" section

[digitaldon37]

Cross-posted at XDA

I have uploaded version .47 to the main post. This version integrates with Levenum's Today Screen plug-in ([New release] Registry display plugin - xda-developers) to display either the current weather or forecast.

If everything tests out ok I will be rolling all the latest development releases into a new public release build.

.47 (12/19/08)
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- add Today Screen plug-in integration (Levenum project)

.46 (12/18/08)
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- add condition descriptions on main page


.45 (12/17/08)
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- left/right & right/left finger swipe to switch locations (klaus)

.44 (12/17/08)
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- fix offline cache / location switching bug

.43 (12/17/08)
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- add S2U key update to "RefreshWeather"
- fix bug where interval set to zero and deletes location cache
- fix refreshweather bug (sets timer off for ini=0)

.42 (12/16/08)
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- add klaus's update for city/location id (sorted array)

1.1 (12/14/08)
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- public release containing developer fixes d.39 to d.41

[Filippo]

Hi digitaldon37,

I have a mistake in the procedure found ChangeToVGA.
Please change the procedure this way:

Sub ChangeToVGA
'Handles resolutions of 480 * 640
Controls() = GetControls("")

For i = 0 To ArrayLen(Controls()) - 1
Crttype=ControlType(Controls(i))
If Crttype = "CheckBox" OR Crttype = "TextBox" OR Crttype = "Label" OR Crttype = "Button" OR Crttype = "Panel" OR Crttype = "Image" OR Crttype = "ComboBox" OR Crttype = "ImageButton" OR Crttype = "RadioBtn" Then
Control(Controls(i)).Left = 2 * Control(Controls(i)).Left
Control(Controls(i)).Top = 2 * Control(Controls(i)).Top
Control(Controls(i)).Height = 2 * Control(Controls(i)).Height
Control(Controls(i)).Width = 2 * Control(Controls(i)).Width
If Not(cPPC) Then
Control(Controls(i)).FontSize = 2 * Control(Controls(i)).FontSize
'There is no need to change the font size on the VGA device.
End If
End If
Next
' VScroll.Left = 2 * VScroll.Left
' VScroll.Top = 2 * VScroll.Top
' VScroll.Height = 2 * VScroll.Height
' VScroll.Width = 2 * VScroll.Width
' VScroll.Maximum = 2 * VScroll.Maximum
' VScroll.LargeChange = 2 * VScroll.LargeChange
' VScroll.SmallChange = 2 * VScroll.SmallChange
End Sub

and so these lines:

VScroll.New1("pnlLocations",210 * scale,0,15 * scale,125 * scale,True)
VScroll.Minimum=0
VScroll.Maximum=150 * scale
VScroll.LargeChange=25 * scale
VScroll.SmallChange=25 * scale

Ciao,
Filippo

[digitaldon37]

Originally Posted by Filippo

Hi digitaldon37,

I have a mistake in the procedure found ChangeToVGA.
Please change the procedure this way:


and so these lines:


Ciao,
Filippo

Changes made - could you please test? Thanks!

[Filippo]

Hi digitaldon37,

Changes made - could you please test? Thanks!

Test OK!

[digitaldon37]

Originally Posted by Filippo

Hi digitaldon37,


Test OK!

Thanks for the code and for testing.

[update] Version .49 is attached - changes made so that when you scroll through location is parses the cached location file (if it exists) instead of going out to the internet. The reasoning is that people may scroll through several locations to get to the one that they want and downloading for each location scrolled uses a lot of air-time.