Pocket Weather

[klaus]

Hi digitaldon37,
I had a look at your program, very nice and interesting.

One suggestion would be to insert somewhere the link to
Yahoo! Weather
where the user can find its location(s) from all around the world.

I tried some locations from Europe, works fine.

In your code you should add a test if
WeatherCurrent.code = 3200
3200 is the unknown code, this code is sometimes given for certain locations.
And in this case, in the Sub SetMainPage routine, line
imgCurrent.Image=AppPath & "\themes\" & INI.themeDir & "\conditions\" & WeatherConditionImages(WeatherCurrent.code)
generates an error.

There does also exist a condition code 0 (tornado), you shoud add an image 0.jpg for this code.

The images in your last version look nicer to me than those from the nws.
Didn't you have a link for their images in your first post ?

Best regards.

[digitaldon37]

Originally Posted by klaus

Hi digitaldon37,
I had a look at your program, very nice and interesting.

One suggestion would be to insert somewhere the link to
Yahoo! Weather
where the user can find its location(s) from all around the world.

I tried some locations from Europe, works fine.

In your code you should add a test if
WeatherCurrent.code = 3200
3200 is the unknown code, this code is sometimes given for certain locations.
And in this case, in the Sub SetMainPage routine, line
imgCurrent.Image=AppPath & "\themes\" & INI.themeDir & "\conditions\" & WeatherConditionImages(WeatherCurrent.code)
generates an error.

There does also exist a condition code 0 (tornado), you shoud add an image 0.jpg for this code.

The images in your last version look nicer to me than those from the nws.
Didn't you have a link for their images in your first post ?

Best regards.

Hi Klaus - thanks for the feedback and finding the bugs - I'll get those added to the next release.

I haven't decided exactly how to let the user find their location id yet. I am thinking of added a new program form with agraham's webbrowser library and inserting the Yahoo page (there doesn't seem to be a web service available) and to capture the result.

The original icons (before I grabbed the Yahoo icons) I think I got from here: Weathericons - Weatherstation Salo, Halikko, FI. I was going to go back and put together a post on how to change the theme and weather icons.

[klaus]

Hi ,

From what I remeber, when I loaded your program the first time there were no icons. And there was this link
Weather Element List and Suggested Icons - NOAA's National Weather Service
to download the images.

The link in your post doesn't work.

In googeling I found thos one
Weatherstation Salo, Halikko - Weatherstation Salo, Halikko, FI
and then click on Weathericons

Best regards.

[klaus]

Hi digitaldon37,

I wanted to learn a bit more in retrieving web information, so I took your program as a first sample.

As once suggested, I took the liberty to add a location search to your program.
I didn't make any cosmetics.

If you are interested in you can for shure use it.

I post only the sbp file.

Best regards.

[digitaldon37]

Originally Posted by klaus

Hi digitaldon37,

I wanted to learn a bit more in retrieving web information, so I took your program as a first sample.

As once suggested, I took the liberty to add a location search to your program.
I didn't make any cosmetics.

If you are interested in you can for shure use it.

I post only the sbp file.

Best regards.

This is great! I will add it to the next developer release. Thanks Klaus!

[digitaldon37]

Developer's version .25 has been uploaded to the main post. This version contains the location look-up code that Klaus generously provided.

I am going to try to wait at least a week before adding any new enhancements. This will give me enough time to test this thoroughly. Thanks to everyone for their help and feedback.

[klaus]

Hi digitaldon37,

In the location search part of the program you should change one line.

Sub cbxCountry_SelectionChanged (Index, Value)
Dim txt
 
  cbxCity.Visible=True
  RegionI=Index
  txt="http://weather.yahoo.com/"&AL2.Item(Index)
  WebRequest(txt)
  BrowseSubRegional
  If cbxCity.Count > 20 AND StrAt(cbxCity.Item(0),0) = StrAt(cbxCity.Item(cbxCity.Count-1),0) Then
    cbxAlphabet.Visible = True
    cbxAlphabet.SelectedIndex=0
  Else
    cbxAlphabet.Visible = False  
  End If
End Sub

You should replace 1 by 20. Because the routine checks if the first character of the first and last city name is equal and if yes displays the alphabet combobox.
Unfortunately for Estonia there is only 1 city list but the first and last city names begin with the same character.

Best regards.

[digitaldon37]

Originally Posted by klaus

Hi digitaldon37,

In the location search part of the program you should change one line.

Sub cbxCountry_SelectionChanged (Index, Value)
Dim txt
 
  cbxCity.Visible=True
  RegionI=Index
  txt="http://weather.yahoo.com/"&AL2.Item(Index)
  WebRequest(txt)
  BrowseSubRegional
  If cbxCity.Count > 20 AND StrAt(cbxCity.Item(0),0) = StrAt(cbxCity.Item(cbxCity.Count-1),0) Then
    cbxAlphabet.Visible = True
    cbxAlphabet.SelectedIndex=0
  Else
    cbxAlphabet.Visible = False  
  End If
End Sub

You should replace 1 by 20. Because the routine checks if the first character of the first and last city name is equal and if yes displays the alphabet combobox.
Unfortunately for Estonia there is only 1 city list but the first and last city names begin with the same character.

Best regards.

Thanks. I made the change and am testing with some other minor tweaks.

[Filippo]

Hi digitaldon37,

thank you, very good work.


Ciao,
Filippo

[JOTHA]

Hi digitaldon37,

very nice work!

Do you also want to have it in other languages (German)?