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For the first time since version 1.2, the gadget is displaying both the background and the weather information...

Thank you...

Just to update you all, the gadget is now running fine here too. it worked ok all yesterday evening since updating it to the newest version, and so far has done so all morning and am sure it will continue to do so.

In conclusion then, the gadget works and I'd like to thank all who contributed to helping sort out the issues with it!

Steve

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Steve J
Image Architect
http://www.imagearchitect.co.uk


http://www.imagearchitect.co.uk/weather/index.htm

Thanks for the feedback

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Ib http://www.ibtest.dk/vejr/

Suggestion:

Firstly, a bit more feedback, its still working fine so the gadget is perfectly running now.

I have emailed the gadget to several friends to try out and also my mother.

They have provided feedback to say it is working OK too, but one small issue mentioned by my mother and two of my friends; the graphical look of the gadget is brilliant, however, on the daytime screens, could the text be made darker rather than white? The white text against the night screens is perfect but on the day screens, especially towards the lower edge where it grades even paler, the text for someone with poor eyesight or on a monitor with low contrast, can be slightly difficult to read.

I realise that the graphic images don't have the text on them, so I presume the text is generated and thus specified elsewhere.

Therefore, how difficult would it be to specify a dark blue or black colour for the text when it switches to using the daytime screens?

This is just passing on feedback I've received after asking those trying it out, so look forward to hearing what you think about this suggestion?

Steve

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Steve J
Image Architect
http://www.imagearchitect.co.uk


http://www.imagearchitect.co.uk/weather/index.htm

Modifying the style is not very hard.

In reality, it is just a self-contained web page.

It just uses a normal CSS file though the html file has embeded CSS that would be better moved to the style sheet for easy of modification.

You just need to know how to modify the files, and repackage it up so it can be distributed.

Ideally, you would create something like this customized for your own site with the URL and retrieval times already set so that people could download it from your weather site, install it and see "your" website automatically with no configuration.

You would most likely set the interval to something larger like every 3-5 minutes to reduce the number of hits you would get.

Then you could change the graphic to include custom graphics for your site, perhaps using your sites logo etc...

I've already been playing with this for that very purpose. I've already got it preloaded with the URL, time set to 5 minutes and it doesn't ask for configuration any more. Will start reformatting the size (too large), backgrounds, changes to date/time formats etc... kind of a fun side project. Replaced the ?uid= rand with ?t= timestamp just for kicks.

A good project to piddle arond with JavaScript with.

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Kevin

All you need is Time, Aptitude and Desire ... and you can build just about anything...
Cumulus User Maps

That simple then

... and of course you have found the logic error in the original code ?

... the beteljuice is investigating

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Done: version 1.7IH may be downloaded from first post in the thread.

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Thankyou! It looks perfect, and much more legible from a graphical point of view now.

Steve

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Steve J
Image Architect
http://www.imagearchitect.co.uk


http://www.imagearchitect.co.uk/weather/index.htm

Didn't use the original code, used the last modified code (pre 1.7IH release).

Never said the word simple, at least not for me as I am not very proficient in JavaScript at all.

hence the "fun project" part.

But the process part and how to get to the various parts of the system is pretty straight forward. Spend a couple hours playing with it last night.

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Kevin

All you need is Time, Aptitude and Desire ... and you can build just about anything...
Cumulus User Maps

Dane, I noticed something, not necessarily wrong, but certainly not right either...

I know that you have limited flexibility in determining when it is daylight except for using field #49 (starting at zero with field #1) of the 'realtime.txt' file.

But, it appears that field #49 switches to 1 (daylight) at dusk rather than at sunrise...

This morning, the gadget background on my computer went from its dark nighttime colour to its lighter daytime colour at around 07:20 PST (the time indicated as being dawn on my Cumulus Web pages) when it should only have switched over at around 08:02 PST (time indicated as being sunrise on my Cumulus Web pages) ... at 07:20 PST it was still quite dark outside whereas, almost half an hour later, at 08:02 PST, the sun was indeed rising above the horizon.

It was just an observation...

Daylight includes dawn and dusk.

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Then, using your assumption, daylight must also include sunrise and sunset...

Naturally, that is a self evident truth, but daylight does not begin or end with them.

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I've simply chosen to include 'twilight' in 'daylight', which seems reasonable to me. The daylight hours figure that Cumulus displays has also done this, since I introduced it nearly a year ago.

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And further to Steve's post, daylight/sunrise/dawn/dusk isn't straightforward anyway.

There's various ways of determining sunrise/sunset; with the suns disk first touching the horizon, withe the centre of the disk on the horizon or when the suns disk first appears above or completely leaves the horizon (thats flat horizon not taking into account landscape - hills/mountains). Then there are various ways to determine twilight (dawn/dusk). There's civil, astonomical and nautical twilight...

So it isn't as simple as often thought.

Steve

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Steve J
Image Architect
http://www.imagearchitect.co.uk


http://www.imagearchitect.co.uk/weather/index.htm