Snow Depth in Cumulus 1.9.0

[scotweather]

For me restarting cumulus didn't make a difference.

[scotweather]

I hate to tell you this but.... I have the exact same problem in 1.9.1
Enter a value in the weather diary the other day it displayed now when I put an entry in for today, cumuluswebtags shows $snowdepth to be 0 (zero).

So its doing exactly the same even an application restart didn't sort the problem.

I've attached my debug file and log.xml again

[steve]

I hate to tell you this but.... I have the exact same problem in 1.9.1

I'm not surprised, because I haven't done anything to fix the problem.

I've attached my debug file

The new error message goes to the diags file, not the debug log.

[scotweather]

I've attached the diag files from 1st December 2010 through to todays.
I upgraded to 1.9.1 on the 2nd December so if anything is obvious from yesterday and today you might find what's going on.
Hope I've attached the right files you need.

Thanks

Kate

p.s. there is an error in the diags files "Error reading diary file: ClientDataSet1: Missing data provider or data packet"

[steve]

Error reading diary file: ClientDataSet1: Missing data provider or data packet

That's a shame, that's the same sort of error you get when the file is corrupt. But at least it proves that the problem is number 3 in my list. I'll see what I can come up with.

[scotweather]

Error reading diary file: ClientDataSet1: Missing data provider or data packet

That's a shame, that's the same sort of error you get when the file is corrupt. But at least it proves that the problem is number 3 in my list. I'll see what I can come up with.

thanks Steve

Which file is the diary file ?

[steve]

Which file is the diary file ?

It's the log.xml file. I'm wondering if there's some sequence that causes that file to appear to be corrupt to the web tag processing code. But if a restart doesn't clear it, that would seem to discount that possibility.

[scotweather]

Which file is the diary file ?

It's the log.xml file. I'm wondering if there's some sequence that causes that file to appear to be corrupt to the web tag processing code. But if a restart doesn't clear it, that would seem to discount that possibility.

thanks steve.

[steve]

I have a theory about the problem. How do you start Cumulus? From the shortcut created by the installer? If not, does the shortcut you use set the working directory correctly (the 'Start in' folder)? I've unintentionally set the path for the log file for the web tag code with a relative path 'data\log.xml', but after that all the paths use the application folder in case the working directory hasn't been set up. So that one path could become invalid and the file will appear to not exist.

I'll fix the code in the next build; in the meantime could you check the above?

[scotweather]

cumulus is installed c:\Cumulus with all its default folders. and the Start in is set to C:\Cumulus

I also use the installer shortcut that was placed on the desktop to launch it and it also launches at startup.

[steve]

When it runs at startup, what shortcut does that use? It was quite common for people running Cumulus at startup to not set the 'Start in' folder correctly, that's why I did the change to not rely on it being set (and managed to miss this case). Perhaps when it was initially wokring OK for you, that was because you had started it manually, so the 'Start in' folder was correct?

Anyway, I'll make the new build available some time over the weekend, and you can see how it goes.