Thread: Weather Radar

Ok thats it, after seeing that pic of chucks when I reinstall later I'm putting RR on the car PC instead of the other...........

If I put it on, I'v got to use it etc, thats one reason I never changed, its like when you have one frontend yo get used to it and swapping is an headache, but I install only one, I have to learn it......

I just put RR on my desktop so I can play in the warmth, as its cold outside, so, not wanting to be spoonfed etc, does a working version of chucks skin exist with uk data, I dont mind playing with it in US data and working it out but all those lines in the previous msg's look a bit complicated for me in my first hour........

Originally Posted by Dark_Falcon

Hey Chuck,

Very Nice Skin. Everything works great. However, (isn't there always a however) when I click on the Radar Button I get a blank screen where the maps should be and the left side just displays current weather (no buttons).

I was able to get everything setup for my local region and I recompiled to obtain the correct maps for my area (California). I also ran the radar.exe program (after recompiling) to load the skins directory with the correct maps etc. I can view these via another application with no problem.

When I right click on the 'blank' window it does appear to be a flash window but for some reason it's not playing. Any thoughts???

Once again, thanks for the great skin and the assistance!

There is no buttons any more just touch the thumbnail to blow up and the center of the map to go back to thumbnails.

Try my new update and see if that helps


Chuck's Skins lots of pics Update 7-16-07

Originally Posted by Dark_Falcon

Just noticed one more thing.....

When using the Audio List Panel I get 2 small blank areas on the screen (above the listing itself). Is this also a transparent flash. If so, perhaps this is the problem. Is there something 'special' I should have setup to make this work?

When you change the size or location of the skin in the general.ini you need to move stuff around to get them to work

That is the active list indicators and flash buttons to change active list


"SELPL.swf"
"SELDL.swf"
"ACTIVEDL"
"ACTIVEPL"
"LIST2.jpg"
"LIST.jpg"

Originally Posted by lez

Ok thats it, after seeing that pic of chucks when I reinstall later I'm putting RR on the car PC instead of the other...........

If I put it on, I'v got to use it etc, thats one reason I never changed, its like when you have one frontend yo get used to it and swapping is an headache, but I install only one, I have to learn it......

I just put RR on my desktop so I can play in the warmth, as its cold outside, so, not wanting to be spoonfed etc, does a working version of chucks skin exist with uk data, I dont mind playing with it in US data and working it out but all those lines in the previous msg's look a bit complicated for me in my first hour........

You can load any jpg from any weather page USA or UK – just mod the radar.au3 file and compile it

InetGet("http://image.weather.com/web/radar/us_dca_closeradar_medium_usen.jpg", "\Program Files\Road Runner\Skins\Chucks\Weather1.jpg", 1)
InetGet("http://image.weather.com/images/maps/current/curwx_600x405.jpg", "\Program Files\Road Runner\Skins\Chucks\Weather2.jpg", 1)
InetGet("http://image.weather.com/images/sat/ussat_600x405.jpg", "\Program Files\Road Runner\Skins\Chucks\Weather3.jpg", 1)
InetGet("http://image.weather.com/images/maps/forecast/ecen_precfcst_600x405.jpg", "\Program Files\Road Runner\Skins\Chucks\Weather4.jpg", 1)
InetGet("http://image.weather.com/images/maps/current/ec_curtemp_440x297.jpg", "\Program Files\Road Runner\Skins\Chucks\Weather5.jpg", 1)
InetGet("http://image.weather.com/images/maps/forecast/map_wkpln_day1_3usec_enus_440x297.jpg", "\Program Files\Road Runner\Skins\Chucks\Weather6.jpg", 1)

On the 2nd page in the thread linked below, halfway down a WHILE back I posted ALL the US regions from weather.com's image server including the file names.

It's in a access database like this:

Code:

[column]North East [column]Precipitation [column] images.weather.com/northeast.jpg

So if you guys needed the urls to images, its up here.

Developer Resources, Post yours ! (PRE-FAQ Thread)

I cannot seem to get the link to your .mdb file to work

Originally Posted by Chuck

Once you compile radar.au3 file it becomes radar.exe file

Dear Chuck!

How can I compile au3 file? In moment, au3 files not assocatied with any app in windows.

did you install AutoIt v3

if so just right click the au3 and compile

Originally Posted by Chuck

did you install AutoIt v3

if so just right click the au3 and compile

Ok. It's work now, but another question. Some pics I have in gif format. It's view in small size, but don't scale to full window. Can it make? Or I must find picture in jpg-only?