Thread: DigitalFX 4.0

Originally Posted by dimmu1975

After reinstalling Windows XP again still nothing, "play this album" still didnt work...
Am i the only one with this problem

What is the right order for installing RR and DFX4 on a fresh XP install? maybe i do something wrong here....

A couple things come to mind....

Open the DFX skin fo;der, and the helper files sub folder. Double Click active winamp and install it.

Then try the play album, if it does not work, then:

Close Road Runner. Open WInamp stand alone. You will need to open the library window, and add your MP3 folder to the library.

This is to be replaced with code in the next release to use the RMMedia Database play album command.

John,

I have just a little gripe with your quotes here. Nothing major, and certainly nothing to get upset about, but fair is fair, and facts are facts, and quotes are quotes...

First off, I DID search and DID know about the weather being a problem back in April or May. I was also aware of the patch Guino created on 05/27. My issue was with something specific on the 1/5 day screens, not the weather screens in general.

Originally Posted by quantum

Could someone point me in the right direction regarding the weather? It's probably something stupid, but I can't get it to work.

I dropped in the 2 files from 05/27/08, which i believe was the weather fix.

I am connected to the web.

GPS antenna is working fine, I know because the speedo, etc work great.

I put in my town and state in the config.

The weather screen opens, and I can load the most recent Sat, Temp and Radar maps dated today.

The problem is I cannot get the 1 day and 5 day views to display anything. No images, no temp, forecast, humidity, nuthin'. Those 2 screens just have the labels, but no info that goes with them.

What am I doing wrong? I thought the 2 files from 05/27 would fix that.

TY in advance.

Doug133 was kind enough to respond and ask which 2 files i was talking about and my reply was:

Originally Posted by quantum

Hey Doug133

The 2 files for the weather patch in the zip file here: roadrunnerexe and usbradio.dll (which I know is not for the weather)
05/27/08 Road Runner Official Beta, Weather Fixed!

I put them in the RR root folder. I thought that was all that is needed to fix the weather. Since I am getting the Sat, Temp and Radar maps OK, it seems I must have done something right, but I can't get anything on the 1 and 5 day screens...

TY!

I tinkered around a little with the skin files, went back and read through the help files and then, since I thought my question may have got overlooked in the flurry of posts (understandable), I asked the question again. I also started to realize that the 2 "problems" I was having MIGHT be related, as posted below:

Originally Posted by quantum

Still no luck with the 1 day / 5 day weather screens, any advice?

Also, I noticed I wasn't getting the city/state info on top of the Gauges screen, is there a setting in RRConfig for that?

The GPS antenna is working, cus I get speed and altitude on that screen.

This is about when you had your snit and quoted all the questions, and hey, I can understand if you got a little frustrated, we've all been there. And, your apology was accepted at that point, no harm, no foul. I didn't even think twice about it.

Originally Posted by JohnWPB

ALL of these questions are covered extensively in the Help file.

Originally Posted by JohnWPB

Ok, so I was in a bit of a mood last night, sorry It just seems to get a bit overwhelming at times I guess. I guess I just needed to vent a little bit, and I must say, I do feel better now

Please never feel threatened to post in this thread, I guess I just ask that you read up a bit, to see if the question or topic has been covered in the thread, Help File, Bug Tracker, and Faq's.

So appolagies all around, I did not mean to offend or scare anyone off.

Treetop777 posted this reply, which immediately solved the problem. As I said earlier, this was not in the help file you put together for DFX4.0, and if it is, I'd like to know where. It appears (near as I can tell) to be a RR Update. So, I was looking in the help files for something that had nothing to do with the skin, it was a RR Config setting (OK, I didn't even think it was RR, I thought it was something to do with the skin), my fault.

Originally Posted by treetop777

"-Added the ability for weather to be automatically updated based on you current gps location. This requires a new rr.ini option called localdatacaptureinterval. This chooses the interval in which to read the zips.dat file that gives us the city/state for weather/labels

localdatacaptureinterval=0 (default) data isnt automatically captured
localdatacaptureinterval=1 Data pulled every minute
localdatacaptureinterval=2 Every 2 minutes
localdatacaptureinterval=5 Every 5 minutes
localdatacaptureinterval=10 Every 10 minutes
localdatacaptureinterval=30 Every 30 minutes

-Added the ability to display current city/county/state/zip as rr labels either manually with "LOCATE" command"

In DFX, that whole area where the labels are has a hidden "locate" command - click it.

A big thank you for the fix went out to TreeTop777, that solved the problem. I went back to the DFX help file looking for this info, and it wasn't there. I can only assume it was a RR Config thing and probably in a different thread.

Originally Posted by quantum

TY Treetop, greatly appreciated, solved both problems.

This was in the DFX Help file????

I sure as hell didn't see it there, it isn't in the "How do I get the Weather to work" area for sure, and it isn't in the revsion history either...

The solution you copied and pasted was not the answer to the specific problem I had. I already had the Sat and other maps working.

Originally Posted by JohnWPB

Directly copied and pasted from the help file, under the "How do I get the weather to work"

Based on some of the valid bug reports, i thought this may be a bug. It wasn't, ok fine. Maybe someone will come along one day, have a similar problem, find Treetop's response and solve it without asking a question.

That's what a forum is all about. I missed it cus I was searching in the wrong spot. My bad, 1000 apologies.

Many people have an area of expertise we can offer to the community. Your's is skinning, mine was the night vision project and maybe some fabrication from a been there, done that standpoint. We all contribute, we all benefit, the world keeps spinning, life goes on.

I am also of the belief that there is no such thing as a stupid question, but that is the teacher in me I suppose. In all fairness, I have seen some posts on here that are easily answered with a search.

And, when it gets a little frustrating, blowing off some steam can't hurt.

So, like I said, no hard feelings I hope. That is not my intention. I can certainly appreciate the hard work and many hours you put into this skin. Just wanted to set the record straight for these quotes and the quotes in the other thread you pasted them into.

Friends?

quantum, absolutely no hard feelings in any way at all. In fact another apology is on the way.

There was a question that I was answering with the quote above... I got the 2 mixed up, . I just remembered seeing this a couple times, then you saying you could not find it in the help file, and thought it was the same thing ... my bad

THIS is actually the question that I was answering above, when I quoted you as the poster hahah!

Also, where do I find the Weather_Interactive.skin to modify it for my L&L? I did it for 3.0 and now it seems I have to do it again for 4.0, but I can't find the file

As for the locate command for the City Labels on the GPS Stats screen, I will definitely add that to the help file, as I could swear I had something in there already for it, but its certainly not there.