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Ian Spence
Comment #44 Sunday, February 29, 2004 12:34 PM
Comment #44 Sunday, February 29, 2004 12:34 PM
I downloaded this and was wondering if you could make all the icons Stardock's. The old ones are ugly IMO
I have to say I love this though, all the other weather objects seem to focus more on the background than anything else, and you don't have that problem, leading to a simplistic, great looking object
I have to say I love this though, all the other weather objects seem to focus more on the background than anything else, and you don't have that problem, leading to a simplistic, great looking object
Ian Spence
Comment #45 Thursday, March 4, 2004 8:47 AM
Comment #45 Thursday, March 4, 2004 8:47 AM
nm, did realize all I had to do was overwrite some images
Dark Half
Comment #46 Saturday, March 6, 2004 10:10 PM
Comment #46 Saturday, March 6, 2004 10:10 PM
Nice job. I agree with dubz7, best one ive found yet. And Finally one that goes with those transparent calendars. 
psellers
Comment #47 Tuesday, March 23, 2004 11:27 AM
Comment #47 Tuesday, March 23, 2004 11:27 AM
I like it, but is there a way that you can make it display more than once on the desktop? I need 1 to monitor the weather in 2 cities in Europe and one for my local weather.
Great Job.
Great Job.
The PUP
Comment #49 Tuesday, March 23, 2004 11:48 PM
Comment #49 Tuesday, March 23, 2004 11:48 PM
psellers: I'm actually looking to write some code that will allow you to look at as many zip codes as you wish. It would ask you initially for the number of zips, then prompt for each.. Still working out the bugs. hopefully I will get some extra time in the near future to work it all out 
GCube
Comment #50 Wednesday, March 24, 2004 3:05 PM
Comment #50 Wednesday, March 24, 2004 3:05 PM
Love all the things that was incoporated with the changes. 2 big wishes and things I wished it had: 1) with all the fade ins (which are greatness), could you work in the chance of rain %??
2) Also, one of the things I liked about the old dxml weather object was how you could double click somewhere on it and it would go to an extended forecast on a webpage.
Are these two things possible for an add-on? If so, I do not see ever using another one besides yours.
2) Also, one of the things I liked about the old dxml weather object was how you could double click somewhere on it and it would go to an extended forecast on a webpage.
Are these two things possible for an add-on? If so, I do not see ever using another one besides yours.
sdupay
Comment #51 Wednesday, March 24, 2004 4:38 PM
Comment #51 Wednesday, March 24, 2004 4:38 PM
Absolutely great! Just a nice clean display, tons of info . . . Best of class !
JerryHat
Comment #52 Saturday, March 27, 2004 2:53 AM
Comment #52 Saturday, March 27, 2004 2:53 AM
This is excellent - done with style and flair. Well done.
ethsza
Comment #53 Thursday, April 8, 2004 10:28 AM
Comment #53 Thursday, April 8, 2004 10:28 AM
I have managed to get this working on my office notebook behind a proxy!!!
First of all I needed microsofts proxycfg as judge wrote. This should be on windows xp by default, also on win2k sp3. My PC is a win2k sp4, but it was not there. Took a while, but I could find and download it from microsoft, if you can't find add winhttp to your searchphrases.
proxycfg -u will set a systemwide proxy stting based on your internet explorer settings, which must be fine.
Here came the trick. Either the object, or dxwidget.exe (I've exported this as a widget) tries to verify first if http connections are possible, by directly trying to access www.microsoft.com. This request can't work from behind a proxy, as the PC will not know where www.microsoft.com is, and the DNS query will fail, as only the proxy can ask for external DNS resolving in a corporate network. Also this request will not use the proxy at all.
So I fooled this approach by manually entering the corporate internal webservers IP address to the PC's host file as if it was www.microsoft.com.
This is done in c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts on a win2k box. It must be windows instead of winnt on an xp box.
Let's say your internal webserver sits on 10.11.12.13, you add this line to your hosts file:
10.11.12.13 www.microsoft.com
The nicest in this approach is that you'll still be able to browse microsoft's pages (I mean if you want, but why would you do that ) because your browser will not take a look at the local hosts assignments in your hosts file, but turn to the real proxy instead.
I'm sure it was not clear, but if you *really* want to have this terrific object running on your office PC, it must be enough.
First of all I needed microsofts proxycfg as judge wrote. This should be on windows xp by default, also on win2k sp3. My PC is a win2k sp4, but it was not there. Took a while, but I could find and download it from microsoft, if you can't find add winhttp to your searchphrases.
proxycfg -u will set a systemwide proxy stting based on your internet explorer settings, which must be fine.
Here came the trick. Either the object, or dxwidget.exe (I've exported this as a widget) tries to verify first if http connections are possible, by directly trying to access www.microsoft.com. This request can't work from behind a proxy, as the PC will not know where www.microsoft.com is, and the DNS query will fail, as only the proxy can ask for external DNS resolving in a corporate network. Also this request will not use the proxy at all.
So I fooled this approach by manually entering the corporate internal webservers IP address to the PC's host file as if it was www.microsoft.com.
This is done in c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts on a win2k box. It must be windows instead of winnt on an xp box.
Let's say your internal webserver sits on 10.11.12.13, you add this line to your hosts file:
10.11.12.13 www.microsoft.com
The nicest in this approach is that you'll still be able to browse microsoft's pages (I mean if you want, but why would you do that
) because your browser will not take a look at the local hosts assignments in your hosts file, but turn to the real proxy instead.I'm sure it was not clear, but if you *really* want to have this terrific object running on your office PC, it must be enough.
ethsza
Comment #55 Thursday, April 8, 2004 4:16 PM
Comment #55 Thursday, April 8, 2004 4:16 PM
Do you know why it wants to check if www.microsoft.com is available?? Could have been easier without that.
Riggs
Comment #56 Friday, April 9, 2004 3:51 PM
Comment #56 Friday, April 9, 2004 3:51 PM
I'm having issues changing the text color back to white...right now it's looking like it's an off yellow. If anyone could tell me how, please let me know.
ethsza
Comment #57 Saturday, April 10, 2004 2:31 PM
Comment #57 Saturday, April 10, 2004 2:31 PM
How about this one from the dexcription?
To Change the Text colors, Double Click the Droplet above the Zip toggle.
To Change the Text colors, Double Click the Droplet above the Zip toggle.
The PUP
Comment #58 Sunday, April 11, 2004 12:14 AM
Comment #58 Sunday, April 11, 2004 12:14 AM
Riggs, White is the forth block in from the left on the first row
The PUP
Comment #59 Sunday, April 11, 2004 12:19 AM
Comment #59 Sunday, April 11, 2004 12:19 AM
Ethsza, I don't believe the object is looking for Microsoft. The only URL in the code points to weather.com... oh wait .. I think this could have something to do with the IE call for the color picker. This is probably a browser issue. Might make sure that IE is up to date. Thats the only suggestion I have without any other info. First instance of this I have heard of. 
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Comment #41 Friday, February 27, 2004 8:55 AM