[sgtevmckay]

I have already been in communication with Mr. Sylvie at AccuWeather.com and he is willing to work with anyone.
You will have to review the contract and compromise on portions of it, but at Rainmeter, we came away with a very amicable agreement.

Give Mr. Sylvie a contact at:
New Developer Information and Assistance
Michael Sylvie
Business Development Manager
email:
developer@accuweather.com
Phone:
814.235.8638

He's good people, give him a ring

[Flav_cool]

Hey guys. I just installed this as well as the newest AveScripter. Everything works fine, except the info in the middle like the current temperature is not displaying (EXCEPT for the current time), and yes I have the font. What should I check?

This post has been edited by Flav_cool: 22 July 2009 - 06:27 PM

[thewer]

Hi -
sounds like the font coming with the desklet was not installed properly...
(Or it does just need an AveDesk restart to work - not sure)
So, simplest solution would be to copy the font voming with the desklet into your fonts folder.

[Flav_cool]

Nope, still does not work. In fact, I can see the "lcd writing" but the numbers are all 0 and greyed out as if there is no data. However the current time, shows up as well as the sun, clouds, and temperatures for the days coming up.

[thewer]

Hi there -

yes, this looks exactly like the font is missing.
The Desklets gets the weather data, otherwise all data would be missing.
The shaded LCD-background is not the font showing '88', but an image - the time should be using the LCD-font, too.
So, if you installed AveDesk to C:\Programs, go to C:\Programs\AveDesk\Desklets\AveScripter\HotWeather2\Fonts.
In this folder you'll find a font called 'lcddcs__.ttf'.
Copy it to C:\WINDOWS\Fonts if you installed Windows in C:\

That should do the trick...

[Flav_cool]

Yea, it's strange. I told you I checked if I had the font in C:/windows already.

Anyhow, a restart seemed to do the trick! P.S. Any way to change the dark background around the "other" days' writing? It doesn't show up well on dark backgrounds as you can see above. Or maybe change the font to white for those?

Thanks for the continued support!

Another problem...

I figure the up arrow and the down arrow stand for the high and low. I'm only getting one digit in those places instead of two. So instead of high: 23 and low: 15 I'm just seeing high: 2 low: 1

Do not double post - mps69

[Flav_cool]

I'm sorry, I didn't know adding new unrelated information or questions was double posting... How will the OP know to check the thread if he doesn't see a new post?

[thewer]

Hi there -

well, it took some time to see your post anyway as I haven't online a lot recently

You actually can change/vary anything you like, as Hot Weather is totally skinable.
Easiest way:
Rightclick the desklet, choose 'Hot weather options' and click on the folder icon next to the skin's dropdown menu in the upper right corner.
Now the folder containing the present skin will be opened, showing the graphics and the text file ('skin.xml') containing the skin's font, font size, font color, coordinates of text, etc.
If unsure what to change, just make a copy of that folder, rename it and choose the new name as skin in the options (might need a restart or flip back to show up).
Then you e.g. can change the other days' info by changing
<Small_Icon_FontColor>clblack</Small_Icon_FontColor>
to
<Small_Icon_FontColor>clwhite</Small_Icon_FontColor>

If having problems with the high and low temp info, (strange bug as it works for me -might be due how big the font shows up on your system, maybe depending on font smoothing), change
<HighLowTemp_FontSize>18</HighLowTemp_FontSize>
to
<HighLowTemp_FontSize>16</HighLowTemp_FontSize>

Hope that helps...

[Flav_cool]

Thank you. Both suggestions worked. I had to change the HihgLowTemp_FontSize to 16 for it to work, 17 didn't work. Now the background lcd display watermark is a little bigger but whatever.

Thanks!

EDIT: The N/A doesn't fit... only fits N/

This post has been edited by Flav_cool: 10 August 2009 - 11:36 PM