Thanks for this. I don't have a .ini from a prior installation just
yet. I can follow this syntax just fine though and appreciate your
being so thoughtful as to how to code these entries. I fortunately
do have some of the coordinates for the points of interest I want to
follow and thanks for sharing a more accessible site as well.
Kind regards,
Amanda Lee
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Sent: Sunday, February 3, 2019 5:58 PM
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Subject: Re: Weather or not issue
OK, guys.
This, is going to be a rather long message, so work your way through.
I will try to share my findings on the issue you are having, with the
WeatherOrNot app. These are based on some fooling around, and quick
searchings on the net, so take them for what they are worth. I do
have no clue exactly where, how or what the Weather app extracts its
info, so you will have to do your own playing around. But when I
tried the following steps, it at least gave me some results. Smiles.
As someone suggested, please make it a habit of backing up any file
before you modify it at all.
OK, the first thing we need to know, is the Longitude and Latitude
coordinates, in a decimal format, for the city or place you are
trying to add. I did try a few webpages, and here is one that I found
to be fairly easy to operate with WinEyes:
https://www.latlong.net/
When opening the page, go to the first Edit box, and here enter your
city. Like:
Toronto, On
for finding the city of Toronto in the province of Ontario, in Canada.
Once you have typed your info, hit the Enter key.
Please note, it seems that you will have to manually turn back on
Browse Mode here.
The page will now come up with its results. If it found the exact
city or place, it will give you two edit boxes, right beneath the
Find-button on the page. They will hold the necessary numbers, for
the Longitude and Latitude. Copy and paste them into your ini file,
as will be described below.
In a few cases, I noticed the page came up with more than one choice
for the city. They then were presented in a table, with a link for
each city. You would simply choose the wanted link, hit Enter, and go
to the text line, that gives you the coordinates. Copy and paste the
given info into your ini file.
How To Modify The Ini File?
Now that we have found the needed info to direct the app, let's get
to the real job. And, yes, it is a bit of typing to be done. We will
go by it, step by step.
First, open your WE control panel, and hit Alt-F, followed by the
letter E. The user profile folder will open.
Keep pressing the W, til you get to the file named:
WeatherOrNot.ini
, and hit Enter on it. It should open in something like Notepad.
Please note, from here, it will be good to have your synth spell out
all punctuations, and even Upper- and Lower-cased characters, as they
are all important.
In the ini file, scroll down to the line that reads
[Locations]
. Do NOT modify this line.
Hit the End-key, to go to the end of the line, and then Hit Enter.
You now have a blank line for entering your personalized info.
What the app wants here, is a section name, for your new location. To
keep our above example rolling, enter the following line. Or, modify
it to your personal location:
Toronto, Ontario=43.651890, -79.381710 . To break this line down,
please note:
To the left of the Equals sign, we give the app the name of the
location we are entering. It doesn't really matter what name you give
it, long as you keep track of the exact name and spelling - as we
will be using it in a moment.
Behind the Equal sign, we give the two coordinates, as copied from
the website. First the Latitude, followed by a Comma, A space
character, and then the Longitude value. No other info, no other
punctuation. The coordinates should be given in positive or negative
values, exactly copied from the website.
Once this Location line has been established, we are ready to move on
to the next modification of the ini file.
Move yourself to the bottom of the file, by hitting Ctrl-end.
You now will have to enter a section, holding the actual settings for
your new location. this section, it is, that controls how and what
info the app will read to you.
A section, always starts out with a header. That is, a line enclosed
in brackets. The header, should be an exact copy of the info you
entered to the left of the Equal sign, in your location line. It is
case, and character sensitive, so make sure you get an one-by-one
copy of your location line. In our example, it will look like this:
[Toronto, ontario]
. Press Enter when you are done.
Now that we have established the section, it is time to set it all up.
The section should hold four fields. They are placed on individual
lines, their name spelled all in lower-cases, and ends with an Equal
sign, and your wanted setting. Lets get to them one by one.
name=
Here enter the name of the location, that you want read out to you,
whenever you press the hotkey. It could be the city name, or some
kind of an alias - like home, work, grandma's place, or whatever. Our
example line could be:
name=Toronto
or,
Name=Big city of Canada.
Please note, that you can use a mix of upper- and lower-cased
characters, along with normal punctuation (except from the Equal
sign), or even numbers - in your string here.
temp=
Behind the Equal sign, enter a lower-cased c, for Celcius; or a
lowercased f, for having the temperature read in degrees Fahrenheit.
Obviously, it seems there should be a way to have the app read both
formats, and my guess is that you simply enter either cf, or fc, in
this field.
wind=
Here enter ms, for meter-per-second; or mph, to have the app giving
you the windspeed in miles-per-hour. A couple more measurements
should be available, far as I can see, but you will do your own playing.
status=OK
Huh? Don't ask me what this means. But apparently the app wants you
to tell it that you, your old auntie, or the pizza you had for dinner
last night was OK. Give it what it wants, and hope for the best.
Smiles. If you decide to fool with this line, and feel you can make
any sense of it, get back and enlighten us all. Hit Enter when you
are all done.
You know what?
You now are almost done. Only two very important steps are left. But
before we take care of them, let me just sum up the lines we entered
in our example.
[Locations]
Toronto, Ontario=43.651890, -79.381710
[Toronto, Ontario]
name=A Fun Place To Visit
temp=c
wind=mph
status=OK
Yep. And now to the final steps.
First one, surprisingly enough, will be to hit the Alt-F4, and
choosing to save our updates to the file.
Second step, is to restart the app.
Go to the WE control panel, and hit the Alt-A.
Hit the Right-Arrow, to expand the App managing.
Scroll down to App Managing, and hit Enter.
here, press the W, till you get to the WeatherOrNot app.
Either hit the Alt-R to reload, or hit the Alt-E twice to turn it off
and back on.
Boys and Girls, job should be done. though a rather long description,
your new location now should be ready to be announced, whenever you
hit the app hotkey. Anything not working? Well, let the list know,
and see if there might be a workaround.
Oh, and let me add one extra goodie to it all. If you have more than
one location, you can add them on to your ini file. The steps will be
all the same. You need one location line, and a whole section for
each location. When the read-aloud is taking place, the app will read
to you the locations and their info, consequtively. That is, it will
read the locations, in the order they are listed in the [Locations]
part of the ini file. So make sure you organize the lines in the
order you want things read out.
To have a small break between each location, you could try to enter a
period-sign, and a space character as the beginning of each name-string.
Like:
name=. My Home Place
Enjoy your playing.
David
On 2/3/2019 6:12 AM, Rod Hutton via Talk wrote:
Hi Larry,
I have the current versions of GW Toolkit, 8.6.8, as well as Weather
or Not, 4.0.0.
The app is working fine for me, giving me my current weather
conditions.
I tried adding your city, but I get the same error as you.
I have tried looking at the code of the app, in the hope of
determining and possibly changing the weather information server it
uses.
Unfortunately, the app is encrypted, making it impossible to do
anything with it.
Given that I can confirm that the app works, I can only suggest that
if you ever used the app to get your local weather, see if you can
find an old backup copy of the Weather Or Not ini file, and paste it
into the Profile folder.
The file you need is named weatherornot.ini, and, before pasting it
into the Profiles folder, you should probably rename the current one
to something like weatherornot.ini.current.
Sorry I can't be of more help.
Good luck,
Rod
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Sent: February 2, 2019 1:44 PM
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Subject: Weather or not issue
OK, I'm probably not ging to get any good news regarding a solution
for my problem, but here goes anyway.
Just yesterday, I decided I would like to add Albuquerque, NM to my
list of weather conditions around the country, but when either
entering the city, state, and country, or zip code, I get a message
saying something along the lines of "can't fine the city," or
something of that nature.
It doesn't matter just what city or zip code I type in, I get the same
error message.
Is this a permanent issue, or might there be a solution.
Hopefully,
Larry
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