Of course, if anyone could provide a sample file, it would be fine. As things stands, once you install the app, it will create its basic ini file. That is, it will set up its hotkeys. And the hotkeys, are the only part of the ini file, that I did not already cover in my description. All the rest of the file, however long it is, will be one or more locations, added as I described.
In the Locations section, you need one location line holding the label and coordinates for each place you want included. You need one section, holding all settings, for each location. Following the steps outlined, you do not really need anything from anywhere else, but what the app already has set up for you. The rest will be for you to enter manually. Try opening your user profile folder, find the WeatherOrNot.ini file, and add on the lines in my earlier message. You will immediately get the weather conditions for the city of Toronto, Ontario in Canada. The example was, for the reason of being comprehendable, a real-life example. Again, should anyone want a copy of an already working ini file, let me know, and I could email it to you. Or, someone could put it on their dropbox or the like. Just you won't find any further secrets in there, except from what you already have. David On 2/4/2019 2:48 PM, Butch Bussen via Talk wrote: > I could put up my weather ini file if that would help. Mine has 3 > cities in it, but you could likely edit it. > 73 > Butch > WA0VJR > Node 3148 > Wallace, ks. > > > On Sun, 3 Feb 2019, Amanda Lee via Talk wrote: > >> 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 >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Talk >> <talk-bounces+amandainparadise777=gmail....@lists.window-eyes.com> On >> Behalf Of David via Talk >> Sent: Sunday, February 3, 2019 5:58 PM >> To: Window-Eyes Discussion List <talk@lists.window-eyes.com> >> Cc: David <trailerda...@hotmail.com> >> 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 >>> >>> Sent from Outlook for Windows >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Talk <talk-bounces+rod_hutton=hotmail....@lists.window-eyes.com> >>> On Behalf Of Larry Higgins via Talk >>> Sent: February 2, 2019 1:44 PM >>> To: 'Window-Eyes Discussion List' <talk@lists.window-eyes.com> >>> Cc: Larry Higgins <larryhiggin...@comcast.net> >>> 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 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