Cumulus Support

Please can you let me know if its possible to slightly alter the naming for the moon phase tag. This is purely for aesthetic reasons. I pull the tag into my template which then selects the appropriate picture to display along with the name. I have notice that 6 of the 8 phases both words begin with Capitals e.g. Waxing Crescent, Waning Gibbous, Full moon and New moon only have the first word with capitals. The only place I could see these mentioned were in the samplestrings file but I dont know if this is the correct place to change them.

Apologies if I am being too "picky"

Thanks
Andy

Yes, strings.ini (samplestrings.ini is just a sample file, you have to rename it - and restart Cumulus iirc - to make it effective) is the place to alter them. I have updated the Wiki to make it a bit clearer.

They should really have a capitalised "Moon" as it is a proper name. I hadn't noticed that before, I'll have to alter mine now.

Many Thanks. I only noticed it as it changed to a Full Moon and my image disappeared. When I first created my moon phase icons they didn't appear as I hadn't capitalised each word so it was looking for the image Waxing Crescent and my was labelled waxing crescent. So I went and changed them all and then Full Moon didnt appear

In addition I am sure i had read somewhere about there being 16 moonphases available. Was this just something that had suggested in the forum?

Andy

Mark's the expert on things astronomical, but if there are another 8 phases, I have no idea what their names are. I think 8 is probably sufficient for Cumulus anyway, as it's a weather program rather than an astronomical program.

I have never come across more than the 8 phase names being used. A quick google sheds no light on the matter either. 8 should be enough for anyone