Slight 'Downloading Data' annoyance

[Trev]

Newbie alert. I did search.
I find the program jolly good and far prefer it to Weather Display or Weather Link. I got it to work with my Vantage Vue without too much difficulty, but have one small gripe.

When I start Cumulus, the 'Downloading Data' popup pops up as a Modal form that does nothing for several tens of seconds before it seems to start downloading, and then, if it's got a lot of data, remains there for a couple of minutes. This is pretty annoying as it shoves itself right in the centre of the screen on top of everything and cannot even be moved 'out of the way' or closed whilst it's doing its thing. I'm surprised that it behaves this way seeing as how long Cumulus has been around now.
Would it be too much to ask for it to be at least 'movable' so that I can get on with other stuff without having it stuck in my face in the middle of the screen? (or is it possible for the user to set it this way?) Pretty Please.
Trev

[steve]

I'm sorry, I'm not clever enough to make it do anything other than what it does now, regardless of how long Cumulus has been around.

It should only take a few seconds to download the data, assuming you're running Cumulus fairly often. If it's taking a long time, time, then perhaps this FAQ applies? http://wiki.sandaysoft.com/a/FAQ#Cumulu ... t_start_up

[Trev]

Thanks for the reply Steve.
The bit about length of time it has been about was because I would have thought that someone would have mentioned it before but couldn't find anything with a search. As far as 'cleverness' is concerned, I think that you are 'pretty damn good' to have developed the program in the first place, thank you. I WILL donate in the fullness of time, as I'm like that towards developers whose software I use.

I did read the readme, but being a newbie to weather stuff, didn't realise the significance of the two data 'timings'. Subsequent to my posting, and before your reply, I set both logging intervals to 15 mins (the station was already set to that, but I had set Cumulus to 10mins).

I don't leave the computer on all the time so next time I start it from shutdown, I'll note the length of time it takes. I did notice that the first time it took a long time to download the data, presumably because it was downloading the entire data logger's content.
Trev