Small display problem

[scotweather]

Sorry Steve I'm back and Yes I'm still using Cumulus with a max resolution of 800x600 and have found a small but annoying problem with the display of the Edit All Time Records.

The font size is too large to read the second digit of the dates/times. so what is being view for 1/10/2009 would show 1/1/2009.

I have a print screen that I can show you but its very large to include here but this is the link to it on my website:

http://www.scotweather.co.uk/images/mwf ... umulus.jpg

Sorry to be a pain !

Kate

p.s. I downloaded the current version from your server this evening 12/10/09

[steve]

The font size is too large to read the second digit of the dates/times. so what is being view for 1/10/2009 would show 1/1/2009.

Yes, I see what you mean. That does make it a bit difficult to use

Sorry to be a pain !

That's OK. Actually, I do have a spare monitor here that does 1280x1024, it might be easier if I just gave you that

I downloaded the current version from your server this evening 12/10/09

Is that the latest 1.8.8 beta (858)? I was a bit worried that I'd accidentally screwed up the window resizing; does it still look OK (apart from the problem above)?

[steve]

I've just tried it at 800x600 and the text fits, so what's different about your display? Different DPI, perhaps?

[scotweather]

I've just tried it at 800x600 and the text fits, so what's different about your display? Different DPI, perhaps?

I'm on a laptop (old hp) as its the only computer with a serial port on it.
max screen resolution is 800x600 with font size set to small with 96dpi (standard VGA screen). I reduced the font size to 75% and although much smaller on the screen I get the same result when I try to edit the all time records.

I don't think I could afford the postage for a monitor from Sanday

Everything so far is reasonable and readable except what I've mentioned above.

[steve]

I just can't reproduce this at all, whatever settings I use, I get to see all the numbers. On my Windows 7 PC, I don't seem to have a setting for font size, and it looks fine at 800x600. On my WHS PC, I have a setting for font size, but it only offers me 'normal', 'large', and 'extra large'. In 'XP mode' in Windows 7, I don't seem to be able to change the screen size at all! So I don't really know what I can do. I can try increasing the sizes of the boxes a little, but it's such a 'busy' screen that it's hard to do very much with it.

[steve]

I've uploaded a new build, see if that's any better:

http://www.nybbles.co.uk/downloads/beta ... sSetup.exe

[scotweather]

Hi Steve,
Sorry for the late reply but I've taken the time to finally manage to configure the USB/Serial adapter thanks to a newer release of the drivers for it.

I have now managed to install, connect and run Cumulus under windows XP via the adapter on USB since the pc doesn't have a 9 pin serial port.

The only issues I have now is getting excessive outdoor temp and rainfall amounts being recorded in the today.ini and in the all time records. I've had a top temp of 50.9C and nearly 500mm of rain in a day no set pattern of time of day and nothing known interupting any signals.

Any ideas?

[steve]

This does seem to be a problem when using USB adapters, the data gets corrupted occasionally. Cumulus does filter out some of the garbage, but it's not easy to do it all. I've spent a lot of time trying to get Cumulus to work properly with La Crosse station and USB adapters, and I haven't been able to get it perfect. That's why I unfortunately don't support that combination.