Cumulus Support

1) Whenever I restart Cumulus, the wind direction graph shows the history of "Average" but not "Direction". "Direction" only gets displayed vs. time while the program is running and is lost on a restart for some reason. It would be nice to keep this data.

2) Most programs I use that minimize to an icon in the "running in the background" tray area of the taskbar do so when you close the full window by clicking the rightmost icon in the upper right corner. To fully shut them down, you right-click on the icon in the tray and close from a context menu. I know the leftmost window icon minimizes to the tray, but about a dozen times a day I close the program by accident, and lose the data mentioned in item (1).

These are obviously low priority suggestions for that afternoon you are totally bored.

For accidently shutdown there is already a future >conifiguration -> station setting -> program settings check confirm shutdown

Good point. I've turned it on and that might help to retrain me. It is at least preventing the accidental shutdown - and gives me a couple more things to click on. LOL (negative reinforcement)

Charlie wrote:1) Whenever I restart Cumulus, the wind direction graph shows the history of "Average" but not "Direction". "Direction" only gets displayed vs. time while the program is running and is lost on a restart for some reason. It would be nice to keep this data.

There are two aspects to this. The first is that when the data is read from the logger, there's only one wind direction stored by the station, and at the typical interval that people set their logger to, there aren't really enough data points to calculate a meaningful average.

The second aspect is that Cumulus only stores the average direction in its logs, and that's where the graphs get drawn from at start up.

But having said that, yes, I could change it so that it stores the 'instantaneous' direction as well (Cumulus 2 does this), and I could get it to calculate an average from the logger entries. But don't most Fine Offset users find that the 'instantaneous' directions are all over the place anyway, and you have to average them to get something meaningful?

Edit: I should have said that it does actually already calculate an average from the logger direction entries. My point is really that the 'instantaneous' values aren't very far off the average anyway, because of the lack of data points.

Most programs I use that minimize to an icon in the "running in the background" tray area of the taskbar do so when you close the full window by clicking the rightmost icon in the upper right corner. To fully shut them down, you right-click on the icon in the tray and close from a context menu.

I use a third-party component to do the 'minimise to tray' thing, and it only works from the minimise button. Using the 'close' button to minimise seems completely counter-intuitive to me - is that some sort of standard, do you know?

Edit2: Actually, it looks like I lied. The component I use does allow 'close to tray', so I can do this one fairly easily.