Cumulus Support

Mark,

I worded my question poorly. You've confirmed what I meant to ask - thanks.

mcrossley wrote:I see there is another problem, the LCD font does not include accented characters But there again I guess real LCD displays don't either - so how how do you display them?

How about simply deactivating the LCD font for the top line (ie: the forecast and the count-down timer) or getting a different font for that top line?

Mark, concerning the display of either the outside temperature graphic image or the inside temperature graphic image (when hovering on top of the temperature gauge) - the proper graphic image will be displayed as long as the 'g_refreshGraphs' check is deactivated! I do not understand (cannot figure out) why, when the 'g_refreshGraphs' check is done the inside temperature graphic image cannot be displayed...

Now, it's working fine !!



http://www.meteotortosa.cat/gauges-ss/gauges-ss.htm

Edit: only one little problem. The numbers inside are too small in FF5 (Chrome looks perfect)

gemini06720 wrote:

mcrossley wrote:I see there is another problem, the LCD font does not include accented characters But there again I guess real LCD displays don't either - so how how do you display them?

How about simply deactivating the LCD font for the top line (ie: the forecast and the count-down timer) or getting a different font for that top line?

You can try this by altering line 415 from:
digitalFont: g_digitalFont,
to
digitalFont: false,
or commenting it out all together as I see you have done, as the default is a 'real' font.

gemini06720 wrote:Mark, concerning the display of either the outside temperature graphic image or the inside temperature graphic image (when hovering on top of the temperature gauge) - the proper graphic image will be displayed as long as the 'g_refreshGraphs' check is deactivated! I do not understand (cannot figure out) why, when the 'g_refreshGraphs' check is done the inside temperature graphic image cannot be displayed...

Ray, I 'lost' the ability to switch off the popups in the last release, I'll reinstate it for the next version. The g_refreshGraphs flag is just used to force a new download of the images periodically

meteotortosa wrote:The numbers inside are too small in FF5

Ah, I thought it was just my eyesight! That's the main reason it wasn't obvious to me what the red sectors meant on the barometer; I couldn't make the numbers out on the scale.

meteotortosa wrote:Now, it's working fine !!



http://www.meteotortosa.cat/gauges-ss/gauges-ss.htm

Edit: only one little problem. The numbers inside are too small in FF5 (Chrome looks perfect)

Well done! As for the font problem, wouldn't you know it, browsers behave differently with HTML5 too! As you say Chrome, and IE9, and Safari (I think) display the font at the expected size. Not a lot I can do about that now, Gerrit would have to start putting browser specific corrections into the code to fix this - and who knows what happens with the next release of each browser

PS: Have a look at my post above to Ray for a 'fix' your accented font problems.

mcrossley wrote:Ray, I 'lost' the ability to switch off the popups in the last release...

Would you like me to send you my working copy...

mcrossley wrote:The g_refreshGraphs flag is just used to force a new download of the images periodically

Mark, I knew that ... well I understood that ... well, you wrote something about that to the 'other' Ray...

There not lie the problem... ...For some reasons, when hovering on the temperature gauge (maybe because this is the only gauge that has a choice of two graphic images) when the code/line for that choice (outside or inside) is preceded by the 'g_refreshGraphs' check, the inside temperature graphic image will not displayed! The only way I have been able to display both (outside and inside) graphic images was by commenting out the 'g_refreshGraphs' check!

mcrossley wrote:...Gerrit would have to start putting browser specific corrections into the code to fix this - and who knows what happens with the next release of each browser

Mark, no, no, no! Do not even suggest it! If designers such as Gerrit start adapting their scripts to browsers that cannot respect a standard they have agreed to respect, it is then the beginning of the end for that standard...

mcrossley wrote:...PS: Have a look at my post above to Ray for a 'fix' your accented font problems.

Mark, I am not sure that disabling the 'digitalFont' variable will allow the display of accentuated characters in the forecast line or anywhere else - I have not tried it - I just 'presumed' that the default font for the gauges (I have no idea which font it is) might/would allow the display of accentuated characters...

mcrossley wrote:

meteotortosa wrote:Now, it's working fine !!



http://www.meteotortosa.cat/gauges-ss/gauges-ss.htm

Edit: only one little problem. The numbers inside are too small in FF5 (Chrome looks perfect)

Well done! As for the font problem, wouldn't you know it, browsers behave differently with HTML5 too! As you say Chrome, and IE9, and Safari (I think) display the font at the expected size. Not a lot I can do about that now, Gerrit would have to start putting browser specific corrections into the code to fix this - and who knows what happens with the next release of each browser

PS: Have a look at my post above to Ray for a 'fix' your accented font problems.

I fix it !!

A quick word about the FireFox 5 issue displaying the scale numbers (see images below) Apparently this only affects FireFox on Windows, running under Mac OS X it does display correctly.

It is also weird how it is scaling down the longer numbers more than shorter ones!

Mark,

These are awesome gauges. I am using them in my website (http://www.meteoparadas.info) for my PWS located in Portugal and they look great.

Thank you very much

Regards

Meteoparadas

I will like to have this gauges, where can a get them?

May I ask, please, that you either sign your message with your real first name or that you modify your profile/signature to add your real first name - I really really dislike answering to a nickname, it is so impersonal!

inaciovieira wrote:I will like to have this gauges, where can a get them?

Please, just wait a day or so ... a new version of the SteelSeries gauges should be released...

mcrossley wrote:Apparently this only affects FireFox on Windows, running under Mac OS X it does display correctly.

Mark I looked at the SteelSeries gauges into all the browsers I have installed on my computer (Firefox 3.6.18 & 5.0, Google Chrome 13.0.782.41, Internet Explorer 9.0.8112.16421, Opera 11.50.1074 and Safari 5.0.5.7533.21.1) and THE ONLY BROWSER reproducing (consistently) the digits/texts (numbers) properly has been Google Crhome!

Let us not talk/write about consistent support of the new (although not yet fully approved, I think) HTML5 standard throughout browsers...

I have a new release - version 0.6. After some useful input from Ray, I think we are getting somewhere near a 'standard template'.

There are quite a lot of changes (and redundant file removals) in the this release, so if you have installed the previous test versions it may be easier to delete what you have and start again.

My implementation of these files is here

And from the ReadMe:

• Updated gauges.js:
  - more tweaking of graph downloads.
  - added option to put 'status' LCD in 'normal' text mode for accented character display.
  - all embedded strings now in one section for 'easier' language localisation
  - English language updates
  - added redirect to 'old' gauges page for incompatible browsers
• Updated steelseries.js
  - new version from Gerrit
  - increased radial/radialbargraph scale font size slightly - improves FF5/Windows appearance(?)
  - added compass point Symbol customisation
• Updated gauges-ss.htm
  - now formatted like the 'standard' Cumulus template pages
• Minified the ddimgtooltip.js, parseRelatime.js, tween.js, and steelseries.js files as these are pretty stable
  and not much for people to modify in there.

There is still work to do on the scale range calculations, and we should soon have a scrolling LCD display for long messages.