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I have a 'tentative' french version of the SteelSeries gauges - it is not complete but it gives an idea for those of you that would like to translate the gauges into another language: [link removed].

Obviously, the forecast displayed on the page is in english as my version of Cumulus 'speaks' english only...

Note: None of the link on the page are functional - clicking on any of the links on that page will get you nowhere...

Looking quite nice!

gemini06720 wrote:I have a 'tentative' french version of the SteelSeries gauges - it is not complete but it gives an idea for those of you that would like to translate the gauges into another language: Météo Tzouhalem-Maple Bay.

Obviously, the forecast displayed on the page is in english as my version of Cumulus 'speaks' english only...

Note: None of the link on the page are functional - clicking on any of the links on that page will get you nowhere...

Could anyone who was having the 'small fonts' problem on the barometer try this page again (force a browser fresh please)? I think I may have found the problem.

Looks good to me (FF5).

Even looks good in Firefox 3.6.18...

I can see the numbers on the pressure gauge in Google Chrome (as always, the best to display HTML5), in Safari 5.0.5 and in Internet Explorer 9.0...

But not so good in Opera 11.50...

Good work Mark...

Mark - Seems you have some influence with the author of the SS Gauges. Perhaps you might persuade him to designs us a windrose gauge as Cumulus pumps out the wind speed and vector arrays. It would make a great addition for weather use.

George Wheelock

George, I'll suggest it (I had thought of it before), but he has a huge chunk of work still to do to port the rest of the Java gauges over yet.

Great, Mark, thanks -

He does admit to being a Java Junkie - so perhaps a new project will turn him on.

GW

I see a couple issues -- the countdown seconds window is too small -- when there are more than 10 seconds, part of the first digit is cut off.

On my non-metric page, the pressure and rain gauges are not formatted correctly -- pressure does not display the numbers, and rain gauges appear to have one more decimal digit than needed.
http://personalpages.bellsouth.net/j/d/ ... ges-ss.htm
Personal preference - I don't particularly like the digital font.

Overall, great progress - thanks!

Jim

You don't seem to have uploaded the .woff font file? It is falling back to the .ttf font for me, but still draws the countdown gauge OK.

The imperial units are largely untested, I did some brief tests. but my station uses metric (in the main). I see that it is calculating the scale min/max values correctly at 29.5/30.5, which is a range of only 1 unit. I suspect the gauge code is choking on that, I'll have a look...

The rain needs two decimals with inches, and the rain rate should also have two decimals instead of the one it is currently showing. I'll fix that.

To switch off the digital font, just set the g_digitalFont variable on line 18 to false

EDIT: The barometer is displaying correctly, except for the scale numbers.
Your record low/high pressures are 29.70/30.12 current pressure 30.00, odd values(?) which is what the gauges is showing (minus the numbers)

Does rainfall and rain rate rescale on the fly? I was confused by the max rain gauge label of .50".

Completely missed the need for a .woff font file -- please point me to the download and I'll fix it. I do see the same issue on your website, however -- is the font something I need to do to my Google Chrome 11 installation?

I do understand that I can turn off the digital font, my comment was simply my personal opinion on the look of the font.

Thanks!

JimDantin wrote:Does rainfall and rain rate rescale on the fly? I was confused by the max rain gauge label of .50".

Yes they do.

JimDantin wrote:Completely missed the need for a .woff font file -- please point me to the download and I'll fix it. I do see the same issue on your website, however -- is the font something I need to do to my Google Chrome 11 installation?

It should be in the zip file?
The font is downloaded on the fly from the web site, you don't need to install anything.

Do you use larger screen fonts than normal by any chance? eg 125%

I had messed around with my font settings -- I'll try to reset to standard. update -- it was my setting for minimum font size.

I did find the fonts have been loaded to the website. Must be my local browser settings.

Mark,

I've downloaded and installed your latest version but my location, latitude, longitude and altitude webtags aren't showing the values. The same has happened on your site. Any clues as to what's wrong?

Ray, they are just place holders, to show where the information about your site should go. Either over-type them with your values in the HTML file, or get Cumulus to process the file - probably overkill as the that information should be pretty static.

If you look at my 'real' gauges page, you will see I have just over-typed the 'tags' with my site information.