Saratoga templates and Steel Series Gauges .. now fully work

[saratogaWX]

Having read and responded to many concerns about using Mark's awesome Steel Series Gauges with the current Saratoga template set, I did a bit of 'shim' coding and can now announce that we can have our cake and eat it too

I did modifications to 3 files folks normally do not configure (common.php, flyout-menu.php, include-style-switcher.php) and unfortunately to two that are normally configured (top.php, footer.php) and together they comprise a dynamic UTF-8 on-the-fly conversion for the existing ISO-8859-n translation files (.txt, .js) and allow full HTML5 validation.

I have also included in the CU-plugin, VWS-plugin, and WD-plugin a sample wxssgauges.php template page that only requires configuration to point to where you have placed your Steel Series Gauges files. The page uses a slightly modified gauges-ss-basic.htm file (as gauges-ss-basic-inc.php ) which Mark will be including in his distribution of the Gauges (also attached below for those who can't wait).

Languages supported by the Gauges will automatically be enabled when the template language changes by user option. English will be the default for languages not yet available for the Gauges.

Since this wxssgauges.php page emits HTML5/UTF-8, the full features of the Steel Series Gauges are operational, and no mouseover image clipping is done (unlike my prior <iframe> recommendation).

Pick up the needed files from the update tool page using 05-Feb-2013 as the query date. Since the Gauges currently have support for Cumulus, VWS and Weather-Display, only those plugins will have the wxssgauges.php file in them.

Don't forget to add the attached file as gauges-ss-basic-inc.php to your Steel Series directory to make it all work. Mark will include that file in a future release of the Gauges.

Enjoy, and best regards,
Ken

[meteotortosa]

http://www.meteotortosa.cat/meteo/wxgaugess.php (I use Iframe)

When I can, I updated to your news files

[BeaumarisWX]

Another piece of brilliant work again Ken.
Greatly appreciated.
http://hrvistaweather.com/wxgauges-ss.php
Regards

[aznetcowboy]

Having read and responded to many concerns about using Mark's awesome Steel Series Gauges with the current Saratoga template set, I did a bit of 'shim' coding and can now announce that we can have our cake and eat it too

I did modifications to 3 files folks normally do not configure (common.php, flyout-menu.php, include-style-switcher.php) and unfortunately to two that are normally configured (top.php, footer.php) and together they comprise a dynamic UTF-8 on-the-fly conversion for the existing ISO-8859-n translation files (.txt, .js) and allow full HTML5 validation.

I have also included in the CU-plugin, VWS-plugin, and WD-plugin a sample wxssgauges.php template page that only requires configuration to point to where you have placed your Steel Series Gauges files. The page uses a slightly modified gauges-ss-basic.htm file (as gauges-ss-basic-inc.php ) which Mark will be including in his distribution of the Gauges (also attached below for those who can't wait).

Languages supported by the Gauges will automatically be enabled when the template language changes by user option. English will be the default for languages not yet available for the Gauges.

Since this wxssgauges.php page emits HTML5/UTF-8, the full features of the Steel Series Gauges are operational, and no mouseover image clipping is done (unlike my prior <iframe> recommendation).

Pick up the needed files from the update tool page using 05-Feb-2013 as the query date. Since the Gauges currently have support for Cumulus, VWS and Weather-Display, only those plugins will have the wxssgauges.php file in them.

Don't forget to add the attached file as gauges-ss-basic-inc.php to your Steel Series directory to make it all work. Mark will include that file in a future release of the Gauges.

Enjoy, and best regards,
Ken

I think these gauges are a must for weather stations, however I cannot get them to display in the main page. They always go to a new page. How do I get them to display as they should???

Tom

[saratogaWX]

Would you mind posting the URL to the site page that is having the problem? Hard to diagnose the issue based only on the description

Best regards,
Ken

[aznetcowboy]

Ken,

My weather station is at http://www.elgheko.us/index.php and the URL for the gauges is at http://www.elgheko.us/wxssgauges.php.

Tom

[mcrossley]

The page cannot locate these files on your server...

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Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) http://www.elgheko.us/ssg/css/gauges-ss.css
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) http://www.elgheko.us/ssg/scripts/language.min.js
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) http://www.elgheko.us/ssg/scripts/gauges.js
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) http://www.elgheko.us/ssg/scripts/windrose.js
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) http://www.elgheko.us/ssg/scripts/RGraph.common.core.min.js
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) http://www.elgheko.us/ssg/scripts/RGraph.radar.min.js

[aznetcowboy]

The page cannot locate these files on your server...

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Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) http://www.elgheko.us/ssg/css/gauges-ss.css
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) http://www.elgheko.us/ssg/scripts/language.min.js
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) http://www.elgheko.us/ssg/scripts/gauges.js
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) http://www.elgheko.us/ssg/scripts/windrose.js
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) http://www.elgheko.us/ssg/scripts/RGraph.common.core.min.js
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) http://www.elgheko.us/ssg/scripts/RGraph.radar.min.js

Thanks for letting me know. I have now copied the files over, hopefully. It took me awhile to figure out what you were referencing as I thought I had copied everything over. Just one more thing to resolve and that is the the one gauge on the right in the middle row. I assume that is the Rose gauge?

[PaulMy]

The gauges show fine at http://www.elgheko.us/gauges-ss.htm including the trends graphs. Still a couple of settings needed to get them all correct on the Saratoga page - trends path and count-down timer, and the wind rose.

You're getting there, enjoy.

Paul

[mcrossley]

You still have one file missing...

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Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) http://www.elgheko.us/ssg/scripts/RGraph.radar.min.js

[aznetcowboy]

You still have one file missing...

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Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) http://www.elgheko.us/ssg/scripts/RGraph.radar.min.js

I just went through all my files, including unzipping the original zip file and there is no such file in what I have. Could you forward a copy of your file to me? My email is tom.wills@cox.net.

Thanks!

[mcrossley]

Actually, thinking about it, your page shouldn't even be trying to to load that file, it was used in a much older version of the scripts. It should be using the RGraph.rose.min.js file like your other page http://www.elgheko.us/gauges-ss.htm

[aznetcowboy]

Actually, thinking about it, your page shouldn't even be trying to to load that file, it was used in a much older version of the scripts. It should be using the RGraph.rose.min.js file like your other page http://www.elgheko.us/gauges-ss.htm

I have RGraph.rose.min.js in my scripts folder, so why then isn't it being loaded? The version of the SS script is 2.4.4. Is this not the latest and greatest version?

[mcrossley]

I don't know, you must be using an old version on the 'include' file. The version of "gauges-ss-basic-inc.php" in the 2.4.4 zip file definitely uses RGraph.rose.min.js

[aznetcowboy]

I don't know, you must be using an old version on the 'include' file. The version of "gauges-ss-basic-inc.php" in the 2.4.4 zip file definitely uses RGraph.rose.min.js

The only thing I find in the folder for SS 2.4.4's gauges-ss-basic-inc.php is:

<!-- Included Scripts -->

<!-- Google CDN hosted JQuery library -->
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/j ... "></script>
<!-- or... -->
<!-- Local JQuery library, do not use if your containing page already pulls in a copy of JQuery -->
<!-- <script src="scripts/jquery-1.8.2.min.js"></script> -->

<!-- Combined steelseries.js & tween.js -->
<script src="<?php echo $ssgDir; ?>scripts/steelseries_tween.min.js"></script>

<!-- Once you have customised this scripts to your requirements you should minimise
and concatenate them into a single file in the same order as below -->
<script src="<?php echo $ssgDir; ?>scripts/language.min.js"></script>
<script src="<?php echo $ssgDir; ?>scripts/gauges.js"></script>

<!--Optional Wind Rose scripts -->

<script src="<?php echo $ssgDir; ?>scripts/windrose.js"></script>
<script src="<?php echo $ssgDir; ?>scripts/RGraph.common.core.min.js"></script>
<script src="<?php echo $ssgDir; ?>scripts/RGraph.rose.min.js"></script>