zaxxxx

New version works fine for me. Waiting for semitransparent background.

What do you mean?

I tried out 32bit Heatwave 1.2.1.0 on my development machine. I like the new widescreen layout. It's the same info, but it does fill up the screen better. So in my opinion, looks better.

I liked it so much, I installed 1.2.1.0 on my 3 other Windows 7 Media Centers.

Thanks again for updating Heatwave.

-Josef

MCExtended

Thanks to zaxxxx I've created a version that may resolve the "spinning ring" issue some people were having:

Download the 32-bit version here.
Download the 64-bit version here.

This version, while not intended as an actual 'release' version, also includes the following features that people have requested and may want to test:

• A widescreen layout is now included. If you don't like it, it can be disabled in Settings on the Appearance page.
• There is a day/night (sun/moon) forecast indication next to the location title. If you don't like it, it can be disabled in Settings on the Appearance page.
• The layout of the main page has been tightened up a bit (the data refresh times have been lost in this version, however will return in a later version)
• The various times will now be formatted according to the system time format
• The temperature ranges are now presented in high-low order. You can flip them back to the way they were in Settings on the General page.
• Changed the formatting of temperature ranges to make negative temperatures more legible

As usual, please let me know how you go.

Cheers,

James.

zaxxxx

New version works fine for me.

Great to hear! Thanks again for your help.

zaxxxx

Waiting for semitransparent background.

You can see this if you have Live TV playing. Unfortunately the way I determine whether a video experience is now playing no longer works the same way in Windows 7 as it did in Vista, so Recorded TV and videos don't show the effect at the moment. This is on the list of things to address.

jcuesico

I tried out 32bit Heatwave 1.2.1.0 on my development machine. I like the new widescreen layout. It's the same info, but it does fill up the screen better. So in my opinion, looks better.

Yeah, I must say I was silly to resist the idea in the first place - it really is better than I thought it would be. I'll try and be better at listening to feedback about these sort of things in future.

Possibly one of the things that made me resist the idea more than I should have is that I'd never actually used HeatWave on my actual media center until Windows 7 came out (I stayed with 2005 for various reasons). Now that I actually use HeatWave on a large, widescreen TV I better understand why people felt as strongly about this as they did. My ancient development machine only has a non-widescreen aspect ratio, so the only way I'd actually experienced HeatWave in widescreen format prior to Windows 7 was by running it in a window, and when viewed like that it didn't seem like such a big deal.

jcuesico

Thanks again for updating Heatwave.

A pleasure. Thanks for your help in testing it, and the helpful feedback you've provided.

Where does Heatwave get it's weather information from? Apologies if this info is already in the 18 pages of posts for this thread. The reason I ask is that Vista4Cast gets bad forecasts for Melbourne, Australia (the fault of the weather source, not the program), so I would like to check out the source for Heatwave before installing it.

Unfortunately for you, it uses weather.com, the same source as Vista4Cast.

You might like to try big screen weather which uses a different source, however it is not free.

 James.

Version 1.3 is now available.  

Download the 32-bit version here.
Download the 64-bit version here.

This version incorporates the changes from the 1.2.1 test version, and adds a couple of new features and fixes:

General:

• A widescreen layout is now included. If you don't like it, it can be disabled in Settings on the Appearance page.
• There is a day/night (sun/moon) forecast indication next to the location title. If you don't like it, it can be disabled in Settings on the Appearance page.
• The layout of the main page has been tightened up a bit (the data refresh times have been lost in this version, however will return in a later version).
• The various times will now be formatted according to the system time format.
• The temperature ranges are now presented in high-low order. You can flip them back to the way they were in Settings on the General page.
• Changed the formatting of temperature ranges to make negative temperatures more legible.
• New Start Menu icons for Windows 7 (might be too subtle for some people to notice...)
• The links at the bottom of the page now start with a weather.com link to give weather.com better credit for the data, and to offer some indication to users that they are web links.
• There is a new setting under Appearance that allows the Settings option to be removed from the start menu, potentially allowing another location to take it's place.

Installer:

• The "Show on Start Menu" and "Show in News+Sports" options are no longer selected by default.
• The "Show in News+Sports" does not appear in Windows 7
• A warning about needing to restart media center to see the changes to the start menu will now appear if either of the above options is selected.

Bug Fixes:

• Attempting to bring up the on-screen keyboard will result in an error due to no keyboard maps being included in the installer. Will be fixed with the next release (in a day or two once any other problems surface).
• There was a problem with the Windows 7 version check for some locales that prevented the application from starting ("spinning ring" issue).
• Removed the language options from the on-screen keyboard until more keyboard layouts and a better UI are available.

As usual, please let me know how you go.

Cheers,

James.

Greetings from Germany and Congratulations for this great plugin.

Reading from time to time in TGB this app now causes me to create a user account.

Keep up the good work!

BTW: If you would like to improve your german translation you should substitute the wording "gerecht" with "heiter" which should be the correct term for the english weather condition "fair".

MCExtended

Unfortunately for you, it uses weather.com, the same source as Vista4Cast.

You might like to try big screen weather which uses a different source, however it is not free.

 James.

I actually already have Big Screen weather, but yours looked better. So I have to choose accuracy over presentation

mikado30

Greetings from Germany and Congratulations for this great plugin.

Thanks!

mikado30

BTW: If you would like to improve your german translation you should substitute the wording "gerecht" with "heiter" which should be the correct term for the english weather condition "fair".

I'll add it to the list of things to do, thanks!

Congrats on shipping again -- by far one of the best written apps on the platform.

Charlie Owen

Congrats on shipping again -- by far one of the best written apps on the platform.

Thanks very much, Charlie!

With all the cold weather we are currently having in the UK I have noticed that Heatwave does not display 0°C, all I get is °C. It displays fine for sub zero i.e. -1°C, -2°C, etc. just not zero. Is this something to do with my setup or is Heatwave treating 0 as a null value and not displaying it?

Yes, I have the exact same issue on my setup too.

Rich