Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Weather Watcher Live Firefox Extension 1.0.4

A new version of the Weather Watcher Live Firefox extension has been released: http://www.SingersCreations.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=72&t=2853

The changes are as follows:

ADDED: Now compatible with Firefox 3.5.

CHANGED: All data is now downloaded using asynchronous requests (per a request from Mozilla).

CHANGED: Moved all JavaScript code to its own namespace (per a request from Mozilla).

FIXED: When clicking the toolbar icons to view more information at WeatherBug.com, a surrounding weather station's link would sometimes be opened instead.

FIXED: The wet bulb now only displays with one decimal place when displayed along with the current condition icon in the toolbar.

FIXED: Precipitation was not displaying the proper value when displayed along with the current condition icon in the toolbar.

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Weather Watcher Live 6.0.30

A new version of Weather Watcher Live has been released: http://www.SingersCreations.com/Weather-Watcher-Live.asp

The changes are as follows:

CHANGED: Adjusted daily forecast high/low temperatures as needed so they match up with the hourly forecast high/low temperatures.

FIXED: Replaced the Splendid skin degree symbols with the proper HTML special character so they would display properly when Internet Explorer 8 is installed..

FIXED: For Windows 64-bit users, the Weather Watcher Live system tray icon was reverting back to Italic after retrieving the weather when the Set tray icon to Italic until first weather update option was enabled..

FIXED: Updated colors of all textboxes and dropdowns on the Weather Watcher Live interface so they will display properly when using custom Windows colors.

FIXED: The weather data in the NOW section of the main Weather Watcher Live window was not always refreshing properly when realtime weather data was downloaded.

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Weather Watcher Live 6.0.26

A new version of Weather Watcher Live has been released: http://www.SingersCreations.com/Weather-Watcher-Live.asp

The changes are as follows:

ADDED: The latest changes will be displayed when a new version of Weather Watcher Live is installed. These changes can also be accessed from the Weather Watcher Live About window.

ADDED: An "Auto-detect proxy settings for this network" checkbox has been added to the Advanced --> Internet section of the Weather Watcher Live Options window to automatically import the current IE proxy settings.

CHANGED: The Tray Icon and Advanced Options menu items automatically expand so they are visible as soon as the Weather Watcher Live Options window is opened.

CHANGED: Made some changes to the DL.EXE application to resolve Internet connection issues.

FIXED: If using the wallpaper map feature, Weather Watcher Live will automatically update the URLs for the selected wallpaper map(s) when new maps are installed at startup.

FIXED: Weather Watcher Live was not releasing object handles used by the DL.EXE application after retrieving the weather.

FIXED: Updated map list links to fix the maps that were no longer updating.

FIXED: Wind gauge text was not centering properly for weather stations outside of the US.

FIXED: The Tray Icon --> Tooltip --> Show Tray Balloon Tip When list changes were not being saved when no other settings were modified and the Weather Watcher Options window was closed.

FIXED: The Daylight Remaining tooltip item was not calculating correctly when the sunrise and sunset occurred on different days.

FIXED: The barometer was not being calculated properly when using a conversion other than inches.

Weather Watcher 5.6.51

A new version of Weather Watcher has been released: http://www.SingersCreations.com/Weather-Watcher.asp

The changes are as follows:

ADDED: An "Auto-detect proxy settings for this network" checkbox has been added to the Advanced --> Internet section of the Weather Watcher Options window to automatically import the current IE proxy settings.

CHANGED: Made some changes to the DL.EXE application to resolve Internet connection issues.

FIXED: If using the wallpaper map feature, Weather Watcher will automatically update the URLs for the selected wallpaper map(s) when new maps are installed at startup.

FIXED: The Daylight Remaining tooltip item was not calculating correctly when the sunrise and sunset occurred on different days.

FIXED: Weather Watcher was not releasing object handles used by the DL.EXE application after retrieving the weather.

FIXED: Updated map list links to fix the maps that were no longer updating.

Friday, May 8, 2009

Weather Watcher Live 6.0.22

A new version of Weather Watcher Live has been released: http://www.SingersCreations.com/Weather-Watcher-Live.asp

The changes are as follows:

ADDED: Proxy server and port text boxes to the "Internet" section of the Weather Watcher Live Options window.

CHANGED: Rewrote DL.EXE application to work around some data retrieval issues created by the recent IE8 and Windows updates. The new DL.EXE application downloads data more quickly and should work for those people who found that Weather Watcher could no longer retrieve the weather after installing those recent Windows updates.

CHANGED: Aligned the "Observed" and "Downloaded" time stamps at the bottom of the main Weather Watcher Live window.

FIXED: Various GUI issues in the main Weather Watcher Live window that appeared after IE8 was installed.

FIXED: Weather Watcher Live was continuously attempting to retrieve the weather when no Internet connection was found and no local weather data was available.

FIXED: The wind values were not converting properly in the "DAILY" section of the main Weather Watcher Live window when a comma was being used as the Windows regional decimal symbol.

FIXED: The "Display tenths for Celsius temperatures" and "Display wind direction in degrees" settings in the "Advanced" section of the Weather Watcher Live Options window were not saving after being changed.

Weather Watcher 5.6.48

A new version of Weather Watcher has been released: http://www.SingersCreations.com/Weather-Watcher.asp

The changes are as follows:

ADDED: Proxy server and port text boxes to the "Internet" tab of the Weather Watcher Options window.

CHANGED: Rewrote DL.EXE application to work around some data retrieval issues created by the recent IE8 and Windows updates. The new DL.EXE application downloads data more quickly and should work for those people who found that Weather Watcher could no longer retrieve the weather after installing those recent Windows updates.

CHANGED: Aligned the "Observed" and "Downloaded" time stamps at the bottom of the main Weather Watcher window.

FIXED: Various GUI issues in the main Weather Watcher window that appeared after IE8 was installed.

FIXED: The status window that shows the weather retrieval progress will now load inside of the main Weather Watcher window, regardless of the screen position of the main window.

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Weather Watcher Live 6.0.18

A new version of Weather Watcher Live has been released: http://www.SingersCreations.com/Weather-Watcher-Live.asp

The changes are as follows:

FIXED: Daily forecast was not displaying the daily description when using a weather station outside of the US and the temperature conversion was set to Celsius.

FIXED: Wind gauge text was not centering properly when greater than three digits.