Weather Watcher Mobile (version 1.0.17)

[santod]

There has been a few discussions recently, discussing different weather apps. Here is another free one that is simple, accurate, and also has still image radar maps. I havn't seen a thread previously about this app. specifically, so I thought I'd post it for those that wanna try it out.



Weather Watcher Mobile
Weather Watcher Mobile is your personal Windows mobile weather station. Automatically retrieve the current conditions, hourly forecast, daily forecast, and detailed forecast as reported by The Weather Channel, severe weather alerts from NWS (US only), and zoomable radar/satellite map for over 77,000 cities world-wide.

Note: Download the Pocket PC version if you have a touchscreen Smartphone.

Requirements
Windows Mobile 2003/5/6, Pocket PC/Smartphone, .NET Compact Framework 2.0


Install Instructions

• Install the .NET Compact Framework 2.0 on your mobile device. Reset your mobile device.
  
  Note: You can skip this step if you're using Windows Mobile 6.
• Download and copy the CAB (from buttons above) to any location on your mobile device. Tap the CAB on your device to start the Weather Watcher installation program.

Features

• Weather as reported by The Weather Channel
• Forecasts available for 77,000+ cities world-wide
• Current weather conditions
• 46-hour forecast
• 10-day day/night forecast
• Severe weather alerts from NWS (US only)
• 18+ weather unit conversion choices
• Zoomable radar/satellite map (radar not available in all locations)
• Skinned interface/forecasts (Pocket PC version only)
• Data usage stats (Pocket PC version only)

Screenshots

• Current Conditions
• Hourly Forecast
• Daily Forecast
• Detailed Forecast
• Severe Alerts
• Zoomable Map

[BenC]

Been using this application for about a year or so; I also have the desktop installed.

[darren.wlsn1]

post some ss please, i wanna see it.

[aesoprock00]

Originally Posted by darren.wlsn1

post some ss please, i wanna see it.

they were posted in the first post:



i'm going to test this one out. looks very promising! i'm just curious why the first few pictures are from Hong Kong, and the last Map is from Harrisburg PA. plus, only the map image has a "map" tap.

[aesoprock00]

for some reason when i use this app, it opens my weather in Opera instead of inside the program itself. every time i go to a different tab in the weather program, it opens itself up in a new Opera tab instead. it's odd. i'm going to keep playing around.

[BenC]

Opera is the default application on your device? I installed an older release of Opera to get away from it, 951b1.

[darren.wlsn1]

lol, im from harrisburgh pa, maybe they used there for the immage, rain and all. i cant see the pictures in first post using opera. wp is way better than this app. maps,radars and traffic cams all for free.

[oldweasel]

Sigh, the map only appears in the upper left-hand corner of my screen, and is very tiny, any ideas what might be wrong?

[pringlet]

This is a very nice weather program it's very comprehensive and has detailed weather alert information. The problem is that on most of our devices Opera is the default HTML viewer. Rather than switch to IE, this person on Singer's Creations forum has found the way to keep Opera as the default viewer and just open IE for Weather Watcher. It's a good hack and worked on my Touch Pro.

Thanks goes to WMM on http://www.singerscreations.com/Foru...49c9d&start=15

QUOTE:
I've managed to get Weather Watcher to function on my AT&T HTC Fuze (HTC Touch Pro) with Opera still installed as the default browser. This is a really cool app -- thanks! -- so I wanted to share what I've learned in hopes that it will help someone else. (This assumes that you're at least passingly familiar with editing the Windows registry.)

It appears that Weather Watcher just creates .html files for the various views and then launches them. That relies on the normal file association mechanism, i.e., it uses the value of the registry key HKCR\.html\Default as an indirect to another key in HKCR to determine the launch action. With Opera as the default browser, that value is _htmlfile_Opera, so Windows executes the command given in HKCR\_htmlfile_Opera\Shell\Open\Command\Default to launch the .html file.
The simplest edit would be to change the value of that key, HKCR\_htmlfile_Opera\Shell\Open\Command\Default, from its default value of "\Windows\OperaL.exe" "%1" to
iexplore.exe file: %1
However, making just that change would leave the icon for the various files in File Explorer as the Opera icon instead of the Internet Explorer icon. It also changes the file associations for several other suffixes, not just .html files. Also, it just "feels wrong" to change the application referred to in a key named _html_Opera to be something other than Opera. I wanted to make the change with the smallest impact possible and also to be consistent, so what I did was:

1) Clone the HKCR\_html_Opera subtree to a new subtree named _html_iexplore (this is really easy in Total Commander's registry editor, I don't know about others).

2) Change HKCR\_html_iexplore\DefaultIcon\Default to have the value iexplore.exe,-1003.

3) Change HKCR\_html_iexplore\Shell\Open\Command\Default to have the value "iexplore.exe file: %1" (without the quotes).

4) Change HKCR\.html\Default to have the value _html_iexplore.
This still leaves the file associations for .htm and .xml using Opera instead of Internet Explorer.
Anyhow, Weather Watcher now works, and Opera is still the default browser for everything except local .html files.

Hope this helps.

:QUOTE

It would be great to get an update to this app so that it played nice with Opera.

[pt]

[oldweasel]

Tried the above, still only opens radar in the upper left-hand corner of the screen. Do I need to change to WM6.5 instead of 6.1?