Instructions on upgrading WDL?

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I don’t have my instructions available to me right now so that I can upgrade to the newsest WDL.
Are the instructions available to me online?

I have a lot of companies relying on my web site daily and I don’t want to do any trial and error in order to get the new version running. I want to be sure it is all going to work right away.

I’m currently using 2.05 and I am curious about the forecast feature at the top of the WDL page. Sometime the NOAA forecast can be lengthy and I am curious what effect a very long forecast has on the page itself. Can anyone shed some light on this?

Thanks in advance.

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Hi
some tips:
extract the files (click on run unzip) to a different directory than where you curent WDL files are
then upload the latest .swf file to your web site, wdlv4_01.swf
the create a test .html file ,e.g test.html with this in it (see below), then upload that to your web site
then that test site should be become:
http://www.sarasota.k12.fl.us/vhs/weather/test.html
then if all ok, then copy the code below to flash.html,and upload that

Live Weather from Venice High School

also, you should remove the width= and height= html code which displayes the 5 day forecast image on your web site, so that it looks clearer

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I’m currently using 2.05 and I am curious about the forecast feature at the top of the WDL page. Sometime the NOAA forecast can be lengthy and I am curious what effect a very long forecast has on the page itself. Can anyone shed some light on this?

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The text will wrap to a maximum of 5 lines.

Julian

5

I seem to have missed something somewhere. I’m not able to get the dials or forecast to show up on the new WDL page.

http://www.sarasota.k12.fl.us/vhs/weather/test.html

If anyone can see why please let me know.

Thanks in advance.

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It appears there have been a number of additions in WDL since your last update…

For instance in your config file you have:

  <instWindGust>
<x>470</x>
<y>96</y>
<show>1</show>
<size>100</size>
<url/>
<title/>
</instWindGust>

Mine has an additional line:

   <instWindGust>
        <x>480</x>
        <y>110</y>
        <show>1</show>
        <size>65</size>
        <url></url>
        <title></title>
       <instrument>windSpeedGauge</instrument>
    </instWindGust>

I believe that each instrument has to be defined in the tag now…

-Bob

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I have uploaded the most current .pdf configuration instructions and you can access that here, if it helps…
http://www.jaxweather.net/flash/configuring_wdl.pdf

-Bob

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I used the newest version of the config file but still no luck.

9

It looks good to me - are you still having problems?

Julian

10

I see no wind instruments on http://www.sarasota.k12.fl.us/vhs/weather/test.html

Stuart

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Yeah I was just about to post that the test WDL still looks broke:

http://www.sarasota.k12.fl.us/vhs/weather/test.html
http://www.sarasota.k12.fl.us/vhs/weather/wdlconfignew.xml

Stuart beat me :wink:

-Bob

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Ah you guys are using Firefox aren’t you? :smiley: It’s OK in IE because there’s an error in the html - one line says

wdlv4_01.swf?http://www.sarasota.k12.fl.us/vhs/weather/wdlconfig.xml

and the other says

wdlv4_01.swf?http://www.sarasota.k12.fl.us/vhs/weather/wdlconfignew.xml

which explains it.

Julian

13

So does that mean that the newest version of WDL is not Firefox compatible?

14

No (I’m working with both FF and IE).

The URL’s should be the same … (if you want the same results in both browsers).

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So does that mean that the newest version of WDL is not Firefox compatible?

No! It means you’ve got an error in your html file

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Firefox is in general more picky about errors it receives in webpages, and it does not handle many IE only ‘features’ as it has been written as a 'W3C ‘standards compliant’ browser and NOT a ‘Microsoft compliant’ browser. Good practice should be to check out any of your webpages in the most common browsers which today are IE and Firefox on the Windows platform, Firefox is also very common in the Linux platform. I find that nearly 30% of my website hits now come from Firefox type browsers compared to less than 10% maybe last year so it would be a good idea to have it installed and check out your pages in both.

Stuart