I’ll download the WeatherD from my laptop to eliminate any kind of a caching problem. What date should the latest (unzipped) binary WeatherD have?
–John
the new .zip is 4.4 mb on the server… the WeatherD file is 12,546,688 bytes…
Chris - your server?
i just tried if you extract 2.2 to whatever directory (for me home). That creates the wdisplay folder. Then extract 2.4 to the exact same place as 2.2 and overwrite all files. Then extract the .zip. You should have 3.1 then.
4.4 on the Weather-display.com site
http://www.weather-display.com/downloadfiles/WeatherD-3.2.tar.gz
3.2 full install is now ready
yes, note that that the tar file has the directory wdisplay in it…already…
so dont intall to wdisplay, otherwise you will get another wdisplay folder inside the wdisplay folder
just checking!
Brian,
3.2 just downloaded and installed. For the first time the communications to the Davis starts right up without me having to reselect the com port. It does state version 3.2 in the title bar. You have cleaned up interface quite a bit and the app is not as buggy as whatever version I was using. I’ll keep poking around.
Are there more things that are functional in this than in previous versions?
–John
version 3.2 is looking good… 
it looks like the ? for the degrees symbol arises when its trying to use the number from the main screen (i.e direct copy) instead of using #176
does the degree symbol appear correct on the main wd screen for you john?
Brian - I forgot to mention that we still have the infamous ? instead of the degree symbol on the main display (the application GUI).
3.2 seems to be very stable (2.2 never quit on me, either) When I get a chance, I’ll try to compare Chris’s ‘broken’ or non-functional things with what I find and document them.
–John
On the “Web Files/Page Setup” page, when you click on “Set web files location” 3 error windows with a red X pop up which say:
Cannot read directory:
"home/windy/moon"
" OK "
You must click on each OK sequentially, then you can select a directory.
its because your font set does not support that symbol john…
you should be able to fix that i would think
but
i could select a different font in the compiler
whats a font that will be availble on all distros?
note, in the program , source, i use #176 to display the degrees symbol
so if it does not work, then it must mean you dont have the degrees symbol in any of your installed fonts maybe…so try installing a font that has it…but dont ask me how to do that
i have removed the /windy, from the web files location selector
it will start just in /home now, as the default
for the next version
here is how you can tell if a font will display the degree symbol.
[code:1]xfd -fn fixed[/code:1]
that will show a table of all the different characters found in particualr font.
Good utility Chris (xfd) . I Do have a degree symbol listed. I think this issue is more complicated than meets the eye. I’ll ask my Linux guru buddy what he thinks about this.
–John
what was the number of the symbol… mine was listed as #176
Hex 0000b0 (176) and hex 000007 (7)
–John
I just noticed that I am missing my degree symbol too… I think it had to do with my KDE upgrade… SInce I did have it working, I should be able to fix it. If I can find any tricks I will pass it along…
You’ll be a big hero if you can find the problem :!:
well, I solved my problem by just changing the font from nimubs sans to free sans
I don’t know why that worked, nimbus said it used the degree symbol too… :?
I’ll have to try that.
–John