Hi Mike, My pleasure. Glad I could help. Smile.
All the best, Rod Sent from Outlook for Windows -----Original Message----- From: Talk <talk-bounces+rod_hutton=hotmail....@lists.window-eyes.com> On Behalf Of Mike via Talk Sent: May 24, 2019 4:05 PM To: Rod Hutton via Talk <talk@lists.window-eyes.com> Cc: Mike <kazej...@runbox.com> Subject: Re: FW: Weather or not issue Hello Rod I shall keep this for future use. However, I confess, on this occasion I have taken the easy way out. As Weatherornot was working on my laptop I have just copied the .ini across. It is now working fine. However, it is thanks to the forwarded message that I was able to find the .ini file. With thanks and best wishes Mike. On 24/05/2019 12:25, Rod Hutton via Talk wrote: > Hi Mike, > > Here's a forward of a post a few months back which should help you out. > > Good luck, > > Rod > > Sent from Outlook for Windows > > -----Original Message----- > From: David <trailerda...@hotmail.com> > Sent: February 3, 2019 5:58 PM > To: Window-Eyes Discussion List <talk@lists.window-eyes.com> > Cc: Rod Hutton <rod_hut...@hotmail.com> > Subject: Re: Weather or not issue > > OK, guys. > This, is going to be a rather long message, so work your way through. > I will try to share my findings on the issue you are having, with the > WeatherOrNot app. These are based on some fooling around, and quick > searchings on the net, so take them for what they are worth. I do have no > clue exactly where, how or what the Weather app extracts its info, so you > will have to do your own playing around. But when I tried the following > steps, it at least gave me some results. Smiles. > > As someone suggested, please make it a habit of backing up any file before > you modify it at all. > > OK, the first thing we need to know, is the Longitude and Latitude > coordinates, in a decimal format, for the city or place you are trying to > add. I did try a few webpages, and here is one that I found to be fairly easy > to operate with WinEyes: > https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww. > latlong.net%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7C8a283489a4da44dc0be708d6e08331b4% > 7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636943251407282072&sd > ata=HBuYYYvsbA%2F2Mg%2F2Nulcvk3udV25%2BdDqVI%2BqGzbKqUI%3D&reserve > d=0 > > When opening the page, go to the first Edit box, and here enter your city. > Like: > Toronto, On > for finding the city of Toronto in the province of Ontario, in Canada. > Once you have typed your info, hit the Enter key. > Please note, it seems that you will have to manually turn back on Browse Mode > here. > > The page will now come up with its results. If it found the exact city or > place, it will give you two edit boxes, right beneath the Find-button on the > page. They will hold the necessary numbers, for the Longitude and Latitude. > Copy and paste them into your ini file, as will be described below. > > In a few cases, I noticed the page came up with more than one choice for the > city. They then were presented in a table, with a link for each city. You > would simply choose the wanted link, hit Enter, and go to the text line, that > gives you the coordinates. Copy and paste the given info into your ini file. > > How To Modify The Ini File? > Now that we have found the needed info to direct the app, let's get to the > real job. And, yes, it is a bit of typing to be done. We will go by it, step > by step. > > First, open your WE control panel, and hit Alt-F, followed by the letter E. > The user profile folder will open. > > Keep pressing the W, til you get to the file named: > WeatherOrNot.ini > , and hit Enter on it. It should open in something like Notepad. > Please note, from here, it will be good to have your synth spell out all > punctuations, and even Upper- and Lower-cased characters, as they are all > important. > > In the ini file, scroll down to the line that reads > [Locations] > . Do NOT modify this line. > > Hit the End-key, to go to the end of the line, and then Hit Enter. You now > have a blank line for entering your personalized info. > What the app wants here, is a section name, for your new location. To keep > our above example rolling, enter the following line. Or, modify it to your > personal location: > Toronto, Ontario=43.651890, -79.381710 . To break this line down, > please note: > To the left of the Equals sign, we give the app the name of the location we > are entering. It doesn't really matter what name you give it, long as you > keep track of the exact name and spelling - as we will be using it in a > moment. > Behind the Equal sign, we give the two coordinates, as copied from the > website. First the Latitude, followed by a Comma, A space character, and then > the Longitude value. No other info, no other punctuation. The coordinates > should be given in positive or negative values, exactly copied from the > website. > > Once this Location line has been established, we are ready to move on to the > next modification of the ini file. > Move yourself to the bottom of the file, by hitting Ctrl-end. > > You now will have to enter a section, holding the actual settings for your > new location. this section, it is, that controls how and what info the app > will read to you. > > A section, always starts out with a header. That is, a line enclosed in > brackets. The header, should be an exact copy of the info you entered to the > left of the Equal sign, in your location line. It is case, and character > sensitive, so make sure you get an one-by-one copy of your location line. In > our example, it will look like this: > [Toronto, ontario] > . Press Enter when you are done. > > Now that we have established the section, it is time to set it all up. > The section should hold four fields. They are placed on individual lines, > their name spelled all in lower-cases, and ends with an Equal sign, and your > wanted setting. Lets get to them one by one. > > name= > Here enter the name of the location, that you want read out to you, whenever > you press the hotkey. It could be the city name, or some kind of an alias - > like home, work, grandma's place, or whatever. Our example line could be: > name=Toronto > or, > Name=Big city of Canada. > Please note, that you can use a mix of upper- and lower-cased characters, > along with normal punctuation (except from the Equal sign), or even numbers - > in your string here. > > temp= > Behind the Equal sign, enter a lower-cased c, for Celcius; or a lowercased f, > for having the temperature read in degrees Fahrenheit. > Obviously, it seems there should be a way to have the app read both formats, > and my guess is that you simply enter either cf, or fc, in this field. > > wind= > Here enter ms, for meter-per-second; or mph, to have the app giving you the > windspeed in miles-per-hour. A couple more measurements should be available, > far as I can see, but you will do your own playing. > > status=OK > Huh? Don't ask me what this means. But apparently the app wants you to tell > it that you, your old auntie, or the pizza you had for dinner last night was > OK. Give it what it wants, and hope for the best. Smiles. If you decide to > fool with this line, and feel you can make any sense of it, get back and > enlighten us all. Hit Enter when you are all done. > > You know what? > You now are almost done. Only two very important steps are left. But before > we take care of them, let me just sum up the lines we entered in our example. > > [Locations] > Toronto, Ontario=43.651890, -79.381710 [Toronto, Ontario] name=A Fun > Place To Visit temp=c wind=mph status=OK > > Yep. And now to the final steps. > First one, surprisingly enough, will be to hit the Alt-F4, and choosing to > save our updates to the file. > > Second step, is to restart the app. > Go to the WE control panel, and hit the Alt-A. > Hit the Right-Arrow, to expand the App managing. > Scroll down to App Managing, and hit Enter. > here, press the W, till you get to the WeatherOrNot app. > Either hit the Alt-R to reload, or hit the Alt-E twice to turn it off and > back on. > > Boys and Girls, job should be done. though a rather long description, your > new location now should be ready to be announced, whenever you hit the app > hotkey. Anything not working? Well, let the list know, and see if there might > be a workaround. > > Oh, and let me add one extra goodie to it all. If you have more than one > location, you can add them on to your ini file. The steps will be all the > same. You need one location line, and a whole section for each location. When > the read-aloud is taking place, the app will read to you the locations and > their info, consequtively. That is, it will read the locations, in the order > they are listed in the [Locations] part of the ini file. So make sure you > organize the lines in the order you want things read out. > > To have a small break between each location, you could try to enter a > period-sign, and a space character as the beginning of each name-string. > Like: > name=. My Home Place > > Enjoy your playing. > > David > > On 2/3/2019 6:12 AM, Rod Hutton via Talk wrote: >> Hi Larry, >> >> I have the current versions of GW Toolkit, 8.6.8, as well as Weather or Not, >> 4.0.0. >> The app is working fine for me, giving me my current weather conditions. >> I tried adding your city, but I get the same error as you. >> I have tried looking at the code of the app, in the hope of determining and >> possibly changing the weather information server it uses. >> Unfortunately, the app is encrypted, making it impossible to do anything >> with it. >> Given that I can confirm that the app works, I can only suggest that if you >> ever used the app to get your local weather, see if you can find an old >> backup copy of the Weather Or Not ini file, and paste it into the Profile >> folder. >> The file you need is named weatherornot.ini, and, before pasting it into the >> Profiles folder, you should probably rename the current one to something >> like 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