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Title: WeatherCat on your Desktop
Post by: wurzelmac on November 11, 2014, 02:04:40 PM
I am interested in how you let WeatherCat show its features on your desktop! Display only graphs, only gauges (like me) or mix them up. Is your desktop cluttered or tidy?  ;D

So here is mine:

(http://wetter.unterwurzacher.at/bilder/wc_wurzelmac.png)

Cheers,
Reinhard
Title: Re: WeatherCat on your Desktop
Post by: Steve on November 11, 2014, 03:39:00 PM
I'm a creature of habit. I haven't changed my WeatherCat desktop in probably two years. During winter, I ad the fourth camera that's zoomed in on my snow gauge. (yes, I know I need a new arbor for the garden...)

(http://www.morrisgarage.com/skitch/Skitch-20141111-103702.jpg)
Title: Re: WeatherCat on your Desktop
Post by: Blicj11 on November 11, 2014, 07:22:25 PM
Great question, Reinhard. I have a second monitor on which I display WeatherCat. I have a bunch of the new custom gauges that I was running, but when my plist file blew up I went back to the basics and just haven't gotten around to fancying it again, although I will, as I love the new guages.
Title: I'm so ashamed!! (Re: WeatherCat on your Desktop)
Post by: elagache on November 11, 2014, 09:53:51 PM
Hi Reinhard, Steve, Blick, and WeatherCat cyber packrats . . . . (http://www.canebas.org/WeatherCat/Forum_support_documents/Custom_emoticons/packrat-emoticon.png)

Quote from: wurzelmac on November 11, 2014, 02:04:40 PM
I am interested in how you let WeatherCat show its features on your desktop! Display only graphs, only gauges (like me) or mix them up. Is your desktop cluttered or tidy?  ;D

Alas, I've never recovered from trying to display as much information as possible to test out the WeatherCat 2 betas.  I used to try to display some things on a second display space, but I gave up before Herb educated me about Mission Control.  So this is what it looks like right now - how cluttered can you get!! (http://www.canebas.org/WeatherCat/Forum_support_documents/Custom_emoticons/eek-sign.gif)

(http://www.canebas.org/misc/Voila_images/WeatherCat%20display%20space%202014-11-11.jpg)

I really need a strategy that changes the display between wet and dry seasons.  During the summer, WeatherCat is being monitored mostly to help control inside temperature.  In the winter there is usually one thing in my mind . . . . (http://www.canebas.org/WeatherCat/Forum_support_documents/Custom_emoticons/rain_happy.gif)

Cheers, Edouard  [cheers1]
Title: Re: I'm so ashamed!! (Re: WeatherCat on your Desktop)
Post by: Steve on November 11, 2014, 10:50:54 PM
Quote from: elagache on November 11, 2014, 09:53:51 PM
I really need a strategy that changes the display between wet and dry seasons.

While in WeatherCat, go to the Window menu -> Save Graph Position -> Set 1, Set 2, etc.

Then each season go to Window -> Restore Graph Position, -> Set 1, Set 2, etc.

Easy peasy!
Steve
Title: Re: WeatherCat on your Desktop
Post by: Randall75 on November 12, 2014, 12:18:27 AM
Hi Rheinhard
 I'm running 24 gauges since we were beta testing during the development testing
for some odd reason the Blancy-Criddle gauge didn't post


cheers


 [cheers1]
Title: Re: WeatherCat on your Desktop
Post by: wurzelmac on November 12, 2014, 04:05:55 PM
Great feedback, folks - thank you!  :)

Cheers,
Reinhard
Title: Re: WeatherCat on your Desktop
Post by: WCDev on November 12, 2014, 04:57:16 PM
That is a lot of gauges Randall  :)
Title: Re: WeatherCat on your Desktop
Post by: Blicj11 on November 12, 2014, 05:37:10 PM
You guys inspired me to do better. Here is my redo.
Title: Need the strategy first!! (Re: WeatherCat on your Desktop)
Post by: elagache on November 12, 2014, 09:29:11 PM
Howdy Steve and WeatherCat experts, . . . . .

Quote from: Steve on November 11, 2014, 10:50:54 PM
Quote from: elagache on November 11, 2014, 09:53:51 PM
I really need a strategy that changes the display between wet and dry seasons.

While in WeatherCat, go to the Window menu -> Save Graph Position -> Set 1, Set 2, etc.

Then each season go to Window -> Restore Graph Position, -> Set 1, Set 2, etc.

Easy peasy!

 ;D . . . . . Yeah, that's a good system alright.  Just one small problem. . . . . . .  (http://www.canebas.org/WeatherCat/Forum_support_documents/Custom_emoticons/thinking_idea.gif)

Until I decide exactly what I want to display (http://www.canebas.org/WeatherCat/Forum_support_documents/Custom_emoticons/juggle.gif) , then there isn't any graph positions to save yet!! (http://www.canebas.org/WeatherCat/Forum_support_documents/Custom_emoticons/D'oh.gif)

. . . . . [lol2]

Cheers, Edouard  [cheers1]
Title: Re: WeatherCat on your Desktop
Post by: Bull Winkus on November 16, 2014, 03:50:04 AM
Hello wurzelmac! Interesting thread you've started here.

My own preference is to use 2 monitors, the iMac's built in 27" and a 27" Thunderbolt Display. On the built-in, I use 2 spaces, one for WC and one for all other tasks. If I'm not working or playing on this computer, I show the gauges on the built-in, and, using 4 Spaces on the Thunderbolt, show graphs for 1 Day, 7 Day, 28 Day and 1 Year with each iteration on a separate page or Space.  Normally showing on the Thunderbolt is the daily graphs. There is a 14 day graph right now which shows the garage temperature. That temperature changes slowly, so it needs less screen width than 14 days would imply.  Under it is the  satellite image window. Here are the screenshots.

iMac Display - Other than WC functions
(http://bullwinkus.smugmug.com/Weather/Misc-Shares/i-rGvx7ST/0/X3/Screen%20Shot%202014-11-15%20at%2010.25.40%20PM-X3.png)

iMac Display - WC
(http://bullwinkus.smugmug.com/Weather/Misc-Shares/i-w8BFTrq/0/X3/Screen%20Shot%202014-11-15%20at%209.22.27%20PM-X3.png)

Thunderbolt - 1 Day
(http://bullwinkus.smugmug.com/Weather/Misc-Shares/i-qzNXwM2/0/X3/Screen%20Shot%202014-11-15%20at%209.22.27%20PM%20%282%29-X3.png)

Thunderbolt - 7 Day
(http://bullwinkus.smugmug.com/Weather/Misc-Shares/i-nmjGR6h/0/X3/Screen%20Shot%202014-11-15%20at%209.23.56%20PM%20%282%29-X3.png)

Thunderbolt - 28 Day
(http://bullwinkus.smugmug.com/Weather/Misc-Shares/i-fbvqXWq/0/X3/Screen%20Shot%202014-11-15%20at%209.24.34%20PM%20%282%29-X3.png)

Thunderbolt - 1 Year
(http://bullwinkus.smugmug.com/Weather/Misc-Shares/i-fr9pRhN/0/X3/Screen%20Shot%202014-11-15%20at%209.25.11%20PM%20%282%29-X3.png)
Title: Re: WeatherCat on your Desktop
Post by: wurzelmac on November 16, 2014, 05:04:33 PM
Hello Herb,

should I get interested in spaces?  ???  Yes, I think I should!  :)

Cheers,
Reinhard
Title: Re: WeatherCat on your Desktop
Post by: Bull Winkus on November 16, 2014, 05:31:17 PM
Note also that I only have 4 GB RAM in the WC iMac. I'm not monitoring memory usage, but all seems to be performing well.
Title: Re: WeatherCat on your Desktop
Post by: wurzelmac on November 16, 2014, 06:49:39 PM
Herb,

you inspired me to use Spaces on my WeatherCat dedicated Mac mini - I wonder why I overlooked this very cool feature in the past! With just a switch to another desktop I now have:
#1 gauges and today window:
as posted before
#2 customgraphs last 24 hrs and customgraphs 3 days:
(http://wetter.unterwurzacher.at/bilder/2.png)
#3 customgraphs last 7 days
(http://wetter.unterwurzacher.at/bilder/3.png)
#4 customgraphs whole year
(http://wetter.unterwurzacher.at/bilder/4.png)

Thanks again for inspiring me!

Cheers,
Reinhard
Title: Windows don't return to Spaces on reboot. (Re: WeatherCat on your Desktop)
Post by: elagache on November 16, 2014, 09:25:22 PM
Hi Reinhard, Herb, and WeatherCat explorers of . . . . . Spaces . . . . (pun intended of course!)  [biggrin]

Quote from: wurzelmac on November 16, 2014, 06:49:39 PM
you inspired me to use Spaces on my WeatherCat dedicated Mac mini - I wonder why I overlooked this very cool feature in the past!

It is a very neat feature, but alas Apple has gotten sloppy with Spaces like so many things these days.  So instead of providing a complete API so that Stu could remember which space you left a WeatherCat window, there is no such facility.  As a result, when you restart WeatherCat all your windows will end up in a single space.

As Herb "luurned" me, You can use Mission Control to move the windows from one space to another and the windows will pop into the previously located location in the new space.  However, you'll have to move each window "by hand."

As a result, I've never gotten systematic about moving some of my WeatherCat clutter into another space.  I already have 5 separate windows associated with Path Finder each of whom serves as a workspace for the activities associated with each space on my Mac.  So every reboot or even restart of Path Finder I have to move these windows over.  To divvy up the WeatherCat windows would just add to the restart burden. 

Oh well, someday.

Cheers, Edouard  [cheers1]
Title: Re: Windows don't return to Spaces on reboot. (Re: WeatherCat on your Desktop)
Post by: Steve on November 17, 2014, 12:53:56 AM
Quote from: elagache on November 16, 2014, 09:25:22 PM

It is a very neat feature, but alas Apple has gotten sloppy with Spaces like so many things these days.  So instead of providing a complete API so that Stu could remember which space you left a WeatherCat window, there is no such facility.  As a result, when you restart WeatherCat all your windows will end up in a single space

If you want all of your WeatherCat windows in a single specific Space, simply right-click on the WeatherCat icon in the dock, select Options, and then the specific Space. Now, if you have some windows on one Space, and others on another Space, this of course won't work.

I use DelayedLauncher to open the dozen or so applications I have running all the time, and they all open in their appropriate Space.

Steve

Title: Re: WeatherCat on your Desktop
Post by: Bull Winkus on November 18, 2014, 12:56:47 AM
I'll second what Steve said. To keep from mixing up your WC windows and gauges with the other windows associated with other applications, simply assign WC to a specific space. Then after you locate all of WC's windows in different spaces all organized and purdy, restart the computer (or wait until the next incident that requires restarting). All of the WC windows will default to the assigned space for WC on restart. Type Control-(up arrow), and selectively drag the WC gauges and charts to their respectively chosen Spaces thumbnails. Only drag the ones that belong elsewhere. If you have an easily recognizable organizational framework, such as all gauges on one Spaces page and all 1 day charts on another, then recovery from a restart will go rather quickly.


Best wishes!
 [cheers1]
Title: Re: WeatherCat on your Desktop
Post by: wurzelmac on November 18, 2014, 12:06:58 PM
Hello Herb,
done as you and Steve mentioned me to do. Assigned WC a space (Desktop 1) and after upgrading to 10.10.1 I had to restart the Mac. All WC windows are shown in the assigned space, and it was quite easy to drag the graphs to their belonging space that I used to see them before. The miracle is that the graphs know their place in the space - just drag them to the space and let them "fly".  [bounce] Really cool and easy!
Cheers,
Reinhard
Title: Re: WeatherCat on your Desktop
Post by: Bull Winkus on December 31, 2015, 08:05:42 PM
It's time to wake Reinhard's thread up! Everyone should have gotten adjusted to WC 2 by now. How do you display WeatherCat on your desktop now?

I moved WC into my older, 2008, 24" iMac. It doesn't have a Thunderbolt port, so the second monitor is not used. However, with much less borrowing of time on this computer now, since the 2011 model is much faster, WC windows are no longer in the way of doing other things, and Spaces still keeps charts segregated by range. So, in the interest of efficiency of Stu's hard disk space, here is how I've rearranged my gauges. Everything else is pretty much the same.

 [cheers1]

Title: Re: WeatherCat on your Desktop
Post by: xairbusdriver on December 31, 2015, 11:14:19 PM
I usually have my desktop covered with numerous windows from multiple apps. Not much room for many gauges, pretty as they are. When the Desktop image is visible, it's one of my own images, usually not suitable for a background for nice round gauges! So I just use Stu's client window running. If it gets covered up, I can always do a command-tab to get it back in view. :)

WC is actually running on a headless mini, so I don't even have those nice gauges on its invisible desktop! [blush]
Title: Re: WeatherCat on your Desktop
Post by: Bull Winkus on December 31, 2015, 11:20:23 PM
Well, that is one of the drawbacks to going headless.  [coffee] Tell me again, why you have a weather station?

 [lol2]
Title: Re: WeatherCat on your Desktop
Post by: xairbusdriver on December 31, 2015, 11:57:47 PM
Quote
Tell me again, why you have a weather station?
So I can create another website and monitor my backyard weather no matter where I am in the world! I used to travel a lot in my job, so I always wanted to know if my backyard was still there and if the grass was growing. Now I don't travel so much, but gathering that same info would require walking to the back of the house. Doing that could mean I miss a good cat video! [banghead] [woohoo]

Sharing it with the neighborhood and WU, PWS, etc. is purely secondary. :P
Title: Re: WeatherCat on your Desktop
Post by: Bull Winkus on January 01, 2016, 02:57:49 AM
Just poking a little fun? Only reason I'd see it that way is 'cause I don't do a website. I started out trying to, and I got flummoxed by FTP. That made me decide that I'm better off spending my time on things I understand. So, I bought a cement mixer and built some steps. ? Well, one step, ? and a walkway. A short one. But, the step was over a concrete bridge that the water runs through when it rains.

Happy New Year!
 [rockon]
Title: Re: WeatherCat on your Desktop
Post by: xairbusdriver on January 01, 2016, 04:13:14 AM
Quote
I'm better off spending my time on things I understand
That would be S000ooo limiting for me! So I'm extremely busy trying to do even a quarter of the things I don't understand! I still buy "instructional" books on Calculus! Failed a 5 hour class in my freshman year! [blush] OTOH, it helped me prove to my Dad that I really didn't have a career as an Engineer! Until FedEx bought their first 727's, anyway. Then I actually became an "engineer", said so right on my license!! And I've always been interested in railroads... [biggrin]

So, Happy Last Thursday of the Year!!! [cheer]
Title: Re: WeatherCat on your Desktop
Post by: Blicj11 on January 01, 2016, 07:00:01 PM
Here's mine
Title: Re: WeatherCat on your Desktop
Post by: xairbusdriver on January 01, 2016, 07:04:07 PM
Show off! :P

If you'd like to see more gauges, try rotating you screen 90 or 270 degrees. Not your monitor, just the screen.
(http://i1327.photobucket.com/albums/u666/xAirbusDriver/OtherViews_and_iMac_zps0sukxlcu.jpg)
Video at 10! :P
Title: Re: WeatherCat on your Desktop
Post by: Steve on January 01, 2016, 07:33:25 PM
Mine is the same as it has been for a long time, but now with dead blow-up decorations. :)

(http://www.morrisgarage.com/skitch/Fullscreen-20160101-143228.jpg)
Title: Re: WeatherCat on your Desktop
Post by: Blicj11 on January 01, 2016, 07:38:22 PM
Steve, do you ever have trouble displaying the Floating Graphic? I have tried to use it for a couple of years now, on and off, but it is kind of quirky on my desktop. Disappears occasionally and I have to go into Preferences, unselect it, reboot WeatherCat, then reselect it. Too much effort.
Title: Re: WeatherCat on your Desktop
Post by: xairbusdriver on January 01, 2016, 07:58:16 PM
Steve! I hope the police don't drive by and see what looks like a horrific crime scene!! :o
Title: Re: WeatherCat on your Desktop
Post by: WCDev on January 01, 2016, 08:04:24 PM
Here's mine right now - it normally looks very much like this.
Title: Re: WeatherCat on your Desktop
Post by: Blicj11 on January 01, 2016, 08:09:32 PM
Hey Stu, what are you doing with that Yosemite background screen? That operating system is so 2015.  :)
Title: Re: WeatherCat on your Desktop
Post by: Steve on January 01, 2016, 09:03:30 PM
Quote from: xairbusdriver on January 01, 2016, 07:58:16 PM
Steve! I hope the police don't drive by and see what looks like a horrific crime scene!! :o

It was self defense,  I swear!


Quote from: WCDev on January 01, 2016, 08:04:24 PM
Here's mine right now - it normally looks very much like this.

OK, now I don't feel bad about having a bunch of random, disorganized windows. :)
Title: Re: WeatherCat on your Desktop
Post by: Steve on January 01, 2016, 09:05:50 PM
Quote from: Blicj11 on January 01, 2016, 07:38:22 PM
Steve, do you ever have trouble displaying the Floating Graphic?

Nope. I know that you've had problems, but I've never had a lick of trouble keeping it placed where it is supposed to be or fail to appear. Been like that since I first installed WeatherCat several years ago.
Title: Re: WeatherCat on your Desktop
Post by: xairbusdriver on January 02, 2016, 01:00:26 AM
The promised "Video at 10 (http://mailscamalert.com/screen-rotation/index.html)"! Got side-tracked by updating my wife's MBP to the new OS version...

I must admit it's good to see that others keep their virtual desktops as cluttered as my real one! :o [lol]

Here's my mini's Desktop (via Screen Sharing):(http://i1327.photobucket.com/albums/u666/xAirbusDriver/0ec8420f-be1a-4627-8848-d75e1ea99ccc_zpsa2gxrult.jpg)Sorry 'bout those ducks cluttering it up... :P
Title: Re: WeatherCat on your Desktop
Post by: Bull Winkus on January 02, 2016, 07:07:43 PM
Thanks for the instructional, Xair! ? I did not know that. Now I can prank my brother's new iMac and sit back and snicker.

I guess that could come in handy for a point of sale system with the duck feet (err. foot) of the iMac nailed (err. bolted) to a wall.

"That'll be 25 cents please. Your popcorn will be done in 5 more minutes. This new microwave is a lot faster than that old one."

 [cheers1]
Title: Re: WeatherCat on your Desktop
Post by: xairbusdriver on January 02, 2016, 07:41:07 PM
Quote
Now I can prank my brother's new iMac and sit back and snicker.
Somehow, that's what every one thinks when they see this capability. I'm sure that the sense of humor at Apple had nothing to do with this, of course. I think it just fixes the problem when Apple went from horizontal boxes ( II, IIx, IIci, some Quadra models, etc) to the vertical boxes (Power Mac G3, other Quadra models, etc), I mean, the poor cpu never knew which way was "up"! [banghead] [biggrin]
Title: Re: WeatherCat on your Desktop
Post by: WCDev on January 02, 2016, 10:28:28 PM
Quote from: Blicj11 on January 01, 2016, 08:09:32 PM
Hey Stu, what are you doing with that Yosemite background screen? That operating system is so 2015.  :)

Lol. Seriously, it's a development machine and I need it to be stable, thus it's normally running the very last update to the previous version of OS X.
Title: Re: WeatherCat on your Desktop
Post by: wurzelmac on January 05, 2016, 10:14:37 AM
Here is the desktop that I am using right now.

Cheers,
Reinhard

(http://wetter.unterwurzacher.at/bilder/desktop_2016.png)
Title: Re: WeatherCat on your Desktop
Post by: maxen on January 05, 2016, 07:30:51 PM
How do you display the custom gauges like that, without the "window" around them?
I have only found the way to open them is through the menu tools - custom gauges - some gauge and then click on the little arrow at the top to hide the settings, but that leaves the three mac-window-dots and the window frame visible.

Im curious. ???
Title: Re: WeatherCat on your Desktop
Post by: wurzelmac on January 05, 2016, 07:44:28 PM
Try a double-click on a custom gauge.
 ;)
Title: Re: WeatherCat on your Desktop
Post by: maxen on January 06, 2016, 09:27:38 PM
Quote from: wurzelmac on January 05, 2016, 07:44:28 PM
Try a double-click on a custom gauge.
 ;)
Haha!
Well, that was too easy but it worked. [biggrin]
Vielen dank, Reinhard
Title: Re: WeatherCat on your Desktop
Post by: wurzelmac on January 07, 2016, 07:25:05 PM
Gerne geschehen!

 ;D
Title: Re: WeatherCat on your Desktop
Post by: xairbusdriver on January 07, 2016, 08:42:33 PM
What the gentleman meant to say was, "Читать дурацкие руководства". [tup]
Title: Re: WeatherCat on your Desktop
Post by: wurzelmac on January 08, 2016, 07:26:23 AM
Ohh, before I forget: Another double click on the gauge returns you with the *window* around.  ;)

I am afraid my russian is a bit rusty, xair.  ;D

Cheers,
Reinhard
Title: Re: WeatherCat on your Desktop
Post by: xairbusdriver on January 08, 2016, 03:46:44 PM
Quote
I am afraid my russian is a bit rusty

Think what he said was, "Я боюсь я немного заржавели, xair." According to: freetranslation.com (http://www.freetranslation.com/en/translate-english-russian)
DuckDuckGo (https://duckduckgo.com/?t=osx) is your friend! And ducks don't have long memories like Google... [tup]
Title: Re: WeatherCat on your Desktop
Post by: wurzelmac on January 09, 2016, 04:37:46 PM
seems like I am never too old to learn something new. In this case it is russian via freetranslate.
 [cheers1]
Reinhard
Title: My desktop
Post by: dfw_pilot on January 23, 2016, 06:18:02 AM
Boring, but organized . . .
Title: Re: WeatherCat on your Desktop
Post by: xairbusdriver on January 23, 2016, 03:35:52 PM
Quote
Boring, but organized
That's why my physical desktop is so exciting! [rockon] [lol]

As a pilot, I wouldn't expect anything less than "organized"! [removed link to the now castly photobucket.com site] Most pilots don't like surprises! :o

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