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WeatherCat => WeatherCat Feature Requests => Topic started by: SurfnPics on August 27, 2013, 08:21:47 PM
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Forgetting about functionality, I am just talking about the look/appearance of the interface.
I would like to see these upgraded to be larger, clearer and a lot more modern with the option to make some personal adjustments to colours, layout etc. Currently they are as basic as you can get appearance wise. I have a great big screen and I can't even scale it the gauges larger. be nice to be able to have the round gauges with an option for a digital number version.
Are there any plans to improve the?
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Hi surfnpics, and welcome to the WeatherCat forum!
Of the three Mac weather station software packages available, I'd say WeatherCat's is in the middle. Weather Display has a lot of information, but in a densely packed display that looks like it is from the '70s. WeatherSnoop has the most "lifelike" gauges, although at least one member here thinks they are a little too skeuomorphic. I'll agree with you that WeatherCat's could use some updating, and wholeheartedly agree on the need for resizing. I have a 27" screen and the gauges take up only a tiny corner of the screen with very small text. Even on my 17" MBP the WeatherCat Client is small and hard to read. I keep grabbing the corner to enlarge it, forgetting it is a fixed size.
Meanwhile, if you want some really nice gauges for WeatherCat, you could run the Live Gauges web page locally and view your data in your browser. Here's a link to my live gauges page to show you the possibilities: http://www.avon-weather.com/steel/live.htm
Steve
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I too agree with this suggestion. If I thought that graphics were more important than functionality or data, I would be using a different software package, but the graphics, especially in the OSx and iOS clients, tell the story in a glance, which is the purpose of the client.
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Various gauge attributes can be changed in WeatherCat's preferences (color, shading, pointer and frame thicknesses and so on) - but it isn't yet possible to resize the gauges. The same is also true of the Daily View/Controller window - there are requests in to make this resizable so as to make the text bigger. These things are on the todo list.
Cheers,
Stu.
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While upgraded and more "pretty" gauges would be nice, I have to look at it this way... I have recently converted from my Windows-Based version of Weatherlink so anything that doesn't look like it is out of a 1991 DOS program is a huge improvement.
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anything that doesn't look like it is out of a 1991 DOS program is a huge improvement
Ha ha! I know what you mean. I love my Vantage Pro2 but I don't love WeatherLink.
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I would like to add my $.02 and also suggest an update to the gauges--size and customization.
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Just a note about the existing Weather Station Gauges for WC: If you tweak the settings for color, shading, frame thicknesses, etc? as Stu suggested, you can improve the appearance, just not the size. Here's my example.
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Hi Bull Winkus
That looks great you can make them look pretty good if you just take time and try [tup]
Still would like to see the window resizable and the Windchill and Heat Index in one window
Thanks for showing it
cheers
[cheers1]
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If you tweak the settings for color, shading, frame thicknesses, etc? as Stu suggested, you can improve the appearance
Thanks for the reminder and your example. I went through mine and tweaked the settings and I agree, the gauges look better.