Upgraded Weather Station Gauges

[SurfnPics]

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?

[Steve]

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

[Blicj11]

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.

[WCDev]

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.

[monymony]

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. 

[Blicj11]

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.

[Mtn.Marty]

I would like to add my $.02 and also suggest an update to the gauges--size and customization.

[Bull Winkus]

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.

[Randall75]

Hi Bull Winkus
 That looks great you can make them look pretty good if you just take time and try
Still would like to see the window resizable and the Windchill and Heat Index in one window


Thanks for showing it


cheers
 

[Blicj11]

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.