SciFi Console

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Contents 1 SciFi Console 2 Introduction 3 Installation Instructions: 4 General Directions 5 Special Requirements 6 Known Limitations and bugs:

SciFi Console

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'SciFi Console
Author	KEN
Date Updated	June 30, 2006
Download Links	SciFi Console VGA SciFi Console QVGA

Layout / Theme Name: SciFi Console

Resolutions supported: VGA & QVGA

• SciFi Console VGA
• SciFi Console QVGA

For questions or comments please post on this thread: http://pixel.citadel.org/weatherpanel/viewtopic.php?t=54

Introduction

SciFi Console is a fully landscape and portrait compliant WeatherPanel theme meant to compliment Juni's Scifi theme.

Installation Instructions:

Download the proper file to your computer and unzip the folder and place the files within the folder on your PPC in your MaresWare/WeatherPanel/Themes/SciFi folder. Go into WeatherPanel settings and select the display tab from the bottom. For theme select SciFi, and select the SciFi Console.wpl layout for the Layout. While this theme will work inside PocketBreeze it is not really designed to and if you have it in PB with side tabs the may be overly congested.

General Directions

The layout is pretty self explanatory, tap one of the buttons on the left to open specific views, tap any of the lower icons for more info on that days forecast. Any of the icons in the upper part of the window will open up Juni's custom Weather Detail screens.

Special Requirements

This layout must be used with Juni's Sci Fi theme. No images from Juni's theme are included in the package. This theme requires the latest version of WeatherPanel.

The lunar calendar display will work best if you have mini moon icons in your selected theme. It will use the built in mini moons if you do not but this will significantly slow the display. If you wish to use the Real time moon image display make that image the seventh image of your home city. To use this you must have the seventh radar image pointed to the following URL: [1] Note that if you have no seventh image the screen will default to a standard moon image from your icon set, this is so you do not have to have multiple downloads of the moon image for proper display when not viewing from your home city. If you do not have six radar images for your home city use the link below to create a blank radar image. The url for this blank radar image is: [2] Use this link to create a blank radar image link. The image is a one pixel jpg image so it shouldn't take long to download or take up significant space on your device.

Known Limitations and bugs:

1.) This theme will not display at it's best in PocketBreeze with side tabs. WeatherPanel reads the screen width based on the Today plugins location so it will see the Today screen as being only 224 pixels wide instead of 240 (this is in WP terms, obviously the numbers are doubled for VGA) which causes the display to be too narrow.

2.) On the built in Weather Details pages if you are looking at the page which shows multiple days while in Landscape mode and tap one of the icons it will take you to the Portrait details page for that day. This appears to be a bug with WeatherPanel. This bug is present in a few of these pages.

3.) If you do not update for over 24 hours then much of the display will be somewhat unpredictable. This is a limitation of using the IF-CURRENT-ACTUAL command.

4.) NOTE TO QVGA USERS: I designed this layout to be very compact and as such it may not be very readable on QVGA devices. Since I would have to totally rewrite the files and change the entire nature of the layout to fix this I won't. So if you find the appearance acceptable use it with my blessings, and if not then don't.