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'VAIO TABS'
Author	KEN
Date Updated	March 19, 2006
Download Links	VAIO TABS VGA VAIO TABS QVGA VAIO TABS QVGA 2

Layout / Theme Name: VAIO TABS

Resolutions supported: VGA

• VAIO TABS VGA
• VAIO TABS QVGA
• VAIO TABS QVGA 2

For questions or comments please post on this thread: http://pixel.citadel.org/weatherpanel/viewtopic.php?p=408#408

This layout is meant to compliment mickesjo's amazing new suite available here: http://www.sbsh.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=9682&st=0

Thanks to Buzzard for beta testing this theme and help with images and special thanks to Hezahonker for her help with resizing the layouts for QVGA devices! QVGA users should try her new version VAIO TABS QVGA 2 which she has substantially rewritten for QVGA devices.

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

Special Requirements

This theme requires the latest version of WeatherPanel, and you need at least two sizes of icons for proper display, for these files you need regular and mini icons. The directory structure for icons should be as follows: Icons/YourIcons where YourIcons is the icon set you are using. This folder can have the following sub-folders: Huge, Large, Mini and Moon, the Huge, Large and Mini can have a sub-folder in them called Moon.

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.

Introduction

VAIO TABS only supports portrait view and is meant to be used inside Wisbar Advance Desktop, a plugin of Wisbar Advance 2. It can be used directly on the today screen but care should be taken in the background image used.

Installation Instructions:

Download the proper VGA file to your computer and unzip the folder and place the VAIO TABS folder on your PPC in your MaresWare/WeatherPanel/Themes folder. Go into WeatherPanel settings and select the display tab from the bottom. For theme select VAIO TABS, and select the VAIOTABS.wpl layout for the Layout. Select the icons you wish to use with the layout (Note that the lunar calendar works much faster if you have mini moon icons with the Icons you select. This theme work best with both normal and mini icons.)

General Directions

Basic operation of this theme is quite simple, from the default today screen display you will have six tabs at the top of the display. To navigate from the default screen (MAIN) you can tap any of the large icons to switch to a forecast for that day (DETAILS) or tap DETAILS directly from the MAIN screen to access a current forecast for today. Note that from any other tab the DETAIL tab will open a forecast for the current day and not the current information. The GRAPHS tab will open a multiline graph (or two if using the large layout), the RADAR tab will open a radar window with three to six tabs on the right to open different radar views depending on the layout selected, the LUNAR is pretty self explanitory and finally the alert tab will show any current alerts for the current city and the last update time. To access settings from any tab just tap the current tab and the drop down menu will appear.

Layout incuded

• VaioTabs.wpl - A large today layout meant to be used in a seperate page in Wisbar Advance Desktop using the Vaio theme. Use the Vaio_WeatherBack.png as your background for WAD and place WeatherPanel at 122 pixels and you should get the screen shown.

Known Limitations and bugs:

1.) If you do not update for over 24 hours then some of the display will be somewhat unpredictable. This is a limitation of using the CURRENT forecast section. If you do not update then the DETAILS tab will not open from the main screen as no current information is available.

2.) In the Current details screen there is a hidden radar window which can be accessed by the icon at the top left of the temp graph. No way to close the radar once open without leaving the details page. I did this by creating a radar window pointed to Radar-9 assuming that no one has 10 radar images for any single city. If they do they will not be able to see the underlying graph.