AximSlide for v0.11.0

[umlaw]

thank you.  I'll give it a try and post my success in the next day or so.  I appreciate your help.  It is the best skin so far.

[umlaw]

Thanks for the help.  It works perfectly on my machine.  I think I might actually have found a skin I will keep for more than a week.

[joelw135]

Where do you have the SD card information for the X3? Just an observation!

[dp1don]

Joel:

The SD Card info should appear (as I've tested it) on the right side of the system information container. It shouldn't flash between two cards like the X5 version does (since it doesn't need to - no CF in an x3).

Talking technical turkey:

The System Info Container is Region 8
The sub container is Region 9...
The SD area starts at location 160, 2, within this container.
The button for the SD info starts page 300, which gives a little more detail on capacity used/available.

Lastly, in the Config.exe, you have to make the SD card your FIRST storage path for this to work correctly - but that's included in the CAVEATS I posted with the skin.

Hope that info helps.

dp1don

[joelw135]

I had a slight problem with the SD card showing, the code was corrupted during download. That wasn't the only thing not working. I am using the same system info and had no problem after clean download.  That was the first time that ever happened. I have tried all the skins, and just love to look at the code.  I am more of a screen decorator, then a code breaker.

P.S. My system info flashes between main memory and the SD card for my X3i.

[bubba]

Hi ---

Thanks for making this skin. Can you tell me why my sunrise and sunset are not displaying the correct times. I hve the proper long/lat set as well as the city in the weather. It states that sunrise is at 4.37pm and sunset at 2:41 am. Clearly these are wrong. I checked the clock and it is set for home (not visiting).

BTW, can I use different weather icons, i.e. BBC, Accuweather, etc?

Any help is certainly appreciated.


Thanks again.

BD

[joelw135]

Did you remember that North is + and that W is - you don't put a plus but if it is a - you need to put that in.

You can use different weather icons, by downloading them to the weather icons folder. But you must have the icons in there own folder within the weather icon folder. PLUS you must edit the line in the top of the skin that tells TodayPlus which icons to use.

[bubba]

Hi ---

Thanks for the reply. Both the values are positive (+) 33 lat. & 112 long. Therefore, if I understand you correctly, I can just enter them as is, which is what I am doing and still getting the wrong values.

Any other ideas?

Thanks for the help.

Cheers.

BD

[joelw135]

What city are we talking about?

[bubba]

What city are we talking about?

Phoenix...

Thanks.

[joelw135]

As I thought it is -112 try that.

[bubba]

I will try that later today. I checked 2 sites, (2nd site) and they both have it listed at 112 (not -112).

But if it is implied that it is "-" then that would make sense.

Thanks for your help.

[joelw135]

I had a friend do a Sat search and the feed back said -

[bubba]

Ok..thanks. I can't check now as I have no wireless AP.

I appreciate all your assistance. You have been a great help.

[dp1don]

Joelw - thanks for replying to Bubba...

Bubba, mught I recommend the follwoing site for your Long-Lat numbers:

http://www.heavens-above.com/

This is the Heavens Above site. Follow the link to Select your location, and drill down through the country list to the United States.

Then type in "Phoenix" as your search parameter. (No quotes needed).

It comes back with a list of about a dozen towns and cities named Phoenix, including this one:

Phoenix    Arizona   Maricopa   33.448  -112.073  343 m

That's City, state, county, Latitude, Longitude and Elevation above sea level.

As you can see, Lat's a positive number, and Longitude is a negative...

The best way to envision it is like the old cartesian coordinates we had to use when graphing algebra back in school (the old X-Y scales).

By convention, X ran left and right, and everything to the left of the Zero Point was considered negative.

Similarly, by convention, the Y scale ran up and down, and everything below Zero Point was considered negative.

For our world coordinates, it's the same thing, except the X Axis is measure from the Greenwich Meridian, which runs north-south therough Greenwich England...

And the Y axis is, of course, the Equator.

So, we're abive the equator, so we have a positive Y value (our Latitude)....

But we're to the left (west) of the Greenwich Meridian...so our X value is NEGATIVE. (That's our Longitude, btw).

Long winded, but I hope it makes sense.

Bonus questions:

1) Where is 0,0?

2) Can you have 1 measurement of 180,180? how about -180,-180? If so, why, and if not, why not?

Class dismissed, turn in your homework tomorrow....

DP1Don