Problem in setting up radar

[qianbi0000]

Yes, but something stange now. In radar folder there is no *.jpg now, in radar1 folder there are 1.jpg, 2.jpg, 3.jpg, 4.jpg, AND ALSO HAVE 1. jpg, 2. jpg, 3. jpg and 4. jpg, where there is a space between "." and "jpg"!

[uk_skinner]

Yes, but something stange now. In radar folder there is no *.jpg now, in radar1 folder there are 1.jpg, 2.jpg, 3.jpg, 4.jpg, AND ALSO HAVE 1. jpg, 2. jpg, 3. jpg and 4. jpg, where there is a space between "." and "jpg"!

Is your PC also Chinese OS?  If so open the text file again, then select "save as" and look what is says in "Encoding" window.

[qianbi0000]

No my laptop is english. I tried to delete all the file in radar and radar1 folder, and delete all lines in radar.txt, then add lines one by one. i find if there is only one url it seem ok, if have two or more urls, the error appears.
such as:
SURL=http://image.weather.com/images/sat/east_asiasat_277x187.jpg
STOR=\Program Files\TodayPlus\Images\Radar1\1.jpg
FORM=
is ok

and
SURL=http://image.weather.com/images/sat/asiasat_277x187.jpg
STOR=\Program Files\TodayPlus\Images\Radar1\2.jpg
FORM=
is ok

but if:
SURL=http://image.weather.com/images/sat/east_asiasat_277x187.jpg
STOR=\Program Files\TodayPlus\Images\Radar1\1.jpg
FORM=
SURL=http://image.weather.com/images/sat/asiasat_277x187.jpg
STOR=\Program Files\TodayPlus\Images\Radar1\2.jpg
FORM=
the error appears

[ZapMe1]

We could discuss this in the forum "chat" room...  May be faster for a solution !!

[uk_skinner]

Can you still check what is encoding?  Did you make any change in your PC when you tried use the default radar.txt?  I am still try to figure out, how comes you can download 4 jpg in Radar1 folder before you have "/Radar2" problem.  In my text file, the encoding is "ANSI".  If yours is not, you might want to try this.

[uk_skinner]

I am in chat room.

[Wichtel]

Zapme1
your last Radar.zip hav also the Radar2 fault

qianbi0000

please try this Radar.txt

[ZapMe1]

qianbi,

Ok, this should work for you !!  


The attached zip file contains (2) files:   EZDownload.exe  & qianbi_radar.exe

1) Copy EZDownload .exe to :   \Windows

2) Copy qianbi_radar.exe to :    \my documents

3) Delete 1,2,3,4.jpg files from your radar1 & radar folders to ensure new images are downloaded

4) Modify your skin file to call qianbi_radar.exe instead of the radar.exe that you have now !!


Your images should be downloaded..  (4) in Radar1 & (4) in Radar


I assumed that the path to your radar folders is:

\program files\todayplus\images\radar1
&
\program files\todayplus\images\radar

If this is different, let me know...   Good Luck !!!  

[ZapMe1]

Zapme1
your last Radar.zip hav also the Radar2 fault

Strange, I was sure I had fixed this !!   Sorry...  

But qianbi also said that he corrected this..  

@qianbi,
Try Wichtel's corrected radar.txt and see if it works, if not, try the EZ-Download setup I posted above !!

[Wichtel]

Zapme1
This isn't so bad. We work much and each of us makes faults.

[qianbi0000]

Great! When I use EZdownload and qianbi_radar provided by Zapme1, it runs smoothly and no bothersome error message appears!!!!

But something strange: at first in radar folder i only find 1.jpg and 2.jpg and all 4 jpgs in radar1 folder. when update again, i found 1.jpg, 2.jpg and 3.jpg in radar folder and 4 jpgs in radar1 folder. update again, still three jpgs in radar folder..

And ZapMe1, could u tell what's the diffrence between ezdownload, qianbi_radar.exe and radar.exe? I think it is confuse but interesting..

And again, thanks all of u !

[uk_skinner]

Great! When I use EZdownload and qianbi_radar provided by Zapme1, it runs smoothly and no bothersome error message appears!!!!

But something strange: at first in radar folder i only find 1.jpg and 2.jpg and all 4 jpgs in radar1 folder. when update again, i found 1.jpg, 2.jpg and 3.jpg in radar folder and 4 jpgs in radar1 folder. update again, still three jpgs in radar folder..

And ZapMe1, could u tell what's the diffrence between ezdownload, qianbi_radar.exe and radar.exe? I think it is confuse but interesting..

And again, thanks all of u !

qianbi:

  The EzDownload was used at early stage to download image via http becuase it is free and can be call out via a simple exe.  However, the whole package could be bulky depends how you do it.

 Your url address were hard code into qianbi_radar.exe and you can not change it unless you install evc3/evc4 and get the codes from ZapMe1.

The ones I sent to you was modified and can read the url and file pathway from a text file but still use 2 exe to do the downloading, EzDwonload and radar.exe.  But it is easier if you want change the url and file pathway. It was Rotlaus who developed by his own and came out the one we are using right now.  Only one exe and txt need.  For some reason, it did not run well in your device.

[ZapMe1]

But something strange: at first in radar folder i only find 1.jpg and 2.jpg and all 4 jpgs in radar1 folder. when update again, i found 1.jpg, 2.jpg and 3.jpg in radar folder and 4 jpgs in radar1 folder. update again, still three jpgs in radar folder..

And ZapMe1, could u tell what's the diffrence between ezdownload, qianbi_radar.exe and radar.exe? I think it is confuse but interesting..

quanbi,
I tried this again on my device, and I had all 8 images downloaded..  Maybe the connection you have is part of the problem..   Maybe we could split up the 8 images you have into 2 exe files, to only download 4 at one time !!  You could still use one tap in your skin to do both updates!!

The difference in EZDownload and Radar.exe is just like UK_Skinner said in his post..   Radar.exe uses a user-changable txt file, and EZDownload uses a "hard coded" exe that can only be changed by using Embedded Visual Basic 3.0 or 4.0, which is available from Microsoft !!  

[ZapMe1]

qianbi,

UK_Skinner and I were talking about this and wondering, about how long does it take for you to update your 8 images ??

With EZDownload ??
With Radar.exe ??

[qianbi0000]

EZDownload is quite fast which should be within 30 sec. but radar.exe is slow with about 1 minutes or more