FAQs

[srs]

How do I change the weather to my city ?

1) Find you location code from weather.com.  For US locations you can use your zip code, for other locations go to weather.com and search for your city.  Once you find your city, look at the URL for the location code.  For example, the page for London, UK is this:

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http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/local/UKXX0085 and the location code is UKXX0085.

2)  Open up the config.txt file located in the TodayPlus folder (\Program Files\TodayPlus\).  Change this line:

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city,1,60,77840,Home,f
to

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city,1,60,[YOUR LOCATION CODE],Home,f
you may also wish to change the "f" (farenheit) to "c" (celcius) if you want metric units.  If you don't find your particular city try searching on uk.weather.com (as it seems to have more international cities).

3)  In order for the data to refresh, delete all the files contained in the Buffer subfolder (\Program Files\TodayPlus\Buffer\).  Then hit the refresh button or do an activesync to download new weather data.

Note: Weather data from MSNBC.com is only updated approximately once per hour.  Therefore, you should not change the refresh interval in the city command to anything less than 60 (minutes).  

Whenever you press the refresh button, TodayPlus checks the time the weather data was last downloaded, and if it's less than the refresh interval, the weather data is not downloaded.  This may make it appear that the refresh is not working.  If you feel you have to force a refresh, see step 3) above.

[srs]

How do I reload the plugin (to change skins, etc.) ?

To reload the plugin, click on Start, Settings, Today, Items tab, Click on OK.

A soft reset is not required.  Unchecking / rechecking the check boxes is not necessary.

[arbitrajeu]

How do I translate the weather information?

You can translate the values in the forecasttext.txt file into your chosen language, and this will change the text displayed with the main forecast information for today and future days.

However, it is not possible for you to translate the text associated with the "current conditions".  This is because this information is provided by MSNBC.com, the weather source for TodayPlus.  You can see this information in the cityx.txt file, which will show something like:

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this.swConText = "Partly Cloudy";
There has been some discussion about how best to implement a translation for current conditions.  Alternatively, you could modify the skin to leave it out.

[arbitrajeu]

How do I get TodayPlus to report on my storage card?

Most skins will contain a region for system information, and this will typically be configured for the skinner's particular PocketPC.  However, some emerging standards should make it easier to substitute your storage details.

Taking the default config.txt as an example, it defines:

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storage,storagepath1,\storage card\
This creates a storage identifier storagepath1 which points at the directory \storeage card\ when checking stats.

If your CF card, for example, actually has the directory name \CF card\ then you should substitute the following line:

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storage,storagepath1,\CF card\

As it stands, that should be sufficient.  However, if your skin has references to CF, whereas you actually have an SD card, you might also like to search in the skin file for any occurrences of storagepath1 and check for hardcoded text, for example:

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storage,storagepath1,used,196,0,CF: , MB,c

Note: This latter editing should soon be unnecessary as another parameter is being added to the storage command in the config.txt to hold such text.