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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

It's a karamba theme called osXBar. - Sep 07 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

When you say detailed forecast, are you talking about the plain english weather description (sort of a paragraph).

It's a possibility. Just have to work out how to get it from the site - shouldn't be too hard. I'll look into it tonight.

Matt - Sep 06 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

Works for me here.

Matt - Sep 06 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

You do realise there's a simple solution to your problem ...

Matt - Sep 06 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

which city code were you using on weather.com?

Matt - Sep 05 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

Not quite sure what you're talking about re days.

In terms of the wind, I'm in the process of fixing that.

Matt - Sep 05 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

It's done. I'll upload tomorrow, together with some other new features.

Matt - Sep 04 2003

SuperKaramba Mandrake 9.1 RPM

Karamba & Superkaramba by ageitgey 28 comments

Adam,

The link points to 0.31 still.

Glad you fixed the "cycling bug".

Matt - Sep 04 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

This is interesting. When I first set this up, I had the arrows pointing in the direction that the wind was going to, rather than the direction that it was coming from. This seemed counter-intuitive to me, and so I changed it to the opposite.

I might add it as an option, although it will increase the size of the package.

Matt - Sep 03 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

If you move the theme, so that part of it is off screen, then this causes a problem. Open ~/.superkaramba/liquid_weather.rc in an editor. You will find a line with x=n and a line with y=n (where "n" is a placehoder for a number).

One of those numbers will be negative. Delete it, and replace it with a positive number, and all should be well.

Matt - Sep 02 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

I'll look into it.

Matt - Sep 02 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

What screen resolution?

Matt - Aug 31 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

upgrade to superkaramba 0.31 - Aug 31 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

Regarding kilopascals, all the weather forecasts I've ever seen have used millibars. That's why it was chosen.

Regarding other languages, the text comes from weather.com and bbc. As far as I can see, it would be difficult to translate it on the fly. Also, I speak one language only (ie English), with a little school Deutsch. Unless someone else wants to take on this task, it's not going to happen.

Regarding Montreal, I have no control over the weather.com site. If there are issues with Montreal, you may just have to use BBC.

Matt - Aug 31 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

If you have moving toggled, so you can move the them, all left clicks require a double click. Untoggle moving to go back to single click.

Matt - Aug 30 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

Yes, read the faq (it's one option in the configure menu). You need to click on the option "Enable if details cycle thru all days". You may need to reload the theme for the change to take effect.

The Superkaramba author has found the bug that causes this, and is in the process of testing a fix. However, the above is a work-around in the meantime.

Matt - Aug 30 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

If it's not working, use the BBC site! Sorry to sound exasperated, but your problem would be fixed if you just used the bbc site code provided. The weather.com site obviously has a prejudice agains Montreal.

Matt - Aug 29 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

Did you try the code for the bbc site as above? - Aug 29 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

This should happen automatically.

Matt - Aug 29 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

If you check the site on the web, you'll see that the forecast for Montreal is not working properly. Try the BBC site. Enter the following code in the change location dialog:

0273

This should work.

Matt - Aug 29 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

It's lucky I don't get paid for this, otherwise I would have been sacked a long time ago!

Sorry, the bug fix to fix the "calm" bug somehow fell out - need to check which version I'm working on!

Next release, which will include wind icons (later today hopefully) will fix it.

Matt - Aug 29 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

Fixed it!

D/l 0.10.5.

Matt - Aug 29 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

Regarding cycling, read the FAQ, and/or check the "Enable if details cycle thru days" option on the configuration menu.

Re loading your location, a few people have been having issues. There is one issue that I'm aware of and have fixed (sorry, can't upload at the moment). I'll get it uploaded tonight.

Hopefully, this will fix most of the problems people are having.

Matt - Aug 28 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

I think I may have fixed the problem in terms of changing locations.

However, I'm not sure if that will fix your problem.

Can you post which location you are using, so that I can see if it's being parsed properly.

Thanks

Matt - Aug 28 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

I think I have fixed the issue associated with your problem. I think that should do it, however, I haven't had time to test it.

I'm going to look at it tonight when I get some time.

Look out for a new release shortly, which should fix this problem. - Aug 28 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

I'll check it tonight.

Matt - Aug 27 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

Can you tell me what your screen resolution is?

This is an issue, which I want to look into. It may be that the way I have set up the fonts does not translate well between screen resolutions. If that is the case, then I will try to find a work around.

Matt - Aug 27 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

Although you are getting an error, it is not related to changing the location, and is normal, and does not affect the operation of the script. It is something that needs to be tidied up, but as that error does not affect functionality, I have not tidied it up yet.

Two suggestions:

When you change locations, if it doesn't change immediately, try clicking on reload theme.

Alternatively, you might be suffering from the "calm" bug. Do you have the latest version (0.10.4) installed?

Matt - Aug 27 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

Thanks for spotting this. I'll fix it in the next release. - Aug 27 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

What screen resolution are you using?

Matt - Aug 27 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

Can you please email me the whole page, so I can see those lines in context. If I can see where those lines are, then I should be able to work backwards from there.

Thanks for your diligent bug hunting. Much appreciated. I'd like to get this damn applications working properly for everyone. If that ever happens, then I'm sure that weather.com will completely revamp its site and we'll be back to square one.

Anyway, email me the whole page, and I'll get on it. Click on my name above to get my profile and email addy.

Matt - Aug 25 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

I've been having a few of those problems of late. Unfortunately, I did not write the code that parses the websites to get the forecast info. Also unfortunately, I am not all that familiar with regular expressions, and therefore will have to do some study to see where the issues lie.

I tried to do some debugging this morning, and the script didn't behave as I would have expected. It didn't print debug info where I had expected it would, so I need to investigate that a bit further.

Regarding the image issue, is that an always bug, or is it a once in a while bug. ie if you restart the theme, do you still get the same bug.

Thanks.

Matt - Aug 24 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 13 comments

Can't at this stage. I'm thinking of shifting this to a python based theme, which would allow me to switch between 24hr and 12hr time. At the moment it is simply a 24 hour clock.

I'll get onto the python thing if there is demand for this.

Matt - Aug 24 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

To fix the cycling problem, go to the configure menu, and click "Enable this if detail cycles thru days". You may need to reload the theme, for it to take effect.

The change location dialog does refer to US Zip codes - not sure what you're referring to here.

Regarding redraw issue, this is inherent in superkaramba. v.30 has a callback to get around this. I have not implemented it yet, as the API docs haven't been updated yet, and I haven't had time to play with it.

Regarding the readme, I am going to put an FAQ/README in the configure menu, so that this document is displayed as a help file.

Matt - Aug 24 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

USTN0356 works fine here with liquid weather ++.

You could try 0466 from the bbc site.

It's hard to bug fix stuff that works here.

Have a look at ~/.superkaramba/liquid_weather.rc, and post the output here.

ta

Matt - Aug 21 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

You say that you are using an older version. Which version? Wouldn't it make sense to upgrade if it's not working for you?

It consistently updates for me as per the script, so I'm not sure why you are having trouble. The only time it doesn't update, is when there is a problem with my connection, or when there is a problem with the site that it's trying to parse. Have you gone to the relevant URL to see if the page is up and functional?

Post the location code you are using, so I can test it.

Matt - Aug 18 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

The location is not determined by what's in the weather.html file, it's determined by what's in the liquid_weather.rc file. When you're in the theme, right click, go to configuration and change the location by putting in the weather.com alphanumeric code for your location. It will be US******. Where the stars are two letters, then four numbers.

Matt - Aug 17 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

I'll have a look at it. It looks like it might be similar, however, I didn't write the bits of the app that actually get the data, so if it requires me to fiddle with the regular expressions that parse the weather.com site, then you'll be out of luck. I suspect you may be out of luck, but I'll check.

Matt - Aug 16 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

It means that the theme can't connect to the website necessary to download the data, and there is no locally stored information. Are you connected to the internet when you start this up?

Matt - Aug 15 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

For some reason I can't get it to work on USNY0176. I can get it to work on a number of other US cities using the weather.com site, but not New York. The BBC site works tho. Put in 0101, and you'll have the new york forecast.

HTH

Matt - Aug 11 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

Can you tell me the exact zip code you are entering, so that I can test it here. Make sure it's case sensitive.

Matt - Aug 11 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

Not sure what your issue is here. What do you mean by karamba weather.html? I'm not sure how this relates to entering the code for your location. Can you set out what exactly it is that you are entering into the dialog box, so that I can see whether you are in fact entering in the correct information.

Thanks - Aug 11 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

Yeah, I get that occasionally, but I've had it occasionally on previous releases as well, so I don't think it's new to the current code. Anyway, I'm also experiencing the time bug. I'm looking into it, however, I'm still coming to grips with the data structures put in place by Heikki, and so am trying to work out where the problem lies.

Matt - Aug 10 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

Is this a once in a while, or an every time bug?

Matt - Aug 10 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

Also, if you are not exiting cleanly (ie crashing out), then the config file may not be being saved, which would explain why it's returning to where it was.

Matt - Aug 09 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

Re the locking problem, do you toggle the locking back on before exiting?

Also re the scroll problem, this appears to be fixed now on everyone elses box. Maybe you should upgrade to 0.29.

re a rewrite, 0.10 is effectively a rewrite, given that it now adds an optional click method. This seems to have fixed everyone elses problem. Furthermore, it is not an issue with the script, I think it is a bug in superkaramba, which only affects people using gentoo and suse 8.2. Who knows why, but there it is.

Matt - Aug 09 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

The theme requires that you have the Microsoft Web Fonts installed (it uses Arial Black and Verdana).

I may add a config option to switch to more conventional linux fonts like luxi sans or just sans.

However the MS Web Fonts are available on the web. Check on sourceforge.

Matt - Aug 09 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

Does version 0.10 fix this? Remember to check the "check to fix scroll bug" in the config menu, and reload the theme, if you still get the hand when you hover over an icon.

Let me know if this fixes it.

Matt - Aug 09 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

Are you reloading the theme once you've checked the fix scroll bug entry in the config menu?

Matt - Aug 09 2003

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Karamba & Superkaramba by Matti 1794 comments

Better than that, I'll put an option in the config menu to choose between the two options. Hopefully this will fix it.

"I'll be back". Give me a day or two and it'll be done.

Matt - Aug 09 2003