HotWeather 2 f.AveScripter1075

Hot Weather 2 - "Watch the climate change..."
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IMPORTANT:
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See
[link]=529528
if the desklet stopped working -
weather.com changed their way of providing the weather data, so here's the info....
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Hi there -

this is the next version of my "HotWeather" desklet for AveDesk.
Requires AveScripter version 1.0.7.5!!!

Featuring:
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- A rotationg Sky with Sunrise,-set and Moon phases!
- Detailed Weather forecast (Hover over small icons to change High/Low temp, probability of rain info & text forecast)
- Even more detailed information for present day: Present temp, humidity, wind speed & direction and local time
- Skinable!! Comes with 3 skins...
- Two (transparent) color masks for colorizing the skin
- Choose different weather icons and sky images (Download includes default icons/images only, it's big enough as it is)
- Switch between your favourite cities via a dropdown menu at the front of the desklet
- Satellite map
- Hotkey for showing/hiding the desklet (see help file for Ascii-Codes of the letters, e.g. "082"="R" as in the preview for ALT+R)


FIRST Run:
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Will take 1 or 2 minutes to start and slow your PC down - on first run the desklet will create images for the sky (only ONCE).
No worries!
(Due to the fact, that it's not possible to rotate an image without rotating it's mask (hiding parts of the sky), too.)


Installation:
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Rename HotW........ZIP to HW2.AVEINST and doubleclick it while AveDesk is running... DONE!

...I really don't know, why deviantArt keeps on renaming the files - there are so many skin formats that are based on zip and shouldn't be renamed...


Important:
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- Default skin uses a LCD font, which normally should be installed automatically - if not, just copy it from ...AveDesk/Desklets/AveScripter/HotWeather2/Fonts to C:/Windows/Fonts
- If you want to use other icons, just copy the set to .../HotWeather2/Small_Icons and/or .../HotWeather2/Big_Icons respectively
- Making your own skin: Easiest way is copying a folder in .../HotWeather2/Skins, renaming it and changing images/xml-file (the default one is best commented)
- Changing to a new city: Go to HotWeather Options via Rightclick, Type in "Cityname(, Country)" without Enter/Return and select a city from the dropdownmenu... it will be added top to your favourite cities list
- Requires AveScripter version 1.0.7.5



Thanks to
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- Pierre-e Gougelet / [link] for "nconvert" (needed to rotate the images)
- Southern Software, Inc. for the LCDDisplayCapsSSi font used with the default skin (from [link])
- redheadstock aka Stephanie Shimerdla at [link] / [link] for her glitter brushes (helping me crating a night sky in less than a minute...)
- Vladstudio for his great wallpapers (as in the preview)







NEW to AVEDESK??
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Installing AveDesk (complete guide):


1) Download AveDesk 1.3 here: [link]
or for VISTA (home premium): [link]

2) Unzip/Unrar it to your programs folder (assumed) C:\programs\...\AveDesk
3) Doubleclick C:\programs\...\AveDesk\register.bat - this "installs"/registers AveDesk

If you want to update to AveDesk 2 Beta (runs nicely),
- download it here: [link]
- Unzip it to C:\programs\...\AveDesk (Overwriting old files)
- Delete the folder C:\programs\...\AveDesk\Languages (translations make it crash)

4) Download latest AveScripter (AveScripter & AveScripter Update) - [link]
5) Doubleclick the downloaded avescripter.aveinst while AveDesk is running (first AveScripter, then the AveScripter Update)
6) Download latest HotWeather2.aveinst or other desklets at my deviantArt page or here: [link]
7) Doubleclick the downloaded ???.aveinst-file while AveDesk is running

If you want to use SysStats Docklets with AveDesk also:
- Download latest SysStats here: [link]
- 7) Doubleclick the downloaded SysStats.aveinst while AveDesk is running


... So this is a complete instruction, all desklets/docklets available for AveDesk should function with this setup.
Some desklets/docklets (SysStats, ObjectDock docklets) don't come as *.aveinst files - in this case unzip them in the folder C:\programs\...\AveDesk\Desklets or C:\programs\...\AveDesk\Docklets


See help file for more...