What's New

Version notes:

• 8.10 - 8.14:
  • Major enhancements to the weather warning logic.
  • Weather1 Task Bar is no longer supported and was removed from Weather1.
  • Many minor fixes and enhancements.
  • Improvements so that Weather1 can eventually run as a portable application from a USB flash drive or portable hard drive.
    NOTE: After vs. 8.10, Weather1 no longer uses the Windows registry to store user preferences. Instead, they are stored in the Weather1.ini file. This will aid in Weather1 being able to run from a portable USB flash drive, etc. Weather1 will automatically move user preferences from the Windows registry to the Weather1.ini file for you, and will then clean those from the registry.
    Warning: If after installing 8.10 or later, should you decide to return to an older version, the user preferences will no longer exist since older versions require they be in the Windows registry.
    
• 8.09:
  • Improved International location searching.
  • Settings are now saved to Weather1.ini in your Weather1 folder. The purpose of this is to eventually allow Weather1 to run as a portable application from a USB flash drive or portable hard drive, etc.
• 8.08:
  • Improved Country and Continent searching and related messages.
  • Minor improvements
• 8.07:
  • Simplified "send message to support" feature.
  • Various satellite & radar image updates - especially under GOES Satellite listings.
  • Misc improvements.
• 8.06:
  • Misc. improvements to Saved Locations and Log file functions.
  • Added UV data to log file.
• 8.03 - 8.05:
  • Increased the number of locations you can save from 20 to 50.
  • It now remembers your Hue and Brightness settings. Did you know you can change the hue and brightness of the Weather1 windows? Just click Options->Preferences->General tab, then scroll down until you see the options.
  • Fixed support e-mail bug.
  • Sorting the Saved Locations is saved/restored.
  • Misc. fixes.
• 8.01 - 8.02:
  • Misc. fixes.
  • Updated various report and forecast links, including 10-day outlook forecasts (worldwide) and USDA crop forecasts and reports.
• 8.00.4 -.5:
  • Improvements in location search. You can now also search by city or state. It will return a list of matches, which you can then choose from.
  • Misc. fixes.
• 8.00.2 (BETA):
  • Changes in the selection of locations:
    • There's only one window to select locations (official or personal weather stations).
    • There's no longer a treeview to select locations. Now, you simply "search" for a location. You can search by city, state, zip, lat/lon, etc. The search results will show you both the nearest Official weather reporting stations and Personal Weather Stations.
    • Old locations may not work - you may have to rechoose them. You will get a message if you need to reselect them.
  • Minor fixes to temperature (voice) announcement logic.
  • Local radar was removed from the Forecast tab and is now larger and on the Main location tab. This is not available for all locations worldwide.
  • Local radar is also shown for Personal weather station locations. This is not available for all locations worldwide.
  • When selecting a Personal Weather Station, Weather1 will automatically choose the nearest Official Weather Reporting Station to include any additional data that the Personal Weather Station may not provide (such as Visibility, Clouds, UV, Record High, etc).
  • On the "Saved Locations" tab, if you double-click a Personal Weather Station, it will now launch your web browser and show you the forecast for that area.
  • Changes in the base code - more efficiencies, etc. It's one MB smaller!
• 7.5:
  • Improvements in weather station searching. You can easily search by zip, city, state, lat/lon, etc, and it returns both Official Weather Stations (ie: airports) and also Personal Weather Stations -- so you can easily choose either from the same window. Just click the "Search" button from the Choose Location window. If you select a Personal Weather Station, Weather1 will combine the data from the Personal Weather Station and the nearest official weather station, giving the most complete picture of the local weather.
  • New weather icons.
  • Misc. improvements and minor fix to voice (temperature) announcement logic.
• 7.26 - 7.27:
  • Misc. improvements.
• 7.25:
  • Added new locales to: (Alberta) Canada, Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama.
  • Other misc.
• 7.24:
  • "Saved Locations" tab has a new, manual "Update" button. This tab is also automatically set to update about every 30 minutes.
  • Warnings tab also has a new, manual "Update" button so you can manually get an update at any time for the local warnings in your area (U.S. only)
  • New option when choosing a Personal Weather Station (PWS location), you can now choose the location to get the missing/additional data as well as the official forecast. See Preferences window, under the Conditions tab.
  • Record high and Record low now include the year of the record high and low.
  • Removed temperature gauge (until I can provide something better)
  • Fix to weather warning logic
  • Misc. improvements
• 7.23:
  • Fixes to Warnings and News logic.
• 7.20 - 7.22:
  • Various fixes to wallpaper functions. The wallpaper setting "Inactive/Active" are now ignored.
• 7.19:
  • Removed requirement for the Microsoft GDIplus.dll (for older Microsoft operating systems).
• 7.18:
  • Misc. fixes.
  • New images added: World Infrared, US Activity Loop, US Radar Mosaic, and other US sector animations.
• 7.16 - 7.17:
  • Minor fixes to automatic wallpaper update logic.
  • New right-click option for main window: "Show/hide main menu bar". This option allows you to optionally hide or show the main menu bar. This is a nice feature when you're using a minimal display template or have the window sized very small to just show the temperature, etc.
  • New "minimal template" provided. This display template simply shows the location, temperature and conditions. So you can resize the main Weather1 window very small to just see the temperature and conditions. This is just one idea. Create your own html template by copying and modifying one of the existing templates. To change the template, just right-click on the main menu and choose "Choose html template". Click here to see how it looks. Have fun!
• 7.15:
  • Fix to Windows shutdown issue. Weather1 should close properly when the user does a Windows shutdown/logoff. This is actually a Microsoft OS bug so I've had to create a work-around.
• 7.11 - 7.14:
  • Fixes to moon logic for 2007.
  • Improvements to the wallpaper logic.
  • Misc. improvements.
• 7.10:
  • Weather1 is shareware again - very few actually made donations and wasn't worth supporting on just a few dollars. :/
    If you were an existing customer, your previous registration codes will work with the new version.
  • Other misc. improvements.
• 7.06 - 7.07:
  • Fix to start-up location setting - it wasn't remembering it in recent versions.
  • Improved alignment of cells in Wallpaper settings grid.
  • Other misc. improvements.
• -> 7.05:
  • Misc improvements and updates.
  • Moved Kazakhstan structure from under Asia to Europe.
  • Moved Indonesia from Australia to Asia.
  • Locations are now stored in the Weather1.ini file for easy transport, sharing, portable usage, etc.
  • Optional voice files improved for female1.
  • Fix to Image favorites.
• -> 7.04:
  • Misc. improvements in warnings logic - so that if the warnings don't change, you're not notified over and over again. If you have the option set to alert you of weather warnings, it will only alert you when the warnings change.
  • Added the announcement of the weather conditions! If it's partly cloudy, you can now optionally have it announce it aloud. Currently only the default and female1 voices have the corresponding files. If you're creative and want your own voice files, just record them using the Windows recorder and use the same file names as the existing ones. :)
• 7.01 - 7.03:
  • Improved the warnings tab to be cleaner and less cluttered. Just showing you the info you need. :)
  • Improved the warnings pop-up to also show the actual warnings (just use the little scroll bar button to scroll the window. If you click the details link, it will show you the Warnings tab of the main Weather1 window.
  • Other misc. improvements.
• 7.00:
  • With Vs. 7.00, Weather1® is donation-ware - I've decided to try this for a while. No registration codes are needed. If you use Weather1® and like it, please donate. Why? I want to give people the option to pay what they think Weather1 is worth to them and I would like more people to be using Weather1 instead of 'weatherbuggy', etc. :)
• 6.50:
  • Complete rewrite of previous "SideImage" logic. Weather1 now includes a "Weather1 Image Viewer". It functions very similar to the previous SideImage, but you can now launch multiple image viewers and each can be independently positioned on your screen and set to auto-update at the intervals you prefer. This is great if you want to monitor more than one image at a time, and it's completely separate from the position of the main Weather1 window, so you can keep the image viewer windows open while the main Weather1 window may be minimized. :)
    To change the auto-update interval, just right-click the "Frequency" button at the bottom of the Image Viewer.
  • Fix to wallpaper logic.
  • Added a lot of satellite and radar images (too many to list).
• -> 6.13 - 6.14:
  • Fixed minor bug during Windows™ shutdown. If you shutdown Windows before closing Weather1, Windows will now shutdown.
• -> 6.11 - 6.12:
  • The main window now remembers it's size.
  • New Preferences:
    • Window opacity - you can now set the window opacity (you must have Win2000 or WinXP for this to work).
    • Hide tabs - you can now optionally hide the Warnings and News tabs. To change these options, view the Preferences window and select the corresponding section to make the change.
    • The automatic "check for Weather1 updates" now displays a message at the top of the main window instead of the pop-up window.
  • New right-click option in main window - "Save to Bitmap". This saves a bitmap image of the main window to a location you choose.
  • Known issues with 6.12: If you shutdown Windows without closing Weather1 first, Weather1 may not close, so you will need to do one of two things if you encounter this issue:
    1. Close Weather1 before shutting-down Windows. This is the preferred method anyway. You should always close applications before shutting-down Windows!
    2. ...or...you may have to hit the shut-down option twice if Weather1 doesn't close after the first time.
• -> 6.08 - 6.10:
  • Fixed minor bug during Windows shutdown. Scenario: If you had Weather1 running, then you pressed Start->Shutdown, windows wouldn't shut down the first time. You had to press it again. Now, this is fixed in Vs. 6.08. :)
  • Updated links under the Reports menu.
  • Fixed 'image favorites' functions.
• -> 6.05 - 6.07:
  • A few fixes; including better restoring of window sizes.
  • New default skin! I welcome your feedback.
  • The moon phase image has now moved to the main tab page. If you want to change it's location, just edit the html template. :)
  • New "Warnings" tab - I'm experimenting with this idea. This tab will automatically show your state's weather warnings, weather statements and advisories, as well as short-term forecasts. I welcome your feedback!
• -> 6.04:
  • The Weather1 Skin Editor Beta is now available for download.
  • Fixed copy options for main window and forecast window. You can now right-click either window and copy the contents to the clipboard.
  • Added right-click options to Forecast window to refresh, copy & print the content.
  • Other misc. improvements.
• -> 6.03:
  • Fixed image links for Choose an Image / Satelite Images / US Satelite Images / Western US 1km Visable Images
  • Added more U.K. locales.
• -> 6.01 - 6.02:
  • Added separate Wind Chill temperature announcement options (see Preferences window, under the Announcement tab), and also included WindChill.wav file in the default wav directory.
  • Misc. fixes.
  • Small fix to wallpaper logic.
  • Improved Metric display content.
  • F5 and F8 keyboard commands now work correctly. F5 refreshes the conditions and F8 updates the wallpaper based on your wallpaper options. The Weather1 must be the current window for these keys to work. They are not system-wide key shortcuts.
  • Updated the female1.zip file - added heatindex and windchill wav files. More to come.
  • Fixed Weather Warning alert sound logic. There is a new checkbox in the Preferences window that you must have checked for the warning alert wav to be sounded.
  • Stay-on-Top window option is now remembered each time you run Weather1.
• -> 6.00 - new version!:
  • Includes a new Forecast tab that allows you to easily see the forecast for the current location you are viewing, including the local radar (not available in all locales).
  • New customization feature: the main HTML template - you can customize the content of the main window by modifying the html template. It supports most HTML features, so you can easily customize the fonts, colors, content, images, etc.
    How it works: The html template includes custom 'tags' for the data. When Weather1 gets ready to display data in the main window, it loads the template and simply replaces the reserved tags with the data. If a tag is missing, it will not find it, so it will not display that data. You can customize this template as much as you like. It supports HTML, images (png, gif, animated gif, jpg, bmp), etc. I'll try to add something to the help file soon with more details. To define which template file to use, you can set it from the Preferences window or by right-clicking the main window and choosing the 'define' option. To edit the currently defined template, simply right-click the main window and choose the 'edit' option.
    NOTE: If you use this, please copy this file and name it something else. The install will overwrite the default file.
  • Fixed bug: when double-clicking on a saved location, it now launches the forecast correctly.
  • Other misc. bug fixes.
  • Missing feature in 6.00: The magnet feature which keeps the SideImage window attached to the Main window (like WinAmp) is not working in 6.00. I hope to get it working in the next update.
• -> 5.41:
  • New wallpaper option: you can select individual wallpapers to be active or inactive. Why? In-case you want to keep a wallpaper on your wallpaper list, but just don't want to update it for a while. Simply choose it to be Inactive and it will be skipped until you set it Active again. This keeps you from having to reselect it from the list.
  • Other misc. maintenance.
• -> 5.40:
  • Fixes to the Wallpaper update features.
  • Moved the "News" content from the small window to a main tab. Everything else functions the same. :)
  • Added "UV" index to the main data options. You will see it listed at the bottom.
  • Other misc. maintenance.