Skins can be installed in one of 3 locations. The Windows Profile folder, the WW install folder under either the Users\Default folder or the Users\windowsuserid folder.

Click on the WW Option's Skins tab then the Open Skin Location button. Determine which folder is opened. Then either try reinstalling the Vista skin or UNzip the skin's wws file and manually copy them to the active Skin's folder.

The Skins folder location is determined by either a Miscellaneous setting on the Option's General tab or exec parms when starting WW.

Gave it one more try and uninstall/reinstall. This time, installed skin BEFORE executing WW and it worked! Not gonna touch it now. :-)

Well, it started doing the same thing yesterday. Will not auto update. Where can I download an older version? Will try that tactic. Already chose another standard skin and it still won't update. Please post site to dl old version.

EDIT: Downloaded and installed version 5.6.16, got it from here: http://www.afterdawn.com/software/deskt ... fm/v5_6_16

Two shutdowns and two startups provided auto update w/no problems. This w/the Vista skin installed and active. We'll see how it goes...

Obviously your problem is not related to the skin you're using. That being the case you should start a new thread in the WW Support forum.

For older WW versions see this forum: viewforum.php?f=40

Thank you. Will post problem and solution in the ww forum. This is a new day and new boot, all is well and auto updating as expected. :-)

Problem:
For some stations, the current conditions window looks like this:


The tooltip works ok for the Barometer section.

Hmm... I just checked with the Classic skin.


The problem seems general, probably some data is missing.
Nevertheless, can anybody check if something can be done in the skin itself not to look like this?

That may be the Classic Interface Skin but it has no bearing on the Forecast Skin which is still set to the Vista one. Change the Forecast Skin to Splendid, do an update and post what you see.

BTW I see the same as you with your location and the Vista Forecast skin but the Splendid Forecast skin is ok.

cristianhaulica,
Thanks for the input. I was able to reproduce this problem and am working on it. I'll post here when I'm done.

My mistake
Classic Interface Skin and Splendid Forecast Skin looks ok to me too.

redhotpaprika, love this skin. im a long time user but just recently decided to mess around with skins.

im trying to use icon sets other than the ones you provide with your Vista skin and i have learned that your skin works best with png files. i would like to use other sets made in gif and animated gif icon sets but i get an image display error on the "Daily" tab on the 1st image when temperature and condition is N/A.

this is what it looks like

this is your Vista skin with the MetroConsult icons posted by contraptionmaker in this thread HERE
downloaded from http://www.contraptionmaker.info/MetroConsult.zip but i get this error with the default Bay Area icon set or any set using gif.

how can i fix this, is there an html file i can edit, so that the gif display properly like the rest? why does just that one not work. Can you help me please?

okay i figured it out and because i dont know a thing about html code it took me considerable time to find which file i had to edit. in case anyone was going to try and help. i managed to edit daily.wts in forecast\vista folder and changed this line


im wondering why its necessary to declare what image to load for N/A variable. i got it working for me so im happy.

I saw that "N/A" images are usually named "-.ext". Maybe Vista skin should keep this convention.
The following line fixes the problem, (works with any "-.ext" for "N/A" data, where ext=same image ext as used in other images, in this case gif)



PS. Basically what I did was to extract the file extension from tempPath. Maybe there is a simpler way to obtain it...

I took a look in Current.wtp, and I saw that the problem is the lowest value on the barometer gouge is 27.5 inches, while at those locations it is lower than that (they are at 2000+ meters alt).
One solution would be to display the gouge on the lowest value (zero) even if the algorithm says it should be lower than zero.

The code change in this cases is quite simple:


Note that I just added the part that checks for negative values in barometerTickCount.

Another alternative is to display new, special image.

For ex I created "-1.gif", derived from your "0.gif" that looks quite nice.


In this case the code would be:


Feel free to use any content from my posts to improve the skin, and keep the good work.

PS: Also consider the case when barometerTickCount is > than 22

thank you

Can anyone see the image? I can't.