Introduction

GeoWeather is a GeoShellPlugin that retrieves the current weather conditions in the location of your choice. It can be formatted and has plenty of weather variables to satisfy your weather curiosity.

Installation

Download The plugin GeoWeather 3.1.2 (GeoWeather's Home) and Unzip the files into the GeoShell plugin directory normally "C:\Shell\GeoShell\plugins" however Chances are that you already have geOWeather listed in your plugin list. If it is not there, press Win+I and a dialog will pop up in which you will need to point to the geOWeather.dll file.

Right click on the GeoBar you wish this plugin to be displayed on and right click, Selecting Load Plugins and clicking on GeoWeather.

Select the location of this plugin on the GeoBar in relation to the other objects in the bar.

Usage

You interact with the plugin by clicking on it. There are several click combinations that do different things:

• Double click - Launch the Yahoo! Weather page or a custom user-specified page
• Double Right click - Starts this help file
• Middle click - Check the weather with the current settings
• Shift Double Right click - Recycles the plugin (reload the settings and check the weather)

Configuring Registry

There are a few settings that you can change about GeoWeather. Click on the one you are wondering about and a page with an explanation will pop up. Here are the settings:

Location

First you will need to go to Yahoo Weather and find the location you wish the weather infomation to show, copy the url of this into the registry, by pressing windows-g, and navigating here HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\geO\geOShell\Plugins\geOWeather0_1 then copying the yahoo weather url into the string called location. Now press windows-c to view your selected weather location in the plugin.

Autocheck

This string in the registry to automatically update the weather infomation at the specified Update interval or not. The default for this is yes.

Display Advisory Icon

Display Advisory Icon string will display an additional icon if there is a sever weather warning for yor location, This may only work in the usa. The default for this is yes.

Display Text

This string can toggle the weather text if you would like to have just an icon without any text. The default for this is yes.

Style

Style string can be either standard or inset (that looks like the system tray).

Tooltip Format

Here you can enter the format of the tooltip. The default format is the following:

Location: %l%nConditions: %c%nTemperature: %f°F (%s°C)%nDew Point: %d°F (%e°C)%nWind Chill: %i°F (%j°C)%nWind: %w mph (%x kph) %nWind direction: %r%nHumidity: %h%%

It is kind of long, but it pops up a very neat tooltip containing all the information you could not fit in the Weather Format setting.

You can edit this using the list of format variables given at the end of this document.

Update Interval

Update Interval is how long of a period should elapse before the plugin checks the weather again. It is specified in minutes and the default is 15 minutes.

Use Metric System

Use Metric System is by default No. If the Location in Yahoo! is displayed in Celsius, then you should switch this setting to Yes.

Version

Version just tells which version of the plugin you are using. For example, 310 means it is v3.1.0. Do NOT change this, since the plugin checks if the entries are from the same version, if not, it might delete your settings.

Weather Format

Here you can enter the format of the weather text. The default format is the following:

%c and %f°F

You can edit this using the list of format variables given at the end of this document.

Website

Website by default is set to Default. If you would like on a double click to go to another site rather than the Yahoo! Weather page, put the URL there.

Variable	Usage
%c	conditions (e.g. Clear, Cloudy, Rain)
%f	temperature in Fahrenheit (e.g. at 32°F water freezes)
%s	temperature in Celsius (the metric system owns you!)
%l	location (e.g. Koeln or Stockholm or Rosario)
%h	humidity (you will need to add the percent sign yourself)
%d	dewpoint in Fahrenheit
%e	dewpoint in Celsius
%i	windchill in Fahrenheit
%j	windchill in Celsius
%w	wind speed in miles
%x	wind speed in kilometers
%r	wind direction
%%	the percent sign itself
%n	new line (only works for tooltips)