[Doreen]

/me prays harderrrrr! Come onnnn you can do it! hehe

[nickh]

Hope it goes well, looks fantastic can't wait to see it working.

[Doreen]

Umm how's it going over there Katra? Pulling your hair out yet? hehe!

I think we're stuck having to really tweak the ani's to get them to play, so far what I've nailed is that I cannot go beyond (3) frames however I can go crazy on the frame rates so I've managed to tweak this lightning one which is (3) frames "but" the first one is set to a frame rate of 200 the second one is 10 and the third one is 15 so that the flashing don't drive you crazy that's about as far as I can take it w/ such limitations. (and I've lit up the ground on one of the strikes as well)

[boe_dye]

Hey guys, I wanted to contribute something here that might be helpful.

Before I crossed the darkside and bought my iPhone, i was into HTC Wizard modding, and after reading this request, i remembered that there was a group of developers who created themes for a homescreen app called "weatherpanel".

And two of them come to mind one is PhatPhingerIII which is located here:

[THEME] WeatherPanel Freaks: PhatPhinger - a "stylus-free" QVGA theme - PPCGeeks

This fellow was able to create a very nice, clean theme that he based on the HTC Diamond. I used it on my wizard and it was pretty nice to look at.

This next one is a very updated one that I also used (I used a theme that wasn't animated), that is much more Diamond.

[Updated 3 Sept] Diamond WeatherPanel Theme v5.4 - More Animations and VGA Layouts - xda-developers

The reason that i am sharing this, is cause these fellows have already done the leg work to get the animations going, and my thought was that perhaps whoever is developing this for the iPhone might be able to get into contact with the person who did it for WinMobile and use their images to help out for this project.

I also thought that i should add that the image files used to create these are included in the downloads so there is no extraction involved. At least there wasn't when I was playing around with them.

And if memory serves the images are in .png format, but it's been a while so i don't exactly remember.

I would love to see this developed for iPhone too!

[Doreen]

boe_dye (I know both those guys) as a matter of fact I've spoken to Rumball not too long ago when I was trying to do this as well, he was even willing to convert his .wpa's for me but both of us were unable to get the ani's converted (w/o destroying the quality that is) and then to play on the iPhone since #1. There is no .mng support and #2. Again there is some issue w/ animation limitations vs winterboard...

But thank you for bringing that over here since I'm still praying "someone" will beat those HTC weather animations into submission on our iphones "some how" (cuz I want them badly too!)

[iBlade]

Hi Katra, that is really great hope you get it all running. Would you mind sharing the png files for the wiper effect ( like a windshield wiper ) ? I loved that animation but could not find ition the web anywhere, I would really appreciate it. Thank you very much, if you need any help with photoshop let me know. Bye

[sogo]

Great work.

[boe_dye]

I am glad to have been able to contribute something then, albeit something small!

However, i am curious, in developing this, are you guys aiming for an App that would be a prettier version of what's already there, are you going for an animated wallpaper type of thing, or are you going for an animated lock screen type of thing.

The only reason I ask is because i am uncertain of the goal, and my two cents would rather see an app as opposed to an animated wallpaper because an animated wallpaper would be too busy and hard to see underneath the icons.

Although what would be cool, would be a spring/winterboard page that would be like it's own thing.

I guess that could fall under widget, but I haven't played with any widgets on my iPhone so so don't know how they worked.

Either way, I'll keep my eyes open as the development continues!

Good Luck!!!!

[katra]

Hey guy's... Im waiting to hear from a few sources that work with javascript and codes..

hopefully i hear from them today... cross you rfingers guy's...


i will try to post a link to All the HTC weather images.. but be patient...as i have to convert all of them to PNG's... i have only done one set as i have yet to get it working with my first convertion.

but i do have them all though...


I fell your pain Doreen....

[Van Wildonher]

I'll be cheering for ya.

[katra]

This is what it's going to look like...


[URL=http://g.imageshack.us/img517/katrathemehm1.jpg/1/][IMG]

[thehotrod]

This all looks great and very attractive, but what I'd really really really like is for someone to port WeatherPanel over to the iPhone. All the current weather apps are no where near as great as WeatherPanel.

[Doreen]

Originally Posted by katra

This is what it's going to look like...


[URL=http://g.imageshack.us/img517/katrathemehm1.jpg/1/][IMG]

katra that lockscreen looks gorgeous I'm still hoping you don't give up your going to have the #1 Weather Widget if you accomplish this! Keep going I think you're gonna get it!

[thehotrod]

Hey Doreen, cheers from a fellow Lakeridge Software user.

I hope this can be more than just a lock screen tool. I currently use Intelliscreen and I don't want to loose it. Now if you could work with IS an make it part of their Weather pluggin, that'd be OK. But I use IS and I love it.

[katra]

Originally Posted by Doreen

katra that lockscreen looks gorgeous I'm still hoping you don't give up your going to have the #1 Weather Widget if you accomplish this! Keep going I think you're gonna get it!

Thanks Doreen... i wont give up... i wont stop until i accomplish it... it's just a matter of time...


Stay tuned...