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You can change the colour of the text and background colour in parts of the program to dazzle up the display, and / or have background images loaded. You can also enable or disable portions of the display to suit your tastes.
Colour


Click on "Setup" in the menu bar. Click on "General and colour/misc/tide etc", and select setup colours.
You can change the colour of the text and background colour in parts of Weather Dispay to jazz up the display and/or have background images loaded. You can also enable or disable portions of the display to suit your tastes.


OR you can right mouse click on the main graph, and select setup colours.
'''Colour'''


Buttons are grouped by the portion of WD they effect, and are labeled for the specific item they control.
Click on Setup, General and Colour/Misc/Tide/etc, and select Setup Colours. Or you can right mouse click on the main graph, and select Setup Colours.


Some screens let you set the background as a image file (bmp, jpg or gif), like the trends image, summary image, etc).
Buttons are grouped by the part of Weather Display they effect, and are labelled for the specific item they control.
 
Some screens let you set the background as an image file (BMP, JPG or GIF), e.g. the trends image, summary image, etc.  


You can also set the colours of the graph lines as well.
You can also set the colours of the graph lines as well.


Note that greater than 256 colours in your windows settings is best.
'''Note:''' Using more than 256 colours in your Windows settings gives the best results.
 
For the weather dials page, i.e View, Dials, a black background and light green numbers looks cool.
 
'''Display LCD numbers'''
 
''All''
 
Click on Setup, General and colour/misc/tide etc.
 
''Wind Speed''


For the weather dials page (i.e view, dials), a black background and light green numbers looks cool.
Click on "Show the LCD Number". Select "Yes" or "No" as desired.
Display LCD numbers


All
''All other values''
Click on "Setup" in the menu bar. Click on "General and colour/misc/tide etc".


Wind Speed
Click on "Use LCD numbers for current conditions". Select "Yes" or "No" as desired.
Click on "Show the LCD Number". Select "yes" or "No" as desired.


All other values
''Daily Alarm LEDs''
Click on "Use LCD numbers for current conditions". Select "yes" or "No" as desired.
Daily Alarm LEDs


Click on "Setup" in the menu bar. Click on "General and colour/misc/tide etc". Click on "Show the daily high/low LED alarms". Select "yes" or "No" as desired.
Click on Setup, General and colour/misc/tide etc. Click on "Show the daily high/low LED alarms". Select "Yes" or "No" as desired.

Revision as of 22:33, 19 December 2005

You can change the colour of the text and background colour in parts of Weather Dispay to jazz up the display and/or have background images loaded. You can also enable or disable portions of the display to suit your tastes.

Colour

Click on Setup, General and Colour/Misc/Tide/etc, and select Setup Colours. Or you can right mouse click on the main graph, and select Setup Colours.

Buttons are grouped by the part of Weather Display they effect, and are labelled for the specific item they control.

Some screens let you set the background as an image file (BMP, JPG or GIF), e.g. the trends image, summary image, etc.

You can also set the colours of the graph lines as well.

Note: Using more than 256 colours in your Windows settings gives the best results.

For the weather dials page, i.e View, Dials, a black background and light green numbers looks cool.

Display LCD numbers

All

Click on Setup, General and colour/misc/tide etc.

Wind Speed

Click on "Show the LCD Number". Select "Yes" or "No" as desired.

All other values

Click on "Use LCD numbers for current conditions". Select "Yes" or "No" as desired.

Daily Alarm LEDs

Click on Setup, General and colour/misc/tide etc. Click on "Show the daily high/low LED alarms". Select "Yes" or "No" as desired.