02-23-2003, 01:32 PM -
I've worked out how to show more than one graphic with the weather monitor. It's simple, you use two plugins squashed close to each other! It looks entirely convincing if you design carefully.
Although I'm designing my wind conditions skin for use in a menu - I'm quite sure this could be done on a toolbar. For that, you would have to change the horizontal or vertical spacing in the metrics options. Reduce the gap between icons to zero.
Using this method, you will be able to show graphics for two or more different variables collected by Weather Monitor.
In the screenshot, what you are looking at are two Weather Monitor plugins. The map background is also cut in two. To the top right, I've added a dotted line to show the otherwise invisible divide between the two plugins.
Here, the top plugin shows a wind direction arrow graphic and numerical temperature (normal text.) The Bottom plugin shows a text graphic according to the wind speed. The words are based on the Beaufort Scale (rather than a useless numerical speed.)
/Mark
Although I'm designing my wind conditions skin for use in a menu - I'm quite sure this could be done on a toolbar. For that, you would have to change the horizontal or vertical spacing in the metrics options. Reduce the gap between icons to zero.
Using this method, you will be able to show graphics for two or more different variables collected by Weather Monitor.
In the screenshot, what you are looking at are two Weather Monitor plugins. The map background is also cut in two. To the top right, I've added a dotted line to show the otherwise invisible divide between the two plugins.
Here, the top plugin shows a wind direction arrow graphic and numerical temperature (normal text.) The Bottom plugin shows a text graphic according to the wind speed. The words are based on the Beaufort Scale (rather than a useless numerical speed.)
/Mark