In the setup mode for each window, you get to select the state and radar site location. You then ca…n select 1 of the 6 map loop types, scale the window from 50-10%, set a refresh frequency, the number of loops to display, the interFrame interval (the time between frames) and the interLoop iterval (the time between loops). You may also open up a new window starting with the current values by clicking on the star.
Once you accept the option values (the big check mark), the window starts to suck up the data from NOAA. You can now go back to options (gear), start up a new options window starting with the current setings (star), or reload (the twin arrows). Once the initial data is taken from NOAA, you can also click on the small directional arrows to open up a new window at an adjecent site (check the tooltip to see were that is). While the animation is running, you may pause it (and then restart it) using the VCR controls on the left. When the animation is stopped (or over), you may restart it, or single frame backwards or forwards. The time of last update, next update, and current status is displayed at the bottom of the window.
All windows allow you to close them (the X) or iconify everything(the down arrow). The icon left on your desktop will bring all windows back to where you left them. Restart can occur in either mode.
Use the Widget preferences to set background color, background opacity, rollover objects color, label color, input field color and background clor, and message color.
If someone can report to me their experience with this Widget on Mac OS X, I would appreciate it!
1.0 - Initial Release
1.1 - Fix issue with skin preference changes causing mysterious black crosses on the screen.
1.2 - Fix issues with timers that can arise when using infinite loop animations. Added shorter interFrame and interLoop settings to test and make sure that things still hold together. Looks like you can wear out a timer. Hmmm. Add in composite maps for National, Alaska, and Hawaii. Make map time handle both interFrame and interLoop timings, saving some resources. Add zooming and panning for map images. Add a Widget context menu option for reload, in case all else fails. Keep icon opaque, for sanity.
1.3 - Fix issue where Widget refuses to become visible on restart. Update to new About screen format. Require Konfabulator 3.0.
2.0 - Really fix disappearing windows problem. Honest. Allow artibrary resize on windows using grabs on Widget corners. UI refresh (ala Photo Ace! reference), including squared windows, dividers, etc. Selectable layers for topography, counties, rivers, highways, cities, warnings, legend. Remember zoom and drag settings between sessions. Enable mouse wheel zooms. Add support for Composite loop data for 10 sectors now suported by NOAA. Composite loops sorta suck, as NOAA now uses aminated GIFs, which aren't suported well in Konfabulator. Still, it's a picture... Add context menu support for map type changes and layer toggles. Serialized radar image fetches, as large numbers of asynch URL fetches seem to give Konfabulator problems. :-((
2.1 - Fix for Yahoo Widget Engine 3.1.
2.2 - Disable warnings layer. NOAA isn't supporting the regular updating of images to synch with radar and legend data right now. More