Matze's skin for PocketWeather 2

Hi all!

Now that PocketWeather 2 was released, we'd like to give you a first impression on the skinning abilities of this great new version!

While waiting for new betaversions to test we shortened ourselves the waiting by playing around with the scripting-language. One reason was to be able to offer you with your first steps in skinning, the other reasons were to learn about the new functions and to enjoy having PocketWeather 2 looking exactly the way we always wanted!

Because it didn't take us too long to get the first impressive and satisfying results, we decided to offer them to you as free downloads. Maybe they'll encourage you to try it yourselves - it really ain't that difficult!

But enough talking, let's take a look of what we have...

Matze's Skins

This skin is pretty simple yet informative: it will display the current weather conditions plus a forecast for the upcoming six days. Of course, all text will be in the language of your device, the screenshots were taken from my own device, which is a german one...

I wanted the skin to follow everyday's mood, so I made three versions of it:

Matze-Vertical

Matze-Horizontal

Matze-Combined

Each layout contains the following information:

Cityname
Time of last update of the current conditions
Curren conditions - large icon
Current temperature
Current conditions - text
effective temperature
Humidity
Pressure
Twilight start
Time of sunrise
Time of sunset
Twilight end
Compass with arrow displaying winddirection
Windspeed
Winddirection - degrees
Winddirection - text
Moonphase - Icon
Moonphase - percentage
Moodphase - text
Time of last update of forecast-data
Day of forecast
Icon of day's forecast
Lo/Hi-Temp
Rain probability - percentage

To install the skin all you need to do is downloading the ZIP-file, extract it and copy its content into the subfolder "\skins\Todays Extras" of PW's installationfolder (usually "\program files\SBSH\PocketWeather").
Now open the context-menu of the today-plugin by clicking on the settings-button (the sun-icon to the left of the first cityname), open the submenu "Today", "Layouts", "Today Extras" and choose the desired skin. That's all and that's easy!

Feel free to use this skin as a base for your own experimentations: you can change everything with a simple texteditor (such as Notepad). All you need to do is saving the file in pwc-format and copy it to the correct folder on your device again. We'd be pleased if you'd post your results in our forums - now that we've got the possibilty to skin PW the way we want to do, we REALLY should do so!