Thermometer

[St3althMaster]

Hi i was wondering is it possible to change the thermometer colour ie blue for cold and red for hot image and the warm colours too if you get what i mean

[saratogaWX]

Possible, yes.. easy, no.

The thermometer.php uses two fixed background images (one for light backgrounds, one for black background), and all the current data (fill of thermometer, high/low+values, unit-of-measure) are drawn on the image before display.  The fixed color/shading of the bulb of the thermometer is built-in the background image.  To have the color change with temperature, you'd need to add drawing of a new bulb image in addition to changing the fill color of the thermometer scale.

There is an alternative thermometer available that uses a rainbow fill pattern, but it only works with some of the weather software (primarily with Weather-Display).

Best regards,
Ken

[adrianhudson]

Slightly different question but related. Is it possible to change the hi/low colours? The dark blue on the grey background is really quite hard to see.

[saratogaWX]

The colors change to lighter if used in the template set with the black theme.

You can force the lighter colors by changing thermometer.php

Code:

if (preg_match('|black|i',$CSSstyle) ) {
$invertColor = true;
}

to

Code:

if (true or preg_match('|black|i',$CSSstyle) ) {
$invertColor = true;
}

Best regards,
Ken