does anyone know how to change the width of a particular tray icon? namely weather pulse. it has settings to change font size but not the width, so you increase font size and the text gets cut off. the only method I can find is making all the icons bigger from desktop - properties - appearance - advanced - active title BAR. is there another option? maybe some registry keys I could add? preferably only modifying the width of weather pulse.I don't think so, you can change the minimum width, but that will change all taskbar button widths

http://www.gammaphase.net/q14168.htm

Now, we are talking about the taskbar button? or are we talking about a system notification icon?system notification icon. thank you, though, I tried exactly what that link said earlier today thinking it was what I was looking for. it's STRANGE that it'd have a FEATURE to increase font size but not icon width. ah, it sucks that the developer no longer provides support for it on his site. I guess not enough weather pulsers to answer questions. I'm having another problem with it not opening in the tray at startup (it opens hidden), even though the settings say to show the tray icon and open at startup. meh. I'm trying to find a low resource weatherbug alternative.Ahh, System notification icon- but, they are all just icons??? Or, am I to understand that it displays the weather information within that icon?


Either way- there is a way, as you said, to change the icon size globally, but there isn't a way- even for the program - to change the size itself. Although I suppose if they wrote it to use multiple icons and span the information across those icons it would be doable, they would have to write it that way.

Personally- I use ForecastFox, since I almost always have my browser open. That's not what I'd call a "low-resource" alternative though, what with requiring firefox to be running and all )

well, it seems to be two icons, one for the temp and one for the sky conditions. it's funny that it has a checkbox to "test 102 F"... which only shows half an 0 and a 2, but it does have an option to cut off the 1 in the program... even though it's already cut off. seems the developer may have been working on it, maybe they still do from time to time.

but yeah, the computer's actually set up for someone else. Personally, I only use windows for gaming, so my system tray is just bare essentials. of course, the gnome applet for weather forecasts is extremely low resource, as most things linux are. their system, though, when I started, took at least 15 minutes to boot. no joke. and about 5 to shut down. it was disgusting. now it shuts down immediately and takes about 5 to boot, most of which is a result of the Norton Antivirus suite, but I really don't think there's much else I can do while maintaining all the automation for them.Try weather underground...weather underground is a good suggestion, but, from their site at least, only has a vista widget. they are using firefox on their computer though, so I think I'll look into forecastfox and see if that'll be acceptable for them, and HOPEFULLY that'll influence their boot time somewhat.Gotcha...
I had thought they had an XP widget/plugin...You could always edit the icon manually with a graphics program.Quote from: Quantos on August 15, 2009, 05:31:24 PM

You could always edit the icon manually with a graphics program.

Have you tried it?

have you ever used Shell_notifyIcon and gotten it to use a non-standard size? Because I sure haven't, since it always resizes it to the shell icon size. "editing" the icon to change the size won't work. Even IF they could edit the icon, which they can't, since in the same manner as SpeedFan and whatnot, they generate the icon on the fly, so there's nothing to edit anyway.

No, actually I've never tried it, but it sure sounded feasible in my noggin.