Custom Application

The TVA Weather Reader is a custom application built to meet the needs of our client. It follows a similar interface design as our other weather reader applications.

First Time Launch

The first time you start the TVA Weather Reader after installing it you will need to configure it. You will be prompted to enter a Instance Name.

The instance name is arbitrary - it can be any name you like such as Live, Production, Test, Jose, GoJaysGo. It is simply a label to associate with a specific set of configuration values. This is helpful in situations where you have multiple tickers that you want to update. This enables you to do so without running multiple copies of the reader.

Configuration

The reader requires some information about the data source and the target Tick-It database before it can begin running.

Instance name is an arbitrary name for the settings   The Super Ticker MySQL section is pre-filled with defaults that will likely work with your Tick-It or Super Ticker database  Default user id is Updater     The data source is is your Microsoft SQL Server database.   You can specify the server as an IP or as a name. The user id and password are optional if the logged in Windows account has access to the SQL Server database.
When the day name abbreviated checkbox is checked it uses the first 3 letters of the day name.  The Case list offers the following: - Source - no change - UPPER - convert all to upper case - lower - convert all to lower case - Title - convert all to lower except first

Running

Once launched and running - it will count down to the next update displaying the time remaining.

You can force an immediate update by pressing the Start Now button when enabled.

In this example the reader was started by pressing the start now button and the status text box has been updated with a message to reflect this.

Locations

This tab of the application provides a list of the locations that it is working with.
It is populated during the first execution and updated each time it runs.

This list is not editable. You cannot manually add or delete or edit any of the location details.

French (français)

The application includes an option to force the use of French (français) in the UI.

NOTE: French text has been provided using a best-guess translation and may not be perfectly correct for all texts.

Select the Français option from the Help menu item.
Some of the UI elements will automatically convert to français while others will only convert when you restart the reader.

NOTE: that the application may automatically use French if that is the default language of the machine it is installed on.

Database Code Connections

The data for the TVA weather app comes from a custom Microsoft SQL Server database created and maintained by TVA.