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.

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.

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 and in the output of the application at the same time. It controls the language that the Day of the Week name is generated in.

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.