I put one together real quick.

 Got kind of a grunge look to it.

I see you got it working. Looking good.

wow looks like you got it working!!

Vampothica, any luck with the weather feed?? I've been trying with other feeds but no luck.

Mine was just a test skin, a few minutes work is all. Wouldn't upload it though...too...meh. 

Work in progress.

My work in progress

Looks good. Are you thinking on uploading it?

Definitely sir. I already tested it on my laptop and it works nicely. I'm looking for one that can access just about everywhere on a PC. Plus different programs and access to the net by choosing which site to visit. Only thing is I ran into some 'bugs'. Not with the program but with me. I've got this shiny border that doesn't conform to the background. As you move it it doesn't update, blend into the background. I have a screenshot of what it looks like, not nice! Another thing is remembering the order of the buttons. I usually have the button glow on mouse over but instead I'm getting the pressed button. I tried switching them but no go, same thing. I got it back in the garage for the moment. I'll let ya know. 

What it looks like...

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Vampothica, any luck with the weather feed?? I've been trying with other feeds but no luck.

 

sorry! I never saw this until now.........  no i cant get it to work either

We'll just have to live without the weather updates.

Not to change the subject but the weather thingy works great on Objectdock. I found it to be very accurate. Perhaps the weather feed it uses can work with SMX. 

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz......................!

Has interest waned? I got one up and running, an update to the one in my screenshot. Working on number two now. 

Controls for foobar do not work. Solved, I hope, the issue with the background. Everything else works. If you're interested that is.

Thanks for the info.   I might upload a simple theme tonight. Still have other unfinished projects.

Update:

Ran into a few problems. Don't know whether or not its me or SMX does not play nice in Win 10, on my end anyway. 

1: SMX isn't creating the .ini file nor the folder in which it belongs.

2: SMX can't export the theme with or without the .ini file.

3: I can import themes but they don't show up in the themes folder.

4: I can create them and make them work but......without the above......I dunno!

Sysmetrix uses METAR information for current weather conditions that is (was) retrieved from the NOAA website. Unfortunately NOAA recently deprecated the page METAR information was retrieved from, so that information is no longer available at the old URL used by Sysmetrix.

The Winstep Nexus dock uses multiple weather feeds (Weather.com, Yahoo, MSN, METAR and Google, until Google killed their feed) to minimize the possibility of a complete outage when one or more feeds go down or are changed by the providers (something that happens more frequently than we would like).

Because Nexus uses these feeds in a redundant way, when NOAA broke the METAR feed nobody other than me noticed because current weather conditions started being automatically retrieved from the other feeds. This gave me all the time I needed to get METAR working again on the next release, by changing the code so it used another source for METAR information.

The code changes are actually quite simple since the format of the METAR weather string itself remains the same. In fact, it's a lot easier to get that information now: while before you needed to first parse an HTML page to extract the METAR string, METAR information is now available directly from text files (e.g.; LPPT.txt) whose contents are automatically updated by NOAA. The code changes required to retrieve this information are thus pretty much trivial.

So, perhaps one of you guys should fire up an email to Nick. If he is willing to update Sysmetrix, just tell him to get in touch with me, I'll be happy to share what I know with him - we used to talk a lot in the old times.

I read a post Nick made on FB dated 2013. He said that because Windows gadgets pretty much took over what SMX could do there was no reason to update it as there was no longer a demand for it. Too bad though, it works, to a point, on Win 10 and some serious TLC could make it better. Only problem is Rainmeter does it all as well but more efficiently.