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Short: Monitor global Internet weatherdata
Author: troels@stud.cs.uit.no (Troels Walsted Hansen)
Uploader: troels@stud.cs.uit.no (Troels Walsted Hansen)
Type: comm/tcp
Replaces: comm/tcp/WeatherEx14.lha
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Introduction
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WeatherExperience was written after I saw WinWeather on a PC. I thought it
looked interesting and I'm always looking for new, interesting TCP/IP
applications to program. WeatherExperience, like WinWeather, uses some
servers in the US that get their data from the National Weather Service.
WeatherExperience downloads weatherdata for the cities you tell it to, and
displays it in a listview.
Please give me your comments about the program, the future of any of my
programs depends very much on the amount of feedback I get from the users!
Features
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· Can monitor weatherdata for 558 cities in the US, 44 cities in Canada and
93 cities outside the US/Canada.
· Shows data like temperature, wind, conditions, forecasts and many others.
· Can convert measurements to various units like Celcius, Fahrenheit,
Kelvin, meter/second, miles per hour and knots.
· Almost 100% asynchronous network operation (you can use the GUI while the
program is fetching weatherdata, and you can abort at almost any time).
· Updates weatherdata display after a user-configurable delay.
· Manipulate data with Copy to clipboard/Print/Save to disk funtions.
Requirements
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· AmigaOS 2.04 or higher
· MUI 3.3 or higher
· A TCP/IP stack (like AmiTCP, Miami, As225, Inet225 or mlink)
Version history
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WeatherExperience 1.5 (3.8.97)
· All South Carolina cities were listed twice.
(Spotted by June Nilsen, while being forced to try my program :)
· "British Colombia" -> "British Columbia"
(Reported by Gary Gagnon)
· Fixed the fact that no euro data seemed to be available
(Reported by Troy D. Davis and a million others later)
· Removed the silly error requester when cancelling a filerequester.
· Added a workaround for a bug in RTPatch 38.298 that caused the error
requester to appear anyway.
· Now uses the fixed font (configured in MUI prefs) in the forecast window.
(Suggested by Troy D. Davis and Eirik Synnes)
· Three new ARexx commands: REFRESH, ABORT and GETDATA (see AmigaGuide for
usage information).
· New menu called "ARexx". It contains one item that lets you execute an
ARexx script chosen from a filerequester, and below that you will a menuitem for
all files matching the pattern "#?.wxp" in PROGDIR:ARexx. Selecting one of
those items will launch the corresponding ARexx script.
(Idea ripped off AmIRC *without* the author's permission ;)
· Moved Auckland and Sydney into a region of their own, Australia. They
were previously put under the Asia region because I thought it was silly
to have a region with two members, but I was convinced otherwise by Troy
D. Davis. :)
· Pressing the Help key on your keyboard will now open the AmigaGuide to the
section describing the active WE window.
· The ARexx portname is now listed in the aboutwindow.
· Horizontal scrollbar in mainwindow finally realized. :) This is done
using Gilles Massons NList.mcc.
· Changed "Marthas Vinyard" -> "Martha's Vineyard" misspelling in a
Massachusetts town. (not my error :)
(Reported by Philippe REUX)
· Corrected another misspelling: "Tunesia" -> "Tunisia".
(Reported by Giovanni Calderone)
============================= Archive contents =============================
Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
-------- ------- ----- --------- -------- -------------
2112 1202 43.0% 19-Nov-96 02:23:54 +Weather2.info
1343 885 34.1% 19-Nov-96 02:32:28 +WeatherEx.info
2521 1344 46.6% 03-Aug-97 15:20:26 +WeatherExperience.info
3157 2114 33.0% 03-Aug-97 15:20:26 +WeatherExperience1.info
2500 1685 32.6% 03-Aug-97 15:20:26 +WeatherExperience2.info
6531 705 89.2% 03-Aug-97 15:20:10 +WeatherExperience.info
1188 671 43.5% 03-Aug-97 15:19:54 +Aesculape.info
1188 670 43.6% 03-Aug-97 15:20:26 +Drew Kraus.info
33 33 0.0% 06-Sep-96 16:14:44 +WeatherExperience
1233 712 42.2% 03-Aug-97 15:20:36 +WeatherExperience.info
1634 1122 31.3% 03-Aug-97 15:20:36 +WeatherExperience1.info
1634 1057 35.3% 03-Aug-97 15:20:36 +WeatherExperience2.info
1245 613 50.7% 03-Aug-97 15:20:16 +WeatherExperience.info
516 298 42.2% 03-Aug-97 15:01:08 +Example.wxp
196 163 16.8% 06-Oct-96 14:58:26 +HalfhourRefresh.wxp
1188 666 43.9% 03-Aug-97 15:20:10 +Joseph Shaughnessy.info
1188 669 43.6% 03-Aug-97 15:20:36 +Marc Severin.info
1188 668 43.7% 03-Aug-97 15:20:16 +Michael Risås.info
114516 59429 48.1% 15-Jul-97 04:28:34 +NList.mcc
6904 3291 52.3% 15-Jul-97 04:28:34 +NListview.mcc
20798 8323 59.9% 03-Aug-97 14:56:12 +WeatherExperience.guide
1857 1339 27.8% 03-Aug-97 15:22:16 +WeatherExperience.guide.info
1188 658 44.6% 03-Aug-97 15:22:16 WeatherExperience.info
1233 802 34.9% 03-Aug-97 15:22:16 +ARexx.info
1188 671 43.5% 03-Aug-97 15:22:16 +Icons.info
2921 947 67.5% 03-Aug-97 15:36:28 +Install WeatherExperience
1933 1049 45.7% 03-Aug-97 15:37:18 +Install WeatherExperience.info
19272 6943 63.9% 15-Jul-97 04:28:36 +NListviews.mcp
93328 49133 47.3% 03-Aug-97 15:11:04 +WeatherExperience
1571 1038 33.9% 03-Aug-97 15:22:16 +WeatherExperience.info
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297304 148900 49.9% 08-Aug-97 20:00:34 30 files