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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 and 93 non-US cities.
· 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.
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)
Legal information
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WeatherExperience is Copyright © 1996 Ultima Thule Software.
WeatherExperience is freeware, which means that you are allowed to use and
distribute it freely if you don't modify any of the included files. The
author of WeatherExperience assumes no responsibility for what this program
might do, you are using it at your own risk. However, WeatherExperience has
of course been tested quite thoroughly and should not cause any problems.
Usage
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WeatherExperience should be quite easy to use, at least none of my
betatesters had any problems figuring it out. :)
Just choose the "Settings/WeatherExperience..." menuitem the first time you
start the program and modify the measurement units and list of displayed
cities to suit you (use drag and drop to move entries from the listview on
the left to the listview on the right). Then try pressing "Refresh" in the
main window, and you should see weatherdata flow into your system. :)
If you get stuck, try holding the mousepointer over a gadget for a while,
most gadgets have bubblehelp.
Have fun!
Author
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SnailMail: Troels Walsted Hansen
O.L. Aunesgate 15
9009 Tromsø
NORWAY
Email: troels@stud.cs.uit.no
WWW: http://www.cs.uit.no/~troels
IRC nick: Troels
Feel free to contact me about anything related to WeatherExperience.
Thanks to
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· Petter Nilsen, Oliver Wagner and Bjørn Reese for help with making
the network code in WeatherExperience asynchronous.
· Petter Nilsen for the multitcp & the timer code.
· Stefan Stuntz for MUI, the best GUI system on the Amiga..
· The Prodigy for the name and a cool concert earlier this year. :)
· National Weather Service for the data, I only wish they had more non-US
cities covered and more detailed information about those cities. :(
· The nice calculator at http://nwselp.epcc.edu/elp/wxcalc.html
Version history
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WeatherExperience 1.0 (20.7.96)
· First release to AmiNet.
WeatherExperience 1.1 (21.7.96)
· Of course, the good boys at the National Weather Service just had to
change the format of the data the day I released WeatherExperience.
That broke the parsing of weatherdata for all non-US cities.
· The weather boys also changed the spelling of a few cities:
"Capetown" -> "Cape town"
"Ho Chi Minh Ct" -> "Ho Chi Minh Cty"
"Nagano" -> "Ngano" (?!)
"St.Petersburg" -> "St. Petersburgh"
· Information for Shanghai, China now available
WeatherExperience 1.2 (23.7.96)
· Guess what... They changed the format of the data back.. Aaaargh.
That means all changes done from 1.0->1.1 has been reversed for 1.2. :(
· The main listview with the weatherdata now jumps to display the last
inserted city if the scrollbar is at the bottom.
(Suggested by Troy D. Davis)