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/WeatherEx13.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 1.4 (8.9.96)
 · There's now drag and drop configuration of which fields to show, and in 
   which order to show them.
 · Many new fields: Country, Region, Heat index, Wind chill, Beaufort 
   windscale, Date and Time.
 · Timer is reset when pressing Save/Use if it has been changed.
 · Option for turning off the timer completely.
 · The message "finished updating watherdata" now has a datestamp attached so 
   you can see when the last update was made.
 · Doubleclicking a city in the main listview opens a window that shows a 
   forecast for the city/region. Buttons in the window allows you to copy the
   forecast to the clipboard or print it.
 · Relocated Yellowknife in Canada to its correct province, namely NorthWest
   Territories. Fixed a spelling mistake "Yokon"->"Yukon".
   Both reported by Peter Denomy
 · The titlebar now says when the last update was made and when the next will be
   made if the timer is on.
 · WE now works with socket.library (as225/inet225/surfpack).
 · WE now handles both the old and the new format that the NWS servers use for 
   the non-US data.
 · Option for fetching data immediatedly after launch.
 · "Hide" menuitem. (I called it Hide and not Iconify because you can use MUI 
   prefs to configure it to not show any icon while hidden.)
 · New awesome aboutwindow. :)
 · WE now reads its own icon imagery and uses it while iconified.
 · You can now multiselect cities and manipulate the data in three different 
   ways: copy to clipboard, print and save to disk (with append or overwrite 
   option).
 · Wrote the AmigaGuide documentation.


============================= Archive contents =============================

Original  Packed Ratio    Date     Time    Name
-------- ------- ----- --------- --------  -------------
    1188     664 44.1% 08-Sep-96 21:31:10  WeatherExperience.info
    1188     668 43.7% 08-Sep-96 21:31:34 +Icons.info
    1188     672 43.4% 08-Sep-96 21:33:02 +Joseph Shaughnessy.info
    6531     700 89.2% 08-Sep-96 21:33:02 +WeatherExperience.info
    1188     671 43.5% 08-Sep-96 21:34:06 +Marc Severin.info
    1233     713 42.1% 08-Sep-96 21:34:06 +WeatherExperience.info
    1629     981 39.7% 08-Sep-96 21:34:06 +WeatherExperience1.info
    1629     963 40.8% 08-Sep-96 21:34:06 +WeatherExperience2.info
   87456   46055 47.3% 08-Sep-96 20:54:52 +WeatherExperience
   14429    5796 59.8% 08-Sep-96 18:05:48 +WeatherExperience.guide
    1857    1336 28.0% 08-Sep-96 21:31:10 +WeatherExperience.guide.info
    1571    1035 34.1% 08-Sep-96 21:31:10 +WeatherExperience.info
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  121087   60254 50.2% 11-Sep-96 15:00:26   12 files