*NEW* OWEATHER - A simple weather app for Atari systems

[robv]

Now that we're in lockdown again, I took inspiration from WongCK's PH-Weather app to waste some of my time. Unfortunately, PH-Weather only runs under MintNet and not on my STiK based MagicPC setup. So I tried if I could do a poor man's weather app in HiSoft Basic that will work with STiK. It gets its data from Openweathermap, one of the few that allow http api-calls. The image shows the weather in Atari, Uganda.

oweather.png

This is just an early version with limitations. If you want to try it, here's the link:
http://rob.vousten.nl/atari/downloads/oweather.zip

[JeanMars]

Hi Rob,

nice one, I like it!
Works well on my Aranym/Mint.

[PeterS]

Nice work, it looks very good.

[robv]

A small fix. The window now adapts to long place names. Even works for that famous Welsh village I passed through a couple of years ago during one of my cycling trips.

oweather02.png

The link in the original post will give you the latest version.

[TheNameOfTheGame]

Haha, nice one. Looks good!

[wongck]

ha ha ha good job.
I guess doing this programming may be more fun than trying to install Magixnet.

[stormy]

This is going on all my Ataris, thanks!!!

[robv]

Now at v0.5 with some improvements.

• Option to set UTC offset in LOCATION.INF. The openweathermap server reports time in UTC format. Set the offset for your location to get the correct sunrise/sunset times. F.i. +1 for Amsterdam, -8 for San Francisco, +9 for Tokio; see https://timeanddate.com/time/map.

• A few minor cosmetic changes.

http://rob.vousten.nl/atari/downloads/oweather.zip

[stormy]

robv is that window style part of the app, or do you have a desktop theme?

[robv]

robv is that window style part of the app, or do you have a desktop theme?

It's the Natframe extension from Nature that has a couple of themes to change the look of the windows. Works under MagiC 6, don't know about other systems. As I haven't found any mention of it on the forum, I'll attach it here. Themes included. I'm using the Night theme.

[stormy]

Cheers m8

[joska]

Just tested this on my Milan running MiNT/XaAES with memory protection enabled, works fine I ran into a problem though - I'm living in Florø, Norway, and oWeather seems to only handle pure ASCII. It would be nice if you could use longitude/latitude, or translate the non-ASCII Atari characters.

[joska]

And under a multitasking OS you can change the application name from "OWEATHER" to something like "OpenWeather" using menu_register(-1, "OpenWeather") menu_register(apid, "OpenWeather").

http://toshyp.atari.org/en/00800f.html#menu_register

Edit: I should know now to never trust my memory alone The *correct* way to register a "nice" name under a multitasking OS is to call menu_register like an ACC, i.e. with your app's application ID. To change the *process name* you call menu_register with -1 as id. So "menu_register(-1, "OWEATHER") make sure that your application can always be found by the name "OWEATHER" by other accs/apps, and not by the executable file name.

[shoggoth]

Wow, looks really nice!

[Cyprian]

And under a multitasking OS you can change the application name from "OWEATHER" to something like "OpenWeather" using menu_register(-1, "OpenWeather").

does menu_register work only under multitasking OS? I see there a note:
"Although altering the name of the application is only documented as of AES 4.0, this feature seems to work in all TOS versions"
"Availability: All AES versions."

[joska]

You can use it under single-TOS to change your application name, but it only makes sense when you need to make sure that accessories can identify your program by a specific name. So not relevant in most cases.

[robv]

Just tested this on my Milan running MiNT/XaAES with memory protection enabled, works fine I ran into a problem though - I'm living in Florø, Norway, and oWeather seems to only handle pure ASCII. It would be nice if you could use longitude/latitude, or translate the non-ASCII Atari characters.

Ah yes, I've added it as a to do for the next update.

I already fixed sunrise/sunset times for those who live above the arctic circle in these dark days. You will now get the Atari logo instead of hh:mm if the sun is always down (or always up - as in McMurdo, Antartica). Tested it with Hammerfest, but I should have taken Tromsø, then I would have noticed the non-ASCII bug.

hammerfest.png

[robv]

Now at v0.7 with a few updates.

• Added option to set location by lon/lat coordinates. You can override the accompanying name found by openweathermap with your own place name.

• Sunrise/sunset times are now calculated based on the timezone as reported by openweathermap.

• Refresh now works correctly.

http://rob.vousten.nl/atari/downloads/oweather.zip

[Bengy]

Fantastic work, thank you.

[TheNameOfTheGame]

Thanks. Getting better and better!

[robv]

Good to hear that the little program runs fine on different systems (Milan, Aranym/Mint, MagiC). It just goes to show that the Atari guys at HiSoft (Matthew Bacon and Paul Jones - well worth mentioning their names) came up with a well-designed compiler some 30 years ago.

I am now at version 0.8 which translates city names with UTF8-encoded extended ASCII characters (in the Openweathermap reply) back to Atari-ASCII.

http://rob.vousten.nl/atari/downloads/oweather.zip

[Lostboysix]

Hi robv,

you did a really great job! It´s fantastic to have this for MagicPC. Thank you!

Maybe you could add a "minimalistic view" as the window is relatively large to be displayed all the time on the desktop. You could for example decrease the height a lot by reducing the white space on top and the update information at the bottom.
And I think it would be nice, if the Oweather window would open right away after opening the prg.

Also I don´t have any colors, it´s just black and white for me.

But these are just minor things. As said, really good work!

Best,

Lostboy

[robv]

Maybe you could add a "minimalistic view" as the window is relatively large to be displayed all the time on the desktop. You could for example decrease the height a lot by reducing the white space on top and the update information at the bottom.
And I think it would be nice, if the Oweather window would open right away after opening the prg.

Thanks for the feedback!
Now at version 0.9. Included your suggestions. Window now opens at startup and window size is reduced to 240x120 (was 240x160).
http://rob.vousten.nl/atari/downloads/oweather.zip

[Lostboysix]

Hi robv,

looks and works perfect.
Great job, thanks!

[robv]

looks and works perfect.

Wonderful background you have there! Can you share the img?