RE: [mh] New weather module and a new web interface

[Roussell, T. <TRo...@dr...>]

The new web interface looks awesome Brent. BTW you may already know this
but it's possible to get IE to correctly display 32bit PNGs with Alpha
transparency with a few hacks. Here is an example:
http://www.mongus.net/pngInfo/

FireFox is probably an all-around better choice though. :)

Terry

-----Original Message-----
From: mis...@li...
[mailto:mis...@li...] On Behalf Of
Brent DeShazer
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 11:00 PM
To: Misterhouse
Subject: [mh] New weather module and a new web interface

I'm working on a module to talk to the wview weather software available
from
http://www.wviewweather.com/ . I got everything working using a
stand-alone
script and just got finished migrating it to user-code in Misterhouse.
Everything works except after each string is received, the wview is
reporting a "write error" and closes the socket to the client. This is
forcing me to call a "start" on the Socket_Item object I create after
each
data read. This works but seems unnecessary and inefficient to me. I'm
sure
I'm probably missing something but I can't see it, I've tried looking
through lib/Socket_Item.pm and bin/mh to trace this out but no luck so
far.

Attached is the user-code that is exhibiting this problem (weather.pl).
I'm
also including the quick-and-dirty test-code I used to get the data
decoding
figured out (decodewview.pl) for comparison, which doesn't exhibit this
disconnect problem.

Once I get this fixed I'll migrate this over to a module in /lib and
post it
back to the list. It's written to work with the existing %Weather hash
so it
should be virtually plug-and-play, just like the wx200 stuff.

Oh, and I'm still on 2.98 if that makes any difference. I still need to
diff
out the modifications I made to the stock 2.98 distribution, install the
latest release and incorporate them and then post the updates to the
list.
Hopefully after that I'll be able to keep up...

As a teaser I've also attached a couple of quick screen-shots of the new
web
interface I'm developing, in case anyone is interested. I'll warn you
that
its probably not going to be very Audrey-friendly, I'm designing it to
run
under Firefox on my Fujitsu 3500 tablets (and all the other household
PC's).
It will be incorporating some Web 2.0/Ajax stuff and it uses a lot of
transparent .PNG files, so a modern browser that supports XMLHttpRequest
(I.E. qualifies here) and alpha-channel PNGs (but not here) is
required...

Thanks for any help and feedback,

Brent
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