Need an update to BWeather

Forum thread started by AndrewZ on Sat, 2014-12-06 16:15

BWeatherTT is a app that provides temperature, sky and precipitation conditions, and weather forecast for your town. It can run as a replicant on your desktop. How cool is that?

But it needs an update to run on Haiku. Would someone like to update the app for Beta 1?

http://haikuware.com/directory/view-details/internet-network/miscellaneo...

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Comments

Re: Need an update to BWeather

by Hubert - 2014-12-07 11:35

+1

I asked for is already 6 years ago.

Re: Need an update to BWeather

by ithamar - 2014-12-07 19:49
Your best bet would be to try here: http://haikuarchives.github.io It is the most visible place for Haiku software without a dedicated maintainer, they might be interested to include BWeather there too. If I had time I would drive this myself, but RL seems to be taking too much of my time ATM :( Ithamar.

Re: Need an update to BWeather

by AndrewZ - 2014-12-08 13:48

Hi Ithamar, I'll try that. What is RL?

Re: Need an update to BWeather

by DaaT - 2014-12-08 14:04

RL = Real Life :)

Re: Need an update to BWeather

by bbjimmy - 2014-12-08 19:13

The source is in the zip.... http://haikuware.com/directory/view-details/internet-network/miscellaneo...

Re: Need an update to BWeather

by Wildman - 2014-12-08 23:23

If I were more familiar with C++ and the BeAPI I would take a swing at it, but alas I am a mere vb / c# dev.

Re: Need an update to BWeather

by AndrewZ - 2014-12-09 18:05

Wildman,

It's mostly an issue of recompiling with correct include files and libraries. There probably isn't much programming involved. I say give it a try and if you run into issues just give a shout out. Be a Haiku hero!

Re: Need an update to BWeather

by Wildman - 2014-12-15 05:27

I'm looking into it now, there appears to be several compiler errors that need resolved.

Re: Need an update to BWeather

by clasqm - 2014-12-15 22:51
Wildman wrote:

If I were more familiar with C++ and the BeAPI I would take a swing at it, but alas I am a mere vb / c# dev.

visual basic, uh?

Wildman, meet yab. yab, this is Wildman.

I'll just let you two kids get acquainted.

http://clasquin-johnson.co.za/michel/haiku/blog/why-you-should-be-writin...

Re: Need an update to BWeather

by jscipione - 2014-12-16 00:00
I've taken a look at the BWeatherTT source code. Please see if you can get the sources up on HaikuArchives on github ASAP. The software probably only needs a few minimal changes in order to run on Haiku. However, because Haiku, unlike BeOS, provides much of the functionality through libraries needed by the app such as regular expression parsing and fetching data from URLs this app could be widdled down to just providing the weather functionality in a much smaller, cleaner app on Haiku.

Re: Need an update to BWeather

by Wildman - 2014-12-16 05:38
clasqm wrote:

basic, uh?

Wildman, meet yab. yab, this is Wildman.

I'll just let you two kids get acquainted.

http://clasquin-johnson.co.za/michel/haiku/blog/why-you-should-be-writing.html

I know of yab, I have only recently started trying to get familiar with it however.

jscipione wrote:

However, because Haiku, unlike BeOS, provides much of the functionality through libraries needed by the app such as regular expression parsing and fetching data from URLs this app could be widdled down to just providing the weather functionality in a much smaller, cleaner app on Haiku.

I came to the same conclusion after reviewing much of the source, which is why I have considered writing an entirely new program.

Re: Need an update to BWeather

by Wildman - 2014-12-16 05:43

Disregard this post, webpositive seems to have fallen on its face >.>

Re: Need an update to BWeather

by fishpond - 2014-12-20 15:47

Full refactoring into using the new http request classes from webkit is definitely desirable, Currently I do have a codebase with all changes required to let it run on Haiku as well as updates to the service URLs. Also removed the included regex. The thing is just now sitting in my Deskbar as it was in R5 times.
Just wouldn't want to have a third Bweather entry on Haikuware, any suggestions on how/where to publish?

Re: Need an update to BWeather

by Wildman - 2014-12-17 11:32

I got a good way into replicating BWeather in yab anyhow, just no idea how to create the deskbar replicant now..

Re: Need an update to BWeather

by AndrewZ - 2014-12-17 14:54

Nice work!! Very cool

Re: Need an update to BWeather

by clasqm - 2014-12-17 21:50

Yab does not have any facility to create replicants, either of the desktop or deskbar variety. You'd have to create a separate little wrapper in C++ that has just one purpose in life, which is to live in the db and call the yab executable when clicked. Come to think of it, if that could be made on a generic basis, so that it could basically load any specified file, it could be a useful utility. Anybody?

Re: Need an update to BWeather

by Wildman - 2014-12-18 06:31
clasqm wrote:

Yab does not have any facility to create replicants, either of the desktop or deskbar variety. You'd have to create a separate little wrapper in C++ that has just one purpose in life, which is to live in the db and call the yab executable when clicked. Come to think of it, if that could be made on a generic basis, so that it could basically load any specified file, it could be a useful utility. Anybody?

Well at least that means I can stop drudging the net for information that does not exist. Yab is starting to feel more and more claustrophobic. I know there is the desklink utility that can create deskbar replicants for any given app, but unsure if it can be used in a way as to update like ProcessController does.

https://www.haiku-os.org/community/forum/desklink_possibilities

Re: Need an update to BWeather

by clasqm - 2014-12-20 10:01

Desklink - yes, I had forgotten about that.