Version 13 of Jason Tang

Updated 2002-06-14 19:17:56

Hi folks. I've been messing around with Tcl/Tk ever since Michael Jacobson introduced me to it in 2001.

I have written the following: tcldoc2, fickle, and tclweather. I am in the process of writing a few other projects. Although they were mostly developed in Win32, they ought to run on whatver platform one chooses, be it BeOS, *BSD, Linux, etc. Unless otherwise specified, all projects are covered by the GNU General Public License.

Here's an old (1996) picture of me, in case you want to stalk me:

http://www.jtang.org/~tang/images/techid.jpg.

My horribly out of date home page is at http://www.jtang.org .

Email me at [concat "tang" "at" "jtang.org"]. (Sorry, I have to start spam-proofing my address[L1 ].)

Personally I don't like authoring HTML pages...so no bandwidth-wasting Flash/ActiveX/Javascript/etc below.

Here's what I wrote:


TclWeather is a simple weather applet that periodically downloads meteorological data from NOAA's web site[L2 ]. The program first grabs the METAR[L3 ] report for the selected site. It then pushes the data through a home-made scanner (written as a Fickle specification file) and then displays it on a home-made ticker widget. It is to Tcl what gweather[L4 ] is to Gnome[L5 ]. Here's a screenshot of it in action.

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The applet is fairly customizable, from the color choices to scrolling speed and direction. One feature it supports, that I find lacking by many others, is that it allows for HTTP proxies as well as proxy authentication. This is useful if one wishes to run TclWeather behind, for example, a corporation's proxy server.


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