TclWeather is a simple weather applet that periodically downloads meteorological data from NOAA's web site[L1 ]. The program first grabs the METAR[L2 ] 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[L3 ] is to Gnome[L4 ]. 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.
Download TclWeather 1.0 from http://tcl.jtang.org/tclweather/tclweather-1.0.tar.gz
So you want to do some METAR data decoding? Look at the file utils/METAR_decoding. For your convenience, the file is replicated at http://tcl.jtang.org/tclweather/METAR_decoding .
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