By Noobuntu (User), on
Wed Jun 29 07:38:30 2005: Radar map.
Hi,
What about a "Radar map"
adesklet? It would be a really good addition to the
Weatherforecast desklet.
Just any desklet that fetches some image from the net would
suffice.
By cs-cam (Desklet
Author), on Wed Jun 29 07:44:05 2005.
I have seriously thought about that.... but I didn't because
I don't really want a radar image on my desktop and t the
time I didn't know enough Pyhton/Imlib2 to remove background
colours which would be my preference.
Give me a link where to find radar images online and I'll
have a go ey? It would be nifty
By syfou (Core Developer
& Desklet Author), on Wed Jun 29 10:27:15 2005.
Radar maps can be found on weather.com web site... Look at
this
small patch (first post
on top) by Mike Pirnat for the URL details. Yours,
By cs-cam (Desklet
Author), on Sat Jul 2 00:16:50 2005.
http://www.myfilebin.com/userfiles/cam/weatheradar-0.0.1.tar.bz2
Done. it's not that crash hot but it works. There's nothing
fancy in there, weather.com has it's radar images in iframes
so I had to parse the source of a couple of pages to get the
image URL so it takes a few seconds to load up depending on
your connection. 2-3 secs here on 1.5Mbit ADSL. Config.txt
just takes image dimensions (it uses PIL to resize) and your
weather.com location code, hope that does what you're after
:)
By ZeroDivide (Desklet
Author), on Sun Jul 3 16:15:13 2005.
Cool desklet cs-cam.. You're really on a roll :D
Theres one small problem I noticed after running the desklet
for a while and never having the radar image update. Imlib is
cacheing the /tmp/weather_com.jpg image, so it never really
gets reloaded. An easy fix would be to change line 29 to use
load_image_without_cache() instead of load_image().
image_set_changes_on_disk() would also be a fix but I
couldn't get it to work (using adesklets 0.4.10).
btw.. why did you decide to use PIL instead of imlib to
resize the weather image?
By cs-cam (Desklet
Author), on Sun Jul 3 18:56:49 2005.
Heh, cause I don't know how to do it with Imlib and it didn't
occur to me that adesklets is based on Imlib so I didn't
think to look it up. I'll fix those couple of thigns today
and upload changes :)
By cs-cam (Desklet
Author), on Mon Jul 4 23:32:12 2005.
sorry for not having this done, been a bit under the weather
lately, am posting this off my mobile phone from bed. will
fix this up hopefully in the next couple of days...