Weather

I made a (nice) program to see the forecast for three days in the UK or the rest of the world. But as it is not according to the Style Guide, it is not for the faint hearted! Anyone else can find it at: http://scheelpj.home.xs4all.nl/Weather.zip

Looking forward to your comments.

Peter

It is now part of my desktop. The interface feels a bit strange but everything appears to be working, and you have introduced me to anew word, “over-morrow”, not in regular use in England but perhaps it should be.

Works well for Berlin. Thanks a lot.
I changed the template of the main window. The window is now smaller and the slider working. Now I can !Weather use with the Pandora and the PiTab. Screen resolution 800 × 480.

@John: overmorrow is in the English language since 1530 (year, not hour). I like the word, it is much shorter than the day after tomorrow. A nice word for fast speaking people. Spread the word.
@Raik: that it works was my part, that it works for Berlin is due to the BBC:-) I made Weather on a pretty large screen, space enough to give it a large window. Glad you like the program.

I like overmorrow. It is not in the shorter OED, alas.

The more people use it, Gavin, the sooner it will be in it. So, use your influence :-)

It is in the complete OED – but they give the date as 1535… 8~)

Yes, I am the sad nerd who has a copy by his elbow… http://coshipi.deviantart.com/art/Oxford-English-Dictionary-553439387 (coshipi is me).

Today I learned that my electronic “Oxford Dictionary of English” is apparently incomplete. “overmorrow” does not appear :(

Overmorrow: use it or loose it.
I’m glad that an old word gets so much attention. But my humble question is: how’s (the) Weather?

@Peter
I know, this is a service from BBC. I use often WeatherUK aviable from !Store. ;-)
If I use it, I use it with my portable devices, with a small screen. But it was not a problem to change.
Is it possible to use “ResFind” (e.g. inside in SparkFS and StrongED) to use different Resources for the different territories? ResFind you find here.

Well, Raik, I thought about that while building the program. As the data from the BBC is only in English (and some Celtic languages on the web site) and the program doesn’t need much description, I decided to keep it all in English. But I’ll have a close look at ResFind the oncoming days to find out how to do it.

Really nice bit of work there!
Suprising how small the code is, very neat.
Using wget to handle the http stuff was a smart choice!
Well done!
One suggestion, the light cloud could do with a little sun, it’s heavily depressing living in the UK anyway ;-)

Thank you, Malcolm, your comments make me pretty proud!

One suggestion, the light cloud could do with a little sun, it’s heavily depressing living in the UK anyway ;-)

I’ll give it a silver lining, next week. I only go to the UK during summer holidays, which is great fun, but I know it can be gloomy.

I made a new version of Weather and I hope you will have a look at it.

General description:
about 200,000 locations across the world,
no API key needed,
very clear overview,
a bit odd, but carefully crafted interface,
a graphical overview for the next 24 hours,
search by name, postcode (only UK) or BBC weather code,
you can keep a list of your favourit places.

https://scheelpj.home.xs4all.nl/Weather-2.zip

Comments are very welcome.

I made a new version of Weather and I hope you will have a look at it.

Crashes with illegal instruction on Rpi 3B+ RO 5.24.

Crashes with illegal instruction on Rpi 3B+ RO 5.24.

I made it on RO 5.21. The difference can’t be that big. Do you have a line number, please, Gavin?

There might be a problem with older versions of wget on 3B or 5.24.

There might be a problem with older versions of wget on 3B or 5.24.

If wget is a GCC thing, it might be using an SWP instruction? These aren’t supported on ARMv8.

Where’d the wget come from? Supplied with your software or sourced from elsewhere?

The difference can’t be that big.

Processor architecture more than OS version. The original Pi, for example, is a quite forgiving ARMv5/ARMv6 hybrid (you can choose). It even emulates rotated loads! The Pi 2 (original) is ARMv7 and will fault more instructions (as my adventures with Zap show). Later Pi2 and Pi3 are ARMv8 where SWP has been completely retired. And some other stuff, but it’s the SWP that we felt.

Crashes with illegal instruction on Rpi 3B+ RO 5.24.

Weather 2.0 is good here on a RPi3B+ OS5.24. ‘wget’ is 1.18, a home built RPi3 compatible version. I am sure the current official release, from PackMan, is RPi3 compatible but riscos.info is down. Older wget’s would have had SWP’s.

Works on my RPi3B Pi-Top and 5.25 without problems. Wget -h tells me 1.19.4 … downloaded last month (?) from the packages.

Do you have a line number, please, Gavin?

No. Error looks like it is raised by C runtime:

Fatal signal received: Illegal instruction
Stack backtrace: Running thread 0×2e2078 (Main thread)
1fffff30 pc: …………

Looks very much as if it is an SWP problem. Annoying that riscosinfo
is down. I have just tried to compile Lua 5.4.0-work2 with GCC 4.7.4-rel3-1 and the command “make -f makefile all” stiffed the machine. I wonder if make 4.1 uses SWP?

Looks very much as if it is an SWP problem.

My latest wget is v1.15. :-/

At any rate, yes. There’s one four instructions into __pthread_disable_ints; another one four instructions into __pthread_protect_unsafe; and amusingly one in __unixlib_fatal.

While the GCCSDK guys got on top of this quickly, there’s a load of older software kicking around, so one could wonder if it wouldn’t be useful for the OS to trap the illegal instruction abort and fake SWP on architectures where it doesn’t exist?

Annoying that riscosinfo is down.

…for those who would look to update aging copies of wget, certainly. ;-)

It seems to me that riscos.info falls over quite often. Is this a side effect of the autobuilder or something? Just trying to figure out what exactly is bringing the site down.

Speaking of which – one for the ROOL admin. I seem to be seeing this very site failing to respond more frequently, and more and more a message about there being “a heavy load, so go away mere peon”. Is something DDOSing ROOL? Or something like Yandex deciding to index the entire site in one go?

Have upload the latest wget 1.19.4. Is the original package file. I will remove if riscos.info is back again.

I have uploaded a RPi3 compatible make 4.1

It will be removed when riscos.info is back.

I have uploaded a RPi3 compatible make 4.1

Brilliant. The Lua 5.4.0-work2 sources compiled straightaway after I dropped it in. Many thanks.

— Off topic: I wanted to compile this one, because of this report in the Lua lists. The Lua VM has been made faster in 5.4.

I have silly little piece of code I use to compare language performance. Includes I/O and arrays(table in Lua obviously). When called with 20 iterations Lua 5.4 runs 5.8s vs 7.8s in Lua 5.3. That’s quite a significant performance jump!

It seems to me that riscos.info falls over quite often. Is this a side effect of the autobuilder or something? Just trying to figure out what exactly is bringing the site down.

Theo has just explained over in csam