Revision History of WeatherEase Toolkit

Last revised: 09Nov01 GLG

Revision History

2001-November-10 -- First final release

Additions over the 2001-Oct-16 beta release:

• The Weather Watcher demo app is provided in double-clickable form for classic Mac OS and for Mac OS X.
• Added watch.sh shell-file to illustrate how to set classpath on Unix boxes.
• Added the app.util.FontLoader class to improve the behavior when named fonts are absent from the runtime platform.
• The DeliveryTask intervals are now settable while a thread is running the task, and take effect at the next delay period.
• Added FlexibleListView list-item symbols for showing whether Extremes are present or not ($E), and for showing the GMT timestamp ($U).
• Condensed the field-padding code down to a single Text.pad() method that does either left or right padding.
• Added the glguerin.weather.model.Observation class to encapsulate the raw bytes and textual representation of an undecoded observation. Made corresponding changes in other classes to support Observation.
• Added the methods WeatherReport.setFailure() and WeatherReport.getFailure() to more clearly distinguish failure-reports, and to separate failure-reporting from the presence or absence of observation data.

2001-October-16 -- Initial beta release

This release includes the following features:

• The Weather Watcher demo app runs on classic Mac OS. The supplied JAR-file can also be run on other platforms. No double-clickable Mac OS X versions of the demo are provided yet.
• URLReportProvider reads data from URL sources, such as the NOAA web-server.
• NWSMetarInterpreter interprets METAR data in the format supplied by the NOAA web-server.
• NWSStationBuilder reads station-data and builds Stations in the format downloadable from the NOAA web-server.

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