Cumulus Support

Out of interest here is a quick play with the Bindows gauges...
http://weather.wilmslowastro.com/gaugesA/gauges.htm

Hi Mark,

I tried the new gauges_canvas.js, pointed it towards my realtime.txt file but came up with a blank canvas.

The bindows gauges look good too but I do like these. Soon you will give us TOO much choice.

EDIT: But they are growing on me

captzero wrote:Soon you will give us TOO much choice.

I think so, too. There are lots of things that people have created that I'd like to have a play with, but there are just so many good ones now that I don't know where to begin

captzero wrote:I tried the new gauges_canvas.js, pointed it towards my realtime.txt file but came up with a blank canvas.

Hmm, odd. I just pointed my test page to a 'test' realtime.txt (it's not raining here!) and it seems to work OK?

captzero wrote:The bindows gauges look good too but I do like these.

Ha ha, nothing like the hand drawn look eh?
The Bindows gauges are pretty flexible, you can drop the background, which will make them more like my gauges, and you can provide functions to colour the labels/pointer etc depending on value. I could also make them non-linear as again you can provide a function to plot value spacing.

Steve wrote:There are lots of things that people have created that I'd like to have a play with, but there are just so many good ones now that I don't know where to begin

I know the feeling, to much to play with, not enough time

I did a bit more experimentation with the Bindows gauges (all functional except the rainfall)...
http://weather.wilmslowastro.com/gaugesA/gauges.htm

Mark,

They look fantastic, well done!

Great urrm exept in IE..

Very nice indeed

Not that it matters at the moment but will not work in IE 9 beta either

Oh dear!
It 'almost' works in 'quirks mode', but I wonder what is going wrong there? Who uses IE anyway
It bombs out in the Bindows code, but it is obviously something I am doing.

mcrossley wrote:Oh dear!
It 'almost' works in 'quirks mode', but I wonder what is going wrong there? Who uses IE anyway
It bombs out in the Bindows code, but it is obviously something I am doing.

The previous did work in IE they were a bit larger, I dont use IE but 60 percent does

OK, found two things.

1. IE does not like Bindows on a HTML5 page
2. The crash in the gauges is a timing issue, the gauges cannot redraw their scales, so my code reloads the whole gauge if the scale changes. IE takes a lot longer to reinitialise the gauge, and when I call into it to update an gauge component it crashes because IE hasn't finished creating yet

Here is a page modified for IE - but some functions have been lost
http://weather.wilmslowastro.com/gaugesA/gauges2.htm

The original page works fine in Chrome though - I'll have to start using IE for some dev work

I will mail Bill Gates

-edit some funtions dont work in FF too in your version the previous did well in FFox except the rain..

A tad cool inside your house MrCrossley....time to light the fire?

Super-T wrote:A tad cool inside your house MrCrossley....time to light the fire?

Nah, I just tell them to put an extra sweatshirt on

Why not use a redirect to another gauges page when IE is detected ?