WeatherScope
From Wine-Wiki
WeatherScope is available from the The Oklahoma Climatological Survey website. According to the 14 January 2002 paper here WeatherScope, accesses data archives via HTTP, integrates different georeferenced data sets (e.g., regional mesonetworks, surface observations, satellite and radar data, and images), and offers extensible and flexible support for a host of data file formats. Most of the data available through the program is available free of charge, with no account needed.
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Current Status
- [Winetools] can install this software Wine Archive Link
- R. May [Jun 05]: It's becoming quite usable, but there are a few remaining issues I'd like to try and shake out.
- Mouse Interaction
- There is an issue with how the program handles the mouse under wine that makes using a program a bit annoying at times. When you right click on an object and bring up a context menu, after selecting an item from the menu, the object behaves as though you are holding the left mouse button and dragging the object around. This is especially annoying if you select the properties item from the menu. This pops up a dialog box, but you can't interact with the dialog box because the object still essentially has control of the mouse. Double clicking the object, which also brings up the properties box, does not produce this problematic behavior. [Ed: A fix for another similar issue with RH and LH mouse buttons was recently discussed. This may now be fixed in cvs]
- A separate issue here is also that clicking and holding down the left/right mouse button in the viewing area causes the program to behave as if you were constantly clicking the mouse button. Under windows (XP), clicking and holding the left/right mouse button over the viewing area produces only the result of a single click. This is not really a big problem, but is a rather large difference from windows.
- Focus Issues
- The properties dialog box (brought up by double clicking an object or right clicking on the object and selecting properties) should be a modal dialog box, but is not under wine. This allows for problems if the user tries to interact with other parts of the program while the properties dialog box is up.
- Mouse Interaction
- Can run, though not working perfectly with Wine20050419 (May 2005)
- R. May: the menubar is not normally visible while running under Wine. I am still able to access the menus by clicking on them, but I have to guess as to their position. If I change focus to another window, I can get the menubar to appear.
- Wine-20050111 shows menus fine Wine Archive Link
- 20041019 works well, without menu issues
- However, all Wine versions before 20050419 have problems changing the date within the program due to limitations (at the time) in Wine's Date-Time Picker. Wine-20050419 contains work on the Date-Time Picker.
- Further details currently unknown
Tips and tricks
Wine 20050419
- If having a visible menubar is necessary, run with Wine-20050111 or older. You can copy the datetime.c file from Wine-20050419 to the older version before building to fix the date time picker issues.
- Be sure to run WeatherScope using the full _windows_ path to the program. For example:
wine c:\\Program\ Files\\Weathersoft\\WeatherScope.exe
- The program requires the registry entry to exist and point to a folder (directory):
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/Shell Folders/AppData
- Make sure the directory pointed to by the above registry key actually exists.
- Further tips are Unknown. Feel free to add them here
Troubleshooting
- Feel free to add suggestions here, but remember to add to the application database. If you can, please become a maintainer for this software.
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