[squeak-dev] PlotMorph package updates & Weather stations

H. Hirzel hannes.hirzel at gmail.com
Thu Apr 13 09:59:52 UTC 2017


Thank you for the interesting report, Tim.

Could you please add a nice screen shot as Tobias recently has
increased the size limit for attachments?

--Hannes

On 4/12/17, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
> I’ve just uploaded a new version of PlotMorph (MCHttpRepository
>     location: 'http://www.squeaksource.com/PlotMorph'
>     user: ''
>     password: ‘’) or
> http://www.squeaksource.com/PlotMorph/PlotMorph-tpr.39.mcz
>
> This adds a new subclass, TimeDataPlotMorph, which uses Morphic stepping to
> have the too-old data (as determined by the plotDuration ivar) removed and
> the plot bounds updated. This has made nice scrolling plots of my weather
> station data. It certainly isn’t polished, let alone finished, so feel free
> to improve it.
>
> There’s also a new release of ‘Weather station for Squeak’ (MCHttpRepository
>     location: 'http://www.squeaksource.com/WeatherStation'
>     user: ''
>     password: ‘’) or
> http://www.squeaksource.com/WeatherStation/WeatherStation-tpr.7.mcz
>
> Generally the MQTT & weather station code is running extremely reliably;
> it’s running live in my development image as I add new stuff l(ike the
> BarometerMorph that is the result of a lot of donated time by Bob Arning). I
> haven’t had to change or restart the mqtt client in four or five weeks.
>
> The BarometerMorph and its sort-of abstract parent RotaryDialMorph should
> someday be good enough to move to the main Morph category and provide nice
> roundy-roundy data displaying for all, for things like pressure, humidity,
> temperature, speed, rpms, time, sound levels, voltage and what have you.
>
> A rotary indicator is a quite ‘interesting’ project that deserve more
> attention in my opinion. There are so many possible options for the
> displaying, the look of the dial(s), the indicator ‘needle’ and so on. I’d
> say you could make a pretty good thesis project out of simply characterising
> them, let alone implementing a good scheme for parameterising them for code.
>
> tim
> --
> tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
> A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.
>
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