Sandaysoft

Hi Mark:

Until recently I used Bindows gauges on my web site. For some reason they stopped working in Firefox, so I decided to switch to the SteelSeries gauges. I am customizing the demoRadial script for this and it is in most parts straight forward.

http://www.friendsofbridgelake.org/pages/weather/gauges3.php?unit=i

The only "problem" I have is that I want to swich between the metric unit we use here in Canada and US (imperial) units. The scale for the rain gauge will go from 0 - 2 inches. As of now, the labels are 0.2, 0.4, 0.6 ... and the library has no way to label the tick marks in the customary steps of 1/8 of an inch (or even 1/4) - at least I haven't found one yet.

I hope you can help me with this little "problem". Maybe this even has been asked and solved before and I just couldn't find it on the forum?

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Cheers,
Karl
Bridge Lake Weather Station

Hi Karl, no solution for you I'm afraid. The SS library as it stands only displays decimal values.

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Mark
Wilmslow Astro Weather

Thanks Mark, can we hope for this feature in an upcoming version?

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Cheers,
Karl
Bridge Lake Weather Station

It would be way down the list l'm afraid. There is lots of work to do on the library; modularise it, change to using CSS for layers to minimize redrawings etc.

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Mark
Wilmslow Astro Weather

While on the topic ability to change temperature scale would be nice as well. As of now it's 30-100. In my location we'll have days where it doesn't get out of the teens in the winter, and -'s at night, and even get over 100 in the summer.

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Well, if you know what you are doing, the min/max temperature values for Fahrenheit are set in lines 1608-1620 in the gauges.js script. But be careful, because as Mark notes, "if you break it, it's up to you to fix it".

For the last few days I've played around with the steelseries.js library a bit, and I was able to 'teach' it how to display inches as mixed fractions (for example 3/4” instead of 0.75"). Take a look here (Note: if the display says 0” it only means that it's not raining at the moment ).

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Cheers,
Karl
Bridge Lake Weather Station