Displaying Weather Statistics

[dhouston]

While Purebasic has extensive graphics capabilities (it's a favorite of game programmers) it is not as easy to create this type of graphics as it is with VB. PB requires more low-level work.

The advantage of Purebasic is that it is cross-platform (Windows, Linux, OSX) and compiles to small, efficient, standalone executables.

[falingtrea]

One thing you could do is upload the weather data to a website like weatherunderground.com. Then you can let them display the data. And manage the webcode.

[EarlyBird2]

Hi Bill,

I am using VB Express to read data streams from COM1. The data is from a datalogger (Aqualog). I have a windows application that displays live data and enables settings to be changed on the fly. It also uses MS Access for a database. The data can then be displayed using Excel. All this is very easy to do.

And if you have MS Office it is all free when you use VB Express. I also downloaded SQL Express for free.

Wind direction sounds interesting and I will have a look into this.

Steve

[Bill Legge]

EB2 - Thanks for your comments. I have had a look at VB.NET - it seemed a huge pile of code and used quite a different approach to creating the code:

1. Design the forms/windows - then automatically, create the code.
2. Glue the bits together with additional code - it's this bit that didn't seem simple/easy to me?

I recently purchasaed 'Visual Basic for Electronics Engineering Application' by Vincent Himpe - it's not the book for a beginner and I need some gentler introduction to VB to get me going.

I've had a look at Liberty Basic and like the feel of it - a more traditional approach to creating code. More work at 'low level' - but that what I've been doing for a few years with PBP.

The Liberty Basic site asks if I want the '32' or '64' bit version? I just want to run it on by PC using windows - which version do I need?

Regards Bill legge

[mackrackit]

I've had a look at Liberty Basic and like the feel of it - a more traditional approach to creating code. More work at 'low level' - but that what I've been doing for a few years with PBP.

The Liberty Basic site asks if I want the '32' or '64' bit version? I just want to run it on by PC using windows - which version do I need?

I will guess you have a 32 bit system. I say that because if you had WIN64 you would know it

[EarlyBird2]

Hi Bill

VB has a few concepts that are hard to understand, objects, methods, collections and properties to name a few. But what you want to do is realy easy in VB 2008 Express. I have time on my hands so if you want to try the VB route let me know.

Steve

[wil@picbasic]

Hi Steve,

I'm interested too. I strugled some weeks with MSCOMM in Excel (VB6) and it will not work with VISTA or Win 7. I got the error 8020, can not read device......
Writing data is ok.

Wil