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December 2016 v4 Development Summary

In December, v4 development covered the following areas:

• Completing the process of getting the vertical bulletin scroll operational and fixing bugs found with it
• Utilizing modern C++ compiler options like the address sanitizer and undefined behavior sanitizer to see if v4's codebase has problems in those areas. There were a small number of issues which were easily fixed.
• Implementing the horizontal warning crawl
• Rewriting the code that interfaces wit...
  2017-01-03 03:44:38 +0000 UTC View Post

November 2016 v4 Development Summary

In November, v4 development covered the following areas:

• Porting over the word wrapping algorithm from v3 which is used for the 36 hour forecast and Local Update segments
• Implementing the 36 hour forecast and Local Update segments
• Implementing the 30 day Outlook segment
• Implementing the graphical (with weather icons) Travel Cities Forecast segment
• Implementing the Current and Local radar segments
• Resuming work on the multithreading ...
  2016-12-01 23:39:35 +0000 UTC View Post

October 2016 v4 Development Summary

In October, v4 development covered the following areas:

- Completing the NDFD mapping algorithm implementation

- Adding the regional forecast, extended forecast, and almanac segments from the 9/1992 era. These are what are currently in v3.

- Implementing a graphics developer GUI for tweaking the placements of graphics on the new segments

- Beginning the work in porting over v3's word wrapping algorithm for the 36 hour forecast and local update segments

Finishin...

September 2016 v4 Development Summary

The following message is the September 2016 v4 Development summary of Taiganet's WS4000 Simulator project.

In September, v4 development covered three main areas:

Generalizing the radar map atlasing code so it could be used on segments that utilize the regional map.

Getting the Regional Observations segments up and running with auto city placement on the map based on the city's longitude and latitude coordinates.

Starting work on the architecture that will map the NWS'...

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