TidesUK - a Gnometer style Tide indicator

[barcud]

Hi,

here is a small tide perdiction tool I came up with.
It is using tidetimes.org.uk and generates a little Gnometer style tide prediction window like this:

TidesUK.png

I chose tidetimes.org.uk because they seem to be the most accurate around the UK.
So if anybody wants to give it a go here it is:

TidesUK.rmskin

It uses Lua to keep a tide table of one old and the next 3 tides up yo date. So I needed to get tomorrows date to get the new predictions from tidetimes. Really easy, I thought but I didn't really get there without Lua.
Lua is also used to set the bar on the left which indicates how far the tide is in/out.

Let me know if there are any problems or enhancements I could add.

Cheers

[Benjamin Linus]

Thanks for this, very useful.

[dv-ent]

Indeed !

[Pelagic01]

Hello,
I have no experience writing code. But I would like to modify your tide meter so that It can display the tides of NY. I have a similar website to your "tidetimes", here is the link http://www.noreast.com/tidecharts/selectlocation.cfm?region_ID=33&

how can I edit your skin to display my tide stations?

-Thanks

[Louitrilobite]

Imagine my surprise, how does it know where I live!

: )

By some strange coincidence I happen to live near you.

Thanx for the skin tool thing, nicely done.

[pino76]

Hi, I know it's been a few years since you posted this but I was so looking forward to using your skin but unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work (for me) at all - with or without changing the location in the ini file. The chart simply remains empty. Is there something in the code that perhaps needs to be updated? I would appreciate your reply very much..

[eclectic-tech]

Hi, I know it's been a few years since you posted this but I was so looking forward to using your skin but unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work (for me) at all - with or without changing the location in the ini file. The chart simply remains empty. Is there something in the code that perhaps needs to be updated? I would appreciate your reply very much..

The source for this skin is a web site HTML code. The problem with that is the slightest change to the web site code is going to break this skin. It is not unusual for a site to update their code several times a year or several times a month in some cases.

It's been 5 years since this author visited, so I thought I would jump in to explain why this may never work.

Sorry to say this skin will never work without a complete re-write, and even then, it may stop working at any time, if the web site changes.

[pino76]

The source for this skin is a web site HTML code. The problem with that is the slightest change to the web site code is going to break this skin. It is not unusual for a site to update their code several times a year or several times a month in some cases.

It's been 5 years since this author visited, so I thought I would jump in to explain why this may never work.

Sorry to say this skin will never work without a complete re-write, and even then, it may stop working at any time, if the web site changes.

Thank you very much for explaining this to me. It's a shame though, as there seems to be no alternative to this skin. I can only hope that someone eventually will rewrite it and make it work again..