Hi Everybody!
I’ve finally released Version 2024, Build 1.0. You can upgrade by running the installer www.wxsim.com/wxsimupg.exe or www.wxsim.com/wxsimupg.zip (from which you would extract the executable installer). (if you are NOT an existing user, and want to try it, the links are the same, except replace “upg” with “dem”, for “demo”).
Here’s what’s new in WXSIM itself:
The ‘Run Immediately’ check box on the ‘Auto Run and Other Settings’ form (under
‘Start’) has been replaced with a (probably more intuitive) button of the same name,
which triggers such a run immediately upon clicking (rather than when the ‘Activate
Auto Run With These Settings’ button is clicked).
A new file, named wxsimhelpfile.txt, containing all of WXSIM’s and WRET’s 158 ’blue
text’ help items is now provided (in the main WXSIM folder). This is indexed by the
same numbers that now appear at the top of the WXSIM (or WRET) Help forms. The main
purpose of this is to enable non-English speakers to easily look up the item of
interest, to copy and then paste into a translator of your choice.
WRET.exe has been modified to allow (optionally) compatibility with the newest version
of Cumulus MX, which now has log files based on numeric (rather than three-letter
alphabetical) month names. WXSIM-Lite and WXSIMATE have the same options added (which the user must select separately in each program). These are included as an additional option, so that compatilibilty with the older versions is maintained.
A notification (as a message box during a manual run, or a message displayed after an
automated run by wxerr.exe) is displayed if the file being imported under Import/Import
Data has a name different from the name specified for output by euromix.exe. By default,
this is called wdatamixed.txt. The motivation for this message is that some users, after
starting to use euromix.exe (to mix ECMWF data with that from GFS) did not realize they
would need to change the name of the file to import (generally from wdata.txt to
wdatamixed.txt). In manual mode, there is an opportunity to make the change before the
forecast, but automated forecasts will be allowed to run to completion, and the user can
make the change after that.
A minor bug in the Solar Eclipse routine has been corrected (my apologies, as I’ve
forgotten what it was, but it was something minor which I caught myself)
Minor cosmetic and informational changes were made.
Also, WXSIMATE, wret.exe, and WXSIM-Lite have changes to accomodate the newest version CumulusMX.
Let me know how it goes!
Tom