Re: Prayer time

["Ahmad Twaijry" <msx at hush dot com>]

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Hi

Right now I have 3 source codes for the prayer time (command-lines),
I will insh'a Allah test them and select the best of them

After that I will change the output to make it XML (so we can use the
command-line in anything)

After that I will start making the GUI


Anyway insh'a Allah today I will make a list of the tasks and I will
CVS the best source code

I hope if Arabeyes can make a project page (I have CVS account)

I think the name of the program will be "Akim Salatk" :)



On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 16:28:49 -0700 Thamer Mahmoud <neokuwait at hotmail dot com>
wrote:
>Ahmad Twaijry writes:
>
> > Yes please send the code to me
> >
> > I thing I will use GTK for the GUI and I will insh'a Allah but
>to many
> > things in the Program (e.g: Adan/Ekama sound, how many minute
>left,fiqh
> > ..etc)
> >
> > Right now I am planning and searching
> >
>
>Assalamu Alaykom,
>
>
>DISCLAIMER: I'm new to Linux and new to programming. So some of
>the
>terms that I use might mean entirely different things to the
>pros. ;)
>
>
>I'm not sure if you have already thought about this, but here it
>goes:
>
>The main problem with prayer time calculators that I've tried, is
>that
>none of them use the same algorithm to calculate the times. Basicly,

>>
>even with the same latitude/longitude and Fiqh settings, the results
>are different (with the difference being in many minutes and sometimes
>hours!).
>
>In a perfect world, we should probably have a standard way of
>calculating prayer times through computerized means. Here is a
>suggestion that might get us close to that:
>
>Please separate the GUI/Console stuff from the back-end that does
>the actual calculating.
>
>This is really important because this would allow us to use the
>same
>code in different ways. For example:
>
>You're thinking of a GTK app.  Nadim Shaikli mentioned a Console
>command (daemon?). I'm personally interested in a GKrellm
>plugin. Others might want a web-based front-end. Creating a separate,

>>
>library-like backend, that we could all benefit from, is the only
>way
>to go.
>
>I'd be willing to help. While trying to learn programming in C,
>I
>wrote some code for windows MFC <blush> that I think it might be
>useful if cleaned up and converted to gcc. The accuracy of this
>code
>is only tested for Kuwait but it does support prayer times
>calculations for all latitudes and angles, and even all calculation
>methods for countries with Extreme latitudes. The code is in shambles
>right now and needs a lot of cleaning. I would be willing to start
>working on it and cvs it somewhere, that is, if the code provided
>by
>Moustafa Elqabban is not good enough (I'd really like to take a
>look
>at that). If so, I'll use your code/library and jump straight to
>my GKrellm
>plugin ;)
>
>
>good luck,
>
>- Thamer Mahmoud
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