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Re: FlipClock Beta

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Originally Posted by jolouis (Post 379750)

Okay I can do that... should I incorporate that the day/night changes and things into Insomniac mode, or should I add another option somewhere do you think? I'll make the "dim to brightness" thing happen in insomniac mode anyways, cause that's just a cool idea... but the changing day/night thing I might want to add as another option as some people might not want that (in case you set an alarm at night, or some other reason)

Jolouis, The day/night changes can be a user option. The best feature so far is how my music alarm sloooooly increases over a 60 second period. Thanks!!!!

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heh I like the way how 'clear! clear! clear!' sounds: reminds me of those U-boat movies.

Dive! Dive! Dive!

Re: FlipClock Beta

Theme idea:

Yesterday I was pointed to this clock: http://yugop.com/ver3/stuff/03/fla.html

What do you think: would it be nice to have something like this as a FlipClock theme?

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There's an interesting one! lol though I have to admit I remember seeing that as one of the "new and interesting interface idea examples" from one of my college courses when it first came out years ago! Would be doable, not sure how quickly the animations would play but might be worth trying... see what other people think, or just do it yourself anyways and see what happens!

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Help! All of a sudden no FlipClock alarms. At the time of the set alarm, nothing happens. First thing that I tried was rebooting. What can I do to trouble-shoot?

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It seems that we all wanted a dim screen in "Night" display until we hit "Alarm Off", then it could change to the "Day" display with full brightness to safely get out of bed in the dark ( I get up at 4:30 am). If we hit "Snooze" the display should remain dim. If we hit nothing the alarm sound or music and the display brightness should slowing increase for 60 seconds at which point the sound and brightness are at max.

I'm just implementing this now and need a bit of help/clarification with the "snooze" bit. Here's the problem: when you're in insonmiac mode, I set it up to mimic the normal tablet dim/brightness behaviour, which means if the screen is off or dim, when you hit it the first time it brightens up but doesn't actually do anything; that way you can hit anywhere to turn the screen back to full brightness, and then press the button/part of the screen you actaully want since you can now see it.

For the "snooze" description as quoted above though it's a bit different... as hitting the snooze button would cause the tablet to go fo normal brightness, you'd hit snooze again now that you can see it, and then it would go back to Insomniac birghtness. Does that make sense? or should I be adjusting the insomnaic mode so it responds to button presses/etc without returning to normal brightness?... I think the first option is best personally, but what's the opinion from you guys?

Den - Do you still see the "Alarm icon" in the status bar on the tablet? Did you recently change the time on any of the alarms that aren't working? Does the alarm "countdown" timer still show a proper/actual time value?

Thanks!

Re: FlipClock Beta

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Originally Posted by jolouis (Post 382592)

I'm just implementing this now and need a bit of help/clarification with the "snooze" bit. Here's the problem: when you're in insonmiac mode, I set it up to mimic the normal tablet dim/brightness behaviour, which means if the screen is off or dim, when you hit it the first time it brightens up but doesn't actually do anything; that way you can hit anywhere to turn the screen back to full brightness, and then press the button/part of the screen you actaully want since you can now see it.

For the "snooze" description as quoted above though it's a bit different... as hitting the snooze button would cause the tablet to go fo normal brightness, you'd hit snooze again now that you can see it, and then it would go back to Insomniac birghtness. Does that make sense?

Or should I be adjusting the insomnaic mode so it responds to button presses/etc without returning to normal brightness?... I think the first option is best personally, but what's the opinion from you guys?

Den - Do you still see the "Alarm icon" in the status bar on the tablet? Did you recently change the time on any of the alarms that aren't working? Does the alarm "countdown" timer still show a proper/actual time value? Thanks!

Good, at "wake up" time the display should be bright enough to see buttons.

Yes, makes sense, when you hit "snooze" display should then become dim again.

Jolouis, I recently went into "Control Panel", "Panels", and disabled the status bar for "alarm". When I click to enable "alarm" there is a check mark, but the icon is not displayed in the status bar. When I set the N800 system alarm, the icon is displayed and tit alarms at the set time. I noticed that when I set a new alarm in FlipClock, I no longer get that "alarmsynced" message that I got previously.

Re: FlipClock Beta

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Originally Posted by sampieter (Post 382270)

Theme idea:

Yesterday I was pointed to this clock: http://yugop.com/ver3/stuff/03/fla.html

What do you think: would it be nice to have something like this as a FlipClock theme?

As long as the seconds aren't displayed! I got a headache looking at it for a few seconds.

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I guess I have to go back to my original request of Single tap for snooze, double tap for Alarm Off. Tap once, screen stays dim. Double tap, it goes bright, alarm goes off. No searching for where to tap.

Jim

Re: FlipClock Beta

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Jolouis, I recently went into "Control Panel", "Panels", and disabled the status bar for "alarm". When I click to enable "alarm" there is a check mark, but the icon is not displayed in the status bar. When I set the N800 system alarm, the icon is displayed and tit alarms at the set time. I noticed that when I set a new alarm in FlipClock, I no longer get that "alarmsynced" message that I got previously.

Seems to be a problem with the OS itself; I just did the exact same thing as you described and sure enough the Icon didn't come back. I opened up X-term, became root, and ran the command
/etc/init.d/alarmd restart
That got the icon back and alarms working properly again.

lol come on guys help me out here, I've got one request to make snoozing and turning off alarms easier, and an opposite requesting to make it harder! lol I'll put some notes down on my todo list, but not making any promises until we can get a bit more of a consensus because I want to try and keep the app fairly straightforward... having three different "ways to turn alarms off" is going to be mighty confusing...

As a general update, I've been getting a lot of little tweaks in recently. The alarm stuff as discussed is done now, the only thing I didn't do is the auto night/day thing as that really needs the proper theme browser/support going to make sense. I've fixed up the main interface, got rid of those ugly buttons and moved the seconds bar down to the bottom. Fixed the 1 pixel problems, and also added a little notification thing to tell you when Snooze is active and how long you have left before alarm goes again. I'm going to package up what I've got here and try YET AGAIN to get into extras... there's still lots to go, and the graphics need more tweaking but at least it's a good update from where we were before...

Thanks!