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I just thought I would drop in and say that I really love this clock. When I am at my work desk my n800 usually takes the job of alarm clock anyways and this just makes it look cool. Thanks for all the hard work and I will be keeping an eye on how all of this develops. Thanks again.

That should NOT be. One the reason why I put the led control there (beside the questionable cool factor...) is to have a program able to test them: on my nokia I had to play a bit with color values.
I used the same RGB codes for the engaged alarm string so you can compare how your led react to that number: in a geekier version I could show the hex values . As you will notice to have the green (at least on my device) I had to send a cyan so seem reasonable to think that your tablet behaviour could be a bit different (and blue seem plausible).

CRASH??? It's a clock, should never crash . Anyway sometime I believe python and pygame conflict with other applications: I dont use the Nokia OS (osso) sequences for the led. The application write directly the led to turn'em on and write 0 0 0 to kill the lights so should be no blinking when the clock is off but an 'always on' or 'always off' status. Ill try to increase the number of exceptions to manage to not leave people with dirty memory and weird led colors. I hope more applications will begin to use led feedbacks so that a new event could reset the values. I suppose on a more mainstream device taking over the nokia led use is not as acceptable as doing it on a tablet...
...just pimping the empty, Im still trying to decide what to do with that space, maybe shortcut buttons for some other python apps: I dont know
well, the idea was to make flip each minute but Im too lazy to create the right frame graphics for each number (and would make the download a bit too big) I suppose a generic 3 frames animation would still be acceptable and keep people staring at the screen waiting for the animation: a stop watch with the digital and the flipclock animation each second is on schedule anyway
Thank you, still not as smooth as I would but reasonable

Haven't checked in in a while. Looking great, very usable. Keep up the good work.

I do get a pop-up "Can't read user wallpaper". Click OK, everything else seems to be fine.

Thanks for the great work.

I know, that popup is annoying but Im keeping it there for a while just to make people know what is going on: strange anyway I thinked the wallpaper problem was solved with the jolouis suggestion:
Maybe U dont have any wallpaper in use on your tablet?
Thank you for the feedback, really appreciate

Happy to give the feedback. I do have wallpaper, however, I doubt that it is in the standard location.

I run from an 8GB internal sd card on my n800, have a ~6GB Fat32, ~1GB ext2 (system) and ~384MB swap. I have a lot of files (music, pictures, ebooks, etc) on it, so to save on backup size / time, I created folders on the FAT32 partition and symbolically linked the documents, image, sound, etc directories to them. Worked great, with the exception that every time I rebooted, I had to reset my wallpaper. So I moved it out of the linked images directory and into the MyDocs directory.

Anyway, I would guess the location is the problem. I don't mind the popup only take a tap to make it go away.

lemmy, fireup X-Term and use vi/nano/whatever editor you prefer to open the desktop config file:
/home/user/.osso/hildon-desktop/home-background.conf

Post up the BackgroundImage entry (my bet is that it reads something like "mmc1://" or something? It's just a matter of doing some basic string manipulations in the clock startup file to strip out the unexpected prefixes for the background image, that's all... but unless we know what they are, it's hard to get rid of them!

Ciro, I'm going to grab the latest version (0.1.2) from garage and start working to get the changes I've made along with alarmd/dbus integration into place; I'll let you know what I've got once it's done; shouldn't have to make any changes to any of the other modules, just the ci_init and main flipclock files hopefully (and maybe add an extra one), so shouldn't cause any conflicts or overlap.

FlipAlarmClock 0.1.3 [Rated R]
I just drop there the flip animation for each minute that was lying in a corner all this time (yes Jolouis I touched again the main flipclock.py but just 1 line to call the flip thing: should not be a big deal to integrate with the alarmd modify)
Refined a bit the military time setting. Added a bit of gore.
https://garage.maemo.org/frs/downloa....1.3.armel.deb

jolouis:
BackgroundImage=file:///home/user/MyDocs/7mile%20beach%20grand%20cayman.jpg
hope that helps.

Off to d/l 0.1.3

One thing is not working for me. FlipClock does not remember
my settings. E.g. I really dislike am/pm time so I set FC to
24hr mode. Next time I start it, it's back to am/pm mode. It
also forgets the alarm times I enter .... What am I to do?

that settings are stored in:
/home/user/.flipclock.conf

I guess is a matter of wrong privileges: try to DELETE the .flipclock.conf
(note that the '.' make the file hidden)

[I suppose this could happen if you launched the application with root privoleges the very 1st time and then the application cant write being in a user space...]
Thank you for pointin at the problem. I guess I should make the app aware of root privileges...