[Announce] Advanced Clock Plugin - Page 31 - maemo.org

Wonko | # 301 | 2011-01-15, 23:37 | Report

Originally Posted by Mentalist Traceur

Much appreciated. I prob'ly have fumbled around trying to figure it out for a while.

You're welcome.

Breaking backwards compatibility is nothing one does lightly.
In this case it appeared sensible to me.
Still, it is not the friendliest thing you can do to other developers building up on your work.

Originally Posted by NightShift79 View Post

thanks Wonko, for the new features!
But I'm lost on how to fix the clocks...
could you include the fixed clocks in a next update?

Glad to see it fits your needs.
Which clocks in particular are causing the problems?

By the way, any comments on the new approach are very much appreciated.
As you notice I made the "per desktop clocks" as configurable as the "default" clock.
Currently, the settings for each "per desktop clock" are copied from the default clock when the per desktop clock is configured the first time.
I am planning to add "reset buttons" to the settings UI as well, in order to reset the per desktop clocks to the settings of the default clock.
This should make it easier to maintain consistent configurations among the per desktop clocks.

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WhiteWolf | # 302 | 2011-01-16, 15:35 | Report

Originally Posted by Wonko View Post

Well, this strongly depends on the clock style.
I think the only clock style that currently uses that field follows the python datetime strftime() formatting as described in: http://docs.python.org/library/datet...ptime-behavior
E.g., something like "%H:%M" should display the clock as "Hour:Minute".
This clock style was posted here some time ago.

Thanks, I'll try.

Mentalist Traceur | # 303 | 2011-01-17, 00:08 | Report

Originally Posted by Wonko View Post

You're welcome.

Breaking backwards compatibility is nothing one does lightly.
In this case it appeared sensible to me.
Still, it is not the friendliest thing you can do to other developers building up on your work.

Yeah, I agree. It was sensible here. And it's not like we had to redo the entire thing. Just add... 8 characters. Or use 3dd / dd three times to delete the extra unneeded lines.

Originally Posted by Wonko View Post

By the way, any comments on the new approach are very much appreciated.
As you notice I made the "per desktop clocks" as configurable as the "default" clock.

Currently, the settings for each "per desktop clock" are copied from the default clock when the per desktop clock is configured the first time.
I am planning to add "reset buttons" to the settings UI as well, in order to reset the per desktop clocks to the settings of the default clock.
This should make it easier to maintain consistent configurations among the per desktop clocks.

I did not notice (haven't started using the per-desktop feature yet), but I think it's a good approach. I was going to say something else, but I don't remember it now.

NightShift79 | # 304 | 2011-01-18, 02:47 | Report

I noticed, that desktop scrolling gets pretty choppy when using for example desktop1 with decimal clock and desktop2 with no clock and so on.
is there any chance that could get optimized somehow?

WhiteWolf | # 305 | 2011-01-19, 10:28 | Report

Originally Posted by Wonko View Post

Well, this strongly depends on the clock style.
I think the only clock style that currently uses that field follows the python datetime strftime() formatting as described in: http://docs.python.org/library/datet...ptime-behavior
E.g., something like "%H:%M" should display the clock as "Hour:Minute".
This clock style was posted here some time ago.

I have not worked.

The link shows for programming language. Not for the field shown in the GUI application

les_garten | # 306 | 2011-01-20, 17:26 | Report

I just noticed there are 31 pages here!

I installed and the clock showed up perfectly!

I went looking for the config tool in the app menu, settings, and status menu and couldn't find it.

Rebooted and clicked on staus menu and the screens tears and the GUI for the desktop is unusable. I can lock and unlock the device and get back to the app menu but the staus menu and the power key menu tear everything up.

Uninstalled and back to Zero.

Any ideas?

Mentalist Traceur | # 307 | 2011-01-20, 20:36 | Report

Originally Posted by NightShift79 View Post

I noticed, that desktop scrolling gets pretty choppy when using for example desktop1 with decimal clock and desktop2 with no clock and so on.
is there any chance that could get optimized somehow?

You'd have to screw with either memory/swap/process-scheduling optimizations, or modify hildon, either Hildon Desktop or Hildon Status Menu... You may be able to also modify python...

This is assuming of course that the code is already optimized, which it may or may not be. *Shrug* I just don't think there's much you can do because the choppiness is presumably the new clock being loaded or swapped in/out. Either you do that, or you keep all the clocks loaded in memory, and not swapped, which, well, would take up more ram than ideal I suspect.

Whitewolf: That was the point of his link. If you understand what the link says, you understand what the custom line is there for. I don't think there's a simple way to explain it beyond %h = hour, %d = day, etc.

Les Garten: The clock settings aren't in the status menu anymore, they're in the Settings menu. Other than that... Try to reinstall, see if it works better this time around? I can't really say much else unless it refuses to work upon reinstall, at which point it's time to evaluate what your other installed things are.

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Alright, as you guys can see here, I'm messing around with cloning the WiFi signal applet as a set of bars on the right-most side of the clock, mimicking the signal bars of the cellphone signal. Now, how does everyone feel about that? Would you prefer a number, 1-10 (and X if unconnected/unloaded), or do you all think signal bars are better? (It would still show ten levels - the gray bars go up for 1-5, then white bars cover those from 6-10.) (If I know what I'm doing by then I may make a more precise cell-phone signal applet to do the same for the normal one - show gray/white bars, allowing for ten levels, instead of just white bars for five levels.)

Meanwhile, if I used the signal bar clone to display signal, it lets me try to put other info in the space under it (like, encryption type, maybe? IDK. Whatever makes sense and I can figure out how to get the info for.)

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NightShift79 | # 308 | 2011-01-21, 23:19 | Report

...yes, already tweaked some settings with swappolube. flows better now.
i like the option, anyway.

- This here might be a bit off topic but maybe this is a feature that maybe could find a way into the plugin:
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=925699&postcount=1
it's about timed Wallpapers. something like "go to nightmode" at a set time. (change image series)

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skykooler | # 309 | 2011-01-22, 14:52 | Report

Originally Posted by rhastdan View Post

flip-clock widget like the HTC anyone??

The problem with something like that is that it requires refreshing more than once a second. The custom clocks are refreshed once a second or once a minute, depending on which mode you are in. Although I guess you could do something with timeouts...

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NightShift79 | # 310 | 2011-01-24, 21:50 | Report

the AlarmDisplayClock doesn't show the correct next alarm for me...
it shows the actual time and under it it shows also the time less 20min. no alarm set to that time...

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