OSX Complete skin v0.10.0
Thanks to the many who contributed ideas/suggestions and a special thanks to Juni (http://koti.welho.com/kruohio/skinz.html), who's graphics/icons are used extensively in this skin! :) I've included some of these ideas into the newest version of OSX Complete. I added permanent Battery, Memory, and Storage meters to the bottom border of the main display section. Thanks to the new if/else statements, this skin can check which memory cards are inserted (if any) and adjust the display accordingly. I have made the Main page open by default with the current month's Calendar displayed to the right of the date. When the new meters are tapped, the calendar is replaced by the meter's details. The RSS section now supports Auto-Scrolling and I've disabled online/offline links for Yahoo pages (those pages don't link properly). The Weather display on the Main page and in the Weather section shows Current Conditions if the TP data has been refreshed recently. Otherwise, the current day's Forcast is displayed in its place.
Features:
- Weather for 3 cities
- 9 News feeds including a Stocks page
- 2 Month Calendar with Agenda Advance function
- System meters for Battery Memory, and Storage Memory
- QuickLaunch icons for 20 applications
- Launcher pages for 33 additional applications and 9 games
- Main page displaying Today's Date, Weather, last time Updated, and current month's Calendar
- World Timezones (both analog and digital)
- Agenda, Tasks, and Countdown displays
- Both main and Agenda sections can be collapsed
*Edit: this version is no longer available. Please download my latest version of OSX Complete skin. :)
You are so quick!
Great addition of one month calendar in main region :D . However, you might want to add the calendar header: S M T W R F S on the top.
color,font,-1_4_-1
calendarheader,153,9,12
I like the battery bar as well....
I am switching back to OSX now.... :lol:
Quote from: dhpssGreat addition of one month calendar in main region :D . However, you might want to add the calendar header: S M T W R F S on the top.
Thanks! I tried adding the header originally, but it wouldn't fit without looking really squished. :( Besides, I figure most people use calendars often enough that they don't even bother to look at the day headings anyways. :lol:
Hey rgb08,
great work on the skin :)
two issues I noticed:
1) the rss indicator of the number of pages (1/9 etc)... the 9 seems to be hardcoded. (text,35,1,/9,r). I think perhaps text,35,1,/%var28%,r might be better ?
2) clicking on rss titles does a full rerender. I think this is probably an oversight, as its not needed here.
other than those two minor issues, its working perfectly :)
I've immediately started adaptation of the OSX-skin to my needs and things go well, but for the Launcher Tab which freezes my computer (I carefully replaced the OSX config shortcuts by mine, respecting the new naming format; only big difference is my shortcuts refer to lnk's in the start menu, whereas most original ones point directly to exe's; but this was no problem in the previous version). Any idea?
I still wish the skin would open with the calendar section minimised; can this be done?
Quote from: adboschI've immediately started adaptation of the OSX-skin to my needs and things go well, but for the Launcher Tab which freezes my computer (I carefully replaced the OSX config shortcuts by mine, respecting the new naming format; only big difference is my shortcuts refer to lnk's in the start menu, whereas most original ones point directly to exe's; but this was no problem in the previous version). Any idea?
I still wish the skin would open with the calendar section minimised; can this be done?
Same problem here with either Calendar or OSX skin. Shortcuts seems be be an issue with V10? frequent freeze/soft reset. Please advise!..Back to V9 now.. :(
Quote from: srstwo issues I noticed:
1) the rss indicator of the number of pages (1/9 etc)... the 9 seems to be hardcoded. (text,35,1,/9,r). I think perhaps text,35,1,/%var28%,r might be better ?
2) clicking on rss titles does a full rerender. I think this is probably an oversight, as its not needed here.
Thanks, srs. The first issue was an oversight that I've now fixed on mine and will be included in the next iteration.
The second issue was intentional. Previous versions of my skin could only manually update by tapping the RSS titles or the update time on the Weather forcast page. Now that I've included a refresh button, this is no longer needed. But I'm still use to tapping those areas when I want to update (creature of habit :) ), so I left them in for the time being.
Quote from: adboschI've immediately started adaptation of the OSX-skin to my needs and things go well, but for the Launcher Tab which freezes my computer (I carefully replaced the OSX config shortcuts by mine, respecting the new naming format; only big difference is my shortcuts refer to lnk's in the start menu, whereas most original ones point directly to exe's; but this was no problem in the previous version). Any idea?
Not sure why it is causing you problems. :( In my Logika skin, I use shortcuts to links in the \Windows\ directory without any problems. Make sure you are defining the whole shortcut name in the config.txt file as "apps-(x)-(y)" and not "apps-(x)".
QuoteI still wish the skin would open with the calendar section minimised; can this be done?
Yes, just erase the following code from the top of the skin file:
// BEGIN ON MAIN PAGE
initregion,8,0
initregion,7,1
initregion,0,500
initregion,5,0
initregion,1,0
actually I meant this line:
RSS,title,18,14,207,12,%var5%,,,
button,15,14,210,12,16,4,100-highlight,-1
button,15,14,210,12,-1,6,var4=%var5%
the
button,15,14,210,12,16,4,100-highlight,-1
could be changed to
button,15,14,210,12,16,4,100-highlight,0
or were you using these for updateing also ?
Okay, now I see what you were talking about. I copied that code from my Logika skin where I have to use a full-redraw because the background images for the RSS buttons extend above the region they are in. You are right that I don't need a "-1" in this skin. Thanks! :)
rbg08
Here's a modification (with a few more bugs to work out) of your skin with arbitrajeu's battery/storeage region, fishboy's launcher, juni's and lightman's WA graphics. Just wanted to share what the rest of us can do with the great work you guys are turning out. I'm not able to create like you guys but I can do a mean cut and paste :D
Thanks a lot to all of you guys and especially to srs. This is a great program and a lot of fun besides!
Quote from: ya1950rbg08
Here's a modification (with a few more bugs to work out) of your skin with arbitrajeu's battery/storeage region, fishboy's launcher, juni's and lightman's WA graphics. Just wanted to share what the rest of us can do with the great work you guys are turning out. I'm not able to create like you guys but I can do a mean cut and paste :D
Thanks a lot to all of you guys and especially to srs. This is a great program and a lot of fun besides!
This one looks very very good.
Where can I download this skin file?
Nielsracing
These types of modifications are really trivial and based on other people's hard work. I posted primarily in appreciation of rgb08's and other's efforts and secondarily because I thought it was kind of neat how many other plugins can be duplicated and replaced by Today+. Actually esthetically I prefer rgb08's original. This one is too cluttered for my taste.
Take a look at the latest skin by arbitrajeu and the tab launcher by fishboy. Trying to insert the correct parts into rgb08's skin will teach you a lot about the program and give you a healthy appreciation for other's programing skills. If you run into trouble post in the help section and I'll be glad to help.
ya1950
Quote from: ya1950Nielsracing
These types of modifications are really trivial and based on other people's hard work. I posted primarily in appreciation of rgb08's and other's efforts and secondarily because I thought it was kind of neat how many other plugins can be duplicated and replaced by Today+. Actually esthetically I prefer rgb08's original. This one is too cluttered for my taste.
Take a look at the latest skin by arbitrajeu and the tab launcher by fishboy. Trying to insert the correct parts into rgb08's skin will teach you a lot about the program and give you a healthy appreciation for other's programing skills. If you run into trouble post in the help section and I'll be glad to help.
ya1950
Hello,
Yes you are right, rbg08 did a great job making this skin. But I thought that your modified skin was ment to download for people like me, but I was wrong about that. Sorry.
I will change the (very very nice) skin from rbg08 with a tab launcher from fishboy) and I'm glad to see that you're offering your help.
Nielsracing
No problem. Hint #1: find the quicklaunch section in rbg08's skin - that's where I put fishboy's launcher. Make sure to update the config file as well with the proper shortcuts. If you get ambitious you could even change fishboy's shortcuts to the new naming conventions that rgb08 uses in his skin. :)
Quote from: ya1950Nielsracing
No problem. Hint #1: find the quicklaunch section in rbg08's skin - that's where I put fishboy's launcher. Make sure to update the config file as well with the proper shortcuts. If you get ambitious you could even change fishboy's shortcuts to the new naming conventions that rgb08 uses in his skin. :)
Thanks ya1950.
I will try it tomorrow, now I have to studie for my exam tomorrow, and that's a bit more important :wink:
Quote from: rbg08Quote from: dhpssGreat addition of one month calendar in main region :D . However, you might want to add the calendar header: S M T W R F S on the top.
Thanks! I tried adding the header originally, but it wouldn't fit without looking really squished. :( Besides, I figure most people use calendars often enough that they don't even bother to look at the day headings anyways. :lol:
Great work as usual rbg08, I'm just downloading it now and the latest TodayPlus version. Unfortunately I have to agree with dhpss, simply because different calendars order the days differently, typically either M T W T F S S or S M T W T F S and so without these its easy to get the day wrong.
Looking at the screenshot I notice that the new meters don't have any text associated with them. Would it be possible to put the used storage, battery percentage etc. superimposed over the centre of the relevant bar in the next version, just a personal taste thing but I always like the numerical indicators as well as the graphical for these sort of things.
Thanks for your efforts,
Morpheus
Hi, I love the look of this skin, but it seems very slow to me. When switching tabs, for example, it takes a full three seconds for the switch to complete. I'm using TodayPlus version 0.10.0 but the caveat there is that I'm a newbie, so maybe I'm doing something wrong. I'm using an Axim X5 Advance PXA250 with plenty of memory free, if that helps.
Also, is there any way to view a complete news story when you click on it within the News tab?
Quote from: DrCryptHi, I love the look of this skin, but it seems very slow to me. When switching tabs, for example, it takes a full three seconds for the switch to complete. I'm using TodayPlus version 0.10.0 but the caveat there is that I'm a newbie, so maybe I'm doing something wrong. I'm using an Axim X5 Advance PXA250 with plenty of memory free, if that helps.
Tapping on different tabs causes the skin to "re-draw" the whole skin, which can take 1-3 seconds. Unfortunately, this redraw is neccessary since the skin's height changes depending on what's being displayed. A full 3 seconds is a little on the long side. I have an Axim X5 Advanced & it usually takes 1-2 seconds to switch between tabs.
QuoteAlso, is there any way to view a complete news story when you click on it within the News tab?
Sure, the button to the right of each news topic allows you to read the whole story in Internet Explorer. You can switch between reading on & offline, by toggling the button to the left of the right/left buttons that navigate between news feeds.
drcrypt
Switching tabs doesn't take that long on my e750. Have you tried using the default skin / config without making any adjustments? I've had problems after editing quicklaunch and weather entries, leaving something out that caused a problem. See if it works better with the unaltered skin config first.
Regarding the news, depends if it is a Yahoo feed or not. The non yahoo feeds usually will have a cached news page available. There are online options as well.
-David
dasilva, thanks... I was indeed only checking the Yahoo stories in my testing, but when using another feed it seems to work fine. As for speed issues, it is possibly because my Axim has a PXA250 chip, which only has a 100mhz bus. Later Axim X5's replaced this with the much speedier PXA255. Anyway, I will try the default skin non-editted and see what's what, although I would really like to continue using the OSX one (which is very sharp, IMO, but practically unusable if I can't figure out how to speed up tab switches). rgb, is there any chance you could release a version with localized refreshes... ie: all "panes" of the skin are the same size? I don't know much about TodayPlus, but it seems like that is possible just perusing the boards, and supposedly speeds these skins up greatly.
Hi rbg08,
Just a quick suggestion for the Timezones in the next version, namely instead of hard-coding the timezones into the skin file get the info from the config file as follows:
image,14,11,analogclock.bmp,t
time,29,27,2,analog,hourhand.bmp,minutehand.bmp
text,29,0,[name],c
time,29,42,1,5,c,,"h:mm tt"
image,59,11,analogclock.bmp,t
time,74,27,1,analog,hourhand.bmp,minutehand.bmp
text,74,0,[name],c
time,74,42,2,5,c,,"h:mm tt"
image,104,11,analogclock.bmp,t
time,119,27,3,analog,hourhand.bmp,minutehand.bmp
text,119,0,[name],c
time,119,42,3,5,c,,"h:mm tt"
image,149,11,analogclock.bmp,t
time,164,27,4,analog,hourhand.bmp,minutehand.bmp
text,164,0,[name],c
time,164,42,4,5,c,,"h:mm tt"
image,194,11,analogclock.bmp,t
time,209,27,8,analog,hourhand.bmp,minutehand.bmp
text,209,0,[name],c
time,209,42,5,5,c,,"h:mm tt"
This assumes entries in the config file similar to the following:
time,1,-1,LOCAL:
time,2,110,Paris:
time,3,35,New York:
time,4,4,Los Angeles:
time,5,235,Tokyo:
time,6,115,Bucharest:
time,7,190,New Dehli:
time,8,210,Beijing:
What do you think,
Morpheus
P.S. I re-enabled your calendar header code and increased the size of the main area by 10 pixels to accomodate it, IMO it looks fine and is definitely clearer which day is which, maybe in the next version :)
Morpheus,
The reason I hard-coded the analog Timezone names was I wanted to keep the trailing "...:" after the names in the config.txt file for use on the digital Timezones page. I'll look into finding a compromise. :D I tried increasing the size of the Main page earlier when I was using it to show system meters by default. I felt it made the page look unbalanced. Maybe you could post your modified skin file for those who wish to have the calendar headers.
I realize my skins don't fit everyone's needs perfectly. After all, I made them with my own personal use in mind. :wink: I have no problem with people modifying my skins and posting their variations for others to try out.
A question from a T+ newbe:
How can I refresh the info without resync all?
I.E.: If I want to refresh just the Agenda, where I can find the refresh icon?
In the standard skin (the one I found with T+ V10) there's a button but in OSX skin?
Thanks!
Fedleo
Quote from: rbg08
I realize my skins don't fit everyone's needs perfectly. After all, I made them with my own personal use in mind. :wink: I have no problem with people modifying my skins and posting their variations for others to try out.
Hey I know where your coming from, almost all the code I've written outside of work has been because I wanted to do something and couldn't find exactly what I wanted and on the couple of ocassions I have released them, someone has requested something I personally would never use. Unfortunately for me I get bored once the interesting codings done and I've accomplished the task I originally wrote it for and so would not have lasted past the second release in your place :(.
The thing about the Today screen is it completely down to personal taste and hence everyone wants something different, as it happens OSX is a good fit with my tastes with a few minor tweaks as I suspect is the case for users of all skins. Unfortuantely because I have made a few tweaks I suspect whilst some people might like some of them they wouldn't like all, hence where appropriate I tend to post instructions on how to modify the default skin. However if anyone is interested in the tweaks I made in order to show the calendar or anything else I will try and work out what I did and post instructions on how to do it to the default skin.
I'll post my complete modified OSX skin if anyone wants it but I have also changed the launcher to show names and have four pages instead of two, removed the Stock RSS page in favour of a standard page and superimposed the battery's percentage charge remaining, Total main memory and used storage values over the meters apart from the other changes mentioned in this thread.
Anyway keep producing your own inimitable OSX Complete Skin :D , TBH I enjoy tweaking it a bit as it gives me a bit of an insight into how it all works.
See you,
Morpheus
Quote from: fedleoHow can I refresh the info without resync all?
I.E.: If I want to refresh just the Agenda, where I can find the refresh icon?
In the standard skin (the one I found with T+ V10) there's a button but in OSX skin?
The refresh Agenda icon is located on the Calendars page at the top, between the two month displays.
THX! :wink:
Hi rbg, I love ur osx skin a lot.
Will there be any update to the skin to 0.10.1?
Morpheus:
With rbg08's permission I would like to see your version of the OSX skin.
I do not write code :? so have to depend on those that are gracious and share their knowledge and talent. I do not need the stock page (went broke the last time I bought any stock) and I think your changes fit me a little better.
Thanks for you help!!
BCX16
OK BCX16,
Here you go. I have made the following changes to the stock version:
Replaced Stock page with standard RSS feed
Added headers to Calendar
Put time on Main tab (had some space due to adding calendar headers)
Show names next to Apps in launcher
Total of 5 launcher pages (2 Apps and 3 Games only two items on last page at present)
Get Timezones from config.txt (first analog clock always local time)
Superimposed total memory in use, battery used, and storage used over meters
I put comments in where I made most of the changes so if you decide to tweak it further it should be obvious.
Morpheus
Hi there,
First off I just love this skin but I do have a request. Is their anyway that the tasks text can have a wordwrap affect so that it does not scroll of the side of my screen?
I appreciate any help.
RGDS & TIA
Curtis M.
Morpheus:
Thanks for you timely reply and the download.
Looking forward to the challenge of trying to make it work for me.
Thanks again to all "skinners" who make it possible for us that are PPC challenged to have a good working system easy to use and "eye catching"
Happy Thanksgiving to all from East Central Illinois!
BCX16
Edit:
Morpheus:
I have installed the skin, do I need your config file also. With my config the skin is a mess and of course I have no idea where to begin to change the config file.
Sorry to be so lame about these matters! :oops:
Thanks, again
2nd Edit:
OOps, had a brain f@#$, maybe I should down load rgb08's file and I bet I find the config file :shock: :oops:
As far as I can remember there is nothing special about my config file. I have made a generic version of my config file i.e. generalised shortcut and owner info which I have attached.
This is probably very obvious but you have installed the standard OSX skin before adding in my files?
See you,
Morpheus
Quote from: hydeHi rbg, I love ur osx skin a lot.
Will there be any update to the skin to 0.10.1?
Glad you like it! :) This skin is compatible with TodayPlus versions 0.10.0 & 0.10.1. I will be relesing a minor update to this skin once the next version of TodayPlus is released.
Quote from: CurtisMinBCFirst off I just love this skin but I do have a request. Is their anyway that the tasks text can have a wordwrap affect so that it does not scroll of the side of my screen?
I'm not aware of any way to have text "wordwrap" in the Agenda section. You could try reducing the font size in the skin. I have it set to 13; you could try changing it to 12 or 11 and see if that helps prevent text from running off the screen.