AximSlide for v0.11.0

[dp1don]

Hello, semi-newbie again...

OK, I've gone and done it... tried to create a new skin...

Actually, a mod of other skins...

Anyway, I call it AximSlide - as it's Slider designed for my Axim X5.

What I tossed:
- Brightness control - doesn't work yet on Axim
- Est Battery Time left - known bug in v0.11.0, it's being worked on.

What I adopted:
- Timmy's Sunrise/Sunset icons
- jhollin's weather, sysinfo and launcher regions (see caveat below)
- Broesel's Moon Phase work

What I added:
- Sunrise/Sunset times now change with each of your weather cities. (Still display in your local time, however - that's a known feature request).
- Clicking on Sunrise/Sunset displays "almanac" for that city - sunrise, sunset, sun elevation, moon phase graphic, moon rise time, moon set time, and percent moon illumination.
- Modified forecasttext.txt to include weather forecast 134: Rain/Snow Showers Early
- Replaced battery,esttime with battery,remainingtime command. Only gives hours, and may not be totally accurate (YMMV).
- Up arrow in balloon starts up, and balloon opens on power-up.

Caveats:
- In your storage paths section, select /SD card first, and /CF Card second. Otherwise, your storage displays in sys-info will not be accurate.
- No images in this post because where I'm working, I don't have an image capture app loaded. I wll post image captures later this evening.

The Zip file contains:
- Aximslide.txt, the skin file
- forecasttext.txt, the updated text forecast file
- All Image icons (From folder Color-3D, with additions)
- All Weather Forecast Icons (Weather.com set)
- All Icon Icons (Birthday, Holday, etc.)

Anyways, it's my first attempt. Please critique...but be gentle, por favor.

DP1Don

[Timmy]

Hello, semi-newbie again... OK, I've gone and done it... tried to create a new skin... Actually, a mod of other skins...

Anyway, I call it AximSlide - as it's Slider designed for my Axim X5.

DP1Don

Dp1don, will you, please, upload a picture of your Axim-slide? I would appreciate that. Thanks!

[dp1don]

I attempted to upload the animated GIF...

But got back this message from the board...

Sorry, you have reached your maximum Upload Quota Limit of 256 KB

OK, Moderators, what's up with that?

[Eitel]

I attempted to upload the animated GIF...

But got back this message from the board...

Sorry, you have reached your maximum Upload Quota Limit of 256 KB

OK, Moderators, what's up with that?

Sorry for that.  Try now.  

[dp1don]

Third time's the charm...

[scott51]

I like your skin.  I changed the font size for my middle aged eyes, otherwise kept it the same, but I would like to be able to see past due tasks on the agenda.  Can you tell me what code to change?  Also, the times for sunrise and sunset are slightly off.  It reads 5:31 and 18:21, while naval observatory says 7:24 and 4:29 (16:29).  I changed the code to civil time and checked my lat and long to three digits and put in the negative sign.  Any ideas?  Anyway, appreciate the work you put in on this.

[dp1don]

Scott:

1) Out of curiosity, what font size did you choose?

2) My theory on sunrise/sunset is that it calculates when the sun would pass below a theoretical horizon at sea level. However, the NO, having access to GPS mappin g data for each location, throws in a "smidge" factor based on elevation at that location. Hence the differences...

2b) Sunrise and sunset times for any locale show up based on the local time setting on the PDA. The fact your times are 2 hours off leads me to wonder if you have the "visiting city" time selected on your PDA?

3) As for tasks - I've never gotten it to work - it's on my to do list. Since I still use a written task list (I know, I should get off the paper trail...), it's not been as high a priority for me. But I'll bump it up now, since I'm curious as well.

dp1don

[scott51]

1) Mostly 15, had to leave some small to fit around icons as I didn't initially want to play with moving things on the screen, I may play with that later.
2b)I don't think I have the visiting city selected.  How can I be sure?  The sunrise and sunset times are way off for my other cities (either figured by my local time or theirs).  I have 4 cities selected.  The three that are not mine list the same times, which are impossible (1:00, 13:07) while mine is closer to reality (5:53, 18:00).  My 2nd city is 3 hours west of me, 4th is my time zone and 3rd is halfway around the world.
3)Getting my tasks off the little slips of paper was one goal of getting my axim.  Until recently I listed them as multi day appointments, and deleting them when done. Since TodayPlus I've been actually listing them as tasks.  
Thanks for the quick answer.
Scott51

[scott51]

I found a thread that explains how to get overdue tasks:http://www.dark-mojo.com/todayplus/viewtopic.php?t=1031&highlight=overdue+filter
scott51

[dgmele]

Once the "Now" section expires, tapping on any of the remaining days brings up the "Now" section details instead of the specific day details. Is this just happening to me?

[dp1don]

I hadn't observed that behavior... but I'll look into it. I know where in the code it might occur...

dp1don

[dp1don]

Good catch, my firend. Since I update my weather info regularly, I never tested that feature that thoroughly...and indeed, it was set to always show "current data".

All better now.

I've updated the skin, reincorporated it into the ZIP file and reposted it above. Go ahead and download the AximSlide.ZIP and have at it.

dp1don


PS to Scott51 - The reason my tasks weren't populating was because I well...didn't have any tasks entered. Amazing how well they work when you populate them.

[dgmele]

Thank you for the time and effort you put into this skin and for the correction of the "Now" problem. You might want to know that because Frutiger Linotype is consistently spelled as "Frutinger" the system apparently reverts to Tahoma as the default, no problem for me as I prefer Tahoma for numbers.

[umlaw]

On my screen it always jumps between CF and SD even though I don't have an CF card.  How can I make it only display the SD info?

[dp1don]

Unlaw:

No CF?  I'm guessing you've got an Axim X3 model... It requires a bit of surgery to the skin to stop that.  Luckily, you caught me in a good mood....

Here are now TWO versions of Aximslide...for X3 and X5 models.

Since I don't have an X3, unlaw, I'm designating you as my official tester...let me know how it works for you.

One thing on the SD card...it has to be the first item chosen in the Storage Path section of the Config.exe.

Enjoy.

DP1Don

P.S. I've updated that ol' Fruitiger vs Futinger font name issue...what can I say? It was late, I'd had too many Coronas...or maybe not enough Coronas...