OSX Complete skin v0.10.0

[Nielsracing]

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.  

Thanks ya1950.
I will try it tomorrow, now I have to studie for my exam tomorrow, and that's a bit more important

[Morpheus]

Great addition of one month calendar in main region   . 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.

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

[DrCrypt]

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?

[rbg08]

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.

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.

Also, 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.

[dasilva]

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

[DrCrypt]

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.

[Morpheus]

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:

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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:

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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

[rbg08]

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.  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.  I have no problem with people modifying my skins and posting their variations for others to try out.

[fedleo]

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

[Morpheus]

I realize my skins don't fit everyone's needs perfectly.  After all, I made them with my own personal use in mind.  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   , TBH I enjoy tweaking it a bit as it gives me a bit of an insight into how it all works.

See you,

Morpheus

[rbg08]

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?

The refresh Agenda icon is located on the Calendars page at the top, between the two month displays.

[fedleo]

THX!  

[hyde]

Hi rbg, I love ur osx skin a lot.
Will there be any update to the skin to 0.10.1?

[bearcatx16]

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

[Morpheus]

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