Thread: Flip clock pre pre pre pre release
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jolouis is offline jolouis
2009-08-05 , 14:02
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#570
Originally Posted by bilofsky View Post
OK, here is how to cause the problem.

Put Flip Clock into insomniac mode. Kill the program by pressing the upper button to the left of the screen and tap the X. Now the N810 is stuck in insomniac mode.

To get out of this, bring up the Display settings and restore the Switch off display setting.
This is an issue because of the way that you killed the app by hitting the X in the top corner instead of using the "exit" button on the flipclock interface. Unfortuantely python doesn't have any way to run code when app is closed through the "X", so flip doesn't get a chance to restore your display settings. If you use the normal exit button this will not happen and all will be good. Sorry for the confusion; future versions of the app hopefully will not have this problem as we're trying to move away from python and it's limitations...

BTW just as an update I did make a new version of the clock that has the Nixie screen built in as well, but the extras-assistant keeps failing to accept my file (not sure if it's just being stupid or what), but if anyone's interested let me know and I'll post up the source tarball on the garage page for you.