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Originally Posted by elimoon8 View Post
The other day, I was thinking about how awesome flipclock (the current version) is. I was thinking, jolouis should make a gas/mileage tracking application. Instead of boring keyboard entry, we can have awesome scroll wheels to enter mileage. Just something to consider
The scroll wheels and awesome graphics of Flip are all thanks to the mighty Ciroip, so praise should be directed to him for the artwork and concepts; I just do the coding behind the scenes ;-) (However I will let this slip about the new version... if you liked the "scrolling digits" before, you're going to LOVE the scrolling digits now ;-) ). As for a gas milage/tracking app, I think that's kind of what Carman is aimed at no? If you can describe the app and what it would do/how it would stand out from something like Carman I could probably put some thought into working on it once I get flip taken care of a bit more... (Hey Ciro maybe we should start our own "Maemo development team"! ;-) )

Originally Posted by elimoon8 View Post
In a side note, I was wondering. Why do the scroll wheels on flipclock move only until 9? Is this by design? imho, it may be better (if you see a point in implementing this) to make the wheels go to 9, but another scroll in the same direction makes them go to 0 again. It would save the (slight) trouble of having to go back in the other direction if a different alarm time was needed.
Each digit scroller has it's own limits based on the time value it's representing; i.e. the first digit scroller will only go between 0-1 in AM/PM mode, and 0-2 in 24 hour mode. The first minutes digit goes from 0-5, etc. It's like that by design so that you don't accidentally select a time that doesn't exist. As for the minutes I could probably make it roll over from 9 back down to 0, but it would require some fininking with the graphics and code that might just end up being more confusing for people (i.e. if you go up from 9 to 0 again, does the "tens minutes" also go up by one? or does it stay the same and it's just the digit that you're on? Then what about the other digits, does it go from 5 back to 0 again if you go up? See the confusion starting to set in?). Just my thought on it though, if you guys think it makes sense then share your thoughts and maybe we can justify it after all...

Good luck with the new version of flipclock! I hope to see it soon!
Thanks! Hope everyone's going to enjoy it when it's ready! (and maybe chip in a beer for Ciro and I ;-) )
 

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