Notices

What you could do, Ciro (btw, my name's Aniello, not Daniel ), is to allow for personalization.

You could load an image called "logo.png" into that place and let the user choose whichever they want. By default, put whatever free image as you like, and let people personalize they way they want. I could put in the Maemo logo, someone the penguin mascot and so on...

About the power save feature, that is an important thing. When the screen dims down or the tablet goes in "sleep mode" (i.e. the tablet is in low power consumption), and same when it wakes up, it sends out events. Python for Maemo have APIs that let you handle this events accordingly.
This allow your application to stop handling refresh events when the tablet's screen is dimmed down and start again (refreshing the application) when it receives the wake up event.

Is not that much difficult to develop in.
Probably you should start from here: http://maemo.org/development/documen...o_devicestate/

Great application, btw

ops, sorry aniello but sometime im just dislessic and i made up that daniel...
mh the idea to let peope add their own personalization iss not bad but i think is a bit too hard for the casual users without a dialog inside the app. btw, having the logo.png open to customizations could appel some advanced user.
Ill take a look to tha link for the power save feature.
All the advices on Itt really helped me a lot to speed up things. Great job guys

It's because we were waiting for such an application for ages

There was something earlier, but yours is what many were waiting for

It is there now, just needs to grow and can grow a lot (I am sure).

For example:

- alarms: more than one, repetitive (choose day, week, whatever), snooze, stop (big buttons), volume, choose mp3 to play, radio station (for n800 users), internet radio station and so on, flashing display when alarm sounds
- themes
- seconds
- flipping animation
- user settings
- integrated FM/Internet radio tuner ( :-) )

and so on...

ok, I put down some ideas for the noparty version.
Since Im sharing the app evolution with some folks here seem reasonable U could suggest some interface preferences: I decided to move as much as possible the controls on the 2nd page (the alarm set) and leave the clock as empty as I can. To avoid false annoying switches I plane to do a drag up area for the entire top clock and use all the bottom 100 pixel for stopping the alarm (someone smartly suggested a big area for that)
Let me know, Ill be out all the sunday afternoon so the answer could be a bit delayed
I would love to have a smooth slide up/down effect for the clock part but that for now is out of my capacity. Any suggestion is appreaciate like always
I also think to keep the bottom part partially transparent to see the user wallpaper trough: anyone know where I can find the hildon user wallpaper file? (I was just thinking to duplicate is on the app level and do my trasnparency experiment on the 'fake' wallpaper. I know, it is a bit confused but Im in a sort of rush
Buona settimana a tutti

...and no, I will probably never give up the MOOD effect...
playing with the LED is FUN

closed the 0.005 release: the 0.006 will return to have the plastic wood.
No one, any any circumstances, should ever use this release.
We are managing pretty heavystuff here lights and music. So since crappy programmer + led flashing = big troubles: Im not responsable if someone is going to stress the led and burn something.
I warned you people. BE AWARE!
https://garage.maemo.org/frs/downloa...oparty.tar.bz2



EPILEPSY WARNING
READ THIS NOTICE BEFORE YOU OR YOUR CHILD USE ANY VIDEO GAME
A very small portion of the population have a condition which may cause them to experience epileptic seizures or have momentary loss of consciousness when viewing certain kinds of flashing lights or patterns that are commonly present in our daily environment. These persons may experience seizures while watching some kinds of television pictures or playing certain video games. Players who have not had any previous seizures may nonetheless have an undetected epileptic condition.

If you or anyone in your family has experienced symptoms linked to an epileptic condition (e.g. a seizure or loss of awareness), immediately consult your physician before using any video games. We recommend that parents observe their children while they play video games. If you or your child experience any of the following symptoms: dizziness, altered vision, eye or muscle twitching, involuntary movements, loss of awareness, disorientation, or convulsions, DISCONTINUE USE IMMEDIATELY and consult your physician.

As someone noticied some posts ago: because with trademarks and healty things is not matter of sense of humor

@ qwerty12: If u dont notice anything too bad feel free to debianize it

Ok, let skip the version 006 and jump directly to the 007:
Rock solid fast no frill finger friendly FLIP ALARM CLOCK
No led this time but great optimization job on the code (it look nearly decent now...)
https://garage.maemo.org/frs/downloa...44/fk7.tar.bz2



(I know the screenshot look exactly like the old but the application is nearly completely new )
I guess this is the right balance of features for the final version...
Im sure Ill end working on the usual pinataallfeatureson version anyway...

to have an idea of the features i leaved out i made a clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRMxSStlGxg

I feel the led blinkings were cool but maybe a bit too 'risky' for a 'final' version... otherwise the led are very bright and i suppose they could work like a 'backup warning' in case the volume is too low for the ringin sound.

Looks awesome, I've been following the development thread here for a while as I've really wanted a nice BIG full screen clock that has alarm support for quite some time (ever since my old 1980's "digital alarm clock" kicked the bucket and I decided the tablet made a lot more sense than buying a new clock!). Did you manage to get the power-management code tied into your "Rebuilt" version of the app? For me that's the important one because I want to be able to leave the clock running on the tablet when it's not plugged into AC and not have to worry about the battery dying over night because the tablet hasn't gone into "standby/low power mode"...

Again great work!!

Thanks,
-Rob

ciroip,

how difficult is it to make all the top row buttons respond to the alarm ringing - like a real alarm clock.
In the form you have it now I can see myself poking blearily and making n810 slide off the bedside and smash on the floor.

when the alarmclock is ringing, think of your users as cavemen