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I haven't been following this project (AKA work of art) as much as I hoped recently but felt I had to do add a quick post to show to my sincerest appreciation to @ciroip, @jolouis and everyone else chugging away at the code!!

It's really great seeing the ever increasing collaboration too! It reminds me of the spirit of the Internet circa Netscape Navigator 2, before ads, before flash...

Not demanding users ciroip, but demanding fans!!!

By the way, this thread currently has 14,558+ views!!!

jolouis - yes, still happening while using 0.1.3. Oddly enough, myy flipclock icon used have a 12 on it but has recently reverted to a 10 after a recent reboot. Application manager reports 0.1.3 though.

This s a work of art, and I'm not demanding, just a Dedicated fan.

Im flatering: I would not say 'work of art' but 'work of insomnia'...
dont worry lemmyslender I suppose I am my worste critic and I dream of the 'perfect', application, I also know that this is my 1st python application and there is a lot to learn; there is no reason to make the clock crappier if my time and my skills can make it better (and all the other people who put their time amd skills into).
Now Im better going to sleep: 3.15 am in middle of week dont really help my job hunt
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ciroip- I know the feeling, I designed and use a database (ms access) for runnning a small business. It works very well and gets the job done (for the last 10+ years!), but everyday I lookat it and see things to change and improve. Most other people are fairly impresses with it though.

You've done a great job with flipclock, keep up the good work.

This is a great project as far as I'm concerned, you did an amazing job getting it as far as you did there on your own Ciro, I'm just glad that I can lend a hand and that everyone is enjoying it so much!
Yea as far as the internet radio thing goes it'll probably end up being either an osso media-player tie in or a gstreamer setup (gstreamer in my research is probably better because supposedly osso media-player is getting toasted in Maemo 5), but in any case one of things that I've got planned (I think I mentioned it in that last post but not sure) was that each alarm could have different "notification modes", so for each alarm you could choose things like:
"play sound"/"play internet radio" AND/OR "flash LED like crazy" AND/OR "have some crazy Ciroip clock animation show up on screen", etc

That way you can make it do as much as you want, or as little as you want depending on user and situation. Also, big point to note here too, once I get the media player/gstreamer thing going, the alarms will actually play over the headphone jack as well, instead of always being stuck with the built in speakers like you get with the native alarm/clock application.

Ciro, by the way great job with the app, the code works, that's what really matters! I hope when I get to the point of passing it back to you you'll be happy too, as I've made some big changes but have also reworked/re-organized some of what you had to make it easier to use... and I've commented the code... even a lot of the existing code, so that it's now quite easy to read the source and see what's happening and why ;o) (sorry though, I don't speak any other languages so the comments are all in english! Sorry!). But once I post it back up to the garage and you take a look at the code, I think you will be happy! )

This project looks great, although I've only been following it in this forum and not actually tried it yet.

Regarding the interface for setting alarms, I think there is a danger of over-engineering this if you're not careful. Currently with my old-fashioned alarm clock my bedtime routine is to enable it every night, and slightly adjust the alarm time depending on when I need to get up the next day. I think with this app it should be similar - the alarm should not be enabled for the next day unless explicitly picked by the user, and the default alarm time should be the previous alarm time. To make it slightly more useful, there could be a 'history' of other previously selected times to pick from - this list would be automatically populated based on what the user has chosen previously, rather than the user having to explicitly think about setting up a choice list of times.

I think trying to tie specific times to specific days may end up making the user interface too complicated, and might be inflexible for people who don't work normal 7-day weeks.

Installed it today (latest release of flip, N810, Diablo). When it opens, i get "Can't create config", then the clock screen opens. If there are buttons (alarm, date, etc), they are not working, except Night Light.

Any suggestions?

Edit: Stumbled into the alarm settings...and the above message seems to have gone now.

However, i am seeing both AM and Pm on the first flip. I'd like to see a 24 hour time displayed. Haven't been able to figure out how to do this on my 810 since i got it?

I don't know how ciroip would design the interface for the features we've been discussing, but I don't think that it would be a needless complication to the alarm setup. The ability to schedule alarms for specific days is a useful feature for anyone with a regular weekly schedule, which to be sure isn't everyone, but I would also venture that it is most everyone. I do think the idea of a history list is a decent one, but relatively unnecessary with the ability to set multiple alarms. In your position, I would set the common alarms I needed and maybe leave one open to set for any random times.

It may also be possible to decide which mode you wanted, history list or multiple alarms, but I don't know how complicated that would be to implement, and I think multiple alarms that recur whenever you want them to is just too good of a feature to give up.

ukjeeper-

up swipe on clock screen to settings. Slide mode button on right side, should set 12/24 hour.

Yup, that did it. Thanks. Still curious as to the AM/PM showing (in 12 hour mode) on the first tab. Why both AM/PM???