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Oh yea I forgot to mention... somewhere in one of the last releases I turned on the setting to make the alarms appear in the task bar... unfortunately there's no way to control which application gets launched when you click that task bar icon, so the default "clock" app always loads up and shows no alarms (since flipclock alarms don't count as "clock" alarms). So in one sense it's pretty pointless... but on the other hand, it does at least act as a way of reminding you that you have an alarm set...

Nelson, sounds like either a really short sound file or a file that gstreamer can't play for whatever reason, as you discovered already. I make no guarantees about compatibility of sound files for it, so while it's not the expected behaviour I'm not going to consider that a flaw/bug with flipclock itself... if you find a common trait between the songs that don't work though let me know I can try to see if there are any known bugs/workarounds for gstreamer...

Didge, that's a bit odd that it went off early... could be a leftover alarm from a previous setting or something maybe? One of the last things I'm going to cram into the next release will be a hidden "factory default alarms" feature that will clear up any flipclock alarms that have been set, either from current install or any in the past, just to make sure as I'm sure a few of you who have been playing around with the various versions might have one or two that have gotten lost track of but that still ring...
Didge, let me know if that happens again or if it was a one off...

Ill try to dive into your code and generate the graphics needed, since I have to check the coords anyway Ill probably manage to modify deirectly the sources (and regenerate for fixing/refining) + see if I can optimize to the pixel the screen refresh and keep as snappier as possible. Ill probably try to make the slot alarm machine numbers sliding

Im still trying to find a bit of time/mood to play with the svn so we can try to work a bit togheter (never done before) and see if I can understand how use the web space on garage (another new thing for me)

The sound file is a full song. I ripped the song off a CD with the same settings as other songs that do play. At first I thought it may be because the album folder had a comma and a period in it. I removed those but it didn't change anything. Tonight I'll try and do some investigating.

Hey jolouis


Not sure what i did but i could not get the program to work after uninstalling and installing. So i flashed my NIT and loaded only that program and it works great.
Many Thanks

-k

pohlmeyr, that's a little bit drastic there! But if it fixed things up and it's all working now then s'all good!

I'll be interested to see if you can find any patterns there Nelson with the songs, I have to admit I haven't tried all that many myself (just found one that worked that I was kind of used to waking up to and left it at that) but if there are issues at least we'll be able to either work around them or make sure everyone's aware so that you know it will or won't work properly.

Ciro, I've setup the SVN and loaded up the current version I've been working on up there; I've never used it either but it's pretty straight forward, you just have to remember to use the svn commands to do things instead of the regular file commands (i.e. if you create a new file or directory, or delete an existing one you have to do things like "svn add theFile" or "svn del theFile" instead of just "rm theFile"). Other than that's it's pretty simple. And I finally got the packaging stuff sorted out properly on my devel machine, so anytime you make some changes and want to push to extras-devel just let me know and I can sync up your changes and publish to the repo in like two commands ;-)

When you start poking through the code you'll see that a lot has changed... namely, there are almost no full screen refreshes anymore, only when they're really needed. The clock interfaces themselves are the last bit where it does get redrawn once per minute, but the alarm screen for example does not except when you change which alarm you're setting. All the buttons and things are very straight forward, you should be able to get a handle on it without too much effort at all (I hope). After I got that screen change animation going my next thought was to make the alarm digits smooth scrolling like you said, but I don't know if it's really worth it as you can't really see them under your finger anyways... but I'll leave that up to you!

I've still got a lot of cleaning up that I want to do to the code (a lot of your original code is still there as I left it until I was absolutely sure that it wasn't needed anymore), so a lot of that can probably go to help clean things up, but if you like I can just leave it alone for a while and let you go at it so that we don't end up overlapping things as I'm pretty happy with the functionality and bug fixes right now.

Just a few questions:

Can flipclock ever support the "Clock" alarms? That would be so cool, if it was possible.

Where IS flipclock made, Italy or China!! My brains are melting.

Thesandlord, just to confuse you even more most of the "guts behind the clock" is made in Canada ;-)

It all depends on what you mean by "support". The problem with the clock alarms is that they're setup to trigger the tablet's built in alarm mechanism. While flipclock uses that same mechanism to trigger it's own alarms, we'd have to basically make it so that after you set the normal "clock alarms" flipclock would then have to be manually launched and somehow "hijack" the alarms you'd set so that instead of triggering the normal clock they'd trigger flip... the problem with that being, once flip takes over as the action of the alarm, the normal clock app no longer shows the alarms because they're not pointed at it anymore... it's one of those catch 22 sort of things. So as it stands, the flipclock alarms do everything the normal "clock" alarms do (and are much better of course ;-) ), the only thing you can't do is edit them directly on the desktop by clicking the little clock icon...

lol

the whole thing started out as rock and roll and now it is out of control

well, the entire premise of this clock was based on useless blotaed pointless gimmick exercize

If you mean the 'native nokia clock alarms' I think would be great and just let people fight with it (let the OS managing all the troubles and receive all the complain) but Im not sure how hard/possible the integration can be.
Anyway I have more than 1 complain about the reliable of maemo os, the led notify, powersetting, alarmd seem working pretty randomly on my tablet (keyboards always on/always off, screen that should stay on stay off and viceversa, led stop blinking at all, random dead of alarmd, battery check that trigger weird service and notifies, os not always aware of charging status... ). an HUGE mess if you ask my wortless newbie opinion and I really love having to deal as less as I can.
Said this the integration still have huge advantages (and have more sense looking at the future in next OS version) and one of the reason I started the app was because I feel terribly sad and the actual maemo alarm input dialog (pretty impossible to use without the stylus).
Like I already said in a previous post (really exist people that didn't read all the previous 400 posts?) the alarmd betrayed too many time and Ill keep my own version that will directly trig the alarm only when the application is on but Im pretty convinced that the alarmd version is the one should go in the Extra repository.

By now the application is made in Italy, UK and somewhere in US (not sure were Jolouis is), look as cheap as a chinese clock (check the old wood 'theme' to see when the made in china showed up the 1st time) and it is been made in Finland for a while but I removed that after I 'get pissed' after a brief discussion about using the nokia logo. [brains?]

I dont understand if 'out of control' in a positive or negative way
in any case Im never been able to keep things under control: let the chaos reign