Erland, How can we make custom clock more... custom? I've been struggling with this one. Right now, it looks like custom clock is geared towards a layout of: Background image Main text Top text, centered 2 x bottom text, right and left justified. Right?
Is there a logical & non-painful to create a method where we can allow for a layout like I have above? It gets more complicated (in my mind) if we want to make it display equally well on a Touch, Radio, and Controller. I can see getting the Touch and Radio to work FAIRLY well, since they're both landscape, but the controller layout doesn't sound fun to wiggle in there. Also, do we want a configuration screen on the touch? I can envision a nice touch UI that lets you make boxes bigger & smaller, select fonts, etc... but that's a heckuva lot of work. It's not like SqueezeOS has a UI kit (yet?) Maybe something like.. hmm.. 1. Set number of lines, for each line set a size (each a percent of height). Each line is independently set - 5 lines could be 10%, 1%, 5%, 44%, 1%, 19%, 1%, 19%. (1% = buffer lines? Buffer set for each line?) 2. Each line can have columns, each a % of width. Max? 3? 5? 10? 3. Each square can either be an image or a text block. 4. If it's an image, is it scaled or not (zoom doesn't work in my experience, BTW, need to use rotozoom). Is image right, left, center, top, or bottom justified? 5. Text blocks will wrap (possible?) or not. Text is right, left, or center, top or bottom justified. Can text be scaled to fit in its square easily? Can we figure out the width (in pixels) or a text string, and if it's not wrapped, try and fit it in the square? 6. Each square, if it is a text block, can have variables associated with it. I can see a menu displaying - - standard NowPlaying variables (artist, etc) - time variables (day, date, etc..) - weather variables (use SDT's coding scheme) 7. Once the user selects the variables, they'll be dumped into a free-text strung that can be (keyboard?) edited for formatting. Say the user selects Day, Month, and year, they'll be presented with this string, which they can they free-edit. Dang that seems like a lot of work... Also, you can't have, say, a single column on the left, with 3 squares on the right over each other with this scheme. That should be addressed. Thoughts? Ideas? -Dan -- plympton ------------------------------------------------------------------------ plympton's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12955 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77864 _______________________________________________ jive mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/jive
