erland;548817 Wrote: > Greg, do you have a lot of things left before you feel ready to make an > official release ? > > I currently plan to make a new release of Custom Clock during the next > day or so unless I find some problems. It would be great if we could > get an official release of Super Date Time soon so people can start > designing Custom Clock styles with weather, stocks and sports > information. > I think I'm ready. Attached is a release candidate. I added delCustomDisplayGroup and delCustomDisplayGroupItem. I had been waiting to do a release to make sure all the APIs were in a good final state. Please confirm it works as you expect and I'll make it official. > > The hash based custom items aren't critical to me, I've made a > temporary solution through Custom Clock Helper that solves my problem > with my Mail and MythTV plugins. I'll integrate them with Super Date > Time later when you have finished the implementation but it's not > important for the initial release. > Cool. I'd like to ultimately add support for them but it may take some time for me to find the time.
> > I'll attach the latest versions with this post in case someone likes to > help beta testing. It should now skip visibility groups which doesn't > have any items. > > I've made two new sdt related item types (sdtweathericon and > sdtweathertext), sdtweatericon is pretty much exactly the same as > sdticon, sdtweathertext is similar to sdttext but the difference is > that it reduces the number of round trips to the server a lot, it gets > the complete wetData structure once instead of making a server call per > item. I'm not really sure if this is needed but it made sense when I > realized that some of the styles posted makes a lot of server calls > when the screen saver is activated. Together with Screen Switcher > applet this makes it even worse since it means that these call can > potentially be repeated every 5'th second if you make it switch > continuously between Custom Clock and another screen saver. > > The sdtweathertext and sdtweathericon also have another feature in > common with the other sdt items, you can configure them to switch or > scroll between the different days. You do this by setting the "period" > to "0-2" or "d1-d5". It should make the configuration a bit easier for > styles that want to switch between the different forecast days. > Great ideas. > > I wonder if I should have local mapping between the attribute names and > the standard % keywords used for weather in SDT so I can use the same % > keywords in sdtweathertext ? The disadvantage is if you add a weather > keyword in SDT I'll also have to modify Custom Clock. > Hmmm. Not sure the best approach. > > The sdtweathermapicon now also have clip attributes so you can show > only a part of a weather map provided by SDT, for example zooming into > your region. > Awesome! > > There are some other exiting news in this version and related > applets/plugins but I'll announce those when making the official > release in a day or two. Excellent! +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: SuperDateTime5-9-0RC1.pdf | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=9963| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- GoCubs ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GoCubs's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=312 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77864 _______________________________________________ jive mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/jive
