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[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Thunder_:
In my app, this won't happen. I mentioned this in response to your suggestion to allow user to select how frequent they could update the clock.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Thunder_:
The clock images can change but no animation is possible. But my intention is to match the tile format since art is not my specialty. If anybody interested in making it more beautiful, please let me know.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] devassist:
Clock Name bug

I discovered a bug when entering a Clock Name that uses a space such as "New York". After using a space I am unable to enter any more characters - the keys no longer worked. But, I could get around this by exiting the app and starting it again and continuing the "York" part of the clock name.

Other people that only include cities without a space in the name would not encounter this bug.

So far, a good & practical app otherwise as I have only used it for 20 mins.

Well done!
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] contable:
Another cool app after the office/pdf uploader. I really like it !

Could you allow to add a custom background (.jpg) image for the live tile ?

Greetz

contable
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Thunder_:
Can't find any code in this page that will lead to this behavior. And the same issue did not appear in my test. However, your symptom looks very similiar to the keyboard disappearing bug of Mango. You may want to upgrade to 8107 or disable background task to verify.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Thunder_:
Any specifics for this request? Select a picture from the phone library? If so, that will involve quite a bit of image resizing work.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] devassist:
Yes, you are right. It was a problem at my end. Thanks!
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] eric1204:
Actually this problem happen on my mozart with mango 8107 rom. The time just stop at battery save on and close screen. Sometimes need repin clock tile then work again. Hope next version fix that issue.

anyway , this is awesome project. Thank you!:)
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Thunder_:
This is a limitation of WP7. I have no idea how to fix it at this moment.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] contable:
Selecting a picture from the picture hub only allows to use .jpg files.

I would prefer to choose a picture from the isolated storage of your app so it´s possible to use .jpg or .png files. The files can be copied easyly to the isolated storage with Windows Phone Power Tools. Just a suggestion...

Anyway it´s great. I have tested it over the night and the tile didn´t stop to work.

The difference to the system time is max. 1 minute....
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Thunder_:
Understand your point. Don't think this a common request but I will try when I got time.

As for the time difference, my application currently runs every 60 seconds. That's where the difference comes from. But I recently found a way to reduce the difference to, let's say, five seconds. I upload the new verion when I complete it.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] intae1129:
Cool app, but the double space tile shows as one tile on my Samsung Focus with a 7.8 rom
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] galati:
HTC Radar with 7.8 , not working
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] sinister1:
Yeah I think it's not compatibale with 7.8 :crying: It needs to be re-desinged for 7.8. Thunder_? You willing to make one for 7.8? I will donate .

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Guys for those of you who still want a clock on the start screen you can use this app: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1902481

It works as two seprate tiles, so it looks like a giant clock. Check it out.:good:
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] dravik:
Its working on my Lumia 800 using 7.8 origenal...
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] ziptbm:
Great App, why is it not in the Store?

Love the app! and surprised there is nothing like this already in the Store. Just curious why you haven't published it for the rest of the world?
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] esykas:
LG E900 7.8 work perfect

thank you :good:
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] jackrabbit72380:
I have made good art for your app!

Also

A couple suggestion's!

1. make default time zone (UTC-5:00) eastern Time (US & Canada)

2.Lower Default Font size to 84 because tiles are now biger on tango and higher rez lookis a little distorted.

3. Fix the date and time wide tile clock to have 12 hr time and date instead of 24!

4.possibly add a doc in app to list images so we can mod and input out own list and images?

5.Add images from my moded version.

6.Pm me for moded version!

7.release sorce code please sir!
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] nextanimal:
Hi,

Version 2.5 works great on my Lumia 520 (unloked by MS Dev tools).

You should send it to windows phone store and make money. It's owesome.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] th0mas96:
Unfortunately, it wouldn't be accepted, since it updates its Live Tile every minute.

[MENTION=424274]Thunder_[/MENTION] , may you update the app to make double wide live tiles on developer unlocked WP8 phones possible? For the rest, it works perfect!
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] contable:
Indeed the customization feature can be added later. It would be great (and more important) if you could reduce the time difference to max 5 seconds...
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] sma6871:
wow

its wonderful

I like it
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Thunder_:
New version uploaded.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] contable:
Thanks again. For real it´s a great improvement. I would say the clock is updating within 2 seconds...

Can you explain why it´s not possible to create an animated clock ?

On WM 6.5 (titanium clock) it was possible by displaying different icons with a short delay. Am I right that the problem is refreshing the startscreen in case I want to display different icons ?

Cheers

contable
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Thunder_:
WP7 is not such an open is as wm6. The tile animation is controlled by system. What we can do is just providing a picture, a title, a number. And the rest is handled by the system. Even the people hub is also just provide a few pictures. The actual animation is not handled by people hub.

We may update the tile picture quickly to make it "animate". But this will require a process to run continuously in the background, which is not only not available but also vad from battery life perspective.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] contable:
If I turn off my OMNIA 7 and restart it the tile isn´t working.

First I have to launch the app and then the tile works again.

Any chance to solve this small problem ?
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Thunder_:
This is expected. After rebooting, you will have to wait for about 30minutes or enter my application in order to make the clock run again. This is because WP7 does not support updating a tile image so frequently. I used some way to make it work. This is one limitation of the hack I am currently using. I don't have any idea how to fix it at this moment.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] HTC-Gunge:
Working well for me. I did notice that the time was wrong though when I tried to add Helsinki, it showed as 3 hours ahead when they are only 2 hours ahead (of my time, UK).

Would it be possible to add multiple tiles? I would like to Add a few different cities.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Thunder_:
Thanks for the report. Look like I need to update my timezone database.

And yes, you can add multiple cities. Just click the "+" button in the main page to create a new clock. And click the "Pin" button in clock details to pin it to the desktop.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] samnas2:
Thanks for the new version, working great.

Is it possible to add a second clock style to clock background. Something like, analogue clock in the foreground and digital clock in the background of the tile.

Thanks again.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Thunder_:
That's definitely possible.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] MKohlman:
Installed 2.2 to a Samsung Focus (rev 1.3, OS Build 8107) Works fine and as someone who travels and supports multiple global locations I am a happy camper.

Thanks - Michael
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Osso17:
Thanks a lot for the new version 2.2 :)
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Livven:
Works great, will be featured in the portal!
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] sinister1:
Works perfect on My HTC Trophy, actually updates better than the battery status app. I give this app 10 points. now if it could be made to be a full tile app like the HTC Hub, that would be awesome. Good job. :D
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] sinister1:
Something like the file I just attached. (See attachment). :)
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] sinister1:
Here is another concept. Hope you like it.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Aaron McCarthy:
I don't think developers are able to make double tiles. Only Carriers and OEM can. At least for now. Should explain why you don't see more double tile apps in the market :)
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] sinister1:
Well that just suck. :( It never seems to amaze me just how WP sucks more and more with each passing day.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] contable:
That´s true for marketplace apps. Homebrew apps can have double tiles because of the core tile hack by fiinix. For more information check the development and hacking section... or just search for fiinix´s threads.

Edit:

Check here:http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1336921&highlight=core+tile
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] sinister1:
Yes, thank you. So now all hope is not lost. We need a double tile clock app, this would be beautiful even if it's just a simple metro one, the world clock in it's self is already amazing but this will help us compete with others like Android. :D
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] elfacki20:
work fine for me too on my htc hd2
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Thunder_:
To my knowledge there should be two possibilities for long tile. One is modify the WMAppManifest.xml to make the main tile a long tile. We will have to pin th main tile manually. The other option will be through DllImport project. However, that will require InterOp unlock, which is not availeble on wave 2 phones.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] sinister1:
But 1st Gen users could benefit for now until someone comes out with an interop for 2 Gen phones. I would def donate or buy this.:D
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Thunder_:
The first method (Editing WMAppManifest.xml) does not work because when we update the tile, the StandardTileData we create only supports TemplateType5, while we need to get TemplateType6 for long tile.

So we have to focus on the DllImport method.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Thunder_:
Some updates on the progress of wide tile:

I've managed to create and update the wide tile through DllImport project. Unfortunately, it seems that we cannot reference DllImport project in Background Agent. Need to figure this out.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] celikba:
Very nice and useful app !

It would be nice with a Sense (HTC) skin.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] sinister1:
Wow that is great news, keep up the good work. :D
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Thunder_:
More update on wide tile:

I've managed to create a wide clock tile and update it through background agent. There are still a few issues to look at, memory consumption to be the most important one since background agent has 6MB memory usage cap.

However, I got one problem that I don't know how to get through. When I update the background image of a normal tile, the background image is updated in real time. However, the background image of a wide tile behaves differently. It won't update until forced. Which means, it only updates when you switch to an application and back. Or you scroll long enough at the home page and scroll back.

If this is true, I am afraid that a wide tile will not be possible.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Thunder_:
Managed to resolve a few issues around updating. Now I am sharing a version that should be able to use wide tile as clock. Require InterOp unlock. At lease works well on my Omnia7
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] contable:
Thx for the new version ! Your app is getting better and better...

Please check the attached screenshot:

1. Font of the clockname

2. Position of the clockname.

What do you plan for the backtile ?

Displaying the next 4 appointments would be a dream...

Cheers

contable
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] samnas2:
Awesome!!!!!!!! Much thanks................ working great.

Please add 12 hr format ....

Thanks again .....

Edit: One question, why when I tap on settings, it kicks me out of the application.

HTC HD7 with latest update.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Thunder_:
The font and position of clock name should be the same as system tile title. I think the difference in appearance is because of PNG compression.

As for back tile, it seems that wide tile (TemplateType6) does not support back tile
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Thunder_:
I did not design the settings page yet. And seems not necessary as well at this moment.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Jeggstar:
Great work

I have a friend spending a semester in England, and I always forget exactly how far ahead he is - this app, placed next to his "People" Live Tile, is brilliant! Great work on a clever app idea, and thank you!
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] gfreek:
Thanks for your great work! Any plans to release this officially on marketplace?
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] sinister1:
No Way! That was quick work.

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:( Too bad I'm not interoped unlocked anymore, the latest HTC firmware update killed it, thank you HTC.

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Wait a second, it worked on my HTC Trophy which isn't interop unlocked. If I don't click on settings or any other tile it works fine, if I do the wide tile goes away. I think you are on the right track if you get rid of the bugs. I'm on 12h format. Can't wait to see your updates.

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As I stated, it's working on my Trophy with out interop unlock. (See my actual screen shot below). Where can we send you donations to show appreciation?
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] ng_ducnghia:
Hope to see this on Windows Phone Market
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] ahmedfikry:
Nice work

can we please have the 12 hour format option back
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] sinister1:
This is cool, can a MOD please feature this on the Portal? :D
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] contable:
I switched back to V2.2 because V2.3 doesn´t work stable enough for me.

Once a day it stops updating, V2.2 works without any problem...
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Aaron McCarthy:
Literally all this needs is a few different style clocks.... I'd still love to see a really good version of the HTC Flip clock myself! (even if the animations don't work :P)
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] sinister1:
I came up with this concept, thunder_ is currently looking for png codes so I don't think he's too far from achieving custom clocks.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] jabtano:
UI design is the easy part your doing the hard part.."coding"
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] sinister1:
Thunder_ I bet some one oh here can help you with the UI Part, there has to be someone on here, there is so much talent on XDA.:D
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] ajlunis:
Could use a couple cities, but other than that amazing :)
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] sinister1:
Thunder_ are you going to make a 12h format one anytime soon? Also where do I donate to?
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] tarzan_nojane:
I am so very pleased with the live analog clocks. My favorite is #3 - 8 ticks and 4numbers on a white square. Looks very Cartier. Like Thunder, I too own an Omnia 7. I would really like to see my favorite clock in reverse, with white ticks and numbers on a black tile. I think that might be really stunning on the AMOLED display!
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Thunder_:
My current thinking is to be able to provide a full customization: font, size, color, background image and the date format.

Currently, memory consumption has been an issue. Background agent has a memory cap, it is very easy to exceed this cap with 3 clocks or more. And you are not able to control the memory since it is managed code.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] contable:
@Thunder:

Do you think on a device with custom rom the update process could be started automatically after turning on the phone, in case the World Tile clock has been cooked into the rom ?
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Thunder_:
Frankly I don't know. Can we start an app or a background agent at start up in Custom Rom?
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] tarzan_nojane:
White on Black clock

Here is an idea of the clock I suggested a few days ago - actually just an edited version of the one from the info page for your app at Bazaar):

h**p://dl.dropbox.com/u/606463/Cartier.png
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] sinister1:
Mine was working just fine and now it just stoped updating and stuff now nothing :(
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] jayjojayson:
works great on hd7 with nextgen+ 2.6 :)
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Thunder_:
FYI. This is what I am trying to get in the next release.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] jayjojayson:
great, it's looks awesome.. i'm looking forward to the update..

but please change the backgroundcolor of the tile world clock.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Thunder_:
Background Color? It will be either a png file or transparent.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] jayjojayson:
then prefer a tranparent background. in my opinion this looks better.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] dddrko:
Thank you for the application, works OK on HTC HD2. I would like option to change tile color, choose content of the back tile (next alarms, appointments or day info) and choose the application that will be launched when tile is clicked (alarms, calendar, date&time settings). The design of the clocks is less inportant
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] jayjojayson:
i don't think the design is less important, because that's what I look when I disable the lockscreen. sure the functionality is also important, but for me first the design. the other things I can choose in menu, too.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Thunder_:
My target is to be able to use any picture file as background. And default will be none which is transparent.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Thunder_:
Don't think we have access to user's alarm, calenar, etc. However, I did think about some additional usage, for example: counting down or elapsed time.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Thunder_:
Noted. Can you provide a PNG at 173*173 with no clock hands? My plan for analog clock is only hands will be drawed dynamically. The rest will be just a picture.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Thunder_:
Can you share PNG background at the right size?

173*173 or 358*173. For analog clock, without hands, for digital clock, without digits.

For digital clock, only system provided fonts are supported due to performance concern.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] drkfngthdragnlrd:
Here are my transparencies I used in my Icon Set. They are the exact size of the tiles.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] drkfngthdragnlrd:
Looks great, but I'd suggest making the "weather background" shorter so the bottom is not cut off in the tile.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Thunder_:
Thanks for sharing. But don't think that's what I am asking for. I am trying to get some images that can serve as background for my clocks.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] jayjojayson:
I have create 23 backgrounds, most of them for wide tile. the psd-files with all designs are also include in the attached zip-file. So you can simply change the design or size of elements.

All files have a transparent background.

I hope that's help!

If you want more, or wish a particularly design.

I think i can help with this and looking forward to the next update.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Aaron McCarthy:
Jayjo.... Awesome job! Love the flip clock backgrounds!!
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Thunder_:
That's great. I will definitely include them.

For the analog clocks, would you mind add the center dot? I want to only draw the two hands at runtime.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] jayjojayson:
hi

here are the files with a dot at center of clocks!
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] sinister1:
Wow, that is great work jayson. I just re-interop unlocked my phone and can't wait to see the finished product working on my phone. :D
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Thunder_:
Thanks. New version uploaded with your help.

Some thinking:

1. It may be better to make the background of your image as not transparent.

2. The center dot need to be a bit larger.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] jayjojayson:
awesome work! very nice new version of tile world clock with many new settings, like font-family, -color, -size and image-backgrounds. really great!

i will redesign the backgrounds, make the center dot larger and uploaded again.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Thunder_:
Thanks. Look like lots of the wide PNG files are similiar. I plan to remove a few of the wide png files to make the XAP smaller. We can always import new PNG from picture library on the phone if needed.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] ahlMAR:
my clock updates only every 30minutes. is it possible that my device isnt interop unlocked anymore?

i use dft v3 on htc mozart, this rom is interop unlocked i think
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] jayjojayson:
there is still the problem with transparent png-files, if you are rember the tranparant lockscreen. it's not possible to safe transparent images in picutre-hub. see the attached image!

but nevertheless it's a good feature to add own images.

i have find some new backgrounds, 3 for small-tile and 3 for wide-tile.

Choose the one you like and include it. the "clock-background-Time-on-Shadow21.png" is slightly changed. Moreover i had included the center dot in exactly same size like your own.

why do you think it will be better to make the background of the images not transparent? what did you mean specific with it?

in the attached file are one ditgital clock background for the small-live-tile! can you add these file to the libary of digital-small-tile-clocks. in last the picutre you can see what i mean with small digital clock. then we have the first background for this. i can't change it at this time, because the included png-files in the xap-file does not showing up, if i open the backgrounds in settings for small-digital-tile.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] drkfngthdragnlrd:
Thanks, here's the background I made.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] sinister1:
:D

:D Bro, you out did your self man. I'll ask again, where is the donate button??

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Love it man. Looks great:D

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Here is a screen shot of mine, beautiful :)
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] ahlMAR:
why is my htc watch only updating every 30 minutes instead of every minute? dont have battery saver on...
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] sinister1:
Try to disable background task or upgrade to 8107. Let me know how it goes.:D
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Aaron McCarthy:
Very confused.. I am not knew to the windows phone game here but I for the life of me cant figure out how to convert the .zip files to .xap so I can install this... I'm sure I'm just having a brain fart here.... :S
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] sinister1:
Her you go try this one bor. :D
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] sinister1:
If your computer downloads it as a zip file again you can do two things, you can rename it from zip to xap or you can use 7zip to extract it. :)