yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vijay555:
Rotlaus: I've not tried the plugin, but where you said this:

Have you considered pre-rendering the hands on first entry into the plugin?

So, it will take longer to load, and require significantly more memory to hold all of the bitmaps, but the cpu load after that would be minimal as you could access the bitmaps as internal resources, instead of doing 3 transformations every wm_paint.

If your hand bitmaps aren't so big (eg a gif could be <1k), your memory overhead wouldn't be enormous either even with pre-rendered hands

eg approx:

60 images of Hour hand

60 images of minutes hand

60 images of second hand

= roughly 180k for 1k bitmaps.

and obviously if you make the drawing less smooth, eg only 12 hour hands etc, you could save more memory.

Maybe you're already doing this... but anyway, just some ideas.

Fabulous work btw!

V
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Rotlaus:
Thanks four your ideas, but i'm already doing this. Calculating the rotated images in realtime doesn't work on my wizard fast enough, so i've gone the way you described. But the swiss skin has big images and 180 of them needs a bit of memory, actually 7MB... :(

But there is still room for perfomance improvement. :)

@ikkoku: Its ready when its ready. ;)

cu,

Andre
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vivi:
Can this plugin use with 2003 version?(BA with 1.40WWE ROM)

It appears to be OK but when soft-resetting,my devive cannot boot into today screen.

Need to hard-resetting.

Tried twice and the same thing happened. :(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Rotlaus:
Which Version of the software do you use? Which Skin?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] grayhaze:
How about instead of having bitmaps for the clock hands you use vector shapes which are rendered in realtime? This would still allow for customisation (the hands for your swiss clock example could be replicated exactly) and would offer a little more precision. The hands could be of any size without having a detrimental effect on appearance, and anti-aliasing should be moderately simple. You could also define the colour of each hand without needing new bitmaps.

This has the potential to be something great. I've been looking for a good skinnable analog clock for my Today screen for a long time now, and with a little more work this could prove to be extremely powerful. Good work!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vivi:
I use the cab in the first post and default skin of the cab.

:-)

Try third time now and have to hard reset again.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] grayhaze:
I'd also like to see some improved text formatting options, such as alignment (left, right, center) and simple shadows/glows.

How about some other text values such as battery level, phone signal strength, free memory, etc.?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Rotlaus:
@vivi: Can't reproduce your error. I'll check later again.

When you don't use the bitmap hands, then vector hands are used. I'm not sure about how u want to modify these. Can you give an example?

Alignment is already ready. You will get it with the next version in a few days together with timezone support. Battery level, phone signal and memory will come also, but later.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vivi:
Thanks.

I tried hard reset again and install only rltoday and softreset.

It freezes,cannot boot to today screen.

I flash my device from 1.40WWE to 1.42WWE and same problem occurs.

But it's OK if I flash to WM5.

:(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] grayhaze:
I'm talking about using some method of defining the shape of the individual vector hands, allowing you to have hands which fit in with the look of the background you're using. For example, on my setup the hands don't extend to the center of my background bitmap, leaving a gap in the center and making the hands look like they're floating.

I'm not sure how you define the shape of the hands internally, but I imagine you're using some sort of coordinate definitions. Perhaps a simple way to make this customisable would be to draw these coordinates from a text file within the skin folder. This would mean that new hand shape designs could be shared and used by simply changing a single text file.

It would also be possible to reproduce the bitmap hands you created for the swiss clock as pure vectors, removing the strange blocky artifacts around the edges.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Rotlaus:
New Version V.0.1.9. Details here

This is mainly a try to fix the WM2003 issues. Please give it a try.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ikkoku:
nice to see a new release, is the timezones stuff in this release?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Rotlaus:
It's in there, but not working yet.I had some issues with it, so i turned it off. Maybe in the next version.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Rotlaus:
Version 0.1.11 online, now with Timezones. Details here.

I'm still waiting for feedback from the WM2003 people.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vivi:
Sorry,I can't feed back since I upgrade my BA to WM5 and it's OK on WM5.

Thanks. 8)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ikkoku:
great ... I'd like to test this out but my tech skills are bad.

could someone write up an xml file for me with just 2 lines

timezone label1, time (am,pm format)

timezone label2, time (am,pm format)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ikkoku:
I'm on WM5 and when I installed rlToday, rlCalender disappears.

usimg the following xml

<?xml version="1.0" ?>

<today height="40" transparent="RGB(255,0,255)">

<Text x="5" y="1" text="Tokyo"/>

<DigitalClock x="5" y="21" format="hh:mm" timezone="1">

<Font size="11"/>

</DigitalClock>

<Text x="80" y="1" text="Hong Kong"/>

<DigitalClock x="80" y="21" format="hh:mm" timezone="2">

<Font size="11"/>

</DigitalClock>

</today>

After setting up the timezones in options, Tokyo and HK shows the same time even tho they are supposed to be one hour off (GMT-7 is also off). Also, is there a way we can pull the text from the timezone options instead of manually using the text statement from the xml?

when setting timezones if you click on the keypad button the keypad will not appear and the icon just disappears.

ini file:

[General]

Skinfile=Clock+Cal

[Timezones]

Name_0=San Francisco

Name_1=Tokyo

Name_2=Hong Kong

Zone_0=48

Zone_1=62

Zone_2=19
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Rotlaus:
@ikkoku: I've not tested your skin, but one thing mentionend: Timezone counting starts with Zero. So the first timezone is timezone="0" and not timezone="1".
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ikkoku:
yes I know that... but whenever I use timezone="0", it always uses my current system time regardless of what I set the first time to be in options.

also, how do I set AM/PM format?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Rotlaus:
Oh, you are right. This is a bug. Thanks for finding.

Should be something like "hh:mm tt", but for some reasons that doesn't work here.

Update: This was because of my german language settings. "hh:mm tt" should work for you.

I think I'll have to fix some things there.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ikkoku:
Thanks for the quick response... pls take a look at the timezone settings and the conflict with rlCalender when you get a chance.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Rotlaus:
Hi,

i've made a test version which should now work on WM2003 again. Can please someone with a WM2003 Device test this? But be careful, there is the possibility that you have to hard reset your device.

Download rlToday V0.13 Test WM2003 Test Version

Feedback here or in the rlToday SupportForum

Thanks,

Andre
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jvflynn:
First, this is an excellent piece of software! It is really appreciated.

I have two issues, tho. Using a Samsung i730, I can't get the 'transparent' pink to go away.

Also, when I click on the date, it opens the default calendar program even though I use PocketInformant (which is set up as default). What is rlToday calling when one clicks the date? Calendar.exe? or calendar.lnk?

Thanks again!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kull:
Love both of them

I love both your creations. Anyway of combining both? :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Rotlaus:
Your images don't need the pink transparency anymore. You can use real transparency with png images.

It's calendar.exe. calendar.lnk would be better, right?

In the next versions calendars will be supported, too. So you can achieve with rlToday the same look as in rlCalendar.

The next version is coming, but i'm not sure when. Im a little busy in the moment, so i have not much time to work on this.

cu,

Andre
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kull:
Super...

Great will be on the lookout... for that. :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jvflynn:
Thanks for the reply

OK, I'll have to look at them- I used the clock images that were posted back on page 1 of this post.

Well, I don't program WM5- in fact, aside from some lotusscript for work, I haven't programmed in years- but it seems that the .lnk is what PI changes to become the "default PIM" (there may be other things it changes, I don't know)

Thanks again.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] miseryshining:
what a little gem this is! the configuration thru xml is just perfect.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] hanmin:
I LOVE IT!

Nice time zone function. However, you may want to add in the feature to support day-light-saving (aka summer time) for a certain parts of the world? Preferably automatic, but I don't mind having a manual toggle function.

Also, it may be better if you could have the time added as GMT+x hours instead? Like those usually used. Example http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzref.tzc
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rmercado:
Installed in Jasjar

I installed it in my Jasjar... It is a nice plugin but the pixel or background have a problem.

Try to install it in Jasjar then try to display in Portrait or landscape... you will notice that the plugin background is distorted and donot synchronize with the today background

...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] m.zielinski:
rotlaus.com not reachable

Hello,

The Dmaoin rotlaus.com cant be reached and you get a message that it has been closed.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Rotlaus:
I have some issues with my webhost. He first promised unlimited traffic, but my rlCalendar app became quite popular in Japan and produced more traffic then expected.

I hope the site will be back soon.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] YoLoLo:
Then, we will wait for the blessed moment where the bandwith will be raised up ! ;)

Can't wait to test this jewel ! Looking GOOD !

I will test it as a SBSH's PocketBreeze tab : Is there any known issue with PB ?

Thanks !
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] _TB_TB_:
Could someone please upload here the neweat version? :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] V J:
Same request...

I was looking for something to display stuff on the today screen, and it looks like rlToday would fit my needs.

Jörg
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Evera:
same request. I could also host a mirror of someone contacts me about it.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Rotlaus:
Site is not complete up yet, but you can download the software at the usual place:

http://rotlaus.com/projects/rltoday
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] V J:
Superb!

Thanks (it is already running on my TyTN, and I'll shortly be fooling around with different .xml files). :)

Jörg
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] V J:
Great plugin... :)

Small question: is it possible to perform a "reload skin" from a script/commandline? :o

Jörg
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Rotlaus:
When you Tap&Hold on the plugin, there is a context menu where you can select 'Reload Skin'. But it's not possible from a script or the commandline.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] V J:
Thanks!

(I'm working on a number of script for various settings (mail server, ...), and was hoping to be able to show the current settings on the today screen via rlToday; I can still use registry tweak (bottom one in UI section), but it won't look as good :D)

Jörg
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Ionized:
Great program!

I'm a n00b to xml but is there a way to right align text to the x-y coordinate instead of the default left align?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Rotlaus:
Yes, with the alignment parameter.

<Text x="210" y="90" alignment="right" text="Mexiko">

Alignment can be left (default), center or right. This works also for the digital clock and the date.

hth,

Andre
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] _TB_TB_:
I see there is the skin refference available ^^

This plugin is great ^^

If you could add an option of creating shortcuts to any apps (the same as the clock works - tap, and an app is executed...) and reading of some registry values... (such as operator name, owner name, etc...)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] hendrixus:
Dead link (again)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] imatrix:
yep, can someone pls post the cab here or provide a working link thanks.

i would like to have a go, it looks nice though.

imatrix
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] hendrixus:
Here are the cab's in zip for rltoday and the older rlCalendar too

Oops, just found the new website, here
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] imatrix:
thanks hendrixus and nice work Rotlaus.

btw, i notice that sometimes the clock stop ticking when the today screen is locked, is there anyway to fix it?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kull:
Has it arrived?

Has the version where one can see both the calendar and the analog clock arrived? If so, where can one find it? Thanks in advance.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] _TB_TB_:
imatrix - after locking the device, you have to tap 'Unlock' and then 'Cancel'. The screen should be redrawn correctly :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] zard:
Beautiful! I like the analog clock and the calendar date. Got them only my screen yesterday and enjoy it every much. After reading through the whole thread and going to Rotlaus website, I believe that if I want to have a smaller analog clock, I need to reduce the size of the file "blueclockface80.png". Am I right?

I found "blueclockface60.bmp" in the earlier threads, maybe that would be good for me, but I think I need to edit the skin.xml file. If anyone have the "blueclockface60.bmp" in "png" format, please upload for me.

Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] zard:
I just tried resizing "blueclockface80.png" by 80% with Microsoft Paint, edited skin.xml file to change the filename and tried on my ppc. The size was just right for me but the "pink" colour around the clock face appeared. Anyone can help?

Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] _TB_TB_:
...........

Use something different than Paint. It does not fully support PNG files.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Panda_N_Shark:
Can't put DigitalClock to work

Only get the tect on the screen. Any help??

HTC TyTN
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] H8R3D:
stupid question:

its not possible to get this clock in as an icon in claunch?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] _TB_TB_:
WHy should it be possible, since this is a 100% SEPARATE app/plugin?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] H8R3D:
ok, sorry, i just wanted it that way, nm then
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] zard:
Tried with Nero editor and got white background around the clock.

BTW, I was wondering if it is possible to add day under the date, e.g.

Jan

18

Thu

For minimal work, the 'day' could be not residing on the picture.

Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] _TB_TB_:
....... use more advanced tools that DO support PNG transparency (Photoshop, Gipm, etc.)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] zard:
I had used Adode Photoshop elements 5 to resize 'blueclockface80.png' to the size that I like (13.5mm when measured on the screen) and named it 'blueclockface50.png'. It's a few mm bigger than the 'ical.png'. I had added digital clock below analog clock, made changes to font size for calendar, added day to calendar and changed height to fit in digital clock. Only thing I could not solve was the centre of 'blueclockface50.png' is not the centre of hour hand, minute hand and seconds hand. the changes to skin.xml:

<today height="100" refresh="500">

<AnalogClock x="40" y="20" clockface="blueclockface50.png" />

<DigitalClock x="45" y="80" format="hh:mm:tt" />

<Image x="120" y="13" source="ical.png" />

<Date x="158" y="30" format="MMM" color="RGB(255, 255 ,255)" Alignment="Center">

<Font size="10" weight="bold" font="Tahoma" />

</Date>

<Date x="158" y="42" format="d" color="RGB(0, 0 ,0)" Alignment="Center">

<Font size="13" weight="bold" font="Tahoma" />

</Date>

<Date x="158" y="54" format="ddd" color="RGB(0, 0 ,0)" Alignment="Center">

<Font size="13" weight="bold" font="Tahoma" />

</Date>

</today>

I am including my screen capture and also the resized "blueclockface50.png" file.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] hanmin:
Your png file is off-centered. Try opening your PNG on your Windows PC. I would like to correct the problem for you, but my PS doesn't seems to like your PNG.. and it hang itself whenever I try to open your PNG.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Rotlaus:
Your blueclockface50.png is still 80 pixels wide. I've made one for you. Maybe you should consider the paint.net i recommend you in my forum, which is really easy to use.

Hth,

Andre
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Rotlaus:
New Version, now with calendars.

http://rotlaus-software.de/blog/2007/01/19/rltoday-version-0115/
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Oliy:
Hi Rotlaus, thanks for all your hard work.

Does the plugin support partial transparency? When I tried to use a clock face with partial transparency, it didn't display at all.

For anyone interested, attached is my implementation of this plugin.

The jpg is just so you can see the clock face, if you wish to use it, download the zip and extract the PNG from it.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Rotlaus:
I#m not sure what your problem is. I've downloaded your skin and it worked just fine here. Can you explain a little more what your problem is?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Oliy:
Hi Rotlaus,

Sorry, that was the non transparent version.

Attached here is the partially transparent version that doesn't seem to work. The xml file is exactly the same, with the different file name, and the image is the same too, only partially transparent.

This one doesn't display any image at all.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Rotlaus:
You are right, it doesn't load, but i have absolute no idea why. Will check this later.

@all: Again new Version, now with calendar headers and new default skin: http://rotlaus-software.de/blog/2007/01/20/rltoday-version-0116/
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] twolf:
hi, would it be possible to choose the font of the digital time clock?

thank you.

---edit---

sorry, i was on the wrong page, my request was for the RLcalendar...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kull:
Hi, great we have finally the calendar and the Analogue clock, but what if I don't want so many calendars and only the current month? I just uploaded the new version and the options menu doesn't have this. Can you help? Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Rotlaus:
You have to write your own skin file. Look at the skin.xml file in the skin directory which you can find in the program directory, usally \Program Files\rlToday. You can edit this file with any Editor. Just delete the calendars with offset="-1" and offset="1" and adjust the position of the other Elements. When all is to your liking, post your skin here. :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kull:
Ok thanks for the hint. Do you have any online guide to skinning? Especially for newbies like me? And what editor to use for XML files? thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Rotlaus:
I haven't found the time to write a guide. There is a skin reference online at http://rotlaus-software.de/wiki/rltoday/skinreference

Every texteditor is sufficient. If you are using Windows, then take notepad. Look at the existing skin file as example. It's quite easy to write your own skin file. If you have any special questions or problems, feel free to ask here or at my support forum ,located at http://rotlaus-software.de/forum/viewforum.php?id=3
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] twolf:
Preview:

Got the font from www.1001freefonts.com

I kept it simple, I was looking for something like the i-phone font to use, but this one is more visible (a lot more, lol)...

I named the skin after the font.

Enjoy :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] catman51:
This is a great program.

I just downloaded it, but the version after install says 0115, even though the download says 0116?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Rotlaus:
It is version 0.1.16. Fixed the wrong version number and another issue. No need to download again if you are not using the graphical clockhands.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] catman51:
Thank you.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] zard:
The version you did for me works well for me. Thank you.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Rotlaus:
Maybe you can put your skin to my forum in the Skin Sektion, or you allow me to post it there?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] meschle:
Hi rotlaus - been doing some skins which i will post here. With the calendar is it possible to highlight the current day? I see this happens at the weekend but not weekdays. I tried to set colors for week days like sat and sunday but it will not allow. If this could be done then it would work - suggestions?

Cheers
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Rotlaus:
Would be nice when you can post the skins in my forum, too, so that we would get a central skin repository.

Custom colors for the current day will be in the next version. If you have version 0.1.16a you can try the 'secret' parameter todaycolor="RGB(0,0,0)", but the name of this can change again.

Hth,

Andre
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] meschle:
Thanks andre - just tried to post in your forum - i am registered. I wanted to post an image and then attachment and it seems to only allow one attachment - do i set up an image link to this forum?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] twolf:
Its as good as yours, post away.

:)

If i make more, I'll let you know.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Rotlaus:
There was arestriction to only one attachement. I pushed it up to three. Please try again. If it doesn't work, ill have to check if i need a more powerful forum software.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] meschle:
I posted my latest v6 with highlighted today date in calendar - thanks for your help.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Putra:
I noticed that the days for the calendar is in German? M D M D F S S. How can I change it to M T W T F S S?

EDIT:

Oops... sorry, it's there under options. I was installing and uninstalling a few different versions, and the previous one did not have this option...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] _TB_TB_:
Rotlaus, could you please add something as a launcher?:> You know... Icons and stuff... ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Rotlaus:
Yeah, i know. ;) It's already in, but doesn't work. Very Buggy. :( Still working on it. :D