[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] rat_2665:
form and function of the reference clocks

Tourbillon clock

form

For the mechanical description of a Tourbillon please read the article in Wikipedia. There is also a little video with a moving Tourbillon.

The clock consists of the following parts (in order of the layers in 1E1A6CCD_manila with the Sense names, cursiv are the standard ones):

4B55E014_manila DateDayTens (calendar date)

4DDA6CCF_manila DateDayOnes (calendar date)

20F62884_manila analogclock (normal clock background)

Here comes in 1E1A6CCD_manila the "ShowAMPM" text object.

7BA5E044_manila secondHand2 (balance wheel of the Tourbillon)

2A87D392_manila secondHand (cage of the Tourbillon)

3FDED376_manila analogclock2 (fixture of the Tourbillon)

7BB7F8C5_manila secondHand3 (real second hand)

0AB9C3F4_manila hourHand

4BDFBA48_manila minuteHand

0D505BB2_manila	scaleButton

7126E342_manila clockdot

The secondHand was used for the Tourbillon cage because sometimes the Tourbillon is used as second hand (it turns once in a minute ).

The date display is made like in real clocks. Two disks, the date is to be seen by the rotation of the disk.

There are two other manila files, the mode9 file for the objects 1E1A6CCD_manila (in versions before CHT 1.8.5 7c60907d_manila) and the lua script for the animations 1EC5924B_manila (former 461d3306_manila).

function

A Tourbillon cage jumps every fifth of a second, a balance wheel rotates 180 ° back and forth five times a second. Sense/Manila shows an actual image of the elements and checks for an established period if there are changes. So if you want to get a picture like the real behavior you have to get 25 frames per second for the moving parts - especially the balance wheel. So the lua script in 1EC5924B_manila checks 25 times per second for changes instead of the original one time per second of co0kies home tab (which you can disable because of power consuming). You see this clock is nice to look at, but still expensive, not so much like the real but it costs in power consuming (but it seems only if the clock is to be seen). Also it is very depending of other processes, for example at the start at the calendar opening or at the weather animations. The HD2 has borders too ;).

Tourbillon clock with moonphase and switching visibility

form

Here are the parts (with manila name and object name in the lua script and the mode9 file in the order of the layers):

4B55E014_manila	DateDayTens

4DDA6CCF_manila	DateDayOnes

2056A60D_manila	DateDayTensnight

09DE9308_manila	DateDayOnesnight

2C2AA9E8_manila	moonphase

09187EE1_manila	moonphasenight

20F62884_manila	analogclock

3C87827D_manila	analogclocknight

ShowAMPM

7BA5E044_manila	secondHand2

3B920A3D_manila	secondHand2night

2A87D392_manila	secondHand (dummy with blank picture)

596B8F02_manila	secondHand1

4B1CC00B_manila	secondHandnight

3FDED376_manila	analogclock2

5A551AEF_manila	analogclock2night

0AB9C3F4_manila	hourHand

5CCDF1ED_manila	hourHandnight

4BDFBA48_manila	minuteHand

5E305741_manila	minuteHandnight

0D505BB2_manila	scaleButton

7126E342_manila	ClockDot

6294D3BB_manila	ClockDotnight

In the attached pdf document is a list of all this objects together with their "location folder" in the mode9 file.

function

moonphase

Moon phase is another so called "complication". It shows the phases of the moon in an extra display. Because in modern watches the clock maker tried to show the 3D-movement of the Moon with a 2D dial, you can't compare the image on the clock with the image in the night sky. You can see full and new moon and if it is waning or waxing moon. The moon phase movement is very slow. It is not the moon movement on the dayly night sky, but the movement of the phases of the moon. So the moon in the dial needs 14 days from left to right (in Northern hemisphere). It describes the lunar month (full moon - new moon - full moon, 29 days). At the development I read that the big clock makers who were all in the Northern Hemisphere made only clocks where you can see the phases of the moon only like at the Northern Hemisphere (NH). The Southern Hemisphere will see each phase rotated through 180°. So I made at some clocks an AddOn for all who are living there (named SH). It changes the the movement of the Moon (against clockwise).

switching visibility

As you can see above the visibility change needs the duplication of every changing object. The night version of every object is layed over the day version (only exception the date). In the lua script the switching is realised by changing the opacity of the night objects at definite points (8:00 AM and 8:00 PM).

In the next posts I'll describe the modification of the manila files.