Bitmap usage for clock?

Seahorse · Post by **Seahorse** » April 25th, 2011, 12:56 pm

Was thinking of having a dot in the middle for the AM/PM, I experimented with putting +10 after

H=(#SecondLength#*2)
W=(#SecondLength#*2)

to make the clock's "box" bigger for the blur, but that didn't work i.e. "H=(#SecondLength#*2)+20" but that makes everything vanish, I don't understand the syntax well enough I guess, always something else to learn though

Post by **smurfier** » April 25th, 2011, 9:06 pm

H=(#SecondLength#*2+20)

The whole of the formula needs to be in parenthesis.

Seahorse · Post by **Seahorse** » April 26th, 2011, 4:37 pm

Cheers mate, final version below, well apart from the AM/PM bit

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My thinking on the AM/PM indicatoror is to simply have two different coloured circles in the 5 pixel gap in the centre:

So, a full circle is 2 PI radians or (2*PI) is the new variable.

For the measure LineLength=4, LineStart=0, ditch H & W (I'll test by commenting out)

I don't know how the time %p (AM PM) is returned - though I suspect it is text is my current digital clock is anything to go by. Is there a way to use this to select the colour of the circle? I know I need another measurename, but I don't know how to interrogate the [msAMPM] results to implement this.

Currently I get a white dot, but seeing as it is PM, I'm guessing I'd get that 24/7.

Post by **jsmorley** » April 26th, 2011, 4:58 pm

That's pretty cool looking!

Seahorse · Post by **Seahorse** » April 27th, 2011, 1:01 pm

Thank you, turned out way better than my terrible paint version

I am struggling with the conditional operator for the AM/PM thing, whilst I understand the logic

<condition> ? <expr. if true.> : <expr. if false.>

i.e.

If AM colour1 : if not colour2

I haven't found any examples to use as a template to test on the calc. Can anyone point me in the right direction.

Waldensamkeit · Post by **Waldensamkeit** » April 27th, 2011, 1:40 pm

Nothing helpful here but just wanted to say that this looks fanastic, and as I am following all the different things you have been working on I am very curious to see, is this all going to be one suite? or are you just working on random things as your curiousity sees fit.

I wish I had the time to learn a bit more involved rainmeter coding, but anyways.

Great work! and I look forward to trying out this clock when it's finished.

Seahorse · Post by **Seahorse** » April 27th, 2011, 2:03 pm

Thanks for the kind words, What invariably holds me back is lack of experience. Essentially I want to learn more, curiosity mostly, but I have found once you figure some of it out the hard way, a lot of it seems to come easily. Secondly I like to mix and match things to make something that suits my needs or just looks or works differently from other themes.

Things left to do involve the AM/PM bit on the clock, which as you can see, now has white a bonus circle in the centre to indicate AM/PM, but I'm struggling with the toggling AM/PM bit - then all I need do is select two suitable colours, I'm not sure yellow/black makes sense, so probably sky blue/very dark blue for AM/PM. Failing that I'll simply remove it again and people will need to look out of the window

The Eve-Online skill widgets you can see are Windows sidebar residents, I want to see if I can use the web parser to make a Rainmeter equivalent, no idea how hard this might be, but it is what I intend to tackle after the clock.

Finally playing with fonts and graphics, I'd like a Tron effect, although I quite like their current simplicity, perhaps two versions?

I suppose I will release something, but having skimmed through the rmskin docs I'm a little intimidated as they seem way more complex than simply zipping up a folder or two and telling people to unzip in docs/Rainmerter/skins, that's one of those put it off until later jobs tbh.

Here is a screenie of how it currently looks, the LEDs by the drives show blue for reads (left) and Red for Write (right), I have an plan to replce them with a single 3-colour LED, something to fiddle with later.
I'll probably Replace the digital clock with just a date skin once I finish the analogue one, but that's a two second job as I'll copy the current one and strip the time related bits out of it.

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Post by **smurfier** » April 27th, 2011, 7:46 pm

First off, these don't belong in the Roundline meters, they belong with the Time Measures:

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Timezone=0
DaylightSavingTime=1

Now, for the AM/PM indicator:

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[msAP]
Measure=Time
Format=%p
Substitute="AM":"0","PM":"1"

[cAP]
Measure=Calc
Formula=[msAP]
DynamicVariables=1

[mAP]
Meter=Roundline
MeasureName=cAP
LineLength=5
LineColor=#Colour2#
Solid=1
H=(#SecondLength#*2+10)
W=(#SecondLength#*2+10)

Or if you just want different colors:

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[msAP]
Measure=Time
Format=%p
Substitute="AM":"#Colour1#","PM":"#Colour2#"

[cAP]
Measure=Calc
Formula=1

[mAP]
Meter=Roundline
MeasureName=cAP
LineLength=5
LineColor=[msAP]
Solid=1
H=(#SecondLength#*2+10)
W=(#SecondLength#*2+10)
DynamicVariables=1

Seahorse · Post by **Seahorse** » April 27th, 2011, 9:08 pm

Smurfier, thank you again, you are a gentleman. White for AM/Dark Blue for PM, unless the white dot looks crap in the morning, in which case I'll go with your on/off option as I think yellow (the Sun) will clash...

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Post by **smurfier** » April 27th, 2011, 9:22 pm

I like it much better with a border:

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[cWhole]
Measure=Calc
Formula=1

[mBorder]
Meter=Roundline
MeasureName=cWhole
LineLength=50
LineStart=48
Solid=1
AntiAlias=1
H=(#SecondLength#*2+10)
W=(#SecondLength#*2+10)
LineColor=#Colour2#

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