bsc001;387574 Wrote: > BOOM support. From what I can tell, the problem with trying to make > this great application work with the Boom is that it relies upon the > native Time support from the device, including the standard line 1 & 2 > for the time/forecast display. Combined with the very narrow size of > the Boom window (approx. 150 to 160 pixels), this offers limited > options to get the time/date/forecast to display correctly. If I'm correct it's pretty easy to determine the size of the screen of the Boom. There's already functionality available for that... Therefore we should also be able to determine what kind of display we have...
> I've been working on some enhancements to the main plugin to provide > Boom functionality. Basically, I've moved the standard line 1 & 2 > displays off to the right so they truncate off the boom screen. I then > do some tweaking to the spacing, and re-use the custom 5x7 character set > to display the time, date, precip, wind, and forecast onto the small > Boom window. The time/date/forecast font is the same size as the other > weather stats, so it doesn't jump out at you the way it does on the > other devices--but that's a small price to pay (to me). Also, the > time is now updated on the weather refresh rate, so if the refresh rate > is set a high, the time will lag until the next refresh.> > > > > Does this mean the time is only refreshed every half hour if I set the > > wunderground refreshrate to 1800 seconds? > > > > > > > > > There's one main snippet of code, but a couple other > > > > > > > modifications are > > > necessary: need to display an alternate logo on startup, need to modify > > > the gxwidth when a Boom is detected, need to add a colon to the 5x7 > > > character set. If it weren't for these little changes, it would be an > > > easy piece of code to publish in the forums here for scrutiny. > > > > > > What's the best way to propose these changes? Is there a location for > > > the latest version of source code I could get, then make the code > > > changes and propose the modified code? Or, is there some better way? I > > > really like the now-working WeatherTime plugin on my Boom, would like > > > to offer that to my fellow Boom owners.> > > > > > [yelling mode]Maaaaaaartiiiiiiin![/yelling mode] > > You can find the latest sourcecode in the svn repository at > > http://weathertime.googlecode.com/svn > > > > > > > I've attached two images showing what the BOOM screen will look > > > > > > > like > > > with these modifications.> > > > > > As long as it doesn't change the other displays, I've got no > > problem with it... -- servies There are 10 kinds of people in the world - those who understand binary and those who don't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ servies's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9496 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21989 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
