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01micko · Posted: Sat 28 Mar 2009, 17:24 Post_subject:

Hmmmmmm.... What are you up to Trio? Laughing

tasmod · Posted: Sun 29 Mar 2009, 19:31 Post_subject:

Hmm, not sure after reading Eye Candy where we are actually posting widgets now.

Oh well, I'll post it here for testing.

It's a 7 day alarm plugin widget.
Day, Hour, Minute saved over a reboot, so still works.

Shows onscreen as single line 'Alarm unset' or 'Alarm set Monday 13:10' (example)

Minutes are in 5 minute bites, but if you want a specific minute just type it in.

I will probably update it for a choice of alarm sounds, right now it's generic.wav as that is in all Puppy's.

The alarm sounds for 1 minute if not cancelled.

Rob (tasmod)UPDATED NOW WITH SOUND CHOICE

tasmod · Posted: Sun 29 Mar 2009, 19:51 Post_subject:

Mick,

I noticed that the issue with Weather managed to sneak through.

There is an extra blank line at the end which causes it to overlap other widgets. It needs either change height size or blank line deleting.

I actually revamped the config for myself as there are a couple of errors.

The font call for the location name is default, just needs a small size increase.
There's an extra call line for a size 6 font for nothing.

I also added a new font size for the weather report text. Dropped it to 12.

Rob

tasmod · Posted: Mon 30 Mar 2009, 04:51 Post_subject:

What's wrong guys, are we not talking ?

Have we run out of ideas now 4.2 is out or just 'chillin' ?

Zigbert , new impetus required, new ideas, something Rolling Eyes

trio · Joined: 21 Dec 2008 Posts: 1630 Location: Almost there

Rob,

Yeah, I'm on 4.2 break now..hhh You know my PET MAKER App? It's on additonal software bla bla section..just a small project while on pwidgets break

Reg,

01micko · Posted: Mon 30 Mar 2009, 05:56 Post_subject:

tasmod · Posted: Mon 30 Mar 2009, 07:41 Post_subject:

Mick,

I wonder if it was done in Geany ?

I noticed the other day that it kept appending an extra line to a config I was working on, I checked settings and it's there. 'Add extra line at close of file'

Either of you know how to close plugin gui once data entered. Something after 'fixwidgets' in script to shut it down. Tried usual suspects but no joy.

Rob

01micko · Posted: Mon 30 Mar 2009, 07:58 Post_subject:

trio · Joined: 21 Dec 2008 Posts: 1630 Location: Almost there

Rob

try this to quit the gui:

<button>
<input file icon=\"gtk-apply\"></input>
<label>Create Pet</label>
<action>. $DIR/func -dir2pet</action>
<action>exit: gtkdialog</action>
</button>

I think it should work fine

trio · Joined: 21 Dec 2008 Posts: 1630 Location: Almost there

welcome home sigmund Laughing

NEW WIDGET

PetS - showing all pets one by one (changes every second).

trio · Joined: 21 Dec 2008 Posts: 1630 Location: Almost there

NEW WIDGET

SCROLL TEXT

01micko · Posted: Tue 31 Mar 2009, 15:36 Post_subject:

tasmod · Posted: Wed 01 Apr 2009, 03:41 Post_subject:

Mick,

All depends how you save in geany.

In 'preferences' there is an option to add extra line before saving. This is ticked by default. Confused

So if you don't 'delete' back until cursor is at end of your text it will add another line. Normally not a problem but as you know in widgets that's extra space.

Some of Geanys features are really good, but you have to read the preferences carefully to see some odd ones.
Caught me out a couple of times. Confused

Rob

01micko · Posted: Wed 01 Apr 2009, 04:01 Post_subject:

Hello guys

First of all, welcome back Sigmund.... (pics?) Laughing

Second. We have some issues. As Rob pointed out geany seems to be appending an extra empty line in some of our code. Weather is the main example, and 0_show_widgets another, although unimportant. When I suggested weather be reduced to height=85 that line was not there, but in 4.2 it is, this forces weather to encroach on the next widget in the tree.
Are there other widgets with this problem? I guess we better look. Wink

Another issue is slower machines. Ok, yes I got a standard Pwidgets 2.05 to run on my 486, however it was in Puppy fat_free 2.16_dillo, so things like the wallpaper setter don't work, therefore sidebar doesn't work. Who cares? Nobody, it's a 486!

But I recently aquired an IBM Aptiva, AMD 400 MHz, 256 MiB ram. Puppy 4.2, standard kernel, runs fine on it, maybe retro would run better, I don't know, may have to test. The thing regarding Pwidgets is mostly at bootup. The widgets load before the wallpaper and consequently there are black backgrounds behind the widgets. Now to resolve this we need to slow down the widgets such that the wallpaper loads before them. I have noticed on older machines that the wallpaper is slow to load in various flavours of Puppy, with completely different wallpaper setters.

Maybe, for users of old gear, that do want bling, we could offer a patch that puts sleeps in the correct places so that these dinosaurs can handle Pwidgets a little better. This IBM I acquired runs fine while Pwidgets is running. Seamonkey is a bit of a hog on this old girl so I installed Skipstone, nice looking browser.. I wonder if it has been optimised? I digress yet again!

Remember, I've plenty of ram on the thing and AMD at that time were very competitive, if not faster than similar intel chips of the era, (I preferred cyrix Wink

... Via don't cut it!)

Thoughts?

Cheers

Mick