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Posted: Sun 16 Nov 2008, 17:45
by zigbert
Sorry guys, my fault!

You must run these 2 commands in terminal to update installed fonts:
mkfontscale /usr/share/fonts/default/TTF
mkfontdir /usr/share/fonts/default/TTF

Hope this solves it.
Please give feedback.


Sigmund

Posted: Sun 16 Nov 2008, 18:36
by sintot
What about a weather widget?

I have coded a very easy script (but I'm not good on scripting :-) ):

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grep `curl -s "http://rss.accuweather.com/rss/liveweather_rss.asp?metric=1&locCode=EUR|ES|SP013|Madrid"|grep -A2 'description>Currently'|grep gif|sed 's/\// /g'|sed 's/_/ /g'|awk {'print $8'}` /root/scripts/format.txt|awk '{print $2}'
It downloads the weather from the rss of accuweather (in this case for Madrid), and translates into a weather.ttf letter, using format.txt:

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01        a
02        b
03        c
04        c
05        b
06        c
07        d
08        e
11        v
12        g
13        g
14        g
15        f
16        f
17        f
18        h
19        k
20        k
21        k
22        j
23        k
24        x
25        k
26        k                
30        z
31        x
32        w
33        O
34        l
35        m
36        n
37        m
38        n
39        q
40        r
41        p
42        p
43        u
44        u
The result, in the image.

Posted: Sun 16 Nov 2008, 19:01
by esmourguit
Bonjour,
@Zigbert
You must run these 2 commands in terminal to update installed fonts:
mkfontscale /usr/share/fonts/default/TTF
mkfontdir /usr/share/fonts/default/TTF
Thank you, it works well now. I had to restart X.
Cordialement ;)

Posted: Sun 16 Nov 2008, 22:08
by puppyluvr
:D Hello,
@Zigbert, never mind about the root window, I figured it out...
Wanting to use it with E-16, so root window it is...
Great program, great Job!!!!

Posted: Mon 17 Nov 2008, 02:11
by 01micko
Zigbert said
If you look at your first screenshot in this thread, everything is ok.

/usr/share/fonts/default/TTF/MONOFONT.TTF is the one you need.
Something must have gone wild during your second install of Pwidgets.

You can either try to install another time, or just copy this font from the pet package.
If you rename pwidgets-0.1.pet to pwidgets-0.1.pet.tar.gz you can just click on it and xarchive will open it.
Thanks for that, all fixed :mrgreen:

Posted: Mon 17 Nov 2008, 11:03
by headfound
Pwidgets works great, its really nice.

Two little problems though.
1) in my puppy 4 install it takes a long time for the transparency to work. It will start with dark boxes (displaying information) then slowly each box will turn transparent but sometimes only if I open a full screen app like seamonkey.

2) in the latest macpup, the windows overlap badly and are out of alignment. Is this due to the bar at the top of the screen?

fantastic work :)

Posted: Mon 17 Nov 2008, 18:10
by zigbert
sintot
It would be great with a weather widget. 8)
Would you kindly explain in detail what I need. please post everything. conkyrc, script, font, ...


headfound
1) in /usr/sbin/fixwidgets there is a 'sleep 2'. Please increase this, and see what happens. Do you have a low-powered system?

2) I am not thinking of support of other systems than official Puppy. - Sorry.


Sigmund

Posted: Mon 17 Nov 2008, 20:41
by 01micko
Quick question, I managed to change all the colours I wanted except the hands of the clock (the rest of the clock I painted over in mtpaint,lol). How is this done? I notice puppylvr you did it. Thx.

Posted: Mon 17 Nov 2008, 20:46
by zigbert
See /root/.xonclockrc

Posted: Mon 17 Nov 2008, 21:00
by 01micko
Zigbert said
See /root/.xonclockrc
Thanks, qiuck response! lol

Posted: Mon 17 Nov 2008, 23:43
by headfound
Thanks for the reply Zigbert.
I have increased it a little but it doesn't help the speed of transparency.
My system is reasonably fast amd3000+.

Good news however! I booted into macpup and pwidgets worked perfectly and with instant transparency. Even if you are not supporting other systems, its good to know it works :)

Posted: Tue 18 Nov 2008, 00:44
by sintot
Hi:
Here are the scripts for the weather widget.
WeatherIcon:

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#!/bin/sh
#AccuWeather icon, using weather.ttf
#USAGE: WeatherIcon <locationcode>
#Sintot
METRIC=1 #Should be 0 or 1; 0 for F, 1 for C
LOCCOD="EUR|ES|SP013|Madrid"
if [ -z $1 ] && [ -x $LOCCOD ] ; then
	echo
        echo "USAGE: $0 [locationcode]"
        echo
        exit 0;
elif [ ! -z $1 ] ; then
        LOCCOD=$1
fi
curl -s "http://rss.accuweather.com/rss/liveweather_rss.asp?metric=1&locCode=$LOCCOD">/tmp/Weather.tmp
SIMBOL=`cat /tmp/Weather.tmp|grep -A2 'description>Currently'|grep gif|sed 's/\// /g'|sed 's/_/ /g'|awk {'print $8'}`
case $SIMBOL in
  01 )
	echo "a"
	;;
  02 )
	echo "b"
	;;
  03 )
	echo "c"
	;;
  04 )
	echo "c"
	;;
  05 )
	echo "b"
	;;
  06 )
	echo "c"
	;;
  07 )
	echo "d"
	;;
  08 )
	echo "e"
	;;
  11 )
	echo "v"
	;;
  12 )
	echo "g"
	;;
  13 )
	echo "g"
	;;
  14 )
	echo "g"
	;;
  15 )
	echo "f"
	;;
  16 )
	echo "f"
	;;
  17 )
	echo "f"
	;;
  18 )
	echo "h"
	;;
  19 )
	echo "k"
	;;
  20 )
	echo "k"
	;;
  21 )
	echo "k"
	;;
  22 )
	echo "j"
	;;
  23 )
	echo "k"
	;;
  24 )
	echo "x"
	;;
  25 )
	echo "k"
	;;
  26 )
	echo "k"
	;;
  30 )
	echo "z"
	;;
  31 )
	echo "x"
	;;
  32 )
	echo "w"
	;;
  33 )
	echo "O"
	;;
  34 )
	echo "l"
	;;
  35 )
	echo "m"
	;;
  36 )
	echo "n"
	;;
  37 )
	echo "m"
	;;
  38 )
	echo "n"
	;;
  39 )
	echo "q"
	;;
  40 )
	echo "r"
	;;
  41 )
	echo "p"
	;;
  42 )
	echo "p"
	;;
  43 )
	echo "u"
	;;
  44 )
	echo "u"
	;;
 esac
Weather:

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#!/bin/sh
cat /tmp/Weather.tmp| perl -ne 'if (/Currently/) {chomp;/\<title\>Currently: (.*)?\<\/title\>/; print "$1"; }'|sed 's/C$/ÂșC/'
.conkyrc:

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TEXT
$alignc${color #9C8F5B}Weather
${color #777777}${font weather:size=42}${execi 10 /root/.pwidgets/scripts/WeatherIcon "EUR|ES|SP017|BILBAO"}${font}${voffset -10}  ${color #777777}${execi 10  /root/.pwidgets/scripts/Weather}

The font is in http://img.dafont.com/dl/?f=weather

The only thing you have to do is put your location in conkyrc.

Cheers

Posted: Tue 18 Nov 2008, 09:31
by WhoDo
zigbert wrote:Warren
The config button opens geany with the widgets config file(s). Maybe it would be better to rename button to 'Edit config file'.

There is no configs for the analog clock. But you can change the clock by setting another skin. The file is /root/.pwidgets/configs/Clock-analog.png
Thanks, Sigmund. Sorry it took so long to acknowledge your post - I've been away in another city on business.

Boy, the enthusiasm for Pwidgets is great! By the time it is launched on the rest of the Linux world in Puppy 4.2 we should have an awesome, functional front end with minimal resources! Well done, mate! 8)

Cheers,

Posted: Tue 18 Nov 2008, 13:07
by 01micko
@Zigbert
I am having lots of fun hacking up (lol, I'm no hacker) your software!
@all other onlookers
lots of clock skins at this site http://www.clocx.net/index.php
It'swindow$ software but you can install it in windows if you like and get to the .png images or download them separately.

EDIT: Howto skin the analog clock

Posted: Tue 18 Nov 2008, 19:43
by zigbert
sintot
THANK YOU !!!

A great explanation! The weather widget is now integrated into Pwidgets, but there are 2 issues:
1.) The weather font is not freeware. Is there any other font we could use?
2.) How can I know the code for my location? "EUR|ES|SP017|BILBAO" works great for some, but not for most. I looked at accuweather, but couldn't find info about the codes. The conkyrc file should contain MANY examples of big cities around the world.

I checked my location, but the closest is Trondheim, 500 km away.
I guess I have to look out my window to check the weather. :)


Thank you again
Sigmund

Posted: Tue 18 Nov 2008, 20:31
by WhoDo
@Sigmund - how can we make Pwidgets persistant i.e. survive a reboot? Conky survives but I have to restart Pwidgets to get back my lovely configuration. Is it something to do with fixwidgets? :?

Posted: Tue 18 Nov 2008, 20:54
by zigbert
Warren
To update widgets at startup, add 'fixwidgets' in /root/.xinitrc (before '#exec $CURRENTWM').

Complete set of notes in the main post.


Sigmund

Posted: Tue 18 Nov 2008, 23:01
by sintot
Zigbert

You can search your code in http://www.accuweather.com/us-city-list.asp (in the "Enter an international location" section). For example, you enter "Valamoen, Norway", and it takes you to a page: http://www.accuweather.com/world-index- ... 5moen|&u=1

Here, you can see your code: EUR|NO|NO009|Val%E5moen (Oh, it's cold there!)

We could use the font from http://simplythebest.net/fonts/fonts/whethers.html , but the decode between accuweather and this font must be redone.

Posted: Wed 19 Nov 2008, 07:10
by WhoDo
zigbert wrote:Complete set of notes in the main post.
Thanks, Sigmund. I must have just missed it because I did run the two font install commands from a console. That "old-timer's disease" is getting pretty savage I guess. :oops:

Posted: Wed 19 Nov 2008, 09:05
by dinky
Been playing around with pwidgets on project ripple, and I'm having issues with transparency. Firstly, looking in the code for pwidgets, it's trying to match the false transparancy to my desktop background. No harm there The problem is that it's looking for my background picture in the wrong place... according to fixwidgets, my background should be in /root/Choices/ROX-background.jpg

Well, this might be true for JWM, but using only Rox for the background setter, my settings are in Rox under /root/Choices/ROX-filer/PuppyPin.

Oddly enough, after about 5 minutes Pwidgets does notice my background, and creates a false transparency around it. Any thoughts on how to acheive this on starting Pwidgets?

Also, using compiz-fusion, or cairo-dock, it is possible to hide the widget layer. What would be involved in hiding pwidgets? In compiz-fusion it's technically possible to hide any window if you give it the right name... ie

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name=xcalc | name=terminal | name=asapm
What name would pwidgets be? I have tried Pwidgets, pwidgets, conky, Conky, etc, with no luck. Would be gret to have this feature. Cheers.
~dinky