arthurgleckler

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• Moving widgets somewhere other than the top

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• Moving widgets somewhere other than the top

  in Bangle.js • 4 months, 1 week

  

  Wow, I hadn't heard of the Widget Editor app. That is a great idea.

  What I ended up doing was to define my own Bangle.drawWidgets that makes widgets clear only their own space. Then I made my watch face use the entire display. Since it's circular, there's still room at the corners. All the widgets that I use fit in that space without modification, so I'm done. But with Widget Editor, it will be possible to squeeze even more widgets onto the screen.

  Thanks.

• Moving widgets somewhere other than the top

  in Bangle.js • 6 months

  

  You're absolutely right, of course. I've modified my own app with a modified drawWidgets, as you suggest. That's working nicely. In my case, having the widgets clear only the area that they use is great because it leaves the space between them for the top of my clock face, which can now use the full screen area. As long as I don't install too many widgets, there won't be any overlap.

• Moving widgets somewhere other than the top

  in Bangle.js • 6 months

  

  I've submitted a pull request (#2305) that changes drawWidgets to clear only the area actually occupied by widgets rather than the entire top and bottom twenty-four pixels.

• Moving widgets somewhere other than the top

  in Bangle.js • 6 months

  

  I'm trying the code snippet you suggested instead. That will give me more control.

  Thanks again.

• Moving widgets somewhere other than the top

  in Bangle.js • 6 months

  

  I've followed the instructions on uploading modules, but I get Uncaught ReferenceError: "exports" is not defined when I try that with widget_utils.js.

• Moving widgets somewhere other than the top

  in Bangle.js • 6 months

  

  Cool. But I tried require("widget_utils").swipeOn(); and got this:

  >Uncaught Error: Module widget_utils not found

  That happened both in the emulator and on the watch. The same thing happened when I tried loading the Pebble watch, which uses that API, through the IDE.

  I hope I'm not missing something obvious.

• Moving widgets somewhere other than the top

  in Bangle.js • 6 months

  

  I have an app that has a round face. I've shifted it down to make space for the widgets at the top of the screen. However, if I were able to move the widgets inside the circle, I'd be able to take full advantage of the height of the screen. Is there any way to do that, or might it be a feature in the future?

  Thanks.

  P.S.: I love hacking my Bangle. It's such a pleasant programming experience, without a lot of unnecessary complexity. It's possible to write interesting programs in just a few kilobytes of RAM. It brings me back to the days of my TRS-80, but with JavaScript instead of Z80 assembly language!

• "Must be inside our own scope here so that, when we are unloaded, everything disappears."

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• "Must be inside our own scope here so that, when we are unloaded, everything disappears."

  in Bangle.js • 6 months, 1 week

  

  Thanks!