Clara HD Display time when reading - Page 22

NiLuJe · 11-10-2019, 08:28 AM

I might have botched a debug conditional, I'll double-check, thanks

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EDIT: Yep, forgot the conditional. Will fix it when I get back to my dev box

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NiLuJe · 11-12-2019, 10:17 PM

@jackie_w: I updated the package in #311 to fix the stray debug message, thanks!

jackie_w · 11-22-2019, 07:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

@jackie_w: I updated the package in #311 to fix the stray debug message, thanks!

Somehow I managed to miss this until now. Thanks

jsessions · 11-23-2019, 03:36 AM

Should I be installing this revised version of MiniClock rather than original one now?

NiLuJe · 11-23-2019, 01:30 PM

That's entirely up to you

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I, personally, wouldn't mind more guinea pigs, err, testers ;p. But I also perfectly understand the "don't fix it if it ain't broke" philosophy

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As a minor incentive, besides the "ooh, shiny" effect, the positioning tweaks are probably most useful for people using the bottom-right corner, for instance. Especially if you read in multiple orientations, because that would allow you to have it automagically behaving in all orientations, which was impossible with absolute coordinates.

jsessions · 11-24-2019, 06:37 AM

I had a quick dabble with alternate version which seems to work well. Only issue I had was getting it to recognise a ttf font in the miniclock directory and allowing me to change size like the original... I didn't succeed in what should have an easy change!!

All I did was add truetype=times.ttf before truetype_size and changed value of the size parameter to 8. Copied the font file to .addons/miniclock folder. Result ~ continued to use original default font!

I've probably done something dense but had no problem with original version following these steps.

NiLuJe · 11-24-2019, 01:17 PM

@jsessions: Oh, yeah, that's not something I would have tested, and it's indeed broken.

*nix gibberish follows:

This versions run a single FBInk instance that daemonizes. That process involves a chdir. The script assumes its $PWD is still the MiniClock addons folder, which is no longer true => ENOENT

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TL;DR: I'll post-process the path to make it absolute, which should fix that

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NiLuJe · 11-24-2019, 01:35 PM

@jsessions: Okay, package updated in #311, it *should* fix the relative font paths issue

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(I haven't tested it, but the fix is trivial enough that hopefully nothing will horribly implode ^^).

jsessions · 11-24-2019, 02:00 PM

I'll try it again later or tomorrow.

Guinea pig served its purpose

jsessions · 11-24-2019, 02:20 PM

Fix does indeed work ~ thanks ~ truetype font works as expected. I'll continue playing with parameters when I have a bit more time.

NiLuJe · 11-24-2019, 02:35 PM

@jsessions: Fantastic, thanks for the feedback

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retro · 11-30-2019, 08:46 AM

I got a new Clara and really wanted the time showing, so I downloaded Frostschutz's 20190729b version of this addon.
It works but if I change the miniclock.example.cfg file, I always get the same default on the screen.
I did a factory reset, installed again and tried making just one change and nothing happened. I've only used examples listed here like the date format to %l:%M%P, no difference. Then I tried changing the font, nothing changed. I even tried the uninstall, nada. I also changed the debugging to 1 and no file.
It's like it's not reading the cfg file.
Did I miss something important?

frostschutz · 11-30-2019, 11:27 AM

miniclock.example.cfg is just the example file, so it won't overwrite customized miniclock.cfg everytime you update

save it as miniclock.cfg to actually do anything

should say so at the very beginning of the file itself

Code:

# -------------------------------------------------------------------
#   MiniClock config example file. For settings to take any effect,
#     copy or rename this file to .addons/miniclock/miniclock.cfg.
# -------------------------------------------------------------------

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retro · 11-30-2019, 12:43 PM

Thank you! I've read this thread so many times, but sometimes the little things slip by.
And thank you for your work, it makes a huge difference.

Quote:

Originally Posted by frostschutz

miniclock.example.cfg is just the example file, so it won't overwrite customized miniclock.cfg everytime you update

save it as miniclock.cfg to actually do anything

should say so at the very beginning of the file itself

Code:

# -------------------------------------------------------------------
#   MiniClock config example file. For settings to take any effect,
#     copy or rename this file to .addons/miniclock/miniclock.cfg.
# -------------------------------------------------------------------

...

retro · 12-11-2019, 08:59 AM

I really love miniclock! It was my first Kobo hack that worked so well it inspired me to try Kobopatch.

The only thing that I wanted was the Swap reading header/footer because on longer book titles, miniclock covers part of the page number. I wanted to switch the title to the top and leave off the chapter number at at the bottom, giving miniclock the whole footer.

It works, for a while. If I open a new book or open after sleeping, the header and footer disappear, but not miniclock. If I turn the header and footer off and on again in settings, it works again. I've tried leaving both on, and with the progress bar on and off, but it doesn't seem to make a difference.

The other change I made was Reduce new header/footer height. Maybe that is the cause instead of Swap?

Is the conflict with Kobopatch change or with miniclock? Should I have installed in a certain order?

I read through most of the latest Kobopatch thread and saw some references to Miniclock, but couldn't determine how it might apply to the issue I'm having.

Thanks for your help and miniclock!

11-10-2019, 08:28 AM	#316
NiLuJe BLAM! Posts: 13,506 Karma: 26047202 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Paris, France Device: Kindle 2i, 3g, 4, 5w, PW, PW2, PW5; Kobo H2O, Forma, Elipsa, Sage, C2E	I might have botched a debug conditional, I'll double-check, thanks . EDIT: Yep, forgot the conditional. Will fix it when I get back to my dev box . Last edited by NiLuJe; 11-10-2019 at 08:50 AM.

11-24-2019, 01:17 PM	#322
NiLuJe BLAM! Posts: 13,506 Karma: 26047202 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Paris, France Device: Kindle 2i, 3g, 4, 5w, PW, PW2, PW5; Kobo H2O, Forma, Elipsa, Sage, C2E	@jsessions: Oh, yeah, that's not something I would have tested, and it's indeed broken. nix gibberish follows: This versions run a single FBInk instance that daemonizes. That process involves a chdir. The script assumes its $PWD is still the MiniClock addons folder, which is no longer true => ENOENT . TL;DR: I'll post-process the path to make it absolute, which should fix that . Last edited by NiLuJe; 11-24-2019 at 01:45 PM.*

11-24-2019, 01:35 PM	#323
NiLuJe BLAM! Posts: 13,506 Karma: 26047202 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Paris, France Device: Kindle 2i, 3g, 4, 5w, PW, PW2, PW5; Kobo H2O, Forma, Elipsa, Sage, C2E	@jsessions: Okay, package updated in #311, it should fix the relative font paths issue . (I haven't tested it, but the fix is trivial enough that hopefully nothing will horribly implode ^^). Last edited by NiLuJe; 11-24-2019 at 01:37 PM.

11-30-2019, 11:27 AM	#328
frostschutz Linux User Posts: 2,282 Karma: 6123806 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Heidelberg, Germany Device: none	miniclock.example.cfg is just the example file, so it won't overwrite customized miniclock.cfg everytime you update save it as miniclock.cfg to actually do anything should say so at the very beginning of the file itself Code: # ------------------------------------------------------------------- # MiniClock config example file. For settings to take any effect, # copy or rename this file to .addons/miniclock/miniclock.cfg. # ------------------------------------------------------------------- ...

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11-12-2019, 10:17 PM	#317
NiLuJe BLAM! Posts: 13,506 Karma: 26047202 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Paris, France Device: Kindle 2i, 3g, 4, 5w, PW, PW2, PW5; Kobo H2O, Forma, Elipsa, Sage, C2E	@jackie_w: I updated the package in #311 to fix the stray debug message, thanks!

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jsessions Enthusiast Posts: 35 Karma: 2112464 Join Date: Aug 2017 Device: Kobo Glo & Clara HD	Should I be installing this revised version of MiniClock rather than original one now?

11-23-2019, 01:30 PM	#320
NiLuJe BLAM! Posts: 13,506 Karma: 26047202 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Paris, France Device: Kindle 2i, 3g, 4, 5w, PW, PW2, PW5; Kobo H2O, Forma, Elipsa, Sage, C2E	That's entirely up to you . I, personally, wouldn't mind more guinea pigs, err, testers ;p. But I also perfectly understand the "don't fix it if it ain't broke" philosophy . As a minor incentive, besides the "ooh, shiny" effect, the positioning tweaks are probably most useful for people using the bottom-right corner, for instance. Especially if you read in multiple orientations, because that would allow you to have it automagically behaving in all orientations, which was impossible with absolute coordinates.

11-24-2019, 06:37 AM	#321
jsessions Enthusiast Posts: 35 Karma: 2112464 Join Date: Aug 2017 Device: Kobo Glo & Clara HD	I had a quick dabble with alternate version which seems to work well. Only issue I had was getting it to recognise a ttf font in the miniclock directory and allowing me to change size like the original... I didn't succeed in what should have an easy change!! All I did was add truetype=times.ttf before truetype_size and changed value of the size parameter to 8. Copied the font file to .addons/miniclock folder. Result ~ continued to use original default font! I've probably done something dense but had no problem with original version following these steps.

11-24-2019, 02:00 PM	#324
jsessions Enthusiast Posts: 35 Karma: 2112464 Join Date: Aug 2017 Device: Kobo Glo & Clara HD	I'll try it again later or tomorrow. Guinea pig served its purpose

11-24-2019, 02:20 PM	#325
jsessions Enthusiast Posts: 35 Karma: 2112464 Join Date: Aug 2017 Device: Kobo Glo & Clara HD	Fix does indeed work ~ thanks ~ truetype font works as expected. I'll continue playing with parameters when I have a bit more time.

11-24-2019, 02:35 PM	#326
NiLuJe BLAM! Posts: 13,506 Karma: 26047202 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Paris, France Device: Kindle 2i, 3g, 4, 5w, PW, PW2, PW5; Kobo H2O, Forma, Elipsa, Sage, C2E	@jsessions: Fantastic, thanks for the feedback .

11-30-2019, 08:46 AM	#327
retro Groupie Posts: 195 Karma: 245 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: USA Device: Kobo Clara Blue PRS 350	I got a new Clara and really wanted the time showing, so I downloaded Frostschutz's 20190729b version of this addon. It works but if I change the miniclock.example.cfg file, I always get the same default on the screen. I did a factory reset, installed again and tried making just one change and nothing happened. I've only used examples listed here like the date format to %l:%M%P, no difference. Then I tried changing the font, nothing changed. I even tried the uninstall, nada. I also changed the debugging to 1 and no file. It's like it's not reading the cfg file. Did I miss something important?

12-11-2019, 08:59 AM	#330
retro Groupie Posts: 195 Karma: 245 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: USA Device: Kobo Clara Blue PRS 350	I really love miniclock! It was my first Kobo hack that worked so well it inspired me to try Kobopatch. The only thing that I wanted was the Swap reading header/footer because on longer book titles, miniclock covers part of the page number. I wanted to switch the title to the top and leave off the chapter number at at the bottom, giving miniclock the whole footer. It works, for a while. If I open a new book or open after sleeping, the header and footer disappear, but not miniclock. If I turn the header and footer off and on again in settings, it works again. I've tried leaving both on, and with the progress bar on and off, but it doesn't seem to make a difference. The other change I made was Reduce new header/footer height. Maybe that is the cause instead of Swap? Is the conflict with Kobopatch change or with miniclock? Should I have installed in a certain order? I read through most of the latest Kobopatch thread and saw some references to Miniclock, but couldn't determine how it might apply to the issue I'm having. Thanks for your help and miniclock!

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