Universal Launcher New Generation [2.3 and above]

Jan 24, 2018 10:27:14 GMT 1 ricktop said:
Jan 24, 2018 10:16:41 GMT 1 stevef said:
Yes, that's why I believe that your implementation of string.sub() is correct.  I think the true bug is with WatchMaker.

Change your code with this one and everyone will be happy : 

string.gsub(‘{wsr}’,“:.+”, “”)*30


Yes, this works correctly on both launchers!  Thanks again.

string.gsub(‘{wsr}’,“:.+”, “”)*30

Jan 24, 2018 10:16:41 GMT 1 stevef said:
Jan 24, 2018 9:59:29 GMT 1 ricktop said:
Ok, that's weird. The wiki said that the time should be with a leading zero, and in fact watchmake does not put this leading zero, so instead of 06:45, you'll get 6:45.  So, the substring has a zero in my launcher and a 6 in watchmaker, that explains it all. What's strange is that if the time is 11h45, then the substring will be 1, so this code is not working in this case. I can easily remove the leading zero, but it's strange that watchmaker does that...

Yes, that's why I believe that your implementation of string.sub() is correct.  I think the true bug is with WatchMaker.

Yes, thats posted long time ago in wm bug list. Sunrise without 0 and sunset . All stay on 24 hr format, even when you set 12 hour in your watch.

I dont know if someone is having this issue.
When I reboot my Lemfo Lem5 Pro, the sunrise and sunset are correct, but then the low and high temperature are not shown, when weather updates I loose sunrise and sunset hours and high and low temperature are shown as normal. Then I only get sunrire and sunset hours if I reboot again, but when weather updates the issue repeats itself.

Jan 24, 2018 17:25:17 GMT 1 hugocarmo said:
I dont know if someone is having this issue. When I reboot my Lemfo Lem5 Pro, the sunrise and sunset are correct, but then the low and high temperature are not shown, when weather updates I loose sunrise and sunset hours and high and low temperature are shown as normal. Then I only get sunrire and sunset hours if I reboot again, but when weather updates the issue repeats itself.

If you share the watch face in question maybe we can try to recreate the problem.  Why don't you upload the .watch file or provide a link to it so that we can have a look at it?

Hi ricktop,

thanks for all your hard work on the launcher. It’s definitely my goto on the watches I have bought. I just recently bought a KW88, and it had the latest firmware installed (BT calling). I’ve tried to use .watch files and .zip files from watchawear, but I can’t seem to get any of the faces to work. I used to have a Finow Q7, and I never had these types of issues. Do you happen to know if there is something I am missing on my watch? If you need any additional details from me, please let me know. I’d be more than happy to help.

UPDATE 

Some of the zip files had subfolders. Those were extracted, and the files worked fine. There was a watch file that would crash, but I can choose something else. I think it might have had a built in timer, and that might have been the cause of the crash. 

Its those three you shared some days ago.
The third I cant upload, its Antoine Martin Astronomique.

Jan 24, 2018 21:14:48 GMT 1 hugocarmo said:
Its those three you shared some days ago. The third I cant upload, its Antoine Martin Astronomique.

Here's the AntoineMartinAstronomique.  It has been fixed to work properly on both the Universal Launcher and WatchMaker. 

Download link:   AntoineMartinAstronomique.watch

I'll look at the Sterne and the Weather watch to see what they’re doing.

Jan 25, 2018 1:51:57 GMT 1 stevef said:
Jan 24, 2018 21:14:48 GMT 1 hugocarmo said:
Its those three you shared some days ago. The third I cant upload, its Antoine Martin Astronomique.

Here's the AntoineMartinAstronomique.  It has been fixed to work properly on both the Universal Launcher and WatchMaker. 

Download link:   AntoineMartinAstronomique.watch

I'll look at the Sterne and the Weather watch to see what they’re doing.


You are correct that the weather isn’t being updated immediately on the Sterne.watch nor the Weather.watch.  After allowing the Sterne.watch face to run for about half an hour, the weather will update properly.  The Weather.watch will also update if left alone too. I fixed the sunset and sunrise times on the Sterne face and checked the tags for the weather and added a tap-action to the temperature so that if you tap it, it will update the current temperature via Google.  My Finow X5+ doesn’t support Fahrenheit so I added a Fahrenheit temperature scale as well.

By the way, I am not the author of the faces I’ve been uploading.  I’m merely using the Desktop WatchMaker to edit faces that I like and when I find errors or if I want to make changes, I can rename the watch face file to .zip and extract the code by unzipping it.  Then I load the face into Desktop WatchMaker and make changes.  Desktop WatchMaker is freeware and you can download it here.  Just make sure you’ve installed Java first:  Desktop WatchMaker

Here’s a link to the updated Sterne watch.
Download link:  

Jan 25, 2018 2:48:18 GMT 1 stevef said:
Jan 25, 2018 1:51:57 GMT 1 stevef said:
Here's the AntoineMartinAstronomique.  It has been fixed to work properly on both the Universal Launcher and WatchMaker. 

Download link:   AntoineMartinAstronomique.watch

I'll look at the Sterne and the Weather watch to see what they’re doing.


You are correct that the weather isn’t being updated immediately on the Sterne.watch nor the Weather.watch.  After allowing the Sterne.watch face to run for about half an hour, the weather will update properly.  The Weather.watch will also update if left alone too. I fixed the sunset and sunrise times on the Sterne face and checked the tags for the weather and added a tap-action to the temperature so that if you tap it, it will update the current temperature via Google.  My Finow X5+ doesn’t support Fahrenheit so I added a Fahrenheit temperature scale as well.

By the way, I am not the author of the faces I’ve been uploading.  I’m merely using the Desktop WatchMaker to edit faces that I like and when I find errors or if I want to make changes, I can rename the watch face file to .zip and extract the code by unzipping it.  Then I load the face into Desktop WatchMaker and make changes.  Desktop WatchMaker is freeware and you can download it here.  Just make sure you’ve installed Java first:  Desktop WatchMaker

Here’s a link to the updated Sterne watch.
Download link:  

Thank You Stevef.


Jan 24, 2018 3:43:33 GMT 1 stevef said:
I've found another bug. This one is related to {ddw0}. In WatchMaker, {ddw0} returns a 0 for Sunday, a 1 for Monday, and so on all the way to Saturday which is day 6. In the Universal Launcher, the attached watch face is always one day ahead of the correct weekday.  So it appears that {ddw0) starts counting at 1 in the Universal Launcher.

EDIT:  After further checking and comparing the face on WatchMaker vs Universal Launcher, it appears that the bug is actually in text_ring, not in {ddw0}.  

Here’s a download link to the watch face in question:  Dark Hero Legend II


Right it seems that the Mon-Sun is not starting with Monday, but Sunday…
I will correct that.

I don’t know why, but I can’t change the watch face anymore, the double click menu is not working anymore, I re-installed the launcher 3 times. I’m using a Lemfo Lem5.

Jan 25, 2018 17:13:28 GMT 1 rogersampaio said:
I don't know why, but I can't change the watch face anymore, the double click menu is not working anymore, I re-installed the launcher 3 times. I'm using a Lemfo Lem5.

Even on the default skin ? Aven after a reboot ?

Here’s my first attempt at adding animation to watch faces and it works well with Rick’s launcher.  It’s minimalist in nature with just roman numerals, semi-transparent hands and a rotating 3D skull.  The skull began as an animated GIF that I converted into 72 separate jpeg frames to obtain smooth motion.   You can get a copy of the face here:  AnimatedSkull
Feel free to plagiarize this if you want.  I obtained all the graphics off the web and created this face as a learning exercise so there’s nothing copyrighted or proprietary.

Here’s my second attempt with animated watch faces.  This watch has a 3D radial engine running the mechanism.  The file size is rather large in order to provide a smooth frame rate.  This also runs quite well on my Finow X5+ and RickTop’s launcher.  Get it here:  3D Radial Engine

Jan 26, 2018 11:14:57 GMT 1 ricktop said:
Jan 25, 2018 17:13:28 GMT 1 rogersampaio said:
I don't know why, but I can't change the watch face anymore, the double click menu is not working anymore, I re-installed the launcher 3 times. I'm using a Lemfo Lem5.

Even on the default skin ? Aven after a reboot ?

I reinstalled and restarted. Now it's working fine. Thanks for this great project.
Jan 28, 2018 5:54:38 GMT 1 stevef said:
Here's my first attempt at adding animation to watch faces and it works well with Rick's launcher.  It's minimalist in nature with just roman numerals, semi-transparent hands and a rotating 3D skull.  The skull began as an animated GIF that I converted into 72 separate jpeg frames to obtain smooth motion.   You can get a copy of the face here:  AnimatedSkull Feel free to plagiarize this if you want.  I obtained all the graphics off the web and created this face as a learning exercise so there's nothing copyrighted or proprietary.

I don't know which tool, if any, you used to split the GIF into separate images. If you use WatchFace Designer to create the watch and place a GIF in there, it will automatically convert it to separate (PNG) images. It can also export to ClockSkin and WatchMaker format. If you don't want to use WFD to design your watches, at least the 2 steps of "put a gif, export watchface" will give you the splitted gif with almost no effort
Jan 31, 2018 18:49:00 GMT 1 mpmf said:
Jan 28, 2018 5:54:38 GMT 1 stevef said:
Here's my first attempt at adding animation to watch faces and it works well with Rick's launcher.  It's minimalist in nature with just roman numerals, semi-transparent hands and a rotating 3D skull.  The skull began as an animated GIF that I converted into 72 separate jpeg frames to obtain smooth motion.   You can get a copy of the face here:  AnimatedSkull Feel free to plagiarize this if you want.  I obtained all the graphics off the web and created this face as a learning exercise so there's nothing copyrighted or proprietary.

I don't know which tool, if any, you used to split the GIF into separate images. If you use WatchFace Designer to create the watch and place a GIF in there, it will automatically convert it to separate (PNG) images. It can also export to ClockSkin and WatchMaker format. If you don't want to use WFD to design your watches, at least the 2 steps of "put a gif, export watchface" will give you the splitted gif with almost no effort

I prefer to design my watch faces on the PC using the Desktop Watchmaker rather than being confined to a small Android device.  You can get Desktop Watchmaker here for free:  Desktop Watchmaker

Splitting the animated GIF files is also not a problem.  I use IrfanView to split GIF’s for my projects but there are also several online web services that split the GIF’s for free.

Jan 31, 2018 19:32:47 GMT 1 stevef said:
I prefer to design my watch faces on the PC using the Desktop Watchmaker rather than being confined to a small Android device.  You can get Desktop Watchmaker here:  Desktop Watchmaker

Splitting the animated GIF files is also not a problem.  I use IrfanView to split GIF’s for my projects but there are also several online web services that split the GIF’s for free.


Great. WatchFace Designer is also a desktop tool, by the way. But it’s completely different from Desktop Watchmaker and is more focused on clockskin than watchmaker. And you should, of course, use the best tools for you. So keep up the good work

Jan 31, 2018 19:42:06 GMT 1 mpmf said:
Jan 31, 2018 19:32:47 GMT 1 stevef said:
I prefer to design my watch faces on the PC using the Desktop Watchmaker rather than being confined to a small Android device.  You can get Desktop Watchmaker here:  Desktop Watchmaker

Splitting the animated GIF files is also not a problem.  I use IrfanView to split GIF’s for my projects but there are also several online web services that split the GIF’s for free.


Great. WatchFace Designer is also a desktop tool, by the way. But it’s completely different from Desktop Watchmaker and is more focused on clockskin than watchmaker. And you should, of course, use the best tools for you. So keep up the good work

Thanks.  Where can one find WatchFace Designer?  I did a Google search for it but only come up with an Android app with a similar name.
Jan 31, 2018 19:44:18 GMT 1 stevef said:
Thanks.  Where can one find WatchFace Designer?  I did a Google search for it but only come up with an Android app with a similar name.

In these very forums: /thread/1292/watchface-designer