Watchface Designer

arb2040 · October 6, 2017, 11:15pm

Hi!
One small tip/request: When charging my watch I’ve noticed that sometimes the contact between the adapter and the watch is somewhat unreliable - resulting in a flat battery rather than a full one
If possible, it would be great to have the charger indicator available (Digal Clock Layer option?). I’ve noticed that CSM calls it ‘array_charging_batt’.

Eric_Crochemore · October 7, 2017, 8:13am

Oct 6, 2017 23:15:02 GMT 1 arb2040 said:
Hi! One small tip/request: When charging my watch I've noticed that sometimes the contact between the adapter and the watch is somewhat unreliable - resulting in a flat battery rather than a full one :-( If possible, it would be great to have the charger indicator available (Digal Clock Layer option?). I've noticed that CSM calls it 'array_charging_batt'.

It’s the array 99.

rambler001 · October 9, 2017, 7:53pm

Hello,

I’m used to facer designer and now i’m switching to this one.
Is it possible to add some custom rotation code somewhere like this from a facer design of mine:

$(#DWFSS#*1.03448275)<=360?(#DWFSS#*1.03448275):0$

It’s a station clock design where the last second takes two seconds to sync all the clocks, in case you are wondering what this is

thanks,
Bart

stormsilver · October 10, 2017, 8:01am

Oct 5, 2017 14:19:11 GMT 1 mpmf said:
Oct 5, 2017 10:48:37 GMT 1 stormsilver said:
Thank you very much... Now I can create my own watch face
Hope to share it with everyone soon

Great. I hope to see it/them soon

Here’s my first watch face

A very simple one though
Hope you guys like it… drive.google.com/open?id=0B3NwQ6W7NdpvZTVoQUdZYUJibms

sonia_sophie_ataunna · October 10, 2017, 8:03am

Oct 10, 2017 8:01:21 GMT 1 stormsilver said:
Oct 5, 2017 14:19:11 GMT 1 mpmf said:
Great. I hope to see it/them soon

Here's my first watch face
A very simple one though
Hope you guys like it… drive.google.com/open?id=0B3NwQ6W7NdpvZTVoQUdZYUJibms

that is just BEAUTIFUL:)

stormsilver · October 10, 2017, 8:06am

Oct 10, 2017 8:03:10 GMT 1 soniasophie9697 said:
Oct 10, 2017 8:01:21 GMT 1 stormsilver said:
Here’s my first watch face

A very simple one though
Hope you guys like it… drive.google.com/open?id=0B3NwQ6W7NdpvZTVoQUdZYUJibms

that is just BEAUTIFUL:)

Thank you very much

Marco_Ferreira · October 11, 2017, 4:33pm

Oct 9, 2017 19:53:27 GMT 1 rambler001 said:
Hello,
I’m used to facer designer and now i’m switching to this one.
Is it possible to add some custom rotation code somewhere like this from a facer design of mine:

$(#DWFSS#*1.03448275)<=360?(#DWFSS#*1.03448275):0$

It’s a station clock design where the last second takes two seconds to sync all the clocks, in case you are wondering what this is

thanks,
Bart

Sorry, ClockSkin does not support it. It is, however, supported by WatchMaker, and Eric’s Universal Lancher has (partial) support for watchmaker’s .watch files

Marco_Ferreira · October 11, 2017, 4:34pm

Oct 10, 2017 8:01:21 GMT 1 stormsilver said:
Here's my first watch face
A very simple one though
Hope you guys like it… drive.google.com/open?id=0B3NwQ6W7NdpvZTVoQUdZYUJibms

I always enjoy the simpler ones
Great work.

Marco_Ferreira · October 12, 2017, 1:37pm

WatchFace Designer v0.9.0 is released

). I appreciate your feedback on the current functionalities, bug reports and suggestions on what I can add. Just keep in mind that specific WatchMaker functionalities will not be implemented quickly as I still have to figure out a way on how to include them without sacrificing ClockSkin functionalities or making the UI harder to use.

Besides this major addition, a polygon layer was also added, allowing the creation of geometric polygons or stars. This one is a minor feature and will probably not be very used, but I never know…
Also, a Charging Icon Layer (array type 99) was also added, so that the icon (and battery percentage) can appear while the watch is charging. The icon and percentage rendering is device specific, so you can only select if you want a white or a black icon, but not the icon itself or the font used for the battery percentage.

Finally, some minor bugs were fixed and some other minor (I hope) bugs were probably introduced

The download link is on the first page and here: goo.gl/jvfiMn

zsoltm · October 12, 2017, 3:02pm

Awesome!
Small issue Marco: When I import my clockskin, and that have hand and separate hand shadows(duplicated hand) imported just as image layer, not hand layer.
Not possible to rename as HOUR, why wfd say Its used.
Second, when I exported as watch file, the export made / for all file, and in this way not load on watchmaker.
I must unzip, and zip again. Just remove this / when you export.
Will come more test… Thanks

Marco_Ferreira · October 12, 2017, 5:49pm

Oct 12, 2017 15:02:50 GMT 1 zsolt m said:
Awesome! Small issue Marco: When I import my clockskin, and that have hand and separate hand shadows(duplicated hand) imported just as image layer, not hand layer. Not possible to rename as HOUR, why wfd say Its used. Second, when I exported as watch file, the export made / for all file, and in this way not load on watchmaker. I must unzip, and zip again. Just remove this / when you export. Will come more test.. Thanks

Thanks for the report. The hand shadows was not supported, so it imported as simply an image. I just added support for the shadow rotations (type 8, 9 and 10), even though I, personally, don't like them. They just are not realistic shadows. The problem with the .watch zip was detected during development and I fixed it, but I forgot that Windows used '\' instead of '/' as path character, and I only tested on Linux.

Both of this issues are fixed now, so, I’m proud to say:

WatchFace Designer v0.9.1 is released!

Download link: goo.gl/aFx8yN

Changes are only adding support for shadow rotation layers and fix path separator on Windows

zsoltm · October 12, 2017, 8:55pm

Thanks, great work!

stormsilver · October 13, 2017, 2:42am

Oct 11, 2017 16:34:10 GMT 1 mpmf said:
Oct 10, 2017 8:01:21 GMT 1 stormsilver said:
Here's my first watch face
A very simple one though
Hope you guys like it… drive.google.com/open?id=0B3NwQ6W7NdpvZTVoQUdZYUJibms

I always enjoy the simpler ones Great work.

Thank you... and great work for your new release

Btw, I have a question,
I have to “misalign” the battery & temperature reading in order to have them left align on my KW88.
I have tried using left align on the watchface designer, it doesn’t seem to work.

For example, when it’s 100% charged, it may look fine but when it’s 2 digits, there will be a tiny space in front.
Or on my current watch face that I have posted, it’s ok when it’s 2 digits for the battery. But when it’s 100%, you will see that the 1 is out of place.

Need your advise. Thank you.

motojam · October 14, 2017, 3:34pm

Hi, a great application for creating dials from scratch. But I had a problem, the function “create preview image” stopped working. When you click File-> Create preview image, nothing happens. Previously, it worked, but since version 0.8.0 it stopped working and even when I install an earlier version, it still does not work. You can tell how to fix this problem. I’m working in Windows 8.1

kawaxa · October 14, 2017, 4:15pm

Thank you sir

Marco_Ferreira · October 14, 2017, 4:39pm

Oct 13, 2017 2:42:06 GMT 1 stormsilver said:
Thank you... and great work for your new release
Btw, I have a question, please see my attached picture.

I have to “misalign” the battery & temperature reading in order to have them left align on my KW88.
I have tried using left align on the watchface designer, it doesn’t seem to work.

For example, when it’s 100% charged, it may look fine but when it’s 2 digits, there will be a tiny space in front.
Or on my current watch face that I have posted, it’s ok when it’s 2 digits for the battery. But when it’s 100%, you will see that the 1 is out of place.

Need your advise. Thank you.

Regarding the battery percentage, there’s nothing I can do, It’s simply the way that ClockSkin engine works (I don’t like it either). The align property specifies only where each digit appears inside it’s own “box”, not how the whole digital clock aligns itself.
About the temperature, it also probably has to do on how the ClockSkin engine works, but I haven’t checked it enough, so I may have a bug in there. I’ll check it out, but, again, its highly probable that it is due to how the ClockSkin engine works (to account for 3 digits temperatures, negative sign, etc.).

Marco_Ferreira · October 14, 2017, 4:56pm

Oct 14, 2017 15:34:50 GMT 1 motojam said:
Hi, a great application for creating dials from scratch. But I had a problem, the function "create preview image" stopped working. When you click File-> Create preview image, nothing happens. Previously, it worked, but since version 0.8.0 it stopped working and even when I install an earlier version, it still does not work. You can tell how to fix this problem. I'm working in Windows 8.1

Hmm... You've probably moved the templates folder. Now, when WFD tries to read the templates it crashes. I've fixed that bug, and I'll include it on the next release. In the meanwhile, you can fix your settings so that WFD does not try to read that old unexisting folder. However you'll have to edit your registry.

Here are the steps:

Run regedit
In the left tree, search for the folder HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\JavaSoft\Prefs\org\marcoferreira
Inside that folder, you’ll see a subfolder called watchfacedesigner. Delete that folder and your settings are now reset. (To delete, just right click it and select Delete)
4. Just re-run WFD and you should be able to create preview images again.
? ? ? ?
Profit

Note that when you delete the settings, WFD will reset all it remembers, including the folders where you have your watchfaces, your images, your clockskins, etc., so, during the first use, you’ll have to search for those folders again yourself.

motojam · October 14, 2017, 6:11pm

Oct 14, 2017 16:56:48 GMT 1 mpmf said:
6. Profit

Thanks. You did a great job.

Bert_van_de_Bovenkamp · October 14, 2017, 7:37pm

Hi Marco,

Is there still an issue with the 24hour hand?
I made a watchface with just one hand (the 24 hour one).
The problem is, it’s skipping one’s every hour.
So from 11:00 till 11:59 it shows 11:00.
At 12:00 it skips to 12:00.

Or am i doing something wrong?

Using a KW88 with Eric’s launcher version 2.3.3

Bert

Marco_Ferreira · October 14, 2017, 9:58pm

Oct 14, 2017 19:37:58 GMT 1 bertorelli said:
Hi Marco,
Is there still an issue with the 24hour hand?
I made a watchface with just one hand (the 24 hour one).
The problem is, it’s skipping one’s every hour.
So from 11:00 till 11:59 it shows 11:00.
At 12:00 it skips to 12:00.

Or am i doing something wrong?

Using a KW88 with Eric’s launcher version 2.3.3

Bert

Unfortunatelly, that seems to be a bug on Eric’s launcher. I’ve finally got a Finow X5 Air and tested on it. On the standard launcher the 24 hour hand moves smoothly, just as on WFD. On Eric’s launcher it moves just as you described. Since Finow launchers are considered some of the best implementations, I assume that’s the intended behaviour for the ClockSkin format.

On the other hand, the standard launcher moves the minutes hand by skipping every minute, while on Eric’s launcher and on WFD it moves smoothly. So, both WFD and Eric’s launcher are doing the “wrong” thing (even though it’s what I believe the standard launcher SHOULD also be doing )