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“Back”-key is IMHO misbehaving in some situation.
One easy reproducable scenario: I created a bookmark for a specific position inside a panel. I moved this bookmark out(!) of the panel the main screen. This works when tapped, the panel scrolls to that position. But “back”-key does not scroll that panel back to it’s initial position, it reverts the last step I did on mainscreen before tapping that bookmark. This is wrong.
Even more: when I scroll around inside the panel after it was positioned by, hitting “back” returns to the position of the bookmark, not the home position of that panel; as it forgot where that is. From here on there seems to be no way to reach the home position without placing another bookmark pointing there duh
One more: even if “back” (properly or not) reverts scrolling inside a panel, tapping it more and more and more doesn’t do anything. I think if the “back” button has nothing to do inside a panel, it really should just ignore that tap and bubble the event up to the container (i.e. main screen), so repetitive taps on “back” would properly lead back to the start.
Panels are really driving me crazy. o_O
Right now that faulty behaviours (back and panels) leave quite a mess.
One request in this respect: “home”-button just scrolls the main screen to it’s home-position. It would be great if “home” could also reset all panels also. Please add that option.
]]>I just published version 1.1 of my “Color Styler app for Zooper Widgets” tool used for styling my “Elegance”…
Thanks a million to Taavo Allik for pointing me to the scaling issues and excessive testing the APK on his device (I don’t own a FullHD device — yet).
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Getting-Started-Guide for my “Color Styler for Zooper Widgets” app
This guide should help you getting started with the Color Styler app.
Color Styler is an application created with Tasker (scenes and tasks) and exported as APK for distribution. It can be used without Tasker, no need to install it.
Download Color Styler from Google Play Store:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.echtzeitig.zwcolorstyler
What Color Styler basically does is publishing color settings as Tasker variables (list below) that can be used within Zooper Widget items to apply color styles without the need to modify the widgets.
To get you started, I recommend you download my “Elegance” template and examine i.e. the “Clock” or “Dock” widget (which are quite simple ones).
Or just create a new empty Zooper widget and do the following:
1) change background to #00000000 (fully transparent)
2) add a rectangle and scale it to full widget size as background
– set the rectangle to whatever color you wish as default
– scroll down to “Advanced Parameters”
– enter “$#TCP_USESTYLE#=1?[c]#TCP_BGCOL#[/c]$”
– this means: if the style is enabled, use the published background color; otherwise the default color is used
3) add a text item, choose Text Content >> Time >> 24h clock
– set font, size and position
– scroll down to “Advanced Parameters”
– enter “$#TCP_USESTYLE#=1?[c]#TCP_ACCCOL#[/c]$”
– this means: if the style is enabled, use the published accent color; otherwise the default color is used
– note: if “use accent” is not check in Color Styler, the ACCCOL-variable contains the same color as FGCOL
4) add another text item, choose Text Content >> Date >> Full Date
– set font, size and position
– scroll down to “Advanced Parameters”
– enter “$#TCP_USESTYLE#=1?[c]#TCP_FGCOL#[/c]$”
– this means: if the style is enabled, use the published text color; otherwise the default color is used
Congratulations, you just created your first Zooper Widgets stylable with Color Styler!
Now launch Color Styler and play around with it. Change colors, choose presets etc. Don’t forget to enable the style (it’s not enabled by default) and hit the “apply” button to apply the style without leaving the Color Styler.
Here’s now a list of variables published by Color Styler:
– TCP_USESTYLE : 0=no styling, 1=styling enabled
– TCP_BGCOL : background color hex value
– TCP_FGCOL : foreground color hex value
– TCP_USEACCENT : 0=don’t use accent color, 1=use accent color
– TCP_ACCCOL : accent color hex value (only if TCP_USEACCENT=1, else same as TCP_FGCOL)
– TCP_ICONCOL : background color hex value
– TCP_SHOWICON : 0=do not show icon, 1=show icon
– TCP_BORDER1COL: border 1 color hex value
– TCP_BORDER1MARGIN: margin to use for border 1
– TCP_BORDER1SIZE: with to use for border 1
– TCP_BORDER2COL: border 2 color hex value
– TCP_BORDER2MARGIN: margin to use for border 2
– TCP_BORDER2SIZE: with to use for border 2
Those were created for my “Elegance” template / widgets, but can be used in your own creations how ever you like.
Remark: if you wonder how I styled the icons in my widgets in the background, they are Text items which use the Android Developer Icons font by SpiderFly:
http://www.spiderflyapps.com/downloads/android-developer-icons-the-font/
Feel free to comment or directly contact me by mail or HandOut if you need help. I will try to answer as fast as possible.
Here are some more resource links:
Watch the demonstration video at YouTube:
I recommend you download my “Elegance” template for Lightning Launcher and Zooper widgets from Google Play Store. You do not need to use Lightning Launcher, the widgets can basically be used with any launcher.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.echtzeitig.lltemplate.elegance
“Elegance”, my newest template for Lightning Launcher and Zooper Widgets
Color Styler was created with Tasker, but exported as standalone APK and can be used to easily completely change the look of your screen through colors. Many presets included.
Created for fun, grew into obsession.
I saw a movie with black screen and background shining through “cut out” text in big bold letters. Thought I might look great on phone and started with LL and ZW. Worked pretty good… then came optimizing, the wish for styling, … that was about two or three weeks ago.
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Bug: unused pages are not deleted when removing desktop
EDIT: I’m still on LL9.2, did not update to LL9.3 Beta, since I plan to publish soon.
I am currently creating a new template, exported, biiig file created (about 10MB). Explored the template file (it’s a ZIP), found there are 48(!) pages, but should be a lot less (2 pages, 10 folders, 4 panels = 16). Most pages just contain the icons etc of my previous setup.
What I did: I started creating the new template as additional desktops (main and lockscreen) to my every-day desktop. At some point I removed the old desktops, but the pages seem not to have been deleted.
Just tried adding a blank desktop and removing my current two desktops. Then exported: still a big file with lots of pages (42 pages), also with fonts and widget_data.
]]>Big problem… my desktop is locked and I cannot unlock it.
Scenario: One-page layout, completely filled with widgets, no empty space. Pinch-zoom disabled. I was able to open long-tap menu and in “Lightning Settings” chose “Lock Desktop”.
Now there’s no way to long-tap anywhere to unlock.
I have folders and panels, those have empty space allowing to long-tap (BTW: should they when locked?), but there is no LL action to “Unlock Desktop” (“Unlock Screen” is for lockscreen).
LL action “Lightning Menu” shows a context sensitive menu for “Panel Settings” or “Folder Settings”. “Customize Lightning” brings the main configuration screen, but here’s no option “Lock Desktop” I could uncheck.
What’s missing:
a) option in lightning settings to unlock desktop
b) always option in long-tap menu “Lightning Settings”
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