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How to show remaining time on any date and to any date

Posted on April 9, 2013 by frenzy

Starting from version 2.16 ZW supports two new fields in the date parsing, the “R” and the “T”, first one will allow to show “remaining” time since the date up to now, the second will show the total amount till now, both support “h” for hours, “m” for minutes and “d” for days. From version 2.22 its also possible to set a fixed date in the future or in the past using #Dyyyymmddhhmm….# and do the calculations for that. For example if you take the next alarm date #SAD…# you can write #SADRd’days,’ Rh’h’ Rm’m’# to show “2 days, 2h

Zooper advanced usage: conditionals variables!

Posted on April 8, 2013 by frenzy

Good news for people with advanced needs, starting from version 2.16 ZW supports conditionals within any text using the special “$” delimiter, it also supports parsable text inside RichText parameters, but let’s dive on conditions first. Every test pattern must be enclosed between two ‘$’ (dollar) characters, currently supported operands are: ‘=’ & ‘!=’ for identity, supports both Strings and numbers ‘<’ (less then), ‘>’ (greater then), ‘<=’ (less then or equal), ‘>=’ (greater than or equal) for numbers only The format of the test pattern is: $ LEFT OPERAND RIGHT [? THENTEXT [: ELSETEXT]] $ The then and else

Zooper Progress Bars

Posted on April 4, 2013 by frenzy

Version 2.12 of Zooper Widget introduce the new and awesome progress bar module! As usual every aspect can be customized, bars can be curved, rotated, splitted into parts, colored with gradients or fade based on the value. Current basic data templates include hours, minutes and temperature, more values and manual editing of fields will be added on next release. Image shows the ProgressClock 2×2 template available inside the widget. Happy editing!

ZW Drawing Modes!

Posted on February 9, 2013 by frenzy

Upcoming (2.00) release of Zooper Widget will add “draw modes” into all the modules (except the bitmap ones) to allow even more customization! On top of the default mode (Normal) you will find Clear and XOR, what do they do? Clear will erase every object found in the layer before itself (so keep in mind the order!), XOR instead will invert transparent and colored data as you can see on the screenshot (and in the “PopDate” template included in last version. As usual please remember that overlapping works correctly only and only if the modules are on the same horizontal

Rich Text module!

Posted on January 27, 2013 by frenzy

As you can see from the screenshot above the latest release of ZW allows you to use a new module called “Rich Text” which allows “bbcode” like markup language, multiple lines, margins and a lot of cool stuff. Right now the supported features are: Bold and italic styles Font size (both relative like “0.7″ and absolute) Bsic text conversion modes (lowercase, uppercase and capitalization) Simple number to text (like in the “text module”) Colors (so you can have multiple colors on the same line) In the future however i will add more modifiers like the “o’clock” support, the ordinals “1st,

ZW Galaxy S2 Issues

Posted on January 26, 2013 by frenzy

Since when the first version was released some Galaxy S2 users started reporting an unexpected behavior on their devices, during the layout editing the controls were “locked” or “unresponsive”. That bug seems to be present even on latest releases and even if i tried to debug any part of the code to find the problem i still have no idea on why this is happening (not even roughly). Currently the only workaround working is to press the “menu” button on the bottom left of the phone to solve the problem (yes, the hardware button, and i do not know why

Weather Iconset Example

Posted on January 5, 2013 by frenzy

This is a more advanced tutorial after the Battery Example however, if you do not want to understand how iconsets works, but, at the same time, you want to create your own Weather Icons, well, in that case, just download the template at the end of this page, uncompress it, change the images with your own, edit the title/description in the XML file, zip it again, save it in your SD card under “iconsets” and you are done So, this set has also been copied from source code, what it does is: Provide weather conditions bitmaps Use different icons for

Simple ZW Battery Iconset example

Posted on January 5, 2013 by frenzy

This is the most basic example for a PNG based Icon Set representing current battery state. For more info on the Icon Sets please see the Icon Set Page. This example comes out directly from the source code, what we wanted to achieve is: Provide battery images for both charging and discharging states Provide a static image representing an alarm If you want to skip the tutorial and directly download the example file and edit it yourself please scroll to the bottom of this page for the link. Create the structure In order to create the iconset we start with

How to easily migrate templates from Zooper Widget Free to PRO

Posted on December 22, 2012 by frenzy

I get many requests asking how to import widgets created with Free into the PRO version so i will explain a little better how it works and, yes, i am working on a better solution in the meanwhile. So, the free version stores a template called “FreeAutoSave” every time you exit the configuration, you cannot see it in Free because that version is not able to load templates from SD but once you move to the PRO you will find it, so, if you are upgrading and you have only one widget on screen then you are done. What if

How to display Galaxy SIII SD card info on ZW

Posted on December 13, 2012 by frenzy

Starting from ICS Android phones are not required to have a real SD card anymore, this is why the Nexus “/sdcard” is just emulated and points to the “/data” partition where all your apps resides. The Galaxy SIII instead has a real SD however Samsung decided to use a third (non standard) mountpoint for it keeping a virtual “/sdcard” as the Nexus phones. So how to monitor the SD card on SIII if ZW will not distinguish between internal and external storage? Well, just manually put the path in the system info pattern this way:

#SF/mnt/extSdCard/# -> Will show sdcard free space

#ST/mnt/extSdCard/# -> Will show sdcard total space

#SF/mnt/extSdCard/M# -> Will show sdcard free space in megabytes

#ST/mnt/extSdCard/M# -> Will show sdcard total space in megabytes

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