ryancr said:
Oh and here is a fixed version. The font is just a bit smaller.

still gets cut off a little on the time, just the last digit by a bit

isaac_j87 said:
It's nice and simple and I like that...can't really think of anything to add??

Well I was thinking of things like change text color, font face, 12 or 24 hour clock, maybe a calender in the popup dialog.

isaac_j87 said:
I went into the code and took out the tmp icon ("gtk-apply"). Didn't think it was necessary to have that show up before the clock...is it there for a reason?

Umm, yeah, cuz I forgot to take it out ;)

ryancr said:
Well I was thinking of things like change text color, font face, 12 or 24 hour clock, maybe a calender in the popup dialog.

sounds good, can't wait!

ryancr said:
Umm, yeah, cuz I forgot to take it out ;)

lol...I see...

isaac_j87 said:
Hmmm..that's weird...it just disappeared off my dock.

That happened to me once, but I missed the error, waiting for it to happen again.

ryancr said:
That happened to me once, but I missed the error, waiting for it to happen again.

I made a couple changes. I'm going to see if it happens again as well. If it doesn't i'll post the code.

ryancr said:
Updated, fourth time lucky? ;)

nope still cut off....

mosburger said:
Anyway - I'm *really* curious if it's the same issue. If you figure it out, I might be able to fix PyClock! :)

Well I am using set_temp_icon..

ryancr said:

it looks like its coming for that little method I borrowed from the weather applet, in turn that borrowed from the bling switcher

I think it's a problem that still plagues the blingswitcher...I haven't had it disappear on me yet, but I read other people still experiencing the problem.

isaac_j87 said:
I think it's a problem that still plagues the blingswitcher...I haven't had it disappear on me yet, but I read other people still experiencing the problem.

Well I am using as I don't know how to make a icon just from a cairo resource that has no actual icon to start from.

ryancr said:
So far so good.

Unfortunately, as soon as you posted my clock disappeared...was there something else you needed to do?

ryancr said:
hehe, damn, I tried to delete my post, yeah as soon as I posted I noticed it disappeared to.

Yeah, but it is what you wanted to do right?

moonbeam said:
There's a C function that will convert a cairo image surface to a pixbuf - that's what I'm using in Awn System Monitor. But it hasn't been merged into awn core yet. So unless you want to convert it into python I think the only way is the surface -> png -> pixbuf method. Which is ugly. But I think Neil does plan on merging it in so it should be available in python some time soon.

Good to know, thanks.

Yeah its a bit ugly, but it works ;)

ryancr said:
Yeah its a bit ugly, but it works ;)

Yeah it's working fine over here.

moonbeam said:
-I'm not sure how much might have peculiarities in my code, inherent problems with the method being used, problems with system libraries and problems with awn-effects when under load. I have a suspicion that awn-effects has(or had) an issue with changing of icons when under heavy load... specifically I think there were/are issues when the pixbuf is changed then changed again before the previous pixbuf was rendered - and there's were/are certain ways of doing things that seem more prone to causing an issue. I haven't checked if I can still see these issues in the 0.2 release - they only appeared to be effecting awn system monitor and I just coded around them.

Thanks for the insight, I will keep an eye out and see if I notice any problems on my applet, though as you say it would be nice to do it the correct way.

isaac_j87 said:
I'm still getting the weird "-" (hyphen) before the time.

Yep one more oops, fixed and updated.

searayman said:
bar height in awn-manger says 48

If your around I updated the link on the first post, and it now has the time automatically scaled to fit ( i hope )

mosburger said:
Are you still using set_temp_icon? Have you tried using set_icon to see if the "disappearing applet" problem goes away, at the expense of a horrible memory leak? I still kinda suspect that's the real culprit...

I am still using set_temp_icon but I am not using that method from BlingSwitcher anymore. I am doing a cs.write_to_png('icon.png') and then making a pixbuf from that.

Its a little hackish, but is working much better than before.