BangleApps_old/apps/clockbg/README.md

Clock Backgrounds

This app provides a library (clockbg) that can be used by clocks to provide different backgrounds for them.

Usage

By default the app provides just a red/green/blue background but it can easily be configured.

You can either:

• Go to the Clock Backgrounds app in the App Loader and use pre-made image backgrounds (or upload your own)
• Go to the Backgrounds app on the Bangle itself, and choose between:
  • Solid Color - one color that never changes
  • Random Color - a new color every time the clock starts
  • Image - choose from a previously uploaded image
  • Squares - a randomly generated pattern of squares in the selected color palette
  • Plasma - a randomly generated 'plasma' pattern of squares in the selected color palette (random noise with a gaussian filter applied)
  • Rings - randomly generated rings in the selected color palette
  • Tris - randomly generated overlapping triangles in the selected color palette

Usage in code

Just use the following to use this library within your code:

// once at the start
let background = require("clockbg");

// to fill the whole area
background.fillRect(Bangle.appRect);

// to fill just one part of the screen
background.fillRect(x1, y1, x2, y2);

// if you ever need to reload to a new background (this could take ~100ms)
background.reload();

You should also add "dependencies" : { "clockbg":"module" }, to your app's metadata to ensure that the clock background library is automatically loaded.

Features to be added

A few features could be added that would really improve functionality:

• When 'fast loading', 'random' backgrounds don't update at the moment (calling .reload can fix this now, but it slows things down)
• Support for >1 image to be uploaded (requires some image management in interface.html), and choose randomly between them
• Support for gradients (random colors)
• More types of auto-generated pattern (as long as they can be generated quickly or in the background)
• Storing 'clear' areas of uploaded images so clocks can easily position themselves
• Some backgrounds could update themselves in the background (eg a mandelbrot could calculate the one it should display next time while the watch is running)