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Idea: "Number of days since RAM clear" widget
« on: November 29, 2010, 01:10:16 am »
I've had this random idea for the past few days: a simple sig widget thing.
The idea I have in mind is kind of like one of those web counters, but each day it increases by one.  And the person who's using it can reset the value.
So it would be like "2 days without a RAM clear" or something like that.
Any ideas of how/where to do this?
That or, any takers?
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Re: Idea: "Number of days since RAM clear" widget
« Reply #1 on: November 29, 2010, 01:20:06 am »
Hm, good idea, but I doubt it exists... I could work on it.
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Re: Idea: "Number of days since RAM clear" widget
« Reply #2 on: November 29, 2010, 08:28:29 am »
the clock counts that already....
current day in january is amount of days since last ram clear :)
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Re: Idea: "Number of days since RAM clear" widget
« Reply #3 on: November 29, 2010, 08:34:13 am »
Quote from: Darl181 on November 29, 2010, 01:10:16 am
I've had this random idea for the past few days: a simple sig widget thing.
The idea I have in mind is kind of like one of those web counters, but each day it increases by one.  And the person who's using it can reset the value.
So it would be like "2 days without a RAM clear" or something like that.
Any ideas of how/where to do this?
That or, any takers?

That would be a good idea, but...

Quote from: aeTIos on November 29, 2010, 08:28:29 am
the clock counts that already....
current day in january is amount of days since last ram clear :)

This already counts the days since last RAM Clear, or since you bought calculator (if no RAM Clears, wow, that's impossible!)
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Re: Idea: "Number of days since RAM clear" widget
« Reply #4 on: November 29, 2010, 09:23:05 am »
But I always set my clock after a RAM clear D:
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Re: Idea: "Number of days since RAM clear" widget
« Reply #5 on: November 29, 2010, 09:23:37 am »
Quote from: JosJuice on November 29, 2010, 09:23:05 am
But I always set my clock after a RAM clear D:

What is the point of having the clock set? I see no advantage, is it because of TimeTools?
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Re: Idea: "Number of days since RAM clear" widget
« Reply #6 on: November 29, 2010, 09:24:45 am »
No, it's just because I prefer to have the clock set.
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Re: Idea: "Number of days since RAM clear" widget
« Reply #7 on: November 29, 2010, 09:26:04 am »
Quote from: JosJuice on November 29, 2010, 09:24:45 am
No, it's just because I prefer to have the clock set.

But I never find it useful, but that's just my opinion. Maybe you're very organised, though.
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Re: Idea: "Number of days since RAM clear" widget
« Reply #8 on: November 29, 2010, 10:11:05 am »
I have 1 time set my clock, when I bought it. (I had not heard of ram clears, wow) :)
« Last Edit: December 01, 2010, 12:55:06 pm by aeTIos »
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Re: Idea: "Number of days since RAM clear" widget
« Reply #9 on: November 29, 2010, 11:14:02 am »
That's a cool idea but I know I wouldn't be able you use it. I typically ram clear on purpose if something seems funky or if I am too lazy to clear the stat editor. Which means I will clear my ram almost every single day at school.
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Re: Idea: "Number of days since RAM clear" widget
« Reply #10 on: November 29, 2010, 05:03:49 pm »
Quote from: thepenguin77 on November 29, 2010, 11:14:02 am
...or if I am too lazy to clear the stat editor.
lol :P
Sounds good to me. ;D

I think this is possible:
Hook into the time change code
Make it so that every time the time is changed, this new offset (from what it was) is stored somewhere
When "widget" is run, subtract that data from the current time
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Re: Idea: "Number of days since RAM clear" widget
« Reply #11 on: November 29, 2010, 05:09:57 pm »
Quote from: ScoutDavid on November 29, 2010, 09:26:04 am
Quote from: JosJuice on November 29, 2010, 09:24:45 am
No, it's just because I prefer to have the clock set.

But I never find it useful, but that's just my opinion. Maybe you're very organised, though.
I never bother either, because it gets reset on resets. Bad design on TI part. I hope that if KnightOS supports the clock on 84+ calcs that it will not reset settings when the calc crashes.

The widget thing seems like a fun idea. It would be better than those Internetometer stuff because it would be calc-related and maybe encourage people to backup or something. :P

Just make sure it's on a stable and fast server.
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Re: Idea: "Number of days since RAM clear" widget
« Reply #12 on: November 29, 2010, 05:45:08 pm »
Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on November 29, 2010, 05:09:57 pm
Quote from: ScoutDavid on November 29, 2010, 09:26:04 am
Quote from: JosJuice on November 29, 2010, 09:24:45 am
No, it's just because I prefer to have the clock set.

But I never find it useful, but that's just my opinion. Maybe you're very organised, though.
I never bother either, because it gets reset on resets. Bad design on TI part. I hope that if KnightOS supports the clock on 84+ calcs that it will not reset settings when the calc crashes.

The widget thing seems like a fun idea. It would be better than those Internetometer stuff because it would be calc-related and maybe encourage people to backup or something. :P

Just make sure it's on a stable and fast server.
I don't think the clock is intentionally erased. It's probably one of those things that can't help but being erased.  I don't fully know, though. But yeah, it would be nice for KOS to keep the time.
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Re: Idea: "Number of days since RAM clear" widget
« Reply #13 on: November 29, 2010, 05:46:40 pm »
Maybe. Now that I think about it, though, wouldn't storing the clock in archive requires the flash to be written to every second? That wouldn't be good.

I'll have to post about the clock in KOS topic later. Maybe not the entire RAM gets erased when rebooting?
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Re: Idea: "Number of days since RAM clear" widget
« Reply #14 on: November 29, 2010, 06:57:16 pm »
It is impossible to stop the clock from getting killed. I made a patch for 2.43 that killed the OS code that reset the clock. But the problem was that now instead of being reset, it was completely reset, (it showed 1997 and didn't run.) Which means that the hardware actually kills the clock. So any time the hardware says "ram clear!" the clock will be reset.
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