Beta 4.2b1+

[Pent]

http://tasker.dinglisch.net/beta.html

The main focus of this beta is scenes.

I'm happy to listen to more feature requests and comments about scenes on this thread.
Not that I promise to do everything or anything.

If you have complained about something scene-related in the past, you'll need to repeat it here I'm
afraid. I made notes, but I think most of them were out of date by the time I got
to doing this update.

Plugin devs, please see the dev forum sticky for details of new plugin extensions:
(https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/taskerdev)

Pent

[Mike L]

Ability to use different fonts in scenes would be great. Going to download and play with this beta when I get home from work. Thanks for this

[Wes Stacey]

Ok after downloading and checking a few things

1. The user guide says that the "Stroke Action" is available on "Doodle, Image, Oval, Rectangle, Text" however, it doesn't appear to show up on Text boxes.
2. Related to the Stroke Action, would it be possible to add multiple stroke actions to one element aka, a stroke left and a stroke right action. Right now it seems we can only add one stroke action per element.
3. We can now set image elements to take it's image from a variable (thank you so much) but it seems you have to manually type in your variable names. When you switch it over to the text entry there isn't any "tag" button to display the list of variables that you can choose from. 
4. Rectangles still can't go "thin" enough to create a thin line to separate elements, (at least not without exporting, modifying the XML and reimporting).
   

That's all i can think of now, I'm sure I'll have more once i get a chance to play with it more. Thanks for the update.

[norbert6]

thanks for the update Pent

- for me a easy way to reload a edited scene would be great, so I no longer have to exit tasker to get the new scene to be displayed.
- the grid size works great in zoom mode, but it has no effect on element resizing.
- maybe a option to set position and dimension for an element would be useful, so you no longer have to edit the xml

[RudeboyX]

Agreed. The ability to specify exact dimentions for both the elements and scene is highly desirable for all users and guess I kind of expected it with the scenes update. :-(

Saying that I haven't tested the new beta yet. I'll get on with that tonight after backing everything up, can't afford to break my current projects should something not be backwards compatible.

Regards
RBX

On Monday, 12 August 2013 16:23:44 UTC+1, norbert6 wrote:

thanks for the update Pent

[Wietse van Buitenen]

no useful comments from me at this point.. just a yay for the Scenes beta :)

[Jay M]

Cooooool now I can block the back button when my scene is shown :) 1 custom lockscreen coming up,Is there a way to block the back button when its long pressed tho? I looked for an input key event for it but couldn't find 1, it opens my recent app switcher and my scene disappears so blocking that would be sweet.

Jay M

[Nick Brooks]

I'd like to be able to add borders to images.

[Scott Miller]

I never used %QTIME in any of my tasks or profiles, but now that it's been deprecated in favor of a local version, it shows up in the variable tab, regardless of the filter settings.

Scott

[Pent]

I'd like to be able to add borders to images.

Click the Background tab when editing the element image, see parameters with Border in the name.

Pent

[Pent]

Thanks.

Pent

[Pent]

1. The user guide says that the "Stroke Action" is available on "Doodle, Image, Oval, Rectangle, Text" however, it doesn't appear to show up on Text boxes.

Text, not TextEdit (if that's what you mean by 'text box')

1. Related to the Stroke Action, would it be possible to add multiple stroke actions to one element aka, a stroke left and a stroke right action. Right now it seems we can only add one stroke action per element.

Set Any for your stroke direction, make your task like 'if %stroke_dir = ....' else if '%stroke_dir = ...'

1. We can now set image elements to take it's image from a variable (thank you so much) but it seems you have to manually type in your variable names. When you switch it over to the text entry there isn't any "tag" button to display the list of variables that you can choose from. 

OK, thanks.

1. Rectangles still can't go "thin" enough to create a thin line to separate elements, (at least not without exporting, modifying the XML and reimporting).
   

I was worried about not being able to resize it again once it was so small,  I guess if I put direct text entry of sizes we can get over that.

Thanks for the feedback,

Pent

[Pent]

Cooooool now I can block the back button when my scene is shown :) 1 custom lockscreen coming up,Is there a way to block the back button when its long pressed tho?

I've made some changes for next update that I hope will achieve that.

Pent

[tw577]

I got following error when I launch Tasker

E:15.16.52#E:error: no wait data for Plugin1

[Nick Brooks]

Duh! Thanks.

[Bauke]

The Variable Convert - Date Time to Seconds isn't working for me any more since updating to the last beta. See log below.

13-08-2013 VLA: 11.48.55#VLA: varchange %SUNSET set: true

13-08-2013 E: 11.48.55#E: no wait key, next action

13-08-2013 E: 11.48.55#E: execute task: Sunrise Calculator

13-08-2013 Task: 11.48.55#Task: Variable Convert [ Name:%SUNRISE Function:Date Time to Seconds Store Result In:%SunriseMin ]

13-08-2013 E: 11.48.55#E: exe: Sunrise Calculator / Variable Convert [ Name:%SUNRISE Function:Date Time to Seconds Store Result In:%SunriseMin ]

13-08-2013 E: 11.48.55#E: condition matched

13-08-2013 E: 11.48.55#E: switch on ac 596

13-08-2013 E: 11.48.55#E: Variable Convert: %SUNRISE -> %SUNRISE

13-08-2013 MyCal: 11.48.55#MyCal: DATE: 2013 8 null TIME: 6 21 0

13-08-2013 E: 11.48.55#E: error: Variable Convert: %SUNRISE: failed.

13-08-2013 E: 11.48.55#E: result: ok

13-08-2013 E: 11.48.55#E: no wait key, next action

13-08-2013 E: 11.48.55#E: execute task: Sunrise Calculator

13-08-2013 Task: 11.48.55#Task: Variable Convert [ Name:%SUNSET Function:Date Time to Seconds Store Result In:%SunsetMin ]

13-08-2013 E: 11.48.55#E: exe: Sunrise Calculator / Variable Convert [ Name:%SUNSET Function:Date Time to Seconds Store Result In:%SunsetMin ]

13-08-2013 E: 11.48.55#E: condition matched

13-08-2013 E: 11.48.55#E: switch on ac 596

13-08-2013 E: 11.48.55#E: Variable Convert: %SUNSET -> %SUNSET

13-08-2013 MyCal: 11.48.55#MyCal: DATE: 2013 8 null TIME: 21 6 0

13-08-2013 E: 11.48.55#E: error: Variable Convert: %SUNSET: failed.

13-08-2013 E: 11.48.55#E: result: ok

[Wes Stacey]

Ahh thanks for the reply,

it seems it's just the default test box on the scene, (form whatever i built this from) and it can't seem to delete it.... just hid it and put in another text box and boom i have the stroke action. This was built from a scene i had built prior to 4.0 UI update so maybe that has something to do with it.

[Wes Stacey]

I was worried about not being able to resize it again once it was so small,  I guess if I put direct text entry of sizes we can get over that.

Or a new button on the scene editor (maybe with the location symbol) that pops up a lists of all elements in the scene and allows us to select the one we want from that list. Would also be very useful for when people have several overlapping elements. 

[Wietse van Buitenen]

installed the beta, I have already crossed some things of my old list :)

hee's some more:

- resize Scene

 currently you can only do this with dragging, it would be handy if we could:

 - use arrows (like when resizing Elements)

 - enter values directly, this allows for exact sizes when creating multiple Scenes

- Corner Radius for Scene and Button like we have for Rectangle

 90° is too harsh for me :)

- Position in Text & TextEdit

 I would really like to see Top & Left combined as option, currently it’s Top OR Left

- default Scene Name to %scene_name when selecting Scene Action

 I personally really like this local Variable, I mostly edit stuff on the current Scene and setting this local var allows the Scene Name to change without interfering with functionality

 I often use a temp name for a Scene and rename it afterwards

 this would also make it easier to Clone a Scene, rename it and keeping functionality

- Copy/Paste in Spinner/Menu

 I have a few Scenes where I use a Menu (possibly in a new Scene the new Spinner) to let a user select a value from a list, this value gets put into an Text Field

 Now I manually have to select Action - Scene - Element Text - Scene Name - Value...

 with Copy/Paste I would just have to change the value

 this saves a lot of time if you have to add 30 entries :)

 Perhaps there is already another way with Arrays that I’m missing..

On Monday, August 12, 2013 3:55:38 PM UTC+2, Pent wrote:

[Wes Stacey]

- resize Scene

 currently you can only do this with dragging, it would be handy if we could:

 - use arrows (like when resizing Elements)

 - enter values directly, this allows for exact sizes when creating multiple Scenes

Not sure about the rest of them but i know you can do this now, and i've been doing it all morning.

in scene edit hit the "Magnifying Glass" icon, Hit the "hand" icon and boom a menu with normal or resize options.

In resize mode it acts just like it does for elements except that it does so for the whole scene.

[Wietse van Buitenen]

huh... how could I miss this :)

thanks for the tip, the arrows are indeed there and work great!

remark about values still stands though :)

[norbert6]

also you can make rounded borders with a rectangle as background element.

for me it would be great to be able to set an animation duration beyond 3000ms or, if this is not possible, an option to set the easing to linear, so I can splitt an animation in two parts without a noticable transition.

[Cptnodegard]

Still crashes on scene destroy, so back to 4.1b1 for me

[Pent]

>Still crashes on scene destroy, so back to 4.1b1 for me

Send me a log first!

Pent

[Christopher Maisch]

Thank you for the update Pent but there's one thing that seems not to be working properly. I can't rotate a slider vertically; when I resize the slider to accommodate the vertical run of the slider, the run disappears. I'm really tired, hope I make sense :)

[Jay M]

I have had that problem for ages and it still exists on the beta, i made a thread on it on here a while ago so im pretty sure its not because of the beta.

@Pent Any chance of making the rectangles thinner? So instead of a box it becomes more of a line.

Jay M

On 13 Aug 2013 19:30, "Christopher Maisch" <christop...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thank you for the update Pent but there's one thing that seems not to be working properly. I can't rotate a slider vertically; when I resize the slider to accommodate the vertical run of the slider, the run disappears. I'm really tired, hope I make sense :)

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[Jay M]

This is the thread I made about it.

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!searchin/tasker/scene$20slider/tasker/FEzKO1FMS9I

Jay M

[Bob Hansen]

I can confirm that the Variable Convert function Date Time To Seconds fails.

[Pent]

I can confirm that the Variable Convert function Date Time To Seconds fails.

Confirmed, fixed, thanks.

Pent

[Pent]

I released b2:

        <LI>added: xxhdpi launcher/action bar icon
        <LI>beta: change: blocked scene Key event, block all key events after blocked down event (attempt to prevent long-press)
        <LI>beta: added: variable select button for image element
        <LI>beta: added: clear old global %QTIME variable on version change
        <LI>beta: change: default checkbox element size
        <LI>beta: bugfix: Variable Convert: Date Time to Seconds was broken
        <LI>beta: bugfix: Plugin conditions variables were broken
        <LI>bugfix: action Destroy Scene: was crashing (dependent on timing) with overlay scenes occasionally
        <LI>change: action Set Clipboard: allow zero-length text

I'm aware that not all issues reported here have been fixed, no need to re-report.

Pent

[Cptnodegard]

        <LI>bugfix: action Destroy Scene: was crashing (dependent on timing) with overlay scenes occasionally

Haven't been able to make it crash yet on 4.2b2 :D awesome work! 

[Wietse van Buitenen]

if I create a Scene on my SGSII, export it and import it on my Nexus 7 it gets correctly scaled except for the text on Spinner & Toggle..

it's ok for Button and Text though..

also, is there some more info on what we can do with:

* scene element WebView: parameters for AppCache API and DB API

[Cptnodegard]

Feature requests: 

Scenes: 

*Specify border for each side. I.e. ability to set the border of an element to appear only on some of the sides.

*Destroy scene changes: if left blank, destroy all scenes

*Ability to add more Stroke tabs for different directions

Other: 

*I use Secure Settings to freeze an alarm clock app to turn off alarms automatically on a secondary device i have. If Tasker is restarted while an app is frozen, it will think the action isn't available, and will start complaining, even if the app has been unfrozen since then. Would love a "shut up and do what you're told" option :D

[Cptnodegard]

Bug: Activity Full Window No Title is gone, making it revert all Show Scenes that use it to Overlay, causing java errors when running until set to the new Activity Full Window No Bar. 

[Cptnodegard]

Bug: Tasker no longer sees Title text fields of custom scene templates for Variable Query, Menus etc, and hence doesn't display the title anymore

[Matt R]

If scenes and scene elements (text boxes) could dynamically resize to the text they contain, or the size of the array-based menu element, it would make much better-looking popups/dialogs.

Matt

[Wietse van Buitenen]

this is partly Scene and partly general Import related..

If I try to import a new version of stuff that already exists (Projects, Scenes, ...) I get:

"Error: import of *** failed, a *** called '' already exists"

This is rather a pain as I have no way of properly importing it..

I create Projects and Scenes on my main device and then transfer those to several other devices.

I have created general Tasks and Scenes which are used throughout other Tasks so they form a small "framework" which I keep backwards compatible.

This means I can just overwrite old stuff with new and it will still work.

Tasker now however doesn't seem to have an easy way of allowing me to do that..

Any chance of getting an "*** already exists, do you want to overwrite ***? - Yes/No" popup?

On Wednesday, August 14, 2013 3:23:20 PM UTC+2, Pent wrote:

[Wes Stacey]

*Ability to add more Stroke tabs for different directions

Pent addressed this when i brought it up earlier in the thread.

Set Any for your stroke direction, make your task like 'if %stroke_dir = ....' else if '%stroke_dir = ...'

Works great for me. I have an element that adds to a variable if i stroke left and subtracts when i stroke right.

[Wietse van Buitenen]

- with SwiftKey keyboard (with an extra row with arrows at the bottom), the "Select All, Copy, Cut, Paste.." bar on top gets pushed out of screen when trying to select Colour in an element for copy/paste..

this doesn't happen when, for example, selecting the Name or Label in a Variable Set Action

- Text Edit

  when selecting Input Type - Numeric / Integer, I can't select , or . (which is logical as an integer isn't a float..)

  when selecting Input Type - Numeric / Decimal, I can't select , only . (phone language is English but I need , as decimal..)

  could you allow to manually set what is used here as sadly this is now useless to me :(

thanks! :)

On Wednesday, August 14, 2013 3:23:20 PM UTC+2, Pent wrote:

[Stupifier]

Its funny....considering this beta is mainly about updating the scenes features, I would have thought there would be a hoard of pictures attached to posts to better describe issues/concerns/requests.  I would imagine attached screencaps could better illustrate specific bugs/features.

[Bob Hansen]

What I have found is that the Load Image action is performed on the first image and the Resize Image action works as expected as does the Save Image action.

However, when the loop tries to load the next image, it appears that it is loading but the image store is not overwritten as it should be. 

This appears to be a problem with the Load Image action, as acccording to the tasker documentation the load image action will overwrite the image store. 

Here is the task I tried, the flash shows the filename is changing as expected. I removed the Resize Image action and stil the same image is written each time with a different filename.

Shrink (36)

A1: List Files [ Dir:Test Match:*.jpg Include Hidden Files:Off Variable:%pics ] 

A2: Flash [ Text:%pics() Long:Off ] 

A3: For [ Variable:%shrink Items:%pics() ] 

A4: Flash [ Text:%shrink Long:Off ] 

A5: Load Image [ Source:%shrink ] 

A6: Resize Image [ Width:300 Height:300 ] 

A7: Save Image [ File:Test/Shrink/%TIME.jpg Image Quality:90 Delete From Memory After:On ] 

A8: Wait [ MS:0 Seconds:10 Minutes:0 Hours:0 Days:0 ] 

A9: End For 

[RudeboyX]

Luckily for us ALL parts of tasker are easily identifiable via its NAME. if you describe your issue with correct terminology, there sould be no problem understanding the issue. and I think people are getting a lot better with the terminology. apart from the whole difference between "Projects" & "Profiles", i'm forever seeing posts about people not being able to import their exported profiles. lol

[Daniel Stříbrný]

Pent, this is amazing! Thanks for these new things!:-) There are some points so far: 

• TABS highlight in scene doesn't reaches to edge of scene 

• Is it possible to add possibility to choose the colour of TABS and ACTION BAR highlight? Now is set to blue...

There is a screenshot: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11768538/IMG_20130815_115115.JPG

Dne pondělí, 12. srpna 2013 15:55:38 UTC+2 Pent napsal(a):

[Cptnodegard]

Had the time to look at some of the new features, and there's a lot of nice stuff here Pent! Can't wait to start implementing some things going forward. 

Here are more clarification on the issues I mentioned above: 

-Show Scene: Activity, Full Display, No Title is now called Activity, Full Display, No bar. This makes any Show Scene actions that use it bug out because they refer to a "index 14"-something. Simply going into those scenes and changing it manually fill fix it (they revert to Overlay when you go into them). 

-Scenes created by the Menu action don't show title with custom layout (template scene)

Keep up the good work, looking great. Any plans on making scenes show up in Last Apps and have them destroyable from there?

[lear peleg]

Suggestion: in app creation.. It'll be nice if I could choose if the app will appear in the recent apps list or not.. If you do it or don't.. Thanks!

[Daniel Stříbrný]

Just found a problem: name of TABS in scene can not be a variable

[Daniel Stříbrný]

TOGGLE element - ON/OFF labels does not accept variables

[Daniel Stříbrný]

TOGGLE element does not respond to ELEMENT VALUE function. If I use TEST ELEMENT function, on/off state is given correctly, but when I try to use ELEMENT VALUE function for set TOGGLE state, it has no effect...

[Pent]

E:15.16.52#E:error: no wait data for Plugin1

Think I got that one, thanks.

Pent

[Pent]

* scene element WebView: parameters for AppCache API and DB API

They are for enabling certain HTML5 features.

Pent

[Pent]

>Bug: Activity Full Window No Title is gone,

Gone from where ? It's just changed in the selector to 'No Bar' (purely textual change, since 4.0 devices have no 'title' anymore.

Pent

[Daniel Stříbrný]

Sorry, when I tried to use 1/0 instead of on/off, it works well...;-)

[Daniel Stříbrný]

SPINNER element - when transparent background is used, font is almost unable to read after expand.

There is a screenshot:http://db.tt/fuTGcPNb

[Pent]

As I mentioned to you just by email, the beta has a bug where it's using the wrong orientation for elements
on occasion, fixed for next update.

Pent

[Cptnodegard]

Are tabs part of the "bar" on a system level? Noticed that tabs and title bar both go away if you switch from with/without bar scene types. I imagine there would be a lot of uses for being able to have just tabs show

[Cptnodegard]

Bug(?): icons are scaled differently (or maybe just not scaled at all) in action tab of scene properties, making the same icon much bigger than if it's used as the home icon. Icon source is holo light MD pack if that matters.

Request: icon/label/action type method for adding tabs

[Pent]

Are tabs part of the "bar" on a system level? Noticed that tabs and title bar both go away if you switch from with/without bar scene types. I imagine there would be a lot of uses for being able to have just tabs show

They're part of the action bar functionality, yes.

Implementing them separately would be tricky.

Pent

[Daniel Stříbrný]

Is it possible to add ORDER,REVERSE choice in to ARRAY PROCESS function?

[enotar]

I have a new device and bought version from market, how do I install this beta?
I desinstall and reinstall but it is of course not registered.
thanks

[enotar]

Got it sorry.

[cheafnebur]

Hi Pent,

I installed the beta and after that, the export to App doesn't work anymore. At step 4, shrink unneeded files I became an error failed.

Do you need some more information or a temporary file to analyze this problem?

Kind Regards,
cheafnebur

[Cptnodegard]

Bug: There's something fishy going on with the Spinner. It seems to use a different width for the internal scene that determines item layout than what that scene really is, so that if you do define your own layout, it will be messed up. It has an extra piece of white space on the right, is offset a bit from the trigger box, and if using a border that will show up screwed up in the original trigger box. 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/skcgc9rzn8bcd1r/Screenshot_2013-08-18-11-56-38.png

Bug: In thw new scene properties section, if text is highlighted in a field that's at the bottom half of the screen when you do so, the keyboard popping up will push the copy/cut/etc buttons off the screen when it appears

Request: Make the tabs list accept variables

Request: Show Scene option addition: "Highlighted tab index", a numerical value that determines which tab is highlighted when a scene is first displayed

[Jay M]

I get a force close if I have a lot of variables in the variable tab and I select clear all.

Jay M

[Pent]

>Is it possible to add ORDER,REVERSE choice in to ARRAY PROCESS function?

How on earth did I forget that ? :-)

Pent

[Cptnodegard]

Is there actually a way to have a variable name itself be a variable? This has come up a lot of times but with this more than ever it feels like a huge gap to not be able to/not know how to do it. 

E.g. with the tab system, it would be nice to be able to do things like 

Variable Set %list to %%tap_label

If you then have a tab called Test, %list would become the value of the variable %Test when that tab is clicked. 

Without this ability, it's a whole bunch of If conditions for %tap_label matches etc

[Pent]

  when selecting Input Type - Numeric / Integer, I can't select , or . (which is logical as an integer isn't a float..)

  when selecting Input Type - Numeric / Decimal, I can't select , only . (phone language is English but I need , as decimal..)

  could you allow to manually set what is used here as sadly this is now useless to me :(

I just tell Android what input type to use. If your language is English, a comma doesn't make
sense in a number.

Pent

[Pent]

• TABS highlight in scene doesn't reaches to edge of scene 

That's a ROM thing, it's not me drawing the tabs.

• Is it possible to add possibility to choose the colour of TABS and ACTION BAR highlight? Now is set to blue...

Unfortunately Android doesn't let it be set dynamically, no. You just get the ROM theme default.

Pent

[Pent]

Keep up the good work, looking great. Any plans on making scenes show up in Last Apps and have them destroyable from there?

Unfortunately that would require a major rework because at the moment they're just part of the normal Tasker app.

Pent
 

[Daniel Stříbrný]

Thanks...;-)

[Daniel Stříbrný]

Understand... thanks for explaining.

[Pent]

-Show Scene: Activity, Full Display, No Title is now called Activity, Full Display, No bar. This makes any Show Scene actions that use it bug out because they refer to a "index 14"-something. Simply going into those scenes and changing it manually fill fix it (they revert to Overlay when you go into them). 

Got that one, thanks.

Pent

[Daniel Stříbrný]

In SLIDER element, I am not able to use VARIABLE SET function in VALUE CHANGED tab. Looks like it accepts only numerical values for this function...

[Pent]

b3 is up.

Note: people using Array Process: you will need to reselect the Type parameter after install of this version

• added: action Scene Element Create (dynamic element creation) (unavailable, in testing, watch this space)
• beta: bugfix: various plugin problems
• beta: bugfix: scene orientation changes weren't always being passed to elements
• beta: bugfix: element Toggle: wasn't scaling text size between devices (or when zooming in scene editor)
• beta: bugfix: element Spinner: wasn't scaling text when zooming in scene editor
• beta: bugfix: adjustment for new Show Scene display type was being applied multiple times
• beta: change: selector for plugin vars now supports name of var (when supported by plugin developer)
• beta: added: element Toggle: label size, colour and x scaling
• bugfix: icon parameters with variable specification: when executed more than once (e,g in a loop) the variable was sticking with the first value
• beta: added: action Array Process: Reverse type

Pent

[gonza her]

Me encantaría que redimensionares ecsenas van automáticamente a las resoluciones de las pantallas. si crea una escena para compartir con otros terminales o reducimientos pruducen estiramiento. no funciona como una actividad del eclipse. sería bueno si lo puede solucionar y ser perfecto detalle.

El lunes, 12 de agosto de 2013 10:55:38 GMT-3, escribio Pent:

http://tasker.dinglisch.net/ beta.html

El objetivo principal de esta versión beta es escenas. Estoy feliz de escuchar más peticiones de nuevas funcionalidades y comentarios acerca de las escenas de este hilo. No es que me comprometo a hacer todo o nada. Si usted se ha quejado de algo escena relatada en el pasado, tendrá que repetir aquí que estoy asustado. Hice notas, pero creo que la mayoría de ellos estaban fuera de fecha por el momento en que llegué . para hacer esta actualización desarrolladores Plugin, por favor consulte la pegajosa foro dev para los detalles de las nuevas extensiones de plugin: ( https://groups.google.com / foro / #! foro / taskerdev ) Pent

[Michael Brüggemann]

Bug: %TIMES is time in milliseconds, not in seconds

Device:  HTC One S

Android: 4.1.1

Tasker:  4.2b3m

According to the documentation (http://tasker.dinglisch.net/userguide/en/variables.html) the time of %TIMES and %LOCNTMS is in seconds. However %TIMES seems to be in milliseconds. Therefore a simple calculation like in the userguide (%TIMES - %LOCNTMS = age of fix) is not possible.

Probably %LOCTMS is also affected.

times on my device:

%TIMES:       1376926067794

%LOCNTMS: 1376925967

[Cptnodegard]

Second time I've crashed Tasker using tabs. first was on b2, second on b3

18.40

null

java.util.HashMap$HashIterator.nextEntry(HashMap.java:792)

java.util.HashMap$KeyIterator.next(HashMap.java:819)

net.dinglisch.android.taskerm.adb.a(Unknown Source)

net.dinglisch.android.taskerm.vv.b(Unknown Source)

net.dinglisch.android.taskerm.vr.a(Unknown Source)

net.dinglisch.android.taskerm.uo.b(Unknown Source)

[Cptnodegard]

Btw, Pent, local arrays don't always update properly

I have the following task in Tab Tap

1: Variable set %tv4current to %TV4save(%tap_label)

2: Array Clear %tv4current

3: If %tv4current !~ %*

4: If %tv4current ~*,*

5: Variable split %tv4current, Splitter: ,

6: Else

7: Variable set %tv4current1 to %tv4current

8: End if

9: End if

Then in the scene I have a Menu element with a variable array as the source, array is %tv4current.

The purpose is to have it populate the menu with data from a range of variables %TV4save1, %TV4save2 etc when it switches tabs.

This works perfectly with one exception: If the array ends up being blank (i.e. the if condition in action 3 is false) it seemingly randomly refuses to update the Menu element. In other words, if I switch between one tab that loads %TV4save1 and another that loads %TV4save2, where %TV4save2 is empty, it will sometimes update the Menu element, sometimes not. The Array Clear in action 2 runs successfully, and doing a Flash for %tv4current() at the end of the task successfully flashes empty every single time, but the Menu element doesn't always update. 

Video: https://www.dropbox.com/s/hqspwwkbxpuebo1/video_Aug_19_2013_1.mp4

[Wietse van Buitenen]

• beta: bugfix: element Toggle: wasn't scaling text size between devices (or when zooming in scene editor)

scales fine now :) 

• beta: bugfix: element Spinner: wasn't scaling text when zooming in scene editor
  

this seems to be the same as before.. so not scaling correctly 

2 more things..

- if you have 2 Spinners on 1 Scene and have a Variable Set in Item Select set to %tap_label, both vars get set to the value of the last Spinner

- Local Variables in Spinner Actions or not visible in the list of a new Action

  if I have a Variable Set %mylocalvar in 1 Item, it's not visible in the list with Variables

I will send you a Project example of the 3 issues above..

[Lieu Pham]

In slider element, font is too small for me to use. The ability to set
a bigger font size would be great.

Regards(Lieu)

[gonza her]

Perdón por repetir el mensaje. Es que tengo un problema y necesita ayuda.

compilr me da error con la nueva beta.

 

[Pent]

According to the documentation (http://tasker.dinglisch.net/userguide/en/variables.html) the time of %TIMES and %LOCNTMS is in seconds. However %TIMES seems to be in milliseconds. Therefore a simple calculation like in the userguide (%TIMES - %LOCNTMS = age of fix) is not possible.

Probably %LOCTMS is also affected.

times on my device:

%TIMES:       1376926067794

%LOCNTMS: 1376925967

I flashed %TIMES and %TIMEMS and got the expected result. Sure you're using %TIMES and not %TIMEMS ?

Pent

[Pent]

In SLIDER element, I am not able to use VARIABLE SET function in VALUE CHANGED tab. Looks like it accepts only numerical values for this function...

You lost me there.

I created a Slider, clicked the Value Selected tab. Added an action Variable Set, %VAR, this-is-not-a-numeric-value.

No problem.

Please give more details.

Pent

[Pent]

If I try to import a new version of stuff that already exists (Projects, Scenes, ...) I get:

"Error: import of *** failed, a *** called '' already exists"

This is rather a pain as I have no way of properly importing it..

Yes, sorry, it's been a pain for a long time (since import was added actually). It's a lot
of work to get right because of the various things that can go wrong and all the various
import options.

I havn't done anything with it yet because in the back of my mind I always wanted to add an
import dialog which would do things like list all the things in the import file, mark
ones which exist already, with choices like 'ignore' and 'replace'.

Pent

[Pent]

Bug(?): icons are scaled differently (or maybe just not scaled at all)  in action tab of scene properties, making the same icon much bigger than if it's used as the home icon. Icon source is holo light MD pack if that matters.

It's an annoying feature of Android I forgot about, it expects different sizes dependent on density and doesn't bother scaling them if they're
the wrong size.

I think the best I can do with that is to scale them in Tasker code to the expected resolution for the current density. Will see how that goes.
 

Request: icon/label/action type method for adding tabs

I wanted to do it that way, but it would be time consuming because that style UI tab is already taken up by the Actions tab
and I decided it wasn't worth the time investment (I expect only a tiny or even minute fraction of Tasker users to use the tabs).

I put it on the list for next scene update :-)

Pent

[Pent]

Bug: There's something fishy going on with the Spinner. It seems to use a different width for the internal scene that determines item layout than what that scene really is, so that if you do define your own layout, it will be messed up. It has an extra piece of white space on the right, is offset a bit from the trigger box, and if using a border that will show up screwed up in the original trigger box. 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/skcgc9rzn8bcd1r/Screenshot_2013-08-18-11-56-38.png

Agree, thanks.

Bug: In thw new scene properties section, if text is highlighted in a field that's at the bottom half of the screen when you do so, the keyboard popping up will push the copy/cut/etc buttons off the screen when it appears

I couldn't reproduce that. In any case, that's all handled by Android so I suspect a ROM 'feature'.

Request: Make the tabs list accept variables

I think that can be arranged.

Request: Show Scene option addition: "Highlighted tab index", a numerical value that determines which tab is highlighted when a scene is first displayed

That's a bit too specific to be a Show Scene parameter, it would actually be part of the 'tab specification as  icon/label/action' thing we already touched on, it will have to wait till then.
 
Pent

[Pent]

If it's at step 10, I can reproduce that and will fix for next update.

Pent

[Daniel Stříbrný]

Yes, but if I tried to use VARIABLE SET function in condition on %new_val, nothing happend...

2013/8/20 Pent <crafty...@gmail.com>

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[cheafnebur]

Hi Pent,

 

Reminder. Do you need the Manifest.xml oder an other File to analyze this problem?

 

Kind Regards,

Rubén

 

Am Sonntag, 18. August 2013 10:45:16 UTC+2 schrieb cheafnebur:

Hi Pent,

I installed the beta and after that, the export to App doesn't work anymore. At step 4, shrink unneeded files I became an error failed.

Do you need some more information or a temporary file to analyze this problem?

Kind Regards,
cheafnebur

[Michael Brüggemann]

 Ok, no bug. I used the wrong variable. Sorry.

But there is an error in the german user guide (http://tasker.dinglisch.net/userguide/de/variables.html). The variable %TIMEMS is not defined there.

Please rename 2 variables in the german Tasker version (in englisch version: Location Fix Time Secs):

It is the time of the last fix and not the time to get the last fix, right?

Ortung benötigte Zeit -> Ortung Zeitpunkt

Ortung benötigte Zeit (Netz) -> Ortung Zeitpunkt (Netz)

Perhaps rename the english on also:

Location Fix Time Secs -> Location Time of last Fix

Location Fix Time Secs (Net) -> Location Time of last Fix (Net)

[BaKaMu]

Hi Pent,

I obtained quite a few recurring error messages:
----------
...
: 22.06.54#: error:
android.webkitJWebCoreJavaBridge.sharedTimerFired(NativeMethod)
E: 22.13.59#E: error: no wait data for JSI5
Variables: 22.20.56#Variables: error: getValue: variable:
%MYLOGPOSALT:java.lang.NullPointerException
: 22.20.57#: error: net.dinglisch.android.taskerm.adb.a(Unknown
Source)
: 22.20.57*: error: net.dinglisch.android.taskerm.adb.c(Unknown
Source)
: 22.20.57#: error: net.dinglisch.android.taskerm.adb.b(Unknown
Source)
: 22.20.57#: error: net.dinglisch.android.taskerm.adb.e(Unknown
Source)
: 22.20.57#: error: net.dinglisch.android.taskerm.gp.global(Unknown
Source)
...
--------------------

Variable 'MYLOGPOSALT' is used in two places in a JavaScriptlet:

//if altitude not available apply last valid altitude or 0
if (isNaN(tmylocalt) || tmylocalt == 0)
  {tmylocalt = isNaN(global('MYLOGPOSALT')) ? 0 : global('MYLOGPOSALT');}
-----
setGlobal('MYLOGPOSALT', tmylocalt);

-------------------

Maybe (hopefully) you can see the problem :-)
(my devices: SGT7 and SGS4, Android 4.2.2, Tasker 4.2.b3)

bakamu