how can you save the state of a view ?

the documentation by garmin is almost non existent. storage or properties does not work, except in the simulator. specifically, i want to only save a number... tried everything. note that i want to initialize a value for this number only once, or when settings are changed.

0 jim_m_58 over 4 years ago

Are you using Application.Storage or Application.Property? By "doesn't work", what do you see? Are you getting an app crash, seeing a null where you expect a value, etc?

This is actually a pretty basic thing.

Application.Storage.setValue("dkey",num);

var n=Application.Storage,getValue("dkey");

if(n!=null) {...}.

0 runyman over 4 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

thanks, i understand storage is preferable for various reasons.

now it seems to work .... a bit. in doesnt work, i meant that the values seem not to be stored and the initial value is always the default when scrolling back to the view on the watch. it might boil down to bugs. the simulator is quite limited, as the various power modes and hide show sequences are hard to simulate, and you have to debug on the device itself which is extremely time consuming. .

0 jim_m_58 over 4 years ago in reply to runyman

Not sure why you are having problems testing with the sim, as it's pretty easy to test this stuff there.

0 runyman over 4 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

its easy to test basic stuff, but it doesnt simulate the actual watch, for example you can either run in regular mode or low power mode, it doesnt transition like the watch does based on power usage. so i had various features that worked fine on the sim but completely failed on the watch. it might be because im a lousy and messy programmer... :) ill admit to that.

0 jim_m_58 over 4 years ago in reply to runyman

So you are testing a watch face? In the sim under settings you can toggle low power on and off. The change between the two on a real devices ius a bit different, in that it will switch to high power for about 10 seconds after a gesture.

Devices do not transmission based on power usage, The majority of the time they are in low power mode (onUpdate called every minute) except for the 10 seconds when it drops out (onUpdate called every second). To simulate a WF restarting, just run the app again in the sim.

0 runyman over 4 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

ok thanks, thought it was more sophisticated.