For a better user experience I'd like for my data field to have access to the Profile Color of the active activity profile. This would make my data field blend better with the rest of the screen.
There have been a couple of other requests for this (for example, here), and I filed a request a couple of days ago. This will definitely be considered for addition. Thanks!
Did anything come of this? I am wanting to make the colours in my Data Field for Edge 520/820/1000 match the colour assigned to the Activity Profile. Is this possible yet?
Checking my 520, it seems the profile color is used for the borders/seperators of the data fields (both native and CIQ). it's used in some of the non-df areas (like the color of the pointer for the compass).
To get a CIQ DF to look like a standard one, seems all you have to do is check the background color (getBackgroundColor() ) and if the background is white, use black text or vice versa.
This is simply not the case, or is not the cases on some devices. The fr920xt, for example, uses the profile color to separate data fields (see here). The background color, and the opposite, are completely unrelated to the profile color.
Travis. That's what I said. The profile color is used to draw the lines separating the DF's, but not in the DF's themselves. (background and inverse are used for the data).
I can see wanting the profile color if you are drawing your own own separators within a large DF though... Maybe a "getProfileColor()" in addition to "getBackgroundColor()" for this case?
Sorry Jim. I should probably start paying attention before responding. I think it would be nice to be able to show things (like a heading indicator, or internal field separators for a complex data field) in the profile color. Picking a fixed color is probably fine, but using something that matches the built-in data fields would go a long way to making ConnectIQ data fields seem more like the built-in ones.
Yep. That is exactly what I was hoping to do. Sounds like it is currently still a 'no' which is a shame. So red they (borders and field headings) will be! Thanks anyway.
Looking at the 520 and trying a few different settings, I think it may be better to just use your own colors anyway (which you can change based on the background color for the data). For example, after sunset and before sunrise, the default DF background is black, and if you had a profile color of yellow, that would be fine. But at sunrise to sunset, you get a white background, and the yellow would be hard to see if you wanted to use it for separators/headings/etc. Even if you forced the background to to a specific color at all times, the user's choice of profile color might not work with that background.
Good points Jim. I probably would be very hard to handle and not every use would want to choose their Activity Profile colours to work with their data fields. Status quo seems to work then!
