Sample of CIQ Complication Publisher and Consumer of those Complications

Here are two apps.

The first publishes Complications in a CIQ app. There is a background services and it publishes a string with the time as "HH:MM" every 5 minutes. It publishes 3, with one being public, one being protected, and one being private.

0675.CompPub.zip

The second app is a watch face that consumes the above complications.

CompCon.zip

Both apps have a 945 as a target (it doesn't have complications) and a 955 and 965 which do.

the-ninth over 1 year ago

God morning, thanks for making available these sample apps! One question about the first one with the background service. In the views you access the variable bgData, which is only defined in AppBase. How does this work? I just tried it, and in my app the view could not access a member of AppBase like this.

jim_m_58 over 1 year ago in reply to the-ninth

bgData is a global, and it's vaue gets set in 2 ways. in onBackgroundData for the main app and in onTemporalEvent for the background service. This is needed as each process has it's own copy of that variable..

In onStop I see if that's being called by the background service, and if so I look to publish the complication. onStop is called when the main app exits, but also each time the background service exits.

the-ninth over 1 year ago in reply to jim_m_58

Understand, thanks!

flocsy🤠 7 days ago

another case when github would've been nice...

jim_m_58 7 days ago in reply to flocsy🤠

Or a PITA if you are not used to it.

It is a complete mess when it involves the Raspberry Pi or ESP32, both of which I use quite a bit

flocsy🤠 7 days ago in reply to jim_m_58

Well, more likely someone who's not used to follow a link on a website, where he can see the source code, will have even more problems installing, unzip, download a file, find it on their hard disk, unzip it, find the file in it, ...

flocsy🤠 7 days ago in reply to jim_m_58

jim_m_58 7 days ago in reply to flocsy🤠

I got my first programming job 45 years ago. How about you?

In the past, years ago, AlphaMonkeyC tried to convince me that github was great. He failed and hasn't mentioned it since. You need to follow his lead....

flocsy🤠 7 days ago in reply to jim_m_58

Of course, your perfect majesty!

jim_m_58 7 days ago in reply to flocsy🤠

It's called "respect" for others with a different opinion. You might love github, but I don't. That is my opinion.

Use gibhub as much as you want but in my opinion, it's a waste of my time.