Watchface: Digital for TactixD and Digital for TactixD v2 Beta

This is forum to streamline questions processing, feature requests, bug reporting and general discussion regarding
Digital for TactixD face: https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/d4fbcc93-5e5e-4030-8278-2bd8463921db
Digital for TactixD v2 Beta: apps.garmin.com/.../15c35159-bae3-4c12-8539-5305ccd1b933

Idea behind this face is that the best face is the one which is set exactly as i want it.

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Q&A:

Why there are so many settings available? It is hard to navigate through them:
Sending watchface user defined parameters such as color, font and screen placement through app settings seems to be the only available option at this moment. Amount of settings is a tax for having many objects available. During time i've found out there are also problems and limitations coming with amount of settings, therefore version 2 is being in development where at least some of the fields configuration will be simplified.

Why are my settings changes not reflected on WatchFace ?
It seems this issue is tied to Garmin CIQ app which is not able handle huge amount of settings properly. When settings are done through Android/iOS Garmin Mobile app all should work as expected.

Will be there Weather details available ?
Yes, weather is in progress and will be included in v2 version. Currently testing various weather providers APIs and fighting with best details visualization on the screen.

Why is my language not supported i see only squares instead of characters ?
During short life time of this face 26 custom fonts have been already requested and implemented. Fonts consume a lot of available resources, therefore characters are limited to the absolute minimum => english characters and numbers only. Languages with 'special' characters such as czech, russian, japanese etc. cannot be supported until more resources will be available to watch faces. Toggle button "Force English Day/Month Name" to force most exposed fields to english has been implemented instead.

Will more features be implemented ?
Yes, i am adding more features based on incoming requests. Priority is usually set by amount of requests.

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5690448 over 4 years ago in reply to Pegase747

Dear Pierre. Have you also reinstalled the watch face via PC?

I had first deleted all, restarted watch and indtalled and customized via pc

Pegase747 over 4 years ago in reply to 5690448

Tried but will try again. Will report

tomulli over 4 years ago

Hi all, thanks for sticking with me, i have some news.
After one and half week of trying i am finally able to reliably reproduce settings reset behavior on my watch. ..that's a good news .

Not so good one is that issue is again related to the memory over-utilization during settings update. That's something Garmin did not think through properly and developers needs to deal with for long time. In my case when 300 settings are reloaded, memory consumption triples.
It forces me to again rewrite code as i need find additional 4kB somewhere (that's a lot, reminds me my youngster days with ZX spectrum :) ), as there is not much what i can simplify or improve from code logic perspective anymore my focus is attempting to change all variables to types taking less bytes, use minimum strings where possible and also change some settings to use one field for multiple parameters (something like current XYposition using single integer). It will take few more days so bare with me.
It will also mean that i have to modify settings style more than i like, hence during next update you will need to uninstall application completely and install it back ...and yes, unfortunately you will loose all your settings during the process (you will be able put it back if you keep notes of old ones)

Pegase747 over 4 years ago in reply to tomulli

Hi Tomulli, great that you can reproduce the issue.

I hope you find a way to sort out the memory issue. Hopedully you can find a work around the problem.

Keep us updated. Cheers

Pierre

5690448 over 4 years ago in reply to tomulli

Hi Tomulli. Glad to hear you ve found the reason of issue. I have backed up my latest configs, so i am ready to meet new version of watchface.

JimHejl over 4 years ago in reply to tomulli

Yay for reproducible!! If you want some help packing the settings (4K is a lot to claw back), shoot me an email: [email protected]

I’ve been doing this my entire career. Wouldn’t mind helping out!

Pegase747 over 4 years ago in reply to tomulli

Tomulli,

Will you be able to sort the issue out while keeping all the functions ?

I certainly hope so...

Please keep us updated

Cheers Pierre

5190559 over 4 years ago in reply to tomulli

Hi Tomas,

thank you for the watchface!

I tried to put in the default latitude and longitude, but cannot open the fields to edit them.

5690448 over 4 years ago in reply to tomulli

Hallo, Tomulli. Are there any news for us please?

tomulli over 4 years ago in reply to 5690448

I had to fulfill some duties, back now.

Still fighting memory and trying to find balance between settings amount/type and required code. Trial and error mode of work as some settings removal results in more code required, taking more memory at the end etc.

Still have few more ideas in the pocket and slowly getting there byte by byte. I don't want to publish new release yet as each iteration requires face uninstall and wipes all what has been set.