Caution

This is the documentation for the current development branch of the CometVisu. It is possible that some of the described features are not yet available in the current release.

Also there might be lots of errors in this documentation as some parts of the content have been translated by an online translation service.

CometVisu von swiss (Metal)

This is where swiss’ visually productive Visu is presented.

Design: Metal

Plugins: rsslog, strftime, diagram

Config: visu_config_metal_swiss.xml

Hint

In version 0.12 the metal design has been revised. These screenshots show the old version before those changes.

Screenshots

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The highlights at a glance

Time display in the Navbar

Screenshot Time/Date

Hint

For the time display the strftime plugin is used. To activate it must be added in the meta area of the config under plugins. The class attribute only appears in the editor if the complex mode has been activated.

The time display (inspired by netsrac) was as follows built-in:

In the Navbar, a Group widget was inserted at the top of the page with the name “Current Time”. Within this Group is another Group widget with the attribute nowidget=”true”. Then, from top to bottom, a strftime, a break followed by another strftime widget were inserted.

The upper strftime widget which displays the time has the following parameters:

lang="de"
format="%H:%M"
class="timebig"

The lower strftime indicating the date has the following parameters:

lang="de"
format="%A, %d. %B %Y"
class="timedate"

In config.xml, this section looks like this:

<group name="Actual time">
   <layout colspan="12"/>
   <group nowidget="true">
     <layout colspan="12"/>
     <strftime lang="de" format="%H:%M" class="timebig">
       <layout colspan="12"/>
     </strftime>
     <strftime lang="de" format="%A, %d. %B %Y" class="timedate">
       <layout colspan="12"/>
     </strftime>
   </group>
 </group>

For formatting (color, font size and font) the following css rules must be added to the visu:

.custom_timebig {
    padding: 0;
    margin: 0;
    color: #75d5ff;
    min-height: 0mm;
    line-height: 8mm;
    font: bold 12mm "Lucida Grande", Lucida, Verdana, sans-serif;
}

.custom_timebig > div.strftime_value {
    text-align: center;
    line-height: 14mm;
}

.custom_timedate {
    padding: 0;
    margin: 0;
    min-height: 0mm;
    line-height: 8mm;
    font: bold 3mm "Lucida Grande", Lucida, Verdana, sans-serif;
}

.custom_timedate > div.strftime_value {
        text-align: center;
}

Howto include custom css rules is described in chapter Customize Cometvisu.