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.

The strftime plugin

Author: Michael Hausl [michael at hausl dot com]

Available since: 0.8.0

Description

This plugins integrates formatted date and clock strings into based on strftime.

Settings

For a general understanding of how the configuration files are structured and what elements and attributes are it is recommended to read this section first: Basics.

The behaviour and appearance of the strftime plugins can be influenced by using certain attributes and elements. The following tables show the allowed attributes and elements and their possible values. The screenshots show, how both can be edited in the editor.

Attributes underlined by ….. are mandatory, all the others are optional and be omitted.

Allowed attributes in the strftime-element

Element	Attribute
	Name	Content	Description
strftime	lang	en, de or fr
	format	string
	class	string	Add this value to the CSS class so that it can be formatted by a user provided style sheet.

Attributes in the editor (simple view) [1]

Allowed child-elements and their attributes

Element	Attribute
Structure	Name	Content	Description
strftime layout	colspan	decimal	Amount of columns this widget should be wide.
	colspan-m	decimal	Overrules the amount of columns on a medium screen.
	colspan-s	decimal	Overrules the amount of columns on a small screen.
	rowspan	decimal	Amount of rows this widget should be high.
	x	string	Horizontal position of the widget for 2D pages.
	x-s	string	Horizontal position of the widget for 2D pages on a small screen.
	x-m	string	Horizontal position of the widget for 2D pages on a medium screen.
	y	string	Vertical position of the widget for 2D pages.
	y-s	string	Vertical position of the widget for 2D pages on a small screen.
	y-m	string	Vertical position of the widget for 2D pages on a medium screen.
	z	string	Reserved for future use.
	width	string	Width for the widget for 2D pages.
	width-s	string	Width for the widget for 2D pages on a small screen.
	width-m	string	Width for the widget for 2D pages on a medium screen.
	scale	true or false	Enable/Disable scaling layout values relative to backdrop on 2d pages (default: true).
	scale-s	true or false	Enable/Disable scaling layout values relative to backdrop on 2d pages on a small screen (default: true).
	scale-m	true or false	Enable/Disable scaling layout values relative to backdrop on 2d pages on a medium screen (default: true).

Elements in the editor

Examples

It is possible to manually edit the visu_config.xml and add an entry for the strftime plugin.

Caution

Make sure that you only use UTF-8 encoded characters by settings the encoding in your XML-editor to UTF-8 mode!

Footnotes

[1]

The simple view might not show everything. To see all elements/attributes use the expert view.