Want to change the background whether it is daytime or nighttime out. Is there a way to pull that info in or do I need to just guestimate a static time switch over?
I cant see a tag for expression that could be used for this. Yet there is a complication short text, that can be set to display time of coming sunset or sunrise that changes to the next event when ever the time passes. Maybe this could be used as sloppy workaround, if you are not going to use the watch face in polar areas where both events can occur close to noon, but I am not sure how it would show on real watch.
In the preview it shows the time always in 24h mode with leading zero. So I managed to insert night image as bitmap font for digit 0 which shows after sunset and day image for digits 1 and 2 which eventually show after sunrise. To cover full background area with bitmap size 450px the text field has to be aligned to left and bigger than 450 to show just the first digit.
It would be much easier and more universal, if the default icon could be replaced with custom images, but I don’t know whether or how could that be done.
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Hello. Please, how do I create a short text so that there is no slot bound
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So my problem is not slot bound.
the problem I have is that if I change the text layer to a bitmap, the image appears in the smaller preview but not in the main large one.
The small preview window can be “maximized”, the main large view is the canvas where you arrange things and displays the element how it would appear in some specific time, but it is not updated when changing preview date/time. I think they consider this a feature rather than bug, .
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You probably don’t understand me.
I want to achieve what you have on the screen, but I would like to try to make my watch face work depending on the sunrise and sunset. but I can’t get to where you are on the screen.
I will put dark on zero, and light on 1 and 2. but nothing is displayed on the desktop, other elements prevent it, on which the text is displayed but not the bitmap.
To clarify.
I would like to use the sunrise and sunset in this dial, which would change depending on the time of day. Just like an alarm clock in a car. Now I have solved it using the timeline, but it’s inaccurate, it switches to night mode at eight, but it’s still light here in the summer. However, I probably have to give it up because, for example, the battery indicator, I have no idea how to turn it on as an output and at the same time keep it as a status bar.
Sorry for my English, I’m from the Czech Republic and I’m writing through a translator.
So I have successfully completed a watch face with changing element based on sunrise and sunset.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t figure out how to achieve it with the clock and date. I was only able to make a pictorial one in Bitmap format. I’m glad that I managed to get the battery indicator working this way too.
Another problem is that I don’t know where the watch gets the sunset and sunrise data from.
I assume that it is an application with a phone where the minimum update time is 1 hour, so the change can be delayed up to an hour. I didn’t find any such settings for the app in the watch, only manual update.
If anyone wants the files for testing, I’ll attach them here, but I don’t know what all needs to be put in the zip. I would also like to ask the more advanced ones if they could advise how to change the colors of the clock and other text layers based on sunrise and sunset. I didn’t figure it out. Thank you
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If you post your .wfs file here adding .ZIP to the file name , we can look at it and see where you have got to .
I will gladly provide. it is not a public dial but only for private students.
But I don’t know what the ZIP file should contain.
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Hopefully it’s as good as it gets and it opens with a bang.?
P2 Sunrise Experiment.zip (2.8 MB)
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OK . I have had a quick look at your . WIP . Very Good . I have noy seen anyone try to do this before so it is taking a bit to get my head around it . So the only thing you can bring to the Face is Images . But you may be able to do some clever masking . I will have to look at it later as I am busy with something else . BTW when sharing .wfs files we just add .ZIP to the end of the file name or replace .wfs with .ZIP . Not actually Zip it properly . Well that is what I was shown any way .
jj zip I finally understood and made a joke, the translator sometimes translates nonsense.
Otherwise, I grabbed what Petr started here and stuck to it.
I’m a beginner, so I don’t know how to do clever camouflage. I’m glad that the most important thing works, and that’s the graphics. tribute texts I will have to make the timeline and put up with it or set one color and also put up with it, but then it is already imperfect. It should be the most accurate imitation of my car’s alarm clock.
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I think what Peter Offered is a really good Idea . I gave done a lot of work on Facer and we have SR SS Tags over there . Also Times in Minutes and Hours . I will have a look this evening and see if I can make a test . I am not a fan of Time line . I find it Cumbersome and Confusing .
I also made a couple of watch faces on Facer, but I haven’t paid a premium, I don’t expect to make a living from it, so the possibilities there are limited. But I made a couple of attacks. Definitely worse than in WFS.
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What you are trying to do you donot have to have a premium Account . SR SS Tags are for free on Facer .
I don’t have anything in the works at the moment.
I’m a canner, so I’ll make one dial for my own use, max for someone in the family, and that’s enough. I have it more like a hobby. But feel free to look at the finished works, most of them are inspired by something. I plan to make a simple watch face also inspired by classic watches. see photo-
Of course, I will modify it and make it according to my taste, I do not intend to copy it in detail.
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OK . So I see you have it working on Facer . Why do you want to do it here when it is much more difficult ?
I didn’t like Facer very much and I don’t want to install another application because of one watch face. For some, Facer is easier for others, more complex. And to learn in it again, I’m also comfortable and lazy for that. 
If it was possible to change the color of the text depending on the sunrise and sunset on Facer, I would probably get around to dusting it off.
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Changing the colour on facer is remarkably easy . They have a Tag that toggles at the correct time . I did not inspect your Faces there I wonder what you used for the images .
