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mabe2k

Is it also possible to use the touchscreen? All the examples I’ve seen only use physical buttons. Maybe I just overlooked the right example.

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@brechtvb no afaik. So for example its not so hard to read a service and sub to a characteristic etc

Isotop7

On several occasions the docs mention a reference documentation. Did I miss a link? Where can I find this? Would be good to see all subscribable values for example.

brechtvb

@Isotop7 if you create a new application with vscode, you can click here and see the information on the right.

Did not find a vscode entry point in the palette to find the same documentation.

brechtvb

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos i almost feel obligated to buy the garmin sensors and make it work after all.

Isotop7

@brechtvb nvm, i found a shortcut with cmd-key + p and Suunto Plus: Open Documentation

SuuntoPartnerTeam

Hi @mabe2k!
You can but in most cases you probably shouldn’t. The touch functionality is prone to draining the battery faster than usual and might not be available for all watches. <div> elements (and some other elements) have attributes onTap, onDoubleTap and onLongTapStart that can be used to register event listeners for touch actions (clicks, double clicks and longpress-then-move respectively). To use these, you need a compatible watch with up-to-date software and touch functionality enabled (select “Touch” to be “On” under “Exercise options” when you start an exercise or under “Control panel” from the pause menu during an exercise). The root element (<uiView>) has an even wider variety of touch action related event listeners, but you can probably get started with the ones mentioned (please feel free to ask a follow-up question about this if you’re interested in these).

Here is a basic example of the explained functionality using the built-in setStyle function to change the color of a box when it is interacted with:

t.html:

<uiView>
  <div id="suuntoplus">
    <div id="box"
      style="width: 40%; height: 40%; left: calc(50% - 50%e); top: calc(50% - 50%e); border-radius: 25px; background-color: #FFFFFF;"
      onTap="setStyle('#box', 'background-color', '#00AAFF')"
      onDoubleTap="setStyle('#box', 'background-color', '#44CC00')"
      onLongTapStart="setStyle('#box', 'background-color', '#FF7733')"
      ></div>
  </div>
</uiView>

Please note that you will need a manifest.json with the mandatory fields and a main.js with getUserInterface function defined. Minimal versions of these are provided here for your convenience:

main.js:

function getUserInterface() { return {template: 't'}; }

manifest.json:

{
  "name": "Touch",
  "description": "Touch example",
  "author": "Your Name",
  "version": "1.00",
  "modificationTime": 1770000000,
  "type": "feature",
  "usage": "workout",
  "template": [{"name": "t.html"}]
}

Hope this helps. Happy coding!

Tieutieu

My question (before using maybe some third party apps someday ?) : how does battery consumption will be impacted and what is the « bug » risk for the watches ?
I guess it will depend on how apps will be coded and tested ?

SuuntoPartnerTeam

@Tieutieu

… how does battery consumption will be impacted …

I don’t believe we test the battery consumption of submitted applications. Ultimately, it all depends on how much work the app is actively doing during an exercise.

… what is the « bug » risk for the watches …

Certainly buggy software will be written You can give written feedback to a developer in the store. Bugs shouldn’t cause any ‘‘risky’’ behaviour in the watch – the firmware usually disables any applications that crash. It may happen that a crashing application leads to a soft-reset of other running applications.

Isotop7

Is it possible to catch the “Press Lap Button” event in my app? If yes, how? I’ve searched the reference but can’t find it or I am unable to understand it

SuuntoPartnerTeam

@Isotop7 Good question! This is somewhat hidden in the documentation. You can respond to a lap button press using the onLap callback:

function onLap(input, output) { ... }

Also note that the lap button will work automatically, as long as you don’t override its user input handling.

Automatic laps can be handled with the onAutoLap callback:

function onAutoLap(input, output) { ... }

Tomas5

What are memory restrictions for different watch? How much memory can i use to allocate variables?