Tasker - making use of javascript
Yesterday I posted about using WatchMaker with Tasker for automation, and I built a watch face that used Tasker to update variables which were displayed on screen. Here it is...
However, it bugged me that I couldn't quite get it to look right, I wanted to add thousand markers to the rank (#215,027) and points (181,052). I couldn't figure out a way to do this in WatchMaker, or in Tasker, until I discovered the javascript option. In Tasker you can add a step in the task which runs javascript, which can access the global variable that you've already set, re-format it, and then set the global variable again. Here's what I did...
I'm not going to explain the javascript, because that's not really the point, but you can find out more about the javascript API and what's available in Tasker here... http://tasker.wikidot.com/userguide-en:javascript.
The end result is this...
It's a small difference, but I think it looks much better. And I love that I found a way to make the watch display exactly the way I wanted.
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