This is my attempt to fix the second-skipping display bug (see pull #91 and issue #90)

Instead of changing the tick display based on the "wall time", this decrements the seconds counter based on the timer interval itself, which should be the correct behavior since it won't be affected by alignment with the system clock.

An additional check was added to deal with cases when the thread is paused e.g. when the lid is closed on a laptop or the user is interacting with the menu bar.

Fix countdown display skipping seconds

Fixes #90 Closes #91

Hi Michael,

I switched recently to elementary OS and I really miss your awesome timer app. Have to admit I fell in love with it on macOS. That's why I just started cloning it: https://github.com/marbetschar/timer

Unfortunately I'm more of a programmer than a designer. And as I really like your design, I wanted to ask you if you're cool if I reuse your assets for a dedicated elementary OS clone, programmed in Vala?

To be fully transparent here, I also plan to release this Timer clone to the elementary OS AppCenter, a Pay-What-You-Want App Store. I'll probably publish it there with a suggested one-time price of 1 or 2 USD.

Hi

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I notice little movements of the timer's contents—aka "jank"—out of the corner of my eye which is distracting

Describe the solution you'd like

• Use a fixed width font, please, so that, e.g., 51" → 50" doesn't move around
• Use leading zeroes, please, so that, e.g., 10" → 9" doesn't move around (it would be 10" → 09")

Describe alternatives you've considered Hiding the Timer window, but when screen sharing that would make it hard for all participants to be aware of our current interval

Cheers!

Hey @michaelvillar,

Would it be possible to build a new release for the changes since 1.4?

https://github.com/michaelvillar/timer-app/compare/1.4...master

If you're super busy, I'm willing to join the project and do basic stuff like making releases, keeping a changelog, and testing.

It took me a while to figure out what was going on in the view hierarchy, causing the clock to not get displayed on Mojave. Ideally I'd like to move to an approach that puts the clock in a more standard location in the view hierarchy that would be more robust to OS updates (such as contentView). But after experimenting for a while, I don't have any clear idea of how to do that while maintaining the visual design and behavior.

So instead I was able to adapt the approach for Mojave by simply making the clock view a sibling of the close button.

I also simplified a few lines of code and added comments.

Hello guys, first of all... i love this app! Thank you!

I switched to Mojave on Monday, so I noticed this bug. As soon as the timer window is no longer active/focused, the "watchface" becomes transparent. But if I click on the timer window and make it to my active / current window, everything looks good again. Strange.

Thank you, Max

I was just messing around with the code, to get started with #21, and since you've asked dark menu support, wouldn't it be gorgeous to have a dark skin as well?

Called "Skins" the ticket because this can be just a dark skin or a customisable skins enhancement. Just some raw ideas:

• Dark skin (automatic with dark menu)
• Customizable skins: get rid of the image sets or add some layer on top of them

Some quick samples:

Honestly, the timer app is great! Thanks for putting in the work Michael!

Do you have any plans or think it might be useful to add "time adjustment shortcuts" like just typing a number and the timer automatically sets its minutes?

Describe the bug The app isn't signed or notarized thus it fails to start.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Download the app using the link in the description or using brew cask.
2. Run the app.

Expected behavior Start up successfully.

Screenshots

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• macOS Catalina 10.15.6

Describe the bug MacOS security preventing timer from running after install via brew cask install michaelvillar-timer

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Open Terminal
2. Run command brew cask install michaelvillar-timer
3. After install finishes hit CMD+Spacebar and type timer to bring up the timer app installed in step 2. Press enter.
4. A dialog appears preventing the app to run.

Expected behavior Timer app would start in a usable state.

Screenshots

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS version: [e.g. macOS 10.15.4]
• Version [e.g. 22]

Additional context Add any other context about the problem here.

Describe the bug Hard (or even unable) to drag the blue triangle near diagonal positions.

To Reproduce

• Open a timer
• Set time to one of the following: 5 min (top-right), 20 min (bottom-right), 35 min (bottom-left) or 50 min (top-left)
• Try to drag the blue triangle again

Expected behavior The blue triangle should be dragged.

Actual behavior The whole window is dragged.

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS version: macOS 10.14.6
• Version 1.5.0

Instead of just a blue arrow and line around the clock, this provides the option to fill the entire clock face. It makes the visual countdown more prominent which is useful for people who have ADHD and other such attention issues – visual countdowns help externalise the passage of time which helps us pay more attention to it.

Enabling this option also hides the digital timer since it didn't look aesthetically pleasing IMO.

Depends on #125.

I prefer to use regular m and s suffixes over the current use of ' and " for minutes and seconds representation. Maybe others do too?

Depends on #125.

Prepares the app for visual customisations by adding a 'View' menu item as well as some placeholder code to save and load preferences from UserDefaults. Added an isMainController field so that only changes made in the first window are saved.

This PR serves as a base for some other PRs I'm about to open.

Describe the bug If your computer goes to sleep you won't receive a notifications if the time is up.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Start a timer
2. Wait until your computer goes to sleep or press Shift+Control+Eject
3. Wait for the alarm
4. Nothing happens until you interact with your computer and it awakes from sleep.

Expected behavior You should still receive a notification

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS version: macOS 12.2.1
• Version: 1.6.0

A pause symbol is shown when the timer is paused which is the opposite of in (most?) music apps, where the pause symbol is shown when the music is playing. This has confused me a few time using the timer. Maybe show the text "Paused" instead?