Transparent clock with source

Trond · Post by **Trond** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 11:33 am

It's not as pretty as netmaestro's, but it's got source code.

Latest release: http://home.no.net/tsg1zzn/clock.zip

oldBear · Post by **oldBear** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 11:36 am

Very Nice.

Thanks for sharing it.

Inf0Byt3 · Post by **Inf0Byt3** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 1:25 pm

This is pretty cool. Thanks!

GeoTrail · Post by **GeoTrail** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 2:41 pm

Very cool Trond.
Did you forget to add set and getmenuitem state ?
Seems like there should be a check next to the selected behavior style. Anyways, really nice work

Trond · Post by **Trond** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 2:46 pm

Thanks, everyone. No, I didn't forget the checkmarks in the menu, I just didn't care.

Post by **Fred** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 4:36 pm

Hoho, Trond app isn't perfect ?!

Kidding

Beach · Post by **Beach** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 4:46 pm

Very nice Trond, thanks for the source too!

Joakim Christiansen · Post by **Joakim Christiansen** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 4:53 pm

Fred wrote:Hoho, Trond app isn't perfect ?! Kidding

Haha, I guess you would love to give him some bug reports!

netmaestro · Post by **netmaestro** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 5:20 pm

Very good job, trond, you're to be congratulated. I think it looks excellent. You could see if there's possibly something that can be done about the CPU usage, here it's a steady 3.2%, which for a desktop clock should be at or very near 0. But that's a relatively minor observation, overall great work.

Straker · Post by **Straker** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 5:35 pm

I don't see anything. Its running in task manager but I don't see anything. This is on Win 2K Pro SP4 with GeForce card.

Can someone provide a screenshot so I know what I am looking for?

BTW, netmaestro's clock never worked for me either....

netmaestro · Post by **netmaestro** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 5:40 pm

@straker, is it possible that your desktop color depth is set to 16 bits? The api's used in these clocks will not work with less than 32bit desktops. Actually the latest version of VistaClock exits with a messagebox if it finds less than 32bit color depth.

yoxola · Post by **yoxola** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 5:52 pm

Win2K here, doesn't work either, but worked on my laptop witn WinXP.

GeoTrail · Post by **GeoTrail** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 6:00 pm

Heres a screenshot

click on it for larger view

yoxola · Post by **yoxola** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 7:22 pm

Hmmm... strange, no crash, no mesage, just do nothing on 2K, must close it manually in task manager.

Trond · Post by **Trond** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 7:22 pm

Fred wrote:Hoho, Trond app isn't perfect ?! Kidding

It's not even got a version number yet. Wait 'n' see.

netmaestro wrote:Very good job, trond, you're to be congratulated. I think it looks excellent. You could see if there's possibly something that can be done about the CPU usage, here it's a steady 3.2%, which for a desktop clock should be at or very near 0. But that's a relatively minor observation, overall great work.

I know, it uses WAY to much CPU. However, I don't know how to do much about it, alpha drawing simply IS slow.

Straker wrote:I don't see anything. Its running in task manager but I don't see anything. This is on Win 2K Pro SP4 with GeForce card.

Can someone provide a screenshot so I know what I am looking for?

BTW, netmaestro's clock never worked for me either....

Yes, as netmaestro said, the display depth must be at least 32 bits. It works on Windows 2000 here (in fact, the rotation of the hands looks much better, probably because of the graphics card).