A friend of mine, called Tiggr <tiggr@tnt.es.ele.tue.nl>, originally wrote this rather nice clock for his NeXT machine. So he deserves the creative credit. This clock is an arc ranging from the hour-hand to the minute-hand. I didn╒t look into Tiggr╒s source, but I figure that with Display PostScript the code was much neater that mine, I use Regions to create smooth drawing (instead of off-screen drawing) which results in a nice ╥Multiple╙ colour effect.
I contribute this module to Lloyd Wood, if it wasn╒t for him, I would have left my compiler alone today...
Anyways, have fun! This is freeware.
pooh@stack.urc.tue.nl
History:
1.0:
Ñ Initial release.
1.1:
Ñ Repaired a cosmetical bug that would cause the seconds hand not to be erased when the Mac wouldn╘t give After Dark time for over a second.
Ñ Put more robuust checks on the amount of free memory before calling calls operating on regions. If there╒s not enough memory available to do region calculations the module will quit graciously instead of bluntly crash.
1.2:
Ñ Made the maximum clock size fixed to prevent possible memory problems on very large screens.
Ñ Decreased the amount of memory needed.
Ñ Added a ╥one single╙ colour option.
Ñ Randomised the initial direction and colour.
Ñ The hour and minute hands now move every second, like any real clock would.
Ñ Removed -by request of Tiggr himself- the second-hand.
Ñ Changed move options to ╥Not at all╙, ╥Once per second╙ or ╥Continuously╙. The latter is only really useful on faster susyems.
Got a Mac? Got a screensaver? Read the Screensaver FAQ by Lloyd Wood! Thanks to a name conflict it even mentiones my previous Screensaver called ╘Trigo╒. Check it out! :-)
