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- I wanted a clock that wouldn't be using up valuable window space.
-
- I thought, "Hey, most other systems have iconisable clocks that keep telling
- the time as icons on the desk top."
-
- I looked for one. Not real hard, but I had a look at all the clocks on
- aminet etc, but failed to find one.
-
- I spent not very long at all writing wbclock.
-
- I realized _why_ people had not written one for the workbench (should have
- been obvious from the start, but well, sometimes I'm a bit slow). The sad
- sad sad updating of icons on the workbench is so farcicle.
-
- Anyway, this is the result. It is completely in the public domain. You can
- use the code to do whatever you please. The algorithms for drawing lines,
- clearing circles etc are quite poor. They work ok though. Things it
- probably should do but doesn't include support for locale, putting its hand
- up to be in the commodities list, alarms and configurability. If you want
- 'em you can add 'em. None should be too difficult.
-
- The icon is based on MagicWB colours and style. You are free to replace the
- icon with another, and it should work fine provided that the icon has circles
- of the same size in the normal and selected images which are centred and
- offset 1 pixel down and right respectively.
-
- The program draws the clock hands OVER IT'S OWN ICON. Hence a simple way to
- install it is to drop it in your WBStartup drawer, and then "Leave Out" and
- snapshot it onto your desktop somewhere. If the program stops unexpectedly,
- it will of course stop moving the hands around, but the icon will still be
- shown on the workbench ... If you run wbclock again, it will shutdown the
- original.
-
- Because it is doing a PutDiskObject every minute it will access whatever
- medium _every_ _minute_. You may find this irritating if you have a noisy
- drive. Perhaps launching it from ram would be ok, but this takes
- significantly more fiddling to set up.
-
- Also because of the sad way the icon updating is done, if the icon is on
- your desktop, every minute all the icons will be refreshed ... this is
- the worst flaw of this clock. See if it is too annoying ... I suspect many
- people will find it so.
-
- This was compiled with SAS 6.50, and ran on my GVP 030 upgraded 2000 under
- both 2.1 and 3.0. It does nothing unpleasant so I can't see why it won't
- run under any system with 2.0 or later.
-
- Anyway, have fun,
- Evan.
-
- evan@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
-
- PS: I do not intend to do any more work on this, so do not bother to contact
- me with suggestions. (or complaints, or flames, or anything else)
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