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- From: bx953@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David R. Cohen)
- Subject: CLOCK VISIBILITY -- THE SEQUEL
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.144016.20572@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
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- Reply-To: bx953@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David R. Cohen)
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 14:40:16 GMT
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- Thanks to all who answered my clock icon visibility question. Now I have a
- follow up question.
-
- It ends up that you can easily make the clock icon show up on your screen
- every time you go into Windows 3.1 by merely drag-and-dropping the clock
- icon into the Startup applications group. And, in Windows 3.1, you can
- choose the setting "always on top" so that the icon never hides behind your
- active window.
-
- As someone pointed out, however, better looking than the icon is the clock
- program itself, made as small as possible. By sizing the running
- (non-minimized) clock program window as small as you can get it, choosing
- fixedsys font, choosing digital readout, and choosing no title bar, a very
- neat rectangle with the date and time is displayed. This rectangle looks
- especially nice (to me) in the upper right hand corner of the screen, just
- to the left of the up-arrow/down-arrow buttons.
-
- The problem is, I can't figure out how to get the **running clock program
- window** to appear when I start windows; all I can get is the icon (which,
- I admit, was my initial goal). To get the small rectangle window, I have
- to double-click the clock icon and reset the no-title-bar option. What I'd
- rather have, of course, is the small rectangle window running as soon as I
- start windows. I tried using the shift-alt-F4 to save settings (the
- equivalent of win3.0's save settings on exit, without exiting) but that
- didn't help.
-
- Any more suggestions?
-
- E-mail appreciated, thanks in advance.
-
- David
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