Longhorn Systray Clock

By RCube
in Tips, Tweaks & Customization

 Share

Recommended Posts

Mentor

Night.Hawk

Posted
Posted (edited)
Modified from orliville's layout and ciaran00's buttons. :)

http://www.sfu.ca/~yhana/lclock/skins/skin2.png

skin2.zip

Link doesn't work over here. I like that a whole lot though. Does it not work for anyone else?

Edit: Works now, thanks :D

Edited by NeoTech
Collaborator

RCube

Posted
  • Author
Posted (edited)
Nice clock, many thanks for it. Also thanks for all guys posting nice skins keeping me busy trying all of them...

Somebody already requested an option for showing also week numbers in the calender ? And maybe showing weekends or some customizable days (saturdays, sundays in my case) in different colors ?

Also, is it just me who thinks there's too much free space on the left an right side of the clock, making the tray unnecessarily big ?  I couldn't find a setting in metrics that makes the overall width of the clock smaller.

I tried my best to make the left and right spacing the same as the default clock. The spacing might look bigger when there is only a single digit hour displayed(e.g. 3:30). Exit lclock, I bet the total space it was using is no more than the default windows clock.

NeoTech, I messed up skin2.zip. Just fixed it now. :p

btw, I updated skin1.zip with some extra backgrounds: two without shadow and one of them have square edges at the bottom. You might have to reload this page to see the new image:

skin1.png

Edited by RCube
Neowinian

Azatoth

Posted
Posted
I tried my best to make the left and right spacing the same as the default clock. The spacing might look bigger when there is only a single digit hour displayed(e.g. 3:30). Exit lclock, I bet the total space it was using is no more than the default windows clock.[...]

Rcube, of course you are right when the clock shows only one digit hours. i talked especially on the right side of the clock, which in my opinion has a lot of free space to the right border of the tray. i always thought you would implement another type of information to show up there (e.g. weekday as proposed by KriTenKs). but general consense in the forum seems to be not to show any more information there. so i think that free space is wasted, or should at least be configurable if possible.

If asked, i would give my vote to add some more selectable information in that space (e.g. weekday name, week number, ...)

Thanks again for your nice work, RCube.

Collaborator

RCube

Posted
  • Author
Posted
Rcube, of course you are right when the clock shows only one digit hours. i talked especially on the right side of the clock, which in my opinion has a lot of free space to the right border of the tray. i always thought you would implement another type of information to show up there (e.g. weekday as proposed by KriTenKs). but general consense in the forum seems to be not to show any more information there. so i think that free space is wasted, or should at least be configurable if possible.

If asked, i would give my vote to add some more selectable information in that space (e.g. weekday name, week number, ...)

Thanks again for your nice work, RCube.

Hum, I think a screenshot of your clock would help.

As for other info to show up in the systray, that is a maybe for now. Even if I do it, it won't be done anytime soon. I have other features I need to implement first. :p

Grand Master

msg43

Posted
Posted
A very nice enhanced tray clock. Could I ask for a small enhancement? Please could the alarm msgbox to be placed on top of all windows so that it can be seen. I don't use sounds for alarms.

Thank you,

Indoda

good idea and welcome to Neowin

Mentor

Night.Hawk

Posted
Posted

See what ya think. I left the image in the corner and left it gray because I thought it still went with it. Haven't changed the buttons, but I probably will later on. It would sorta make it look better and go along with the blue better. Oh, and it's still transparent, but I took the picture on a white background.

skin3.png

skin3.zip

Mentor

Night.Hawk

Posted
Posted (edited)

Here's some green buttons incase anyone wants them. Was making them to go with the skin mod I made, but they don't go to well :p.

lhbuttons2.png

Edit: Updated the picture and the zip so there isn't any blue in it now.

lhbuttons2.zip

Edited by NeoTech
Collaborator

RCube

Posted
  • Author
Posted (edited)

LClock 1.62b is out.

The main purpose of this version is to have better skin support.

The following allows you to control where the calendar is drawn on the background:

CalRasterizedOffsetX=0

CalRasterizedOffsetY=0

CalRasterizedWidth=-1

CalRasterizedHeight=-1

With those in place, we can have skins like glass:

glass.png

glass.zip

Edited by RCube
This topic is now closed to further replies.
 Share
Go to topic listing

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.

  • Posts

    • Dell, HP PCs ran into endless reboot, BitLocker recovery loops but Windows 11 isn't to blame

      By eiffel_g · Posted

      Funny, but I didn't had the issue. All PC's at work are Dell and we had the culprit version of Support Assist for about 2 weeks until we got the new one. No problem at all. And for checking you can also use Dell Command Update, no need to search in windows settings. Just check the Upgrade History.
    • "CRAZIER than ever!" Crazy Taxi: World Tour is officially coming soon

      By margrave · Posted

      YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    • Apple's AI smart glasses and Vision headset plans reportedly delayed, again

      By AnalystDan · Posted

      Apple are scared of their customers! They have built a brand over the years of "it just works out of the box", but that slows innovation. Samsung's master stroke was the Galaxy Ultra: "Let's cram everything into one handset, make it so stupid only real nerds will love it, some of the features will work, some won't, but the audience will have such a high tolerance they won't care". Apple has no such device and so they are constantly worrying these days about the fallout of creating a new experience that customers might not like. I know it is often cited the reason they don't build a touchscreen Mac Book is they don't want to cannibalise the the iPad market, but I think it's equally cold feet after the criticism Microsoft receive trying to make a touch compatible desktop OS
    • HandBrake 1.11.2

      By Copernic · Posted

      HandBrake 1.11.2 by Razvan Serea HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows. Handbrake can process most common multimedia files and any DVD or BluRay sources that do not contain any kind of copy protection. Here is a detailed breakdown of HandBrake’s features: Built-in Device Presets—Get started with HandBrake in seconds by choosing a profile optimized for your device, or choose a universal profile for standard or high quality conversions. Simple, easy, fast. For those that want more choice, tweak many basic and advanced options to improve your encodes. Supported Input Sources—Handbrake can process most common multimedia files and any DVD or Blu-ray sources that do not contain any kind of copy protection. Outputs: File Containers: .MP4(.M4V) and .MKV Video Encoders: H.265 (x265 and QuickSync), H.264(x264 and QuickSync), H.265 MPEG-4 and MPEG-2, VP8 and Theora Audio Encoders: AAC / HE-AAC, MP3, Flac, AC3, or Vorbis Audio Pass-thru: AC-3, E-AC3, DTS, DTS-HD, TrueHD, AAC and MP3 tracks Additional features: Title/ Chapter Selection Queue up Multiple Encodes Chapter Markers Subtitles (VobSub, Closed Captions CEA-608, SSA, SRT) Constant Quality or Average BitRate Video Encoding Support for VFR, CFR and VFR Video Filters—Deinterlacing, Decomb, Detelecine, Deblock, Grayscale, Cropping and Scaling Live Video Preview HandBrake 1.11.2 changelog: All platforms Video Fixed a crash that happened when doing a 2-pass lossless x265 encode Fixed a memory leak that happened when doing a 2-pass MPEG-4/MPEG-2/VP9/FFV1 encode Audio Updated the list of supported dithers and encoders combinations Fixed the Core Audio AAC encoder 7.1 channel layout Subtitles Fixed the VobSub palette creation in the MP4 container Build system Improved build system compatibility with older build tools Third-party libraries FFmpeg 8.0.2 (decoding and filters) SVT-AV1 4.1.0 (AV1 video encoding) Linux Added WebM MIME type to the list of the supported formats Mac Improved handling of unsupported presets Updated Sparkle automatic update library Windows Improved handling of unsupported presets Improved queue low space pause behaviour Fixed the automatic audio track name generation Fixed the summary description of HDR video Download: HandBrake 64-bit | Portable 64-bit | ~30.0 (Open Source) Download: HandBrake ARM64 | Portable Links: HandBrake Website | Other Operating Systems | Screenshot Get alerted to all of our Software updates on Twitter at @NeowinSoftware
    • Dell, HP PCs ran into endless reboot, BitLocker recovery loops but Windows 11 isn't to blame

      By grunger106 · Posted

      So, an article that has nothing to do with Windows 11, still gets Windows 11 in the title and a build number as the picture? Dell have a buggy build of Support Assist HP have UEFI settings that need unlocking for the secureboot cert upgrade to take place.

  • Recent Achievements

    • One Month Later
      DJC50PLUS earned a badge
      One Month Later
    • Week One Done
      DJC50PLUS earned a badge
      Week One Done
    • Proficient
      Eric Biran went up a rank
      Proficient
    • Dedicated
      Conjor earned a badge
      Dedicated
    • Week One Done
      Windows Guy earned a badge
      Week One Done

  • Popular Contributors

    1. 1
      +primortal
      493
    2. 2
      PsYcHoKiLLa
      243
    3. 3
      Steven P.
      72
    4. 4
      neufuse
      67
    5. 5
      ATLien_0
      67
    Show More

  • Tell a friend

    Love Neowin? Tell a friend!