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[MU]

Screenshot can be found here:

http://dotpups.de/puppy3/dotpups/Desktop-Tools/

You can drag it around with the mouse, it remembers the position automatically.
On english computers, it is english of course.

Download:
http://dotpups.de/puppy3/dotpups/Desktop-Tools/GtkBasic-Analogclock.pup

Requires:
http://dotpups.de/puppy3/dotpups/Programming/GtkBasic003/Gtkbasic-003.pup
I just updated that dotpup, so re-install if you already have an older version.

For Puppy 4, you will find a matching GtkBasic003 here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=172218


The clock includes some skins (from xonclock), but I have not yet added a dialog to choose them.
To use them already, you had to edit:
/usr/local/GtkBasic-Analogclock/GtkBasic-Analogclock.gtb

You can set the skin here:

[koolie]

It runs fine in 2.17.1

[MU]

Ah, cool, thanks for trying

In Puppy 2.17 not every function of GtkBasic might work.
There were problems reported concerning the fileselectors.
But those are not used for the clock, so good to hear it works

I will try to add a command to GtkBasic next week to rotate pictures.
This is not supported by Gdk, but I found some usable code with google.
Then I could replace the Clock-hands that are currently drawed lines with real pictures, what might look nicer

Mark

[Pizzasgood]

To IceWM users: Add this to your /root/.icewm/winoptions:

[MU]

yes, it should be an issue of JWM, that ignores some WM hints.
gtk_window_set_skip_taskbar_hint
Icewm will use this hint.

I slightly modified the dotpup, it now also sets:
gtk_window_set_type_hint GDK_WINDOW_TYPE_HINT_DESKTOP
and
gtk_window_set_keep_below

So the clock is always beneath other windows, and it also will no longer disappear, if you use the "show desktop" button in Icewm.

Mark

[Soupbean]

really nice clock.

after installation i still had some problems with menu's in the taskbar and disappearing when pressing show desktop button, so i added the following lines into my 'winoptions' in .icewm:

gtkbasic003.ignoreWinList: 1
gtkbasic003.ignoreTaskBar: 1
gtkbasic003.ignoreQuickSwitch: 1
gtkbasic003.layer: Below

am not sure if that will effect other gtkbasic programs if i install them later, but it works well for now.

[MU]

I updated the clock.

Changes:
- stores the windowposition automatically after it was dragged around.
- Now compatible with Tigerpup (Xfce, Compiz).
- should also work with other windowmanagers now, where it did not react to mouseclicks before.

Issues (minor): sometimes you must click the "close" button in the dialog twice.
I think I can solve this by some more modification, but am too tired at moment to look the code. I had to replace the Glade-buttons with the newer internal "singleclickbuttons" of GtkBasic.

Mark

[brymway]

I am running 3.01. I downloaded the clock first, ran it and started it but it didn't show. I then downloaded the GTK package like you instructed and now it works great. I much prefer analog clocks and watches to digital so this was a nice treat. Thanks for putting this together.

[nutts4life]

MU,

I'm really enjoying this little applet as it's just so small and simple!

Is there any way of adding three little images as the 'hands' of the clock, instead of the lines currently drawn? Like Xonclock

I guess this is a little more difficult as involves rotating an image rather than drawing a line.

Thanks,

n4l

[MU]

no not easy.
I had to add new functions to the basic-interpreter, as Gdk itself does not support rotation of pixbufs.

At moment I'm too busy with Muppy alpha, so you had to use xonclock for this.

Mark

[Colonel Panic]

I've just installed it and it works well. However, I needed extra GTK-Basic libraries as the link to the ones shown here is broken,

GTKBasic-003e.pet

and PuppyBasic-2.6.pet

Both of these are for the Puppy 2.14 series.