This is a wrapper for the excellent customizable CoolClock.
With it you can display an analogue clock in the control panel and any, or all, of Songbird's display panes!
You can change the clock face by clicking on the clock and choosing from a pop-up list, by scrolling on the clock face with the mouse wheel, or from the preferences panel.
Feather authors can add clock faces to match their feathers, these will be picked up by Coolclock whenever that feather is used.
A good guide to CoolClock is on the original CoolClock website http://randomibis.com/coolclock/
It is easy to add more clocks by editing the 'pane.xul' file, or to make more custom clock faces by editing 'moreskins.js' (these faces will available whatever feather you are using).
Featherablity:
You can add a cool clock skin to your feather by:
1) Copy the file coolclock.skin from coolclock's skin directory into your feather's skin directory.
2) Alter the clock look by editing coolclock.skin, :
{
"yourCCSkinName": {
"outerBorder": { "lineWidth": 180, "radius":1, "color": "red", "alpha": 1 },
"smallIndicator": { "lineWidth": 0, "startAt": 85, "endAt": 95, "color": "yellow", "alpha": 1 },
"largeIndicator": { "lineWidth": 7, "startAt": 85, "endAt": 95, "color": "white", "alpha": 1 },
"hourHand": { "lineWidth": 7, "startAt": 40, "endAt": 50, "color": "white", "alpha": 1 },
"minuteHand": { "lineWidth": 7, "startAt": 50, "endAt": 75, "color": "yellow", "alpha": 1 },
"secondHand": { "lineWidth": 7, "startAt": 75, "endAt": 85, "color": "black", "alpha": 1 },
"secondDecoration": { "lineWidth": 5, "startAt": 1, "radius": 1, "color": "blue", "alpha": 0, "fillColor": "blue" }
}
Name your skin, i.e. change "yourCCSkinName" to, e.g.: "myFeatherName", then change the numbers and colors as you wish. The numbers are percentages of the radius, so 'startAt': 0, 'endAt': 50 draws a line from the center to 50% of the way to the edge. 'Alpha' is the transparency of the element (1 = solid), Save the changes and refresh Songbird UI.
You can have any number of skins (comma separated) in a .skin file; they'll all be added to the selection menu of Coolclock skins. The 1st skin in your file will be used for the control pane clock whenever your skin is active.
You can email me with bugs or requests at songbird.CoolClock@gmail.com
NK4551
I like the aspect of a clock in songbird, but it doesn't seem to have much merit. it uses one of the panes which is a big chunk of space that could be used for album art or lyrics. I also feel that the clock on my taskbar is sufficient and that a big glorified analog clock on its own isn't a useful tool (plus there's always the status bar clock). If you could add an alarm clock or reminder of sorts, some other features that make it more than just a clock. I'm sure it would be a great add-on, but in my opinion, as of now, it's now just clock, not really too cool.