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CoolClock Simon

Analog clock faces for panes and the control bar


CoolClock



Description

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 .
 
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 at songbird.CoolClock@gmail.com but I have no plans to add to this extension.




Release Notes

Updated to work with latest version of Songbird (1.9)




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Comments

(23)


NK4551
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.

over 2 years ago
atreiu
atreiu

I like it, I think it has potential. :-)

Currently the space is Display-Panes are pretty limited, but hopefully we get more Display-Panes in a future Songbird release, so I don't see it as a problem.

I wouldn't use this clock all day, but it is pretty nice, if I run Songbird in what can be called "Desktop-Mode": I just maximize Songbird and listen to music, but do nothing at the computer at all. If I clean my room or something, than it's real nice, to see this clock on my screen, while I still can have my Songbird playing, and I don't need other add-ons during that time anyway. :-)

(No I'm going to test it, and see if the glitches from the earlier version is gone... :-)

Thanks for the update! /(° v °)/=@

over 2 years ago
atreiu
atreiu

Argh, I clicked "post" instead "preview"... sorry for the bunch of typos :-P

over 2 years ago
vaibhavyagnik
vaibhavyagnik

a functionality like a translucent foreground would be nice so that it does not eat up space. sort of screen saver type effect when there is no activity. or you can also look into placing the clock in the album art pane with album art as the background of the clock - 2 in 1 functionality!!

over 2 years ago
Steve123458
Steve123458

It's very cool.

It has no use but hey the clocks are very nice.

over 2 years ago
deOmega
deOmega

Simon,

nice work on this addon. Is it possible to consider themes that would go better on the black feathers? For example, try with this feather and you will see how limited the selections become : http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/1655

Thank you for this addon.

over 2 years ago
Simon
Simon

New version:

removed pane title-bar clickablility (to conform with sb1.4)
new icon for menus (looks better with new default skin)

over 2 years ago
Simon
Simon

Updated to work with latest Songbird version (1.9.3)

11 months ago



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