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CoolClock Simon

Lots of analog clock faces for panes and 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 you use that feather (seeversion 1.3 release notes for details.)

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).

You can email me with bugs or requests at songbird.CoolClock@gmail.com




Release Notes

Removed pane title-bar clickablility (to conform with sb1.4)
New icon for pane and view menu (looks better with new default skin)

To do:
Make some new faces better suited for use in the control panel.




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Comments

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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.

8 months 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 °)/=@

8 months ago
atreiu
atreiu

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

8 months 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!!

8 months ago
Steve123458
Steve123458

It's very cool.

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

7 months 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.

7 months 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)

2 months ago



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