Aqua-Soft Forums

[release] Dashboard Clock For Sysstats

Dashboard Clock by Duckie

chrome.zip

Actual images from the REAL Dashboard.

Almost 1:1px (all but the second hand)

*Minor glitch in the placement of the hands-needs fixing.

Feel free to help out by fixing the issues.

Download it - post-28288-1117326284_thumb.jpg

Please, do not ask for additions.

This is AS IS!

It will NEVER have ANY more options or additions because it doesnt need them.

That's the point of Mac/Apple; minimalism, not clutter.

Installation:

Unpack into your Systats folder

keep folder assignments

Open new instance of Systats

choose load and pick the dashclock config file

To edit your city name:

right clicking the clock

choose 'configure meters'

click on 'city name'

click 'configure'

change the name

click ok

DONE

Enjoy

#195920

is there a reason I cant post in the releases thread?

#195927

thanx duckie,

slight problem, i have no hour and minet hands. any ideas?

edit, figured out the issue, had to fix the pathway for the images.

#195928

*new version uploaded

should fix the image issues

#195931

Bye bye Rainmeter. First it was Samurize out the door with AndreasV iTunes Widget, now the app running my 'Dashboard' clock is history.

The AveDesk 1.1 Dashboard suite is becoming a reality.

Thanks Duckie. :)

#195940

ooohhh, tasty :D

#195941

Duckie is on a roll! Very nice (im still struggling with the calendar script).

is there a reason I cant post in the releases thread?

I believe there is, something about keeping the releases forum filled with releases only. Dont know it for sure tho.

#195943

Awesome! I started working on a DB clock for Systats using your resources, Duckie, but I ran into a few snags getting it to look right and gave up, knowing someone would (and did) come up with a better one.

Thanks!

(Dl'ing right now.)

#195956

Good work Duckie and thanks.

/aviel

#195970

Awesome, is anyone working on the Stock Ticker, Calc, or DB Calendar?

#195983

Originally posted by judge@Jul 29 2004, 11:23 PM

For a better second hand configure the 'second' overlay as follows:

Draw at: X=88 Y=86

Rotation: X=1 Y=1

Question: Does the actual clock come with a bitmapped second hand? If so you will probably get better results using that.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Aye, it does, but when I replace the second hand as an image class, and I choose 'time' as the script to call from...it just sits there.

#196007

Duckie, or anyone else who knows about systats. Is it possible to have it change the face for AM/PM as the Dashboard clock does?

I did a config for Rainmeter that does this for this clock, but hell, if systats can do it then I'll switch over!

#196057

Originally posted by judge@Jul 30 2004, 10:25 AM

Try using Clock.vbs that comes with Italian Clock instead of the current scripts you use. The scripts are what rotate the bitmaps.

Yes it is very possible. The ImageMeter class for for the background, which currently has a 'path' of icons\clock_nohands.png should be changed to have a path of 'icons\clock_nohands%p.png'. And its 'meter' should be set to 'time'. Then you will need to have the following 'icons': icons\clock_nohandsAM.png and icnos\clock_nohandsPM.png.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Oh boy oh boy .... that is SO cool ... going to go fiddle with it now, thanks judge !!

#196082

any news on someone updating this to use the PM look?

#196863

I'm tryin' Duckie ... I'm still trying to grasp the scripting. I can get it to switch the face easily enough, but the hands are another story altogether.

#196887

ManykWC_SysStats.png

OK, finally got this bugger to work. Face and hands change on AM/PM :)

This is the first time I have ever tried doing anything with SysStats so be, uhm, KIND.

Notes:

I did use judge's clock.vbs as suggested to get the second hand to rotate etc.

The font for the City Name is just Arial Black, but that can be changed easily. Not everyone has all the mac fonts so I thought this would be easiest.

Other than that, please for god's sake read the readme before posting problems and such.

ManykWC_Systats.zip

Attachment: ManykWC_Systats.zip

#196927

Thanks Manyc working great!

Just one thing did you noticed the weird move of the second hand when reach the number 6?

#196971

Ya bluebyt ... I have been trying to get the hands to draw 'right' ever since Duckie first posted and I wanted to convert my Rainmeter config. Funny thing is, it ALWAYS does that with rotation of images. I tried making them bigger, smaller, changed the dimensions slightly ... all to no avail. So, for now I'm blaming it on the way the os rotates image overlays.

It does the same thing for me with ANY app/util that rotates overlays .... Samurize, Rainmeter, SysStats ... that's why I blame it on the OS.

#196977

Mine just shows the second hand and the city ? no hour, minute,or background any ideas

#196978

Thanks Manyk!

It's beautiful!

Thank yoooou for thissss :lol:

Fine the way it is.. :D

#196982

I suspect that the weirdness comes from floating point rounding issues;

if the result isn't exactly 180° for 30 seconds, it may flip due to some

optimizing in the systems rotation, like if you have 180.00001° could go to

181°.

I don't know if the time meter returns at second intervals or even milliseconds,

but changing the clock.vbs as follows may help:

	SysStatsModel.Overlays(1)(2).Rotation = CInt( (SysStatsModel.Meters(0) * 360 / 43200) Mod 360)

or

	SysStatsModel.Overlays(1)(2).Rotation = CInt( (SysStatsModel.Meters(0)) * 360 / 43200) Mod 360

I'm not sure if 'Mod' trims to integer already but '\' surely does.

vbScript will default to single precision floating points that won't be accurate

enough to hold 0.5 or 1/3, so try forcing each value to be integer.

Another thing with rotation is that it might dance one pixel from the rotation point

if both the rotation point and the background size isn't odd on both axis, e.g.

making the background image 129x129 and the hand to have 5 pixels downwards,

1 pixel for rotation point and 123 pixels hand length totalling to 129 pixels height

would remedy all your rotation glitches.

#196985

Originally posted by Ghostwalker@Aug 1 2004, 02:00 PM

Mine just shows the second hand and the city ? no hour, minute,or background any ideas

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

WOW ... um, I really don't know Ghost.

3 things I'd try if you haven't already.

1- Remove it from AveDesk, then reload it.

2- Close down AveDesk then Reload.

3- Rebooting the PC.

For me, I ONCE had an issue while configuring the skin in SysStats where it would not update the time. The hands just stayed still. I rebooted the pc and everything was fine after that.

#196987

Ahh, ok herd ... yaa, I thought that perhaps the odd pixel thing might be the issue and tried farting with different images to alleviate the issue, but since I didn't touch the script at all I guess that's why it didn't work.

I need a bit of time to figure out your post ... scripting scares me ... it scares me a LOT .... lol.

But I'll work on this to correct the issue because it bugs the snot out of me too!

#196991

Manyk tryed rebooting ,closed it down reloaded it still the same its not picking up........could you confirm the paths for me for hour min and background just to make sure they are right...........................................................................

................................................I just noticed it is everything that changes with the am pm the back and the min and hour so any idea what it could be on my end

#196998

Manyk, I really appreciate your work: I have your Rainlendar skin on my

desktop and if I didn't drop rainmeter for the love of avedesk, I'd have been

a frequent visitor to your DeviantArt page.

Don't be scared about scripting, it'll come easier each time you try.

I'm looking forward to see some Konfabulator for Windows widgets from you

whenever that arrives. :D

#197001