Toolbar Clock

[JerryBrightbill]

A little Christmas present for everyone

Attached is a text file with the code to add a clock to a toolbar using free-form xdialog. It has also been added to the Archive

Jerry

[JerryBrightbill]

RE: Toolbar Clock

Lets try again with the attachment. It is in the code archive.

[russ Boehle]

RE: Toolbar Clock

Thank you, that might be useful.

Russ

[Bill Warner]

RE: Toolbar Clock

Jerry, many thanks - now, what to tell the people that send coal....

[Keith Hubert]

RE: Toolbar Clock

Jerry

Thank you for your clock. Question, does this have to be created for each toolbar that the clock required on, or can it be entered just the once and then added to each toolbar as an extra item?

Keith Hubert
London.

[JerryBrightbill]

RE: Toolbar Clock

Keith

I haven't found a way to make it available as a toolbar choice. But the code is quite simple. What I have done on my computer is save each piece of code in a text file and then import from the text file when I want it. Simple, effective.

Jerry

[russ Boehle]

RE: Toolbar Clock

I have been using the code library for the same thing. I have found it a great place to store interesting things I copy from this board including your clock code. Does the same thing, just a different way.

Thanks again
Russ

[Steve Workings]

RE: Toolbar Clock

Or, save it in the code library.

- Steve

[drgarytraub]

RE: Toolbar Clock

Jerry:

This is very cool. Thanks for sharing.

By the way, is there a way to have the clock appear on the right side of the toolbar, or at least to the right of the last button on the tollbar?

Gary

[JerryBrightbill]

RE: Toolbar Clock

Gary,

To have it the last item on the right, just use the blue arrows on the left of the toolbar button tab of the toolbar editor. Move the free form xdialog to the last item. If you want to create a blank space before the clock to more it further to the right, create another free form xdialog and place it just before the clock xdialog. In the xdialog body put something like this.

{sp=10}

This would add a blank area 10 spaces wide. You can play with the dimensions to get the right size space.

Jerry

[drgarytraub]

RE: Toolbar Clock

Thanks Jerry. It couldn't be any simpler.

Gary

[davej]

RE: Toolbar Clock

Jerry,

Your clock really fits great on my client's custom menubar, but I have one small question that shows my ignorance, but I have to askd it anyway.

How do I adjust the vertical positioning of the clock without increasing the vertical size of the menubar? I've played with the xmargin, but I'm not seeing any effect.

Thanks,

Dave

[JerryBrightbill]

RE: Toolbar Clock

Dave,

You need to play with the ymargin settings. Try

{ymargin=.35,0}

I noticed that the original code works fine if the clock is a standalone toolbar, but causes an increase in vertical size a if inserted into another toolbar. Anyway, here is some code to make a slightly different clock for the toolbar. Replace the code in the Xdialog body with this

{timer=update_time}{interval=1}
{font=Arial,12,bi}{ymargin=.35,0}
{sp=1}{text=%O={B=Win3d}{C=dark red}{@@}%.22,1.5:time}

All other code stays the same. Again, you can play with the ymargin to move the digits up and down. In fact, you only need to change the first value which is the top margin and set the second value to 0. I found that a value of .35 to be about the largest that won't increase the vertical size.

Jerry