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Need a little for a different clock..
Published on March 11, 2009 By Automan In DesktopX Tutorials

Hope everyone is doing great...

 

I have and idea for a little different clock for a desktop and need a few ideas?

I think everyone just about has seen the Cell Phones that have the flipping Digital Clocks " Square Face with black color and white numbers on the face of the phone.

Well I am wondering if there is a way to do this with DesktopX Pro?

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated...

Thanks

Automan

 


Comments
on Mar 11, 2009

I think everyone just about has seen the Cell Phones that have the flipping Digital Clocks

I haven't. Got a screenshot/picture?

XView did a 3D Clock -- HERE -- that flips every minute/hour, but I'm not sure that's what you're going for.

My best guess is that it would rely on animation for all the flipping, different states for each animation, and a little scripting to sync it up with the time.

 

on Mar 12, 2009

Hi sViz;

I tool a look at the one you mentioned and the only problem is the 3D angle, and I can't seem to figure out here how to get an image posted to look at. Don.t have a wab site at present.

The one I am trying to build is just the time numbers on a straight facing set of Beveled edge black almost square rectangle if there is such a thing.

Thanks for the help and if I can figure how to turn the one in the link you posted I will let you know.

Thanks

Automan

on Mar 12, 2009

Hi folks;

For this clock that I am trying to build, I need to find out how you place an image within a post to show an example?

Thanks

Automan

on Mar 12, 2009

See the tips section HERE.    Once you've uploaded your images to an image hosting site, click on the little "Insert/edit image" icon in the post tools and insert the URL to your image.

on Mar 12, 2009

Hi folks;

Well I did get a copy of the skin posted in my gallery.

ere is what I am talking about but without being an swf file, I would like to try it in DesktopXPror.

https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.aspx?skinid=24484&libid=13

Thanks folks for all the help.

Automan

on Mar 13, 2009

I think the BEST way to do this is to make a single animated GIF that "flips" from 0 to 9 (and then to 0 again) and then you could have to use dx to move teh animation 1 "step" at a time from the 0 to the 1 (this could be 10 "steps")

Look over this: https://forums.wincustomize.com/?postid=336303

You could then make a function to go from 0 to 1 to 2 to 3 etc via script, the hardest part of this is making the animated gif, but someone might have some suggestions on that.. im not a graphics expert.

If you make the animated gif and need help on the script, would be happy to help.