#Windows 7 big clock full#

Also, the alarm will now only sound when it is enabled! I added a 'now' option, to set the alarm date and time to right now. I've added an option inside the alarm dialog for switching the alarm on and off. And also some other annoying stuff dialogs opening behind the clock, that sort of thing polished it up enough to use every day without being a pain, which I do it's in my startup items. More cosmeticals I fixed the second-hand color, and so on. I don't use that myself F2 & F3 are your friends, and anyway, now that it remembers its size and position automatically, it pretty much stays put. Disabling the click+drag to move stops this, so I added a preference for that. On some systems, the click+drag to move can cause wee glitches when you take it back out of hiding, moving the clock around, or not drawing things. Watch that if you have that silly click+drag to move enabled. The upshot of this is that you can now have clock startup as a tiny, semi-transparent orange disc in the bottom-right corner of your desktop, or whatever you like.Ĭlock no longer produces an item in the taskbar (technically, it's now a 'tool window'), and can have its visibility toggled by simply clicking its tray icon. I unwired the numbers and did some simple math instead.

I then went and added the ability to alter the hands and pips and numerals, so rather than color schemes, it's just plain 'schemes'!Ĭlock is no longer tied to being 600 pixels at startup. For easy access, you can also select your color schemes from clock's context menu. You can create, duplicate, edit and delete color schemes from there, so you shouldn't have to mess with the ini at all. I went further, and created a color schemes facility, and I've added a preference tab for this (F6). Yes, you can set the colour of the clock face, hands, pips, and numerals, enabling the creation of some truly funky clocks. On-top status, transparency, alarm settings, face and pen colours, etc., will all be remembered after exit. wav and a spoken message, or a synth beep and a spoken message, and so on.įirstly, ALL settings are now saved to ini files, located in user's application data folder. wav, or a playlist and a synth beep, or a playlist and a spoken message, or a. wav files for your alarm, or a playlist and a.

#Windows 7 big clock full#

wav files, simply supply the full path to the. NOTE: You can also override this input and use it to play. Recent spoken messages and paths are remembered in a drop-down. Sam reads the news, quiet, and Mary does recipes, loud, so I can hear them in the kitchen! The possibilities are almost limitless.įully configurable speech volume, rate and voice settings for each alarm. I've started getting the news headlines (from the BBC) in the morning. So alarms can now be used to read log files, server reports, or anything you want to know, but can't be bothered to read manually. (HTML start and end points are also configurable) The path to an HTML file to decode and read. Spoken messages can be.Ī simple word or phrase, typed text. Enter some text, and have it spoken, and much more.