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by Aaron Lehmann
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XDaliClock |
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XDaliClock is a digital clock for the X Window System; when a digit changes, |
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it ``melts'' into its new shape. |
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It can display in 12 or 24 hour modes, and displays the date when a mouse |
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button is held down. It has two large fonts built into it, but it can |
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animate most other fonts that contain all of the digits. It can also do some |
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funky psychedelic colormap cycling, and can use overlay planes or the `shape' |
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extension so that the window is transparent.
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In the default configuration, this program is very network-intensive. If it
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seems sluggish, try the "-memory high" option (see the man page). It will
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take a little longer to start up, but will then go easy on the bandwidth.
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This program was inspired by the Alto/Macintosh programs of the same name,
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written by Steve Capps some time in the early eighties. This implementation
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is mine, and if you're looking for another reason to hate the X Windows |
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``feature'' of network-transparent graphics, well here you go. |
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Copyright (c) 1991-1999 by Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>. Please let |
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me know if you find any bugs or make any improvements. |
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The latest version of xdaliclock can always be found at |
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http://www.jwz.org/xdaliclock/ |
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==============================================================================
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To build for the X Window System: |
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cd xdaliclock/X11/ |
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./configure |
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make |
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make install |
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==============================================================================
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To build for the Palm Pilot (using gcc as a Unix --> Pilot cross-compiler): |
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cd xdaliclock/palm/ |
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./configure |
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make CFLAGS="-O3" |
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Then use |
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pilot-xfer /dev/ttya -i daliclock.prc |
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to download it to your Pilot. |
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If you don't already have a working Pilot cross-compilation environment set |
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up, you'll need to install "m68k-palmos-coff-gcc", "pilrc", "obj-res", and |
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"build-prc" first. This can be a lot of work -- you're on your own! |
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29-Nov-99 (v2.18) Oops, month number was off by one in the Palm version.
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28-Nov-99 (v2.17) Now uses `configure' instead of `Imake'. |
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ANSI C is now required.
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Ported to Palm Pilot.
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12-Nov-99 (v2.16) Fixed some warnings, cleaned up the fonts some more.
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11-Nov-99 (v2.15) Added two new (smaller) builtin fonts, bringing the
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total to four. The smallest one is 27 pixels high,
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and is cleaner looking than any X font I've seen at |
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that size... |
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4-Jan-99 (v2.14) Fixed a bug that caused X errors on some systems with |
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PseudoColor visuals when using `-transparent'. |
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Some portability fixes for OpenVMS.
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Added `xdaliclock.spec' so that everyone builds their |
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RPMs in the same way. |
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7-Nov-98 (v2.13) Put a brain-dead simple date parser in `-countdown'. |
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Updated my email address and home page.
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6-Nov-98 (v2.12) Botched, please ignore.
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31-Dec-97 (v2.11) Added cheesy `-countdown' switch. Happy new year... |
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25-Jun-97 (v2.10) Fixed a bad interaction with xscreensaver... |
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2-Jun-97 (v2.09) Renamed -shape to -transparent, and made it use |
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SERVER_OVERLAY_VISUALS if available -- that makes the |
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option actually be *usable* on SGIs and on advanced HP, |
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DEC, or IBM systems (since overlay visuals actually |
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work, unlike the Shape extension.) |
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30-Aug-96 (v2.08) Fixed a lingering bug where sometimes clicking would |
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not cause the date to be displayed. |
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23-Feb-96 (v2.07) Added WM_COMMAND property for session management. |
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More better VMS support from Martin Zinser. |
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24-Dec-95 (v2.06) Made -cycle work on non-PseudoColor visuals. |
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Fixed a couple of shape-related bugs. |
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8-Jan-95 (v2.05) Fixed a silly bug in determining the visual and cmap |
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to use in -root mode, which caused it to not work with |
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xscreensaver when the saver wasn't using the default |
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visual and cmap. |
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8-Nov-94 (v2.04) Some fixes for SGIs and non-default visuals. |
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31-May-94 (v2.03) Minor tweaks to Imakefile; submitted for X11r6 contrib. |
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21-May-94 (v2.01) VMS and R3 support, with help from Richard L. Dyson |
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<dyson@sunfish.physics.uiowa.edu>. |
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16-May-94 (v2.00) Converted to use Xt instead of raw Xlib. |
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4-Sep-93 (v1.07) Fixed shape handling; some minor portability changes. |
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3-Feb-93 (v1.06) Fixed some memory errors. |
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10-Jun-92 (v1.05) More from Tony Kennedy: support visuals with different |
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depths from default, center digits correctly in |
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initial window, and merge geometry defaults in a more |
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sophisticated way. Merged in a slightly reworked |
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version of more general segment-handling code from |
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Dan Wallach <c169-bg@auriga.berkeley.edu>. Added a |
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second, even bigger builtin font. Added the -root |
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and -fullscreen arguments. |
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4-Jun-92 (v1.04) More VMS support for resource database files, from |
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Tony Kennedy <adk@scri.fsu.edu>. |
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16-Jan-92 (v1.03) Added more intelligent visual support. |
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Made it not die on fonts without per-char info. |
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3-Jan-92 (v1.02) Merged in VMS support from Daniel C. Newman |
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<dan@innosoft.com>. |
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26-Oct-91 (v1.01) Fixed Expose handling in -noseconds mode; |
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access() called with too few args; |
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added resource for MM/DD/YY, DD/MM/YY, etc. |
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7-Oct-91 (v1.00) Submitted for X11r5 contrib tape. |