astime is an analogue clock utility for X Windows. Copyright (c) 1998-2000 Albert "Tigr" Dorofeev <albert@tigr.net> Copyright (c) 1999 William Kostis <kostis@ee.cornell.edu> For the updates check http://www.tigr.net/afterstep/ Description: ============ This is an AfterStep look & feel analog clock for X Windows. Why do we need a yet another clock? Hmmm... It's simple. I could not find a clock that I could customize to my Wharf in a decent way. I got frustrated and so I wrote one. I wear an analogue watch and I am not at all used to reading the digital watches and clocks. It takes only a glance on the analogue watch to know what the time is and it takes a while to read the digital watch. There is a beautiful "asclock" for those who like digital watches. I needed an analogue clock. The tool shows a usual analogue clock dial almost in the center. Actually, I tried first to make one that would be right in the center but couldn't. It's pretty hard when you have 54x54 background. So, I gave up and decided that I will have it "intentionally" moved away from the center. The top left corner contains the day-of-week indicator. The bottom line is used to display the current date. The date and day-of-the-week displays may be switched off with a command-line option. Then the clock occupies the whole view. The X11 '-geometry' option allows you to set the size to any other size rather than "standard" AfterStep 54x54. The program may be used directly or in the Afterstep "wharf". It also supports the WindowMaker docker (-withdrawn option). It may be used in all other window managers as well. It runs well as an icon. Khe... allow me to introduce a few major changes here. William Kostis <kostis@ee.cornell.edu> is a co-developer (version 2.0) and he immediately came up with a completely new look. astime could already run in a bigger window than 54x54 before and he uses it outside of Wharf (not that he has one running good ol' fvwm2). So he decided to add fancy rendering for the clock hands and a few options to be able to customize it properly. The new options look much better for bigger size window due to the small details that become indistinguishable in the little 54x54 standard window. I am not sure anymore how I should describe the clock then. Its look ranges now from that original "AfterStep-ish" look all the way through the color spectrum to the good ol' xclock. Well, whatever. Check it out for yourself. Make the window bigger (use -geometry) and experiment. You may want to have a look in the CHANGES file for the history of updates. Credits: ======== Great many thanks to authors of all those clocks that I played with. There may be some other people's code carried over from asapm. See asapm's README for detailed credits. Thanks to Jakob Henriksson <jakobh@mail.bip.net> for the '-exe' switch code. Thanks to Bill Davidson <bill@kayhay.com> for the "PI" patch. Thanks to Janne Korkkula <jannek@cc.hut.fi> for the "noborder" patch. Thanks to Brian Lindholm <lindhobr@vasale01misge.salem.ge.com> for a patch. Distribution: ============= The application and the source code are under GPL. See LICENSE file for details. Naturally, I would like to hear of all changes and improvements made to this utility. Enjoy and may the source be with you, Albert "Tigr"
