Totally lost
Tuesday, October 17, 2006 by Chris Ghali | Discussion: Beginners
I'm new here and somewhat confused. I'd like to create a skin for the windows clock in the system tray so that I can control the appearance of the time, tooltips, window that pops up when double clicked, etc. There are lots of programs that do this and it all seems very mysterious.
How does one go about doing this? The MSDN entries on skins were confusing. Some websites talk about patching system dll's, or requiring digital signatures. Are there Win32 API calls that need to be made? Help!
How does one go about doing this? The MSDN entries on skins were confusing. Some websites talk about patching system dll's, or requiring digital signatures. Are there Win32 API calls that need to be made? Help!
sViz
Reply #2 Saturday, October 28, 2006 7:10 AM
Reply #2 Saturday, October 28, 2006 7:10 AM
BigDogBigFeet is right. DesktopX is the way to go if you want to create your own cool looking clock etc.
Here's a gallery of some clocks created as widgets with DesktopX.
Here's a gallery of some clocks created as widgets with DesktopX.
BigDogBigFeet
Reply #4 Saturday, October 28, 2006 1:14 PM
Reply #4 Saturday, October 28, 2006 1:14 PM
Your right it won't directly, but it can replace the entire Taskbar and do all the things Chris mentioned.
Koasati
Reply #5 Saturday, October 28, 2006 1:32 PM
Reply #5 Saturday, October 28, 2006 1:32 PM
I'll admit I'm no DX expert, but I can't recall ever seeing a DX systray that includes a clock. I've only seen clock widgets, that are seperate from the systray.
But in any case, DX is worth checking out.
But in any case, DX is worth checking out.
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Reply #1 Tuesday, October 17, 2006 1:38 AM