| Title: | DECWINDOWS 26-JAN-89 to 29-NOV-90 |
| Notice: | See 1639.0 for VMS V5.3 kit; 2043.0 for 5.4 IFT kit |
| Moderator: | STAR::VATNE |
| Created: | Mon Oct 30 1989 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Dec 31 1990 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 3726 |
| Total number of notes: | 19516 |
I took a look, but didn't see anything here relating to this, so here goes.. I just upgraded to VMS V5.3, DW V2.0, and now I see that the clock has been rearranged. Now the analogue presentation is in the leftmost pane, rather than the upper right. To put it cordially, I don't like it that way; amon other things, the analogue display is now in a long, skinny rectangle rather than the approximate square, and thereby much smaller. So.. How can I define which display appears where in the clock window? I want to have all three presentations (analogue, digital, and date). #ken :-(}
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| 1792.1 | STAR::MFOLEY | Hey kid, you're with us | Mon Nov 27 1989 15:36 | 9 | |
There's already a note on this somewhere.. DIR/TITLE=CLOCK should get it.. I think the bottom line is to grab the old DECW$CLOCK image but I could be wrong.. mike | |||||
| 1792.2 | I've looked at the /TITLE=CLOCK notes, no joy there | HYDRA::COAR | What I do is secret. | Mon Nov 27 1989 17:27 | 0 |
| 1792.3 | SMAUG::MENDEL | What've we done to our fair sister? | Tue Nov 28 1989 12:24 | 2 | |
This is just a suggestion: resizing the clock window changes the size
of the various pieces (or at least it did in V5.1).
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| 1792.4 | Not quite what I want, alas | HYDRA::COAR | What I do is secret. | Tue Nov 28 1989 13:16 | 5 |
It still does, but the problem is that resizing the window so the analogue clock is the correct size consumes a major amount of screen real estate, and puts the text panes in the neighbourhood of 72pt. #ken :-(} | |||||
| 1792.5 | Run the V1 executable. | CIM::KAIRYS | Michael Kairys | Tue Nov 28 1989 13:52 | 45 |
I also discoered that I disliked the V2 clock face arrangement, and
posted a note asking whether I could have the old arrangement back
without actually running the old executable. Exerpts from those notes
are included below.
Since I never received any indication to the contrary, I assume the
answer is, if you liked the old arrangement, you'd better have saved
the old .EXE file...
Note that you need the corresponding DECW$CLOCK.DAT file from
SYS$LIBRARY.
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Note 1469.0 DECW 5.3 grumbles 6 replies
CIM::KAIRYS "Michael Kairys" 24 lines 20-SEP-1989 15:30
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Having just installed VMS T5.3, and hence DECW V2, I have two grumbles
(aka nits, I guess):
[ . . . ]
- The new Clock has its face rearranged, and, personally, not to my
liking. I used to run it with with analog and date only, and if I do
that now I have to make the whole thing much bigger just to get the
analog face to be readable. I worked around this by copying over
decw$clock.exe from a 5.2 system, which refused to run until I had
taken a copy of decw$clock.dat from decw$system_defaults: and put it
in sys$library:.
[ . . . ]
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Note 1469.1 DECW 5.3 grumbles 1 of 6
CIM::KAIRYS "Michael Kairys" 15 lines 2-OCT-1989 10:07
-< Let me rephrase that... >-
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Let me rephrase my comments as questions, in the hope of eliciting some
response:
[ . . . ]
2. Is there any way under DECW V2 to have the V1 Clock face
arrangement, besides preserving and running the V1 clock executable?
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| 1792.6 | VIA::FINNEGAN | All of the best intentions are less than one good act. | Wed Dec 27 1989 10:27 | 11 | |
Correct, the new arrangement was to make way for internationalization. I needed a single place to put the date string so it could come out in the correct order for a given locale. I18N did not make the V2.0 release but is in Hickory. There was no way for me to get the date format for XNLS and may it look right for all locales in the V1.0 format. I considered having an option to switch formats but I did not have time to implement it. I will add it to the V3.0 wish list. Neal | |||||