Drugwash Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 Tested 0.2.8 earlier today. On the bright side:• Skinning is faster now and doesn't take up so many resources (at start)• Painting glitch below the Start button is fixedResources (System|User|GDI) in percent:63 63 64 initially34 34 61 immediately after TClock3 0.2.8 startup 7 7 54 after changing and applying some settings 9 9 64 after Explorer crash and restartAll other issues reported previously are still present. There will come their time. After changing and applying some settings and closing the options panel, a click on the Start button crashed Explorer. Most tray icons haven't been restored. EXPLORER caused an invalid page fault inmodule <unknown> at 0000:00000001.Registers:EAX=00000000 CS=0187 EIP=00000001 EFLGS=00010202EBX=0080f66c SS=018f ESP=0080f57c EBP=0080f618ECX=019c0647 DS=018f ESI=0000c690 FS=2537EDX=00003ade ES=018f EDI=0080f620 GS=0000Bytes at CS:EIP:01 00 00 00 04 70 00 c3 e2 00 f0 65 04 70 00 65 Stack dump:019c0647 00000c44 00000002 00000000 00000000 0080f654 019c0666 0080f618 0000c690 0080f66c 1434c5b4 bff713e2 00000187 bff74272 0001cb04 0001cb04 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Targaff Posted February 17, 2007 Share Posted February 17, 2007 Bill: For me the taskbar flickers every second if you have the clock format set to display seconds. Bizarrely, this stops happening if you move the mouse cursor over the taskbar... is there anything I can do to alleviate this?Also, I've set double left click on the clock to show calendar, but it doesn't seem to work - I can only get to it via the context menu. Do I need to change anything for this (this was actually inherited from my old TClock2 setup, so i only just noticed it).Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildBill Posted March 3, 2007 Author Share Posted March 3, 2007 In case anyone is interested, here is FontSmoother 0.1.4, another program I've been working on. As described here, it's a program that tries to smooth all on-screen fonts in Windows 2000 using sub-pixel antialiasing. Please feel free to try it (and offer feedback if you can ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soporific Posted March 10, 2007 Share Posted March 10, 2007 (edited) I was playing around with this in Windows 98se and was trying to find a good use for it, when i magically improved the font for all the shortcuts on the desktop. It looks really good, so its now a candidate for inclusion in AutoPatcher as on optional addon (if its OK with you). So, the thing that isn't so good that will help me make a decision is the question of the clock. Until i choose to 'Do not customise clock' all i get is a black blob where the clock should be.Is this normal behaviour on a Win98se machine?The utility is looking good so far ... black blob clock aside that is ... Edited March 10, 2007 by soporific Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Targaff Posted March 10, 2007 Share Posted March 10, 2007 I like what this is doing, because where it works it looks great, but there are a number of issues (leaving aside the fact that the zip file appears to contain 2 different versions?). I'm not sure how many of these you're aware of already, but anyhow:Firstly there's this very editbox (image #1). As you can see, the cursor position gradually becomes more and more displaced the further to the right of the editbox you get, making editing very difficult.Secondly, the smoothing can have a detrimental effect on the layout in some windows - see image #2 for an example where the text on imageshack.us is no longer on a single line like it should be.Thirdly, for some reason the Documents menu under Start doesn't render correctly for some reason if it is (empty) - see the third pic.I'm also having some problems with the clock, though funnily enough the normal clock works fine, but customising with TClock results in part of the clock not being displayed - see image #4 for a before/after.Lastly, smoothed text can be badly corrupted if another window containing certain elements is overlaid, e.g. my browser window looks like the last picture once I've had a multiline editbox over it.I hope these issues can be resolved, because I'd like to use this if they can, but unfortunately the errors.(Also hope these attach properly...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildBill Posted March 13, 2007 Author Share Posted March 13, 2007 You're definitely seeing the same SnoothText issues that I have. I've been trying to tackle the text width issue but I haven't yet. I'm finding that Firefox is assuming that the width of a line of text equals the sum of the widths of the individual letters that make up that text, but when using subpixel smoothing that isn't the case anymore. One at a time I want to resolve these issues, but my time is limited and it may take a while. As I come out with new versions I'll release them promptly. The ZIP definitely has problems and I didn't intend to put two versions in there. You obviously should use the newer one For TClock3, you don't have to tell it not to customize the clock. Instead, set the tray to "skin tray" and tell the Clock full skinning page to use one of the quicklaunch images. You *might* also have to tell the format page to use a custom format, like "h:nn tt", but I'm not 100% sure there.As a general rule, I never have objections on redistributing any software I write, including source code. Hopefully someone might see my code and offer to improve it someday (I can dream, can't I?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Targaff Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 Bill: thanks for the info.Do you happen to have any suggestions about the taskbar flickering I mention above? I thought it might go away if I took seconds out of the clock format (I use h:nn:ss @@@.@ usually), but it doesn't unfortunately. Once you throw in taskbar transparency it quickly becomes quite pronounced and distracting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildBill Posted June 22, 2007 Author Share Posted June 22, 2007 Updated to version 0.2.9, please see first post for a download link... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildBill Posted June 22, 2007 Author Share Posted June 22, 2007 Uploaded version 0.3.0, see first post for info... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drugwash Posted June 23, 2007 Share Posted June 23, 2007 0.2.9Systray icons do not appear, they're hidden under the background.System resources drop to a very low level (28%), especially if system menu is skinned.Crashes on exit, which forces an Explorer reload.0.3.0Not tested yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ascii2 Posted June 24, 2007 Share Posted June 24, 2007 The application does not seem to work correctly using Windows 2000 Professional with Service Pack 4; the clock does not appear. A black figure instead appears where it should be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dilusion Posted August 2, 2007 Share Posted August 2, 2007 (edited) Great Program!!! I do have some trouble with it tho I use win200 proffesional sp4 and it does just show a dark figure when there is no skin imported from a windows blinds file. but when a skin is applied for example i applied XPProfessionalvIII it skinned the taskbar prety nicely but it still needs work. The start button was skinned ok and theat was good. but the taskbar kind of resizes itself which i think should be fixed too. Lastly the clock doesnt appear unless i resize the taskbar. But otherwize good Job!!! edit: I tried another skin and the skinning worked as good as i wanted it the only major problem still is that the clock cannot be seen unless the takbar is resized. Edited August 2, 2007 by Dilusion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dilusion Posted August 5, 2007 Share Posted August 5, 2007 Oh sry O got it working now i just had to delete the regestry folder for tclock2 and customize the setting like no put tray clock fill. Great Program !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magicbobo Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 Unfortunately, I tried the version 0.3 and turn out a failure of skinningI dont't know whether it is about the skin files or language or others.whatever Xp or 2000 : ( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildBill Posted August 12, 2007 Author Share Posted August 12, 2007 Uploaded TClock3 0.3.1 and updated the first post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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