Pretty Impressive Clock

[shirazamod]

This is my attempt at a pretty clock, that will let you impress your friends with (hence the name). If you wanna buy an actual clock like this program, you can buy it from here.

This basically has 4 areas, for hours & minutes. It displays the time using pictures.
To read the time you need to count the number of colored pictureboxes in each of the 4 areas. The first 2 areas show you hours, and second 2 areas show you minutes. Its really hard to explain, but once you c it you will understand.

I kinda started making options and then got bored, so you can finish it off if you want, but it works fine the way it is.
Check it out 'coz you've never seen a clock like this b4, I can gaurantee it!
(but that is not a legally binding statement)

To open the options, double click anywhere on the form, and to change the orientation of the clock, double click any of the lights.

Enjoy, and remember that this is just something I threw together coz I was bored yesterday, so dont flame me 2 much

EDIT: I've updated the clock so the options work properly (thanks thegreatone)

[paralinx]

haha, I don't understand this clock at all. I'd be late to everything I went to if I had to take 10 minutes everyday to figure out what the time was on this clock

But other than that it looks nice.

[shirazamod]

Yeah it takes a while to understand it, but after that its great just glancing at your screen when someone asks what the time is and then telling them.

To read it you do this:
If the time was 12:35 then, there would be 1 red light on in first group, 2 green lights on in second group, 3 blue lights on in third group, and 5 red lights on in fourth group. Simple!

[shirazamod]

Feel free to leave comments!

[thegreatone]

Very pretty, however, there was a problem with one of the options... this is the fix..

Case "Every 5 Seconds"
    frmMain.tmrRefresh.Interval = 5000
    Call SaveSetting("Clock", "General", "Interval", "5000")

You had it checking for an "every 4 seconds" option, which doesn't exist

[shirazamod]

Thanks for the heads-up!
I'll update it as soon as I get time

[fahad k]

Damn kewl.

[Hack]

I could not make heads nor tails out of this. How does it display the time?

Also, there is nowhere on the "clock" form to load the options form. How does one get to that?

[thegreatone]

Hack, double Click the form...

Also, the time id displayed as follows.

1st set of images = 1 Or 2.
2nd Set of images = 0 through 9
3rd Set Of Images = 0 through 9
4th Set of images = 0 though 9

Now, say the time was 20.56
It would be as follows.

1st set = 2
2nd Set = 0
3rd set = 5
4th set = 6

Do you understand now ?
They are graphically displayed, read the images basically.

[Hack]

Hack, double Click the form...

How did you know that? Is that explained somewhere?

Also, the time id displayed as follows.

1st set of images = 1 Or 2.
2nd Set of images = 0 through 9
3rd Set Of Images = 0 through 9
4th Set of images = 0 though 9

Now, say the time was 20.56
It would be as follows.

1st set = 2
2nd Set = 0
3rd set = 5
4th set = 6

Do you understand now ?
They are graphically displayed, read the images basically.

No...all three sets of images constantly blink and move and change and stuff.

[thegreatone]

I read through the code, followed it through, and then noticed that in the Form_dblClick event it opened the options form.

The option settings are exactly what thats for, set it to 5seconds, and you'll be able to read them I had the same problems.

[Hack]

I read through the code, followed it through, and then noticed that in the Form_dblClick event it opened the options form.

Oh sure smarty pants, go an read the code.

The option settings are exactly what thats for, set it to 5seconds, and you'll be able to read them I had the same problems.

Ahhhh....gotcha

shirazamod: I'm a "when all else fails read the documentation" kind of guy...by default, this should be set to one minute, and you should include a ReadMe.txt with your zip that explains all of this.

Thanks thegreatone!

[thegreatone]

No problems hack, i would have to agree with the documentation, or at least, some mention in the original post

[shirazamod]

Sorry about the confusion!
I'll edit my original post.
Thanks for the comments any how