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Seishino
Joined: Dec 2, 2003 Posts: 139 Status: Offline |
One more little app for the community. Pirate Time! It displays a little clock in the upper-right corner of Puzzle Pirates. It can display your local time, or the official Pirate Time (the time in California). It can do all sorts of wonderful things like, erm, display time. For those worried, it doesn't modify the application in any way... it's just a small window that opens in the right spot above Puzzle Pirates. It needs to be run when you run puzzle pirates, or it can sit in your system tray waiting. Windows only (sorry). Might still be Kludgy (sorry). Let me know if it runs slowly on your system, or if the fonts / image doesn't align properly. Adding new time formats is easy, so if you're particular to day/year/month format (or whatever), just ask. http://www.chriscanfield.net/resources/downloads/PirateTime.zip If anyone has a good replacement watch icon, please let me know. Thanks! PirateTime@chriscanfield.net ---------------------------------------- Viridian - Seishino Skellie Alert - Pirate Time |
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Sagacious
Joined: Mar 6, 2006 Posts: 4797 Status: Offline |
Request for a Pirate Time Clock for the Windows Vista Gadget bar++ :) Nifty tool... ---------------------------------------- Cerulean & Meridian - Icemeister Emerald & Obsidian - incognito! #TeamPurple ---------------------------------------- [Edit 1 times, last edit by Sagacious at Aug 23, 2006 7:30:38 AM] |
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rixation
Joined: Feb 19, 2005 Posts: 5043 Status: Offline |
Boo. Hiss. Grrr. (Same complaint regarding Skellie Alert btw). I was trying to avoid installing Wine on this box for the (very few) w32-based apps I use, but I guess it's almost worth it at this point. ---------------------------------------- Epimetheus Retired |
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DarkTyger
 Joined: Mar 29, 2004 Posts: 183 Status: Offline |
Pff. Just go ahead and give completely in to the Bor-...err, Micro$sha-....I mean, Microsoft. ;) |
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rixation
Joined: Feb 19, 2005 Posts: 5043 Status: Offline |
In 1999, I got my MCSE (just let it expire in 2004)...I know exactly what that OS consists of, and I don't approve. I'll stick to Debian and other Linux flavors, spankyeverymuch, kthxbai. :p ---------------------------------------- Epimetheus Retired |
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Seishino
Joined: Dec 2, 2003 Posts: 139 Status: Offline |
Sorry about the Windows only thing. It's a cheap little script that took about 200 lines of code, most of which is devoted to the permutations of display options and getting a consistent reading of California time. I would prefer to have this stuff for those rare occasions when I break out PP on my old Mac laptop. Is there a good cross-platform language out there that is specifically for rapidly creating simple applications that have some system integration, like easy determination of window title / position? C / Java is too detailed and their UI stuff winds up too platform-specific. BTW, I have some ideas for version 1.1... we'll see how much time I have after my other jobs. ---------------------------------------- Viridian - Seishino Skellie Alert - Pirate Time |
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Dark_Bnavv
Joined: Jul 11, 2006 Posts: 342 Status: Offline |
Heh, use Virtual Pc on newer macs. Brand new macs using the Intel software are even faster. If it is just a clock, the graphical limits of VPC should still easily be able to handle it. As for the older macs, the only cross-platform language i know of would be java. Sorry i couldnt be of more use =( ---------------------------------------- Darkbnavv on Meridian ---------------------------------------- [Edit 2 times, last edit by Dark_Bnavv at Aug 24, 2006 12:35:00 AM] |
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Lizthegrey
Developer (retired) Joined: Jul 22, 2004 Posts: 6912 Status: Offline |
You know for sure Java's installed on any computer that someone would want to run your application on, and this seems like a four-liner... |
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Seishino
Joined: Dec 2, 2003 Posts: 139 Status: Offline |
Version 1.1 (yeah, I up the version quickly) Now asks if you want to launch Puzzle Pirates if you run Pirate Time and it isn't already open. *should* work for everyone's setups, but please let me know if it doesn't work on yours. Still need to fix the thornier problem of a narrow window on wider puzzle frames. http://www.chriscanfield.net/resources/downloads/PirateTime.zip ---------------------------------------- Viridian - Seishino Skellie Alert - Pirate Time |
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Brendenbat
Joined: Mar 20, 2006 Posts: 129 Status: Offline |
Is it just me or is pirate time an hour to slow. ---------------------------------------- Brendabat - Hunter Brendenbat - Sage |
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Seishino
Joined: Dec 2, 2003 Posts: 139 Status: Offline |
Gah! Daylight Savings Time was broken... I forgot to reference the year variable as an index rather than a string. Fixed. ---------------------------------------- Viridian - Seishino Skellie Alert - Pirate Time ---------------------------------------- [Edit 1 times, last edit by Seishino at Aug 25, 2006 7:43:46 PM] |
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char
Joined: Jan 4, 2004 Posts: 1544 Status: Offline |
Err mines still an hour off... (Sat 1:07AM really its 12:07AM) Edit: I also get this message if I ask it to run Puzzle Pirates...  ---------------------------------------- Zife Senior Officer of Black Death Host of the 11th Black Death Tournament Co-Host of the 10th Black Death Tournament ---------------------------------------- [Edit 1 times, last edit by char at Aug 26, 2006 12:10:30 AM] |
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Seishino
Joined: Dec 2, 2003 Posts: 139 Status: Offline |
Hmm... sorry about the message. I attempt to use the registry key to determine the location of puzzle pirates, but it looks like I'm testing an older key. The newer key lists out the install directory for Java, not Puzzle Pirates. Is there a better way to determine program location? So that's what a beta test period is for. ---------------------------------------- Viridian - Seishino Skellie Alert - Pirate Time |
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Sagacious
Joined: Mar 6, 2006 Posts: 4797 Status: Offline |
Hmm, can you tell it to launch the line '"C:\Program Files\Three Rings Design\Puzzle Pirates\java\bin\javaw.exe" -jar getdown-dop.jar .' perhaps setting the C:\ as a variable or wildcard... ---------------------------------------- Cerulean & Meridian - Icemeister Emerald & Obsidian - incognito! #TeamPurple |
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Seishino
Joined: Dec 2, 2003 Posts: 139 Status: Offline |
Unfortunately, launching java directly doesn't quite solve the problem, as you have to be sure of the installed folder of PP to use as default. It took a while to figure that one out. Ok, I now scan four locations for a link to Puzzle Pirates, then just ask the user to find it if it's not there. The locations are: Default install location, old version Registry install location, Registry uninstall location, and the INI file for whatever location worked last time. http://www.chriscanfield.net/resources/downloads/PirateTime.zip Still working on: Pirate time bug. Gah! What time is it? When is it what time it is where it is? Resizing window to fit the app. Thanks to everyone for putting up with the somewhat random software development philosophy. ---------------------------------------- Viridian - Seishino Skellie Alert - Pirate Time |
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Seishino
Joined: Dec 2, 2003 Posts: 139 Status: Offline |
http://www.chriscanfield.net/resources/downloads/PirateTime.zip New Version. Now scales with the sidebar, if you enter / exit puzzles. Changed the background to deal with this condition more elegantly. Lots of little bug fixes you probably don't want to be bored with. Also now lets you resize the Puzzle Pirates window (requires a restart, natch). I implemented this to help test on different configurations, and it just made sense to keep it. It may not work on your configuration, and it will stop you from doing it if it won't. But please let me know if it doesn't work for you. Also, If anyone is still having the time bug please let me know. Those problems *should* be ironed out. *Note* Now that things seem stable and solid, I'll stop posting every five minutes. Thanks for your patience. ---------------------------------------- Viridian - Seishino Skellie Alert - Pirate Time ---------------------------------------- [Edit 2 times, last edit by Seishino at Sep 6, 2006 7:59:08 AM] |
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/info gives pirate time too? ---------------------------------------- Sjoerd of Hunter Senior Officer and Cartographer of 'Booty Calls' Member of 'The Swarm' |
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Seishino
Joined: Dec 2, 2003 Posts: 139 Status: Offline |
Bet you guys thought I had forgotten all about this, eh? Actually, I've been tinkering with this pretty thoroughly, and it took a long time to be happy with the results. Under the hood, things have been pretty cleaned up, even if it seems similar but better behaved. + Added "floating" option to the window. Added ability to launch the game from the tray menu. Now swaps clock image between local and pirate time. Actually displays the version somewhere. Re arranged menus. Saturated clock colors. Clock deals with moving windows more elegantly. Numerous bug fixes. ---------------------------------------- Viridian - Seishino Skellie Alert - Pirate Time |
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KingOfZeal
Joined: Aug 19, 2004 Posts: 1152 Status: Offline |
I do hate to bring this up, but what exactly is this meant to accomplish that /info (or an appropriate knowledge of time zone offsets) can't do? Personally, I live in CST, but since so many things I'm into (Puzzle Pirates, eBay, plus a few other hobbies) are dependent mainly on PST (Pacific/Pirate/California) time, I just know instinctively to subtract 2 hours. Now, if this were something that I could use to determine what the local time is for another player (like, for example, one of my many hearties in Europe), then I could defiantly see the advantage. Yamorg -Waiting for the International version ---------------------------------------- Yamorg, Captain and Navigator Founder, Privately Funded Pirates Association© Midnight Ocean
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Seishino
Joined: Dec 2, 2003 Posts: 139 Status: Offline |
Mainly I just wanted to be able to keep track of the time while playing. And I needed a way to re-size Puzzle Pirates quickly to better fit my two differently-sized monitors. I just use Local time, mostly. So no, not particularly useful. Just nice to have. It would be pretty easy to change the clock to reflect any offset the player might want. Would it be helpful to just give the person the option of displaying any one time zone, or would you be looking for something more intricate like "hover over a hearty to get their time"? ---------------------------------------- Viridian - Seishino Skellie Alert - Pirate Time |
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