{"id":9,"date":"2006-06-06T00:54:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-06T07:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projects.m-qp-m.com\/donkeypuss\/?p=9"},"modified":"2008-05-28T12:50:10","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T19:50:10","slug":"speaking-of-taskbar-system-tray-clocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.m-qp-m.us\/donkeypuss\/speaking-of-taskbar-system-tray-clocks_2006-06-06","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of taskbar [system tray] clocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All I wanted was a clock with two timezones shown&#8230; and I couldn&#8217;t find a free one. Took me months to even find out how these people were writing their great shareware.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out, as I suspected, that the tray clock (at the bottom right of your screen) is not an independent program so it is not possible to replace it by &#8220;normal&#8221; means. You have to, in short, write a program that waits for messages to be sent to the clock and interpret them in a custom way.<\/p>\n<p>One such free program is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rcis.co.za\/dale\/tclockex\/index.htm\">TClockEx<\/a>, which is old and doesn&#8217;t look good on top of Windows XP themes. But that&#8217;s a minor thing&#8212;the gem of it is the help file which explains how the author accomplishes his feat by &#8220;subclassing&#8221; and &#8220;hooking&#8221;. In other words, it gives you a bunch of new words to type into Google to find out more and even possibly cool sample programs&#8212;this is also how programs that change the look (&#8220;window manager&#8221;, some may say) of Windows work.<\/p>\n<p>At some point I found a program that would show you all the classes currently open and allow you to change their properties&#8212;so you could, for example, change the Start button to say &#8220;Idiot&#8221; or &#8220;I could care less about the task bar clock when I can do this&#8221;. If I find it, I will post a link.<\/p>\n<p>Of course I never wrote the new clock program. But one of these days I&#8217;m going to mess with it again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All I wanted was a clock with two timezones shown&#8230; and I couldn&#8217;t find a free one. Took me months to even find out how these people were writing their great shareware. Turns out, as I suspected, that the tray clock (at the bottom right of your screen) is not an independent program so it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.m-qp-m.us\/donkeypuss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.m-qp-m.us\/donkeypuss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.m-qp-m.us\/donkeypuss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.m-qp-m.us\/donkeypuss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.m-qp-m.us\/donkeypuss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/projects.m-qp-m.us\/donkeypuss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.m-qp-m.us\/donkeypuss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.m-qp-m.us\/donkeypuss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.m-qp-m.us\/donkeypuss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}