A clock at the good time with PTE of course

[JPD]

I just finish several exemples of a clock we can put at the good time and screensaver including a chronometer to know how long time you stopped to work

In the zip file, there are 3 templates, one in order to prepare the presentation, one to create an exe and another to create a screensaver (We can choose the format, the place of the clock and change it). There are also 2 Exe (one is format 4/3, the other 16/10) and 2 screensavers. There are 60 pictures which are displayed.

The exe is in windowed mode, there is no utility for such a "slideshow" to be fullscreen.

The explanation about how to use the templates will be done in some days (problems with translation, longer than to do these templates).

These templates are very big (33 Mo and 45 Mo)

The size of these albums is, with not modifiable watch, without step at each second and without the good time :

258 618 lines for 720 slidess

356 538 with the location of the watch by means of files (97 920 lines for this option)

1 213 338 to have 60 steps per minutes for the seconds (856 800 lines for this function)

1 639 578 to be able to set the watch right (426 240 lines for this function)

You need to have at least 512 Mo RAM for the first template and 1 Go for the second one, the exe files can run on all PC.

To put the clock (only for exe) at the good time, click on the good hour, to change the minutes by step of 5 seconds, click just above the center of the clock (left=minus, right=plus), to change the minutes by step of one minute, click under the center (left=minus, right=plus). To have the good time for te second, put one minute more than the real time, make a pause with the right button of the mouse until the time is same as on the watch. The time continue to be good even you reduice the windows in the taskbar.

The file zip is here. Of course, it's free

[morasoft]

Hello Jean:

It is wonderful to hear from you again.

And thanks for share your works.

morasoft

[JPD]

Morasoft, thanks for all, I am better and will probably put others templates, but it's a hard work for me to translate.

Tom, it's easier to do an analogic clock than a numeric one as you thought, I search the best way for that, I did one last year but only on 10 minutes and the length with the method I used would be awfull on 12 hours. PTE isn't the right tool to do this kind of effect, but this test show that it work well even with enormous file. If I find a solution, I'll explain it here.

[JPD]

I wonder hour accurate the clock will stay after a long period of time

The first I did wasn't synchonized, it loose about 4 seconds each hour on an old PC. The actual version is synchronized, and after 48 hours of test on the same PC it's absolutely correct.

[Ken Cox]

JPD

the syncho.ogg file does not work at my end

is it supposed to make noise?

clock hands move

ken

[JPD]

JPD

the syncho.ogg file does not work at my end

is it supposed to make noise?

clock hands move

ken

That's normal, Ken, it's a file without sound, just use to synchonize in order to have the good time, if it wasn't synchronized, it will lost several seconds each hours on many PC. With this file it's good (I made a test on 48 hours).

It's possible to change the file "syncho.ogg" by another one which must be an hour long.

[Ken Cox]

JPD

thks for clearing it up for me

ken

[Peter S]

Hi Jean-Pierre,

It is wonderful to see you back participating so actively on the forum again. You always have something new to share freely with other members of the forum and I still look back at your excellent explanation of the speed parameters in the PTE file in wonder.

I am not sure if I will ever find a need for a PTE clock but please keep pushing the limits.

Kind regards

Peter

[JPD]

Thank Peter, I just finish another one, a digital one. I am putting it on line.

The wtach run at the exact time since a week.