BIG CLOCK? (not HTC Home) - Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General

i know it's not appropriate to request such thing here, but i've been searching for something like this a while... a simple app showing the clock on the today screen without more crappy add-ons like HTC Home. Anyone... please?

Great idea
ill second this, wood be great to have it next to my bed as an alarm clock, a nice full screen simple digital clock
it wouldnt even need to worry about power usage because it would be on charge

i'm not referring to full screen. Just a Htc Home like clock but without tabs and fluffy useless content

moduletz said:
i know it's not appropriate to request such thing here, but i've been searching for something like this a while... a simple app showing the clock on the today screen without more crappy add-ons like HTC Home. Anyone... please?
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Check out battery status. It is highly customizable. I am using pieces of the theme from the following link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=372984

Like this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=344870 ?

not analog but a big digital clock. I'm testing Battery Status right now and it looks awesome but i want to disable all the other functions. Thanks for the help offered

good luck finding this, i've searched high and low and there is no plug in with just a nice big clock. tried battery status yesterday but it also has a bunch of stuff that comes along.
give this a shot http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-dr-puttingham-samsung-time.html

my device is VGA and that plug-in is too small for me

you can use rltoday.. if u want just a digital or analog clock.. it doesnt come with all the battery status stuff..
you can create your own skin or you can go to their forum and search for the desired skin...
edit: found these two skins
http://rotlaus-software.de/forum/viewtopic.php?id=1044
http://rotlaus-software.de/forum/viewtopic.php?id=445
you can modify skin.xml to suit your needs..

the best solution for now is rltoday with a custom skin. Attached 'em, thank you all for the support

Alexk AlDate v1.0.9 free
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http://link-protector.com/427347/

i can't access the link, well i can but there's nothing i can understand
edit: i've googled it and found the best app i could ask for, thank you gidano
{search ended }

moduletz said:
the best solution for now is rltoday with a custom skin. Attached 'em, thank you all for the support
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I'm of the same idea, I've made a simple skin that show a digital clock "identical" to the one of the HTC Home.
Sorry, but for now I can't post the code and a screenshot, you have to wait the next week...
Ah... I have a VGA screen, so my skin is perfect for you

i did the same thing with RLToday. I have the digital clock and the msg notifications, nothing else.
Anyone know if there is a font that looks like the Alien Round found in HTCHome Customizer?

moduletz said:
the best solution for now is rltoday with a custom skin. Attached 'em, thank you all for the support
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Tried this? Much lighter than RLToday. You can customize size, font, style, alignment...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=260441

There was one just released last week. Early version, gimme a min to find it.
[EDIT] This?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=369938

another CLOCK ....
SpoonWatch1.1
^^**^^**^^**^^
The SpoonWatch will present the date and time on your mobile device with big fonts,
easily readable during the night and all with zero clicks.
Features:
² Big and Clear fonts— for night use.
² Automatic popup after turning on the device (can be turned off)
This version will work on Windows Mobile 5 or 6 only.
enjoy .....

the best solution i found is AlDate. Extremely low memory footprint, totally customizable (font, size, date, time, sec...) It is posted in this thread

Related

Post your today screen

I thought I'd start a new thread on Today Screenshot and see who's got the slickest, funkiest, outrageous or just plain simple like mine below, and who know's may be we can start to share themes etc....
Attached Butterfly gif animation and clock for S2U2
what soft do you have on your pda??
thanks
I'm using Phonealarm 1.64 and LG today plugin have a look here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=352109&highlight=lg+today+plugin
here's mine. i've added only spb phone suite to my today scr.
PP18 I'm a big peanuts fan anyway I could get you to post your today screen..........HAVE A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS
and Herewith is mine looks very much like my previous Touch(es)
Happy holidays all.
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and Herewith is mine looks very much like my previous Touch(es)
Happy holidays all.
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Cool! How you achieve that? btw, i am from SG too I think i saw yr nick in PPCSG too
tcs80 said:
Cool! How you achieve that? btw, i am from SG too I think i saw yr nick in PPCSG too
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Thanks.
The apps that make it look like that are:
Phonealarm with a mod of Macguffin's DoNotTouch skin
found here http://www.pocketmax.net/smf/index.php?topic=4662.0
PS. There have been some changes in donottouch skin that are not published too.
The 2nd plugin is Pocketbreeze 5.3.0.6
have quite a few 3rd party plugins incorporated to pocketbreeze (weather panel, info reader, spb backup plus).
Unfortunately the mods that i did to get the feel is not published. So if you're interested i'll pass you the files, all i need is your email.
The 3rd is Batterystatus.
Of which have modified the xml to get this look and feel.
The top bar consists of:
mytools 1.5.1 - use this for battery uptime and connection uptime (when available). Have got some custom icons for the ok/close soft buttons.
indibar 2.7.0 - for the RAM and Battery meters, as well as the cascading start menu.
The bottom bar consists of Saman's WM5NewMenu.
i think that about covers it.
sneakyp86 said:
PP18 I'm a big peanuts fan anyway I could get you to post your today screen..........HAVE A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS
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glad to meet another peanuts fan here.
i'm using the built-in htc theme, and just changed the htc home background to semi-transparent and use my own wallpaper. here's the wallpaper.
thescum said:
Thanks.
The apps that make it look like that are:
Phonealarm with a mod of Macguffin's DoNotTouch skin
found here http://www.pocketmax.net/smf/index.php?topic=4662.0
PS. There have been some changes in donottouch skin that are not published too.
The 2nd plugin is Pocketbreeze 5.3.0.6
have quite a few 3rd party plugins incorporated to pocketbreeze (weather panel, info reader, spb backup plus).
Unfortunately the mods that i did to get the feel is not published. So if you're interested i'll pass you the files, all i need is your email.
The 3rd is Batterystatus.
Of which have modified the xml to get this look and feel.
The top bar consists of:
mytools 1.5.1 - use this for battery uptime and connection uptime (when available). Have got some custom icons for the ok/close soft buttons.
indibar 2.7.0 - for the RAM and Battery meters, as well as the cascading start menu.
The bottom bar consists of Saman's WM5NewMenu.
i think that about covers it.
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Hello, the second screen posted showed the lockbar for the screen (like iphone)
how can i have it??
Please send me to [email protected]
tanx en advance
dax
ariandax said:
Hello, the second screen posted showed the lockbar for the screen (like iphone)
how can i have it??
Please send me to [email protected]
tanx en advance
dax
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That's s2u2, and can be found here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=353008&highlight=s2u2
and here's my new screen courtesy of some tinkering of batterystatus mr_deimos's skin and macguffin's phonealarm skin.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=1787963#post1787963
gfreek said:
I thought I'd start a new thread on Today Screenshot and see who's got the slickest, funkiest, outrageous or just plain simple like mine below, and who know's may be we can start to share themes etc....
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how can i only use the slide to unlock functionality..
is this possible??
themasterfk said:
how can i only use the slide to unlock functionality..
is this possible??
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sure. simply install S2U2
(remember to turn off the Direct Draw option from S2U2 Settings when running on Touch Dual)
thescum said:
Thanks.
The apps that make it look like that are:
Phonealarm with a mod of Macguffin's DoNotTouch skin
found here http://www.pocketmax.net/smf/index.php?topic=4662.0
PS. There have been some changes in donottouch skin that are not published too.
The 2nd plugin is Pocketbreeze 5.3.0.6
have quite a few 3rd party plugins incorporated to pocketbreeze (weather panel, info reader, spb backup plus).
Unfortunately the mods that i did to get the feel is not published. So if you're interested i'll pass you the files, all i need is your email.
The 3rd is Batterystatus.
Of which have modified the xml to get this look and feel.
The top bar consists of:
mytools 1.5.1 - use this for battery uptime and connection uptime (when available). Have got some custom icons for the ok/close soft buttons.
indibar 2.7.0 - for the RAM and Battery meters, as well as the cascading start menu.
The bottom bar consists of Saman's WM5NewMenu.
i think that about covers it.
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Hi Techscum,
I am really impressed to see your today screen but I am using Samsung I780. I read all your posts but can't make out which applications will be suitable for I780. Will it be possible for you to suggest some thing on that?
gfreek said:
I thought I'd start a new thread on Today Screenshot and see who's got the slickest, funkiest, outrageous or just plain simple like mine below, and who know's may be we can start to share themes etc....
Attached Butterfly gif animation and clock for S2U2
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how can i do that do S2U2? (change the slide bar and put the windows logo?)
hi new at this where do you put files to work on the touch
gfreek said:
I thought I'd start a new thread on Today Screenshot and see who's got the slickest, funkiest, outrageous or just plain simple like mine below, and who know's may be we can start to share themes etc....
Attached Butterfly gif animation and clock for S2U2
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where do you put files to work on the touch
Here are mine
Here is mine, running Blue evles rom, Diamond HTC Home Them, and homemade wallpaper
juat want to share this link http://iwindowsmobile.com/
they have a couple of apps for making you love windows mobile
i prefer this today screen than PointUI's
Here is my today
wanted it to be clean and nice.

S2U2 Pointui skin ?

Hey
Wondering if anyone out there is/would like to make a skin for S2U2 to make it match the Pointui interface.
At the moment i have Home running, then when a call comes through S2U2 pops up with slide to answer. Would be awesome to skin S2U2 to match the Pointui look, would look great, all matching and what not.
Also, anyone know of a PocketCM Pointui look-a-like skin? Again this would look great.
Thanks!
I'd like a PointUI skin to match S2U2.
PointUI is not skinnable as yet but here's hoping....
When you lock pointui it gives it's own unlocking slider screen
Well someone made a TSK to match the PointUI. All you would need to do is extract the JPG out of the TSK. I was gonna get around to it but haven't been back to the office yet. If anyone has some theme editing software they can get a jump start on it.
Attached is the PointUI today theme.
Johnston411 said:
When you lock pointui it gives it's own unlocking slider screen
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Indeed but I prefer S2U2.
Johnston411 said:
When you lock pointui it gives it's own unlocking slider screen
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Yeah buts its real bad. s2u2 is much better and handles incoming calls etc. So untill the Pointui guys improve the locker, a s2u2 pointui theme would be great.
Here's the images I used in the TSK, they were extracted from PointUI:
S2U2 "Pointui wallpaper skin"
Copy these 2 wallpapers to S2U2/GFX.
Yeah we are heading in the right direction.
What about icons and such?
i'll see if i can knock together an S2U2 theme for you guys, but it won't really be top quality, since i need to get to sleep soon. just something to appease the people while someone else who has more time to focus on it can produce a better product.
There's a great tutorial for modifying S2U2 in this thread here.
I'll get to working on a PointUI theme for S2U2 as soon as I finish setting up my Telus branded HTC Touch (Vogue 100)(P3050) for the 5th time. (screwed up registry trying to make TouchPal the default SIP) (Used PIM Backup to overwrite the last good backup with a barebones PIM from the last HR)
here's a theme
Hey Azimuth
Thanks for the theme. Just a few notes as you mentioned its untested, iv tested it and..
- There seems to be a white bar next to the SMS icon
- The Clock font is real choppy
- The slide button has white areas in the top corners where i suppose this should be transparent
- Is it possible to have larger icons for SMS, Emails and Calls, like the Pointui ones.
critiques
will fix
Azimuth21
thanks for producing such a nice theme for s2u2. Everyone is good apart from the slide button, i think the corners should be smoother...lol...
anyways for sharing...
I just created the PointUI Slider, I hope you like it.
And here's how my S2U2 looks like.
PS: The icons dont work.
Here's is a coloured version.
Here's how my S2U2 screen looks like:
Firstly, we appreciate that you guys are impressed by Pointui Home, XDA has some hardcore PDA fans and we know you're a tough crowd. We also know what kind of stuff goes down here, hi to all the Chefs out there.
We know that Pointui Home is limited in areas and other software is needed, but come on guys, you have completely raped the logo. Its been designed so its square, it would fit in nicely. That looks like Xenu is about to land.
If you guys are serious then step up. Contact us and ask, let us know what kind of sh!t is going down here. Maybe we can at least meet you half way so the result is decent.
We'll try and get a setting in to have the lock look for an external app like we did with 1.01b and the Music icon, mail, etc.. in the next build.
As you can tell from our forum Joel and I are pretty busy and given we do this in our own time after work so we might not get back to you for a bit. Please have some patience.
Also, please if anyone in these forums works out how to get something to work and there are people in our forum with the same problem we'd appreciate you hook them up.
Thanks cstewart for the donation and Dorothy sends her regards
Cheers,
Shane...
shane_pointui said:
We know that Pointui Home is limited in areas and other software is needed, but come on guys, you have completely raped the logo. Its been designed so its square, it would fit in nicely. That looks like Xenu is about to land.
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This is a legitimate concern, it's your trademark and I would be peeved as well. However go easy on mushipkw, I'm sure his including your logo was out of admiration and not with the intent to desecrate it
You should include trademark usage guidelines on your website or completely forbid it.
borealcool said:
This is a legitimate concern, it's your trademark and I would be peeved as well. However go easy on mushipkw, I'm sure his including your logo was out of admiration and not with the intent to desecrate it
You should include trademark usage guidelines on your website or completely forbid it.
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Exactly. I didnt want to desecrate it, If u say I'll remove it.

My humble contribution to ThrottleLauncher

I've started developing a theme for ThrottleLauncher, and I would like to know your opinion.
As a small explanation of the theme I could say it has 3 main rows + footer.
- In the first row you find a simple clock plus info on your next appointment in your agenda.
- On the second you get the contacts that you assign to the favorites category.
- The third row provides 7 shortcuts that you can personalize with your own apps + 1 for all of them.
- The footer brings up the following pages:
Contacts;
Weather;
Calendar;
Settings.
Not all of it finished so, one of this days I will post a cab to install it in your device.
Hope to ear from you...
Thats a very nice theme. I suggest you wait a bit before developing it all, because APBilbo said he would release v0.9.2 soon this week or the next. IMHO, I would say it's nice except the background doesn't really go well with the icons and some of the icons are pixelated. Besides that, it is a very good theme.
Kraize
The graphics? Yeah... Ok.
Kraize92 said:
Thats a very nice theme. I suggest you wait a bit before developing it all, because APBilbo said he would release v0.9.2 soon this week or the next. IMHO, I would say it's nice except the background doesn't really go well with the icons and some of the icons are pixelated. Besides that, it is a very good theme.
Kraize
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Humm, I wasn't aware that the new version was coming out, but I agree with you. I'll wait a bit.
About the graphics, I also agree with you and as you were the first (and only) so far to refer that, what do you suggest? The icons on the apps are the ones from the .exe plus a background that I found out in some other theme (sorry to the author, but don't remember who you are ). The photos on the contacts row are from the phone's outlook.
Would you like to manage the graphics? I feel much better with the code lines...
Okay. v0.9.2 just got released today. I see a black line below the start button. I think you should place the clock a little lower. The icons are nice, but they don't really match the feel of it. I suggest you either change the background or change the icons to something like the iPhone icons, unless you don't like the iPhone icons, I mean totally your choice.
Kraize
gomazia said:
I've started developing a theme for ThrottleLauncher, and I would like to know your opinion.
As a small explanation of the theme I could say it has 3 main rows + footer.
- In the first row you find a simple clock plus info on your next appointment in your agenda.
- On the second you get the contacts that you assign to the favorites category.
- The third row provides 7 shortcuts that you can personalize with your own apps + 1 for all of them.
- The footer brings up the following pages:
Contacts;
Weather;
Calendar;
Settings.
Not all of it finished so, one of this days I will post a cab to install it in your device.
Hope to ear from you...
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Looks really promising!! . If you need any help let me know .
Thanks!
To the author.
APBilbo said:
Looks really promising!! . If you need any help let me know .
Thanks!
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Very good to see the author of this great app reading my thread!!
Your help will be for sure of great use, but first I will try to "learn" your new theme and the changes in the code and then if I get really stuck in some problem I will be thanked for your help. I will!
Finally, thanks for this great piece of software!

[THE]Science-Fiction Theme

My first theme, a science fiction theme based on the X3 interface and some simple sci-fi elements. The images say it all, so, screenshots attached. Used background attached as well. Install using Diamond TF3D Config 0.6.7 or higher.
It's not perfect yet, the clock needs some work for now.
Very Nice Job!!!!
I'm always looking for new Themes........
Thanks
Mike
Thats awesome. Keep em coming
Can you please post the manilla file with the clock ? or tell me wich one in the .zip file is... thank you.
tha_rami said:
My first theme, a science fiction theme based on the X3 interface and some simple sci-fi elements.
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It's not perfect yet, the clock needs some work for now.
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Wow!
Keep up the good work!
Don't really like the clock, but I love the program-tab!
How's the image-quality, because the screenshot are a bit blurry?!
Maybe an idea to make the big-icons (center of screen while selecting a tab) a little bigger?!
Would be great!
Can you please post the manilla file with the clock ? or tell me wich one in the .zip file is... thank you.
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1bbfdc9b_manila and 4e670504_manila would be the clock files. Copy them to your Windows directory and note they work best against a darker background.
How's the image-quality, because the screenshot are a bit blurry?!
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The large icons are slightly blurry, and therefore not any larger than this. I think they're almost at their max currently, so much larger wouldn't have been possible anyway. You won't notice the blur in action, though, due to the beautiful sharp screen of the Diamond.
hi tha_rami
it's nice! what's wrong with the clock btw?
The transparency on the clock gives a bit of an odd effect when the numbers change. Sadly, I've found no way to change that animation and thus had no choice but to either leave it at that or make some lame background for the clock (an idea I detested), so this is the best possible given the possibilities available to me.
Let's conclude that I'm happy with how it turned out and searching for inspiration for another new, unique theme.
Thank you very much
hi
very beautiful! posoono not only have the files without all the theme?

[THE] S2U2 1.4x & 1.5x Diamond Theme (Mar 01, 09)

I thought maybe someone might be interested in HTC Diamond theme for S2U2 so I made my own. It's not perfect and the clock is not mine, but I've made there a couple of changes - used original TouchFLO 3D icons, used original WM 6.1 icons for statusbar, made all new slider (matching the HTC Touch style), fixed and cleaned the background (found here on XDA). All info is in enclosed ZIP file.
Enjoy.
EDIT (March, 1st): Screenshots slightly out of date.
LATEST VERSION 1.5x: Initial release (March, 1st)
LATEST VERSION 1.4x: V04 (February, 8th)​
Version history 1.5x:
Initial release
All files updated in order to comply with 1.50 version
Included original S2U2 1.50 Diamond style as well as my Diamond Glass style
Version history 1.4x:
V04
Updated "redcircle.png" by original TouchFLO 3D images
Updated "system.png" by original HTC and Windows Mobile icons (alarm icon from TouchFLO 3D, WiFi nad BT icon from HTC WM)
Removed black background from "system.png" in order to make it compatible with light wallpapers = no more black rectangles
Added landscape "manila" wallpaper
V03
Corrected some "manila" clock files
Deleted screenshots from the pack
Added two new wallpapers
Added "glass" version of wallpaper and clock
Updated "readme.txt" in both Czech and English
V02
Cleaned the wallpaperb.jpg
Intial release
Known limitations of the skin/S2U2:
(red = 1.4x, blue = 1.5x, black = both)
I haven't designed the skin for neither S2P nor call answering. The skin was designed to look exactly like on the pictures I've enclosed.
The clock format must be set to "HH:MM" (01:30 format), otherwise the clock will be bad-positioned.
You can't use the "show large battery" function because it would mean there are no flips under the clock (the flips are parts of the wallpaper - just have look at the templates).
I STRONGLY RECOMMEND TO UPDATE TO THE LATEST 1.5X VERSION SERIES.​
Very nice work, i know some released a similar version earlier but this looks like it fits in with TF3D alot more. Thanks!
Nice work, thanx
Diky, rad vyzkousim
Great job. If I may make a small request though as to change the white flip clock to the glass flip clock? I would really appreciate it. I use the glassclock on tf3d so it would just match better thanks in advace
kingbean said:
Great job. If I may make a small request though as to change the white flip clock to the glass flip clock? I would really appreciate it. I use the glassclock on tf3d so it would just match better thanks in advace
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Even though I said there would be no updates or whatsoever, I think that shouldn't be a big problem for me. If you were able to get me a screenshot or point me, where to get the source files, I can give it a try.
wizaard said:
Even though I said there would be no updates or whatsoever, I think that shouldn't be a big problem for me. If you were able to get me a screenshot or point me, where to get the source files, I can give it a try.
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Here's a posting with a screenshot and a .cab file of the Glass Clock. Thank you again very much!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2570674&postcount=8
I will do my best - I've sent a PM to the author, so now I'm waiting for his reply. If everything goes well, the result will be here within a day. Please be patient.
nice theme. works nicely!
I made a new background to go along with my wallpaper.
VGA - my current wallpaper, got it from wallpapers thread.
wallpaper.jpg - modified for use with this theme
arkavat said:
nice theme. works nicely!
I made a new background to go along with my wallpaper.
VGA - my current wallpaper, got it from wallpapers thread.
wallpaper.jpg - modified for use with this theme
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Nice work! Just a little note - why do you have the "flips" moved slightly to the right? Is it on purpose? Anyway - I've made another version if anyone found it useful.
kingbean said:
Here's a posting with a screenshot and a .cab file of the Glass Clock. Thank you again very much!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2570674&postcount=8
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Done and included in both pack (since V03) and templates.
Farkin Sweet! Thanks a ton for creating this, I REALLY appreciate it. Especially the templates! (Once I realized that it wasn't actually a real flip clock and half of it was part of the background.)
Great to hear that - anyway - just a little note - I haven't received any answer from the glass clock author, so I had to "rip" the source files from manila themes using the Manila Editor. The numbers are made by myself (actually edited), but I hope it looks pretty much like the original you wanted.
Wow, good job on that. I opened your glassclock template in Photoshop, inserted my own wallpaper, and sharpened it. Here's how it came out. (the only glitch i have found so far is that when the clock goes from 12:59-1:00 that the numbers slide over and no longer match up with flip clock outline.) Because of this, I'm not sure if my wallpaper for landscape will match (I have a TP). But I made one anyway. I also added a little more dimension to the slider and posted it.
:Edit: I got the glass to look a little more glassy/transparent. Now if only I could get the one in tf3d to be the same lol
The thing is that the clock format must be set to "HH:MM" (01:00) instead of "H:MM" (1:00) - there's unfortunately no other way. But I think I've mentioned it in the readme file. And what more - that's true that I haven't made the landscape wallpapers either.
EDIT: I've added the ZIP file containing the landscape templates. Thanks for your great idea!
Thanks for another template. Glad I could give you the idea. I took your advice about the clock and other than the a big "0", it's balanced. so I can deal. I also got bored and remade the slider icons again, and again, and again check 'em out! tell me what you think.
I think they're pretty good!
Great stuff. Thanks for your help.
Is there anyway to make the flip clock flip? Mine does not flip.
As far as I can tell - it's impossible.
That is what I figured. thanks.

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