Hi, i am new at all this but learning alot. I tried making a clock using the analogclock3dll and it worked. I would like to do the same but have the option to change the color of the hands. I know i can download a clock widget that does this and just change the face but I want to use my own hands and images. If there is a plugin for this or a tutorial on how to... please let me know. This is the design I made and want to have some nice hands for it.

thanks

Not sure if I used the add image correctly so i'll put another just in case.

Doubird

Below is a link of a clock I made that has this feature in it.Open with DX builder right click on the color changer then properties you can see how it is set up.Go to edit code and take a look you should be able to copy the code and paste to the code section for the color button you create .Then cange the group and image names to match the ones you use for your clock.Only the images in the code section will be affected by the color change button.

If I can help just let me know!

https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.aspx?skinid=4427&libid=3

Hi Avman, I will give it a try and if i have questions, i'll come back and ask.

Thank you for your time and help.

Have a great day.

hi again Avman, well i gave it a try and it worked pretty well. A few things i noticed. If the clock hands are black, then i do not see a change in hue color. I got the clock hands off the internet, so i will try to find some lighter colored ones. I haven't tried to make my own yet.

The other thing I noticed is that when exported and I open it, the clock is black so I have to click the hue button to see the origal clock color, then it is fine. Maybe you could help me with this and also if you know a tutorial to create the hands or to download some .

Thanks again for your time.

they will have to be some color other than black or shades of grey ex..red ,blue ........can be a comdination black and red only the red would be affected

in the section that says

Try changing the 1000 to 0

that should fix it

I don't know of a tutorial but if you make them then make sure you save each one pointing at 12 so they apply correctly!

Hope this helps let me know if I can do anything! A/V

Hi Avman, thanks again for your help. It has helped me alot. I discovered desktopX not long ago but I am already hooked. I just love the widgets and the fact that we can design our own skins. So i'll keep on learning... next i would like to try a widget clock that slides open.

thank you and have a great day

take care.

ok, have a question again... why does clock seconds hand not always change time when it hits the 12 I just made a clock, added the face hour, mintues and seconds. Next i used the clock plugin starting with the hours (rotate as hours arm), then the minutes and finally the seconds. I watched the seconds hand go around and the time changed when the second hand hit the 2 instead of 12. I tried applying the plugin for the seconds a few different times and the seconds hand would still not change the time when it hit 12.

any help would be nice, thanks.

When you imported the image the second hand must be pointing staight up at the 12 position.Let me know and I will try and help!

Ok, the weird thing is that the second hand was pointing up at the 12 position. I tried many times but something just didn't work. So I did some searching and found an analog clock script and used that instead and it worked.

Put this script into clock_face object and apply.

Sub Object_onscriptenter
object.SetTimer 1, 1000
End Sub

Sub object_ontimer1
t = FormatDateTime(time(),3)'---Get your system time

h= hour(t)'---Get current hour
desktopx.object("hour_hand").Rotation= h * 30 '---Multiply current hour to get correct rotation
m= minute(t)'---Get current minute
desktopx.object("minute_hand").Rotation= m * 6 '---Multiply current minute to get correct rotation
s= second(t)'---Get current second
desktopx.object("second_hand").Rotation= s * 6 '---Multiply current second to get correct rotation

End Sub

I did try after to make my own set of hands, and they were not too bad but i haven't made them quite perfect. I will try to perfect that. I would like to understand more about grouping when i make a clock because there are 3 options and I usually choose the combine to make objects behave as a single object. So far it works but maybe i should choose the others. I have not found info on this yet. And i would like to make a slider widget, something that opens and will show digital clock. I will search for that and some nice clock hands.

thanks, if there is anything you can do, please let me know.

I hope this isn't off topic, but is there any place to get new hands? my stupid Photoshop 7 has gone crazy, no line tool anymore [I think it's haunted] making hand creation a nightmare!

PS: Roman, I know you, I got a clock from you years ago

I have no idea where to find clock hands, i would do a google image search.

Hope the clock is still working, LOL

Thanks Roman, and yep, it works well!

hahaha!

No need, I found my line tool w00t!