Creating a "Clock" gauge

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Creating a "Clock" gauge

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I used to have a good old truck with a VDO "clock" gauge in the dash. Was just a basic analog clock in a 2" gauge housing. It'd sure be handy to have a clock in with my gauges in Megatunix.. Any chance this could be done in a future version, or is it too far out there?
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Re: Creating a "Clock" gauge

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UnaClocker wrote:I used to have a good old truck with a VDO "clock" gauge in the dash. Was just a basic analog clock in a 2" gauge housing. It'd sure be handy to have a clock in with my gauges in Megatunix.. Any chance this could be done in a future version, or is it too far out there?
that's not likely to be done, as for one, it's a complex gauge. (2-3 needles) which the gauge widget isn't designed to do. the other bit is there's no datasource in megatunix that represents wall-clock time.

And third, it isn't all that practical. (It offers next to zero value tothe app as a piece of tuning software.) If you wanted a clock, try, cairo_clock which is an outside application that uses a skinnable display so you should be able to customize it to your needs, but it may be only for linux/OS-X, not sure if he made a windows port of it or not.
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Post by UnaClocker »

Ok, fair enough. And I'm running OS X, so I should be set. :)
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