Description:
Retro is a skinnable anti-aliased analog clock for your Pocket PC Today screen.
Features:
- Complete skinnability. With Retro skins, you can customize the clock canvas, hands, and their position. You can place the 3 standard moving hands (or more, or less) where you want to, and add other rotating features like an extra dial, etc...
- Included skin editor. Retro comes with REdit, a small easy-to-use and useful tool, which you can use to make your own skins or edit third party ones.
- Skin flexibility. Skins can have up to 30 independent layers that work just like in Photoshop and other graphics software.
- Superior graphics quality. Retro enables flicker-free graphics that blend seamlessly with the background, per-pixel alpha transparency, and anti-aliasing on rotated layers. Retro looks better and is more customizable than alternatives, like non-freeware Spb Clock and MadBeetle Clock Plugin.
- Real-time moving hands. Highly optimized code makes it possible to draw the seconds hand in real time with the minimum CPU usage, without making any compromise on the output graphics quality. Retro does not waste precious CPU and battery time when the Today screen is not shown, leaving them to the user.
- Easy to use. Copy clock files ("clr" extension) into the Retro directory on your Pocket PC, select your clock skin and configure other basic options from the Today control panel, and you're ready to go.
- Special effects. Retro enables you to create special effects on your clock, like shadows below the hands or near the canvas' borders, canvas-less or semi-transparent clocks that blend with the features of your Today wallpaper, clocks with glass translucency effects, etc...
Important note:
Retro must be installed to the internal memory.
How To Install:
- Download the CAB file attached to this post, run it, and install into internal memory.
- Put additional clock files (skins) into the install dir, then you can choose them in the plugin options.
- The CAB file already comes with 3 skins you may like or not.
- You're ready to go.
You can make your own skin with a software called REdit (runs on Windows PC and needs NET Framework 2.0).
You can also download the user contributions skins here.
Update Description:
v1.07.02 (03-04-2008):
- Fixed the bug that Retro did not animate properly when embedded in Wisbar Advance Desktop.
- Added alarm hand that displays the hour of one of the system alarms.
- Added 24-hour hand.
- Added the shortcut to the system time properties (can be disabled).
- Added author information into the clock files.
- 15-20% drawing speed improvement.
v1.06c3:
- Fixed plugin didn't appear in Today settings in WM5 devices.
- Fixed slow application startup from desktop due to deadlock in slow priority code (introduced in 1.06c2 ).
v1.06c2:
- Fixed CAB install package for non-english PPCs.
- Lower thread priority for clock drawing - should ensure that apps start as quick as possible when opened from the homescreen.
