Description:
Pocket Digital Clock (PDC) is a small and simple program that shows a large digital clock with second display on the Windows Mobile Today Screen. Date is shown above the digital clock very much like the HTC Home plug-in. Name of the service provider is replaced by day of week instead.
Tapping on Pocket Digital Clock will bring the user to the Clock and Alarms window, similar to the behavior of Windows Mobile default Date plug-in.
Features:
- Large digital clock with second display.
- Light-weight program.
- Portrait/landscape and square screen support.
- 96, 128 and 192 DPI support.
- Orientation awareness.
- Low CPU usage.
- TrueType (non-bitmap) font rendering.
- Optional network operator name display.
- Customizable.
- Freeware.
Limitations:
- Windows Mobile Smartphone not supported.
- May not work on Windows Mobile with language support other than English.
Installation Notes:
- Run the EXE file from your desktop (via Microsoft ActiveSync or Windows Mobile Device Center).
IMPORTANT:
If you have installed prior versions of Pocket Digital Clock (Release Candidate 1.2 or earlier), uninstall the earlier version before you install the new one. See Uninstallation Notes below for more details.
If you have custom font installed for RC 1.2 or earlier, rename the file extension of PDCcustom.ttf in the \Windows\ folder and remove it later. Font mapping has changed in the new version and PDCcustom.ttf will not work anymore.
Uninstallation Notes:
- Go to Start | Settings | System | Remove Programs.
- Select ProjectION Pocket Digital Clock and tap the Remove button.
Update Description:
v1.1.8.1 (24-08-2008):
- Removed long date restriction when screen orientation is portrait and system text size is set to largest.
v1.1.8 (03-08-2008):
- Fixed issue with Time Style not being read correctly after overriding the STFmt registry value.
v1.1.7 (29-07-2008):
- Improved the way how Time Style is read to allow more dynamic time marker formats.
v1.1.6 (10-07-2008):
- Added registry values to allow tweaking of color for individual display elements on the plug-in. (For advance users only)
- Clean-up code.
v1.1.5.1 (08-07-2008):
- Minor fix to lose the focus correctly when the registry value HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Today\Items\Pocket Digital Clock\Selectability is set to 0. (For advance users only)
v1.1.5 (26-06-2008):
- Added feature to hide time display in suspend mode. (See Customization page for more information)
v1.1.4 (22-06-2008):
- Added adjustable vertical border height.
- Added new day/date alignment.
- Added check box to show or hide time markers (independent of Regional Setting).
- Shortened Next Alarm text string for ease of reading.
- Increased maximum adjustable time font size from 72 to 99 points.
v1.1.3 (18-05-2008):
- Option dialogs now accessible directly from Today Screen.
- Added new Next Alarm feature. To use this feature, tap and hold the alarm clock icon when system alarm is enabled.
- Removed redundant "Roaming" signal and replaced with current operator name.
- Fixed custom fonts affecting font size in HTC TouchFlo Cube.
v1.1.2.1 (02-05-2008):
- Fixed instability issue in the previous update.
v1.1.2 (30-04-2008):
- Added ability to backup and keep option dialog settings before reinstallation or uninstallation.
- Improved the reinstallation process.
- Replaced Shell API function which is suspected to crash QuickMenu.
- Redesigned program to make Pocket Digital Clock work with QuickMenu.
v1.1.1.4 (25-04-2008):
- Fixed a bug that saved the second and time marker font size incorrectly when closing the option dialogs.
v1.1.1.3 (21-04-2008):
- Modified PDC default font file to resolve problem with PIE for localized Windows Mobile using alphanumeric characters from the Unicode base font due to dynamic font linking.
- Removed the now redundant dynamic font linking.
v1.1.1.2 (20-04-2008):
- Fixed PIE display issue on localized versions of Windows Mobile other than Traditional Chinese.
- Reduced numbers of registry keys for application and code improvement.
v1.1.1.1 (Private) (19-04-2008):
- Fixed problem for Traditional Chinese characters not displaying correctly on Pocket Internet Explorer with Pocket Digital Clock installed.
- Option dialogs now explicitly use Tahoma font so that localized version of Windows Mobile does not distort the user interfaces.
v1.1.1 (17-04-2008):
- Fixed issue on custom font corrupting the system font (finally).
- Fixed operator name not updating regularly.
- Added tap-and-hold gesture for plug-in on Today Screen.
- Added ability to enable ClearType on a per-application basis.
- Relaxed restriction on the long date format based on screen orientation and system text size.
- Devices with overridden system font will be able to use Pocket Digital Clock without Tahoma font installed now.
v1.1.0.1 (16-04-2008):
- Fixed Action reverting to Clock & Alarms settings after a soft reset.
v1.1 (11-04-2008):
- Added option dialogs. No more tweaking from the registry!
- Added the ability to display the current operator name on the plug-in.
- Added the ability to show or hide the day and date region of the plug-in.
- Added the ability to run files and shortcuts other than executables when plug-in is pressed or tapped.
- Added the ability to choose short or long date depending on the date format and screen orientation.
- Display of the second digits is not system dependent now.
- Hour and minute time separator is not restricted to colon(:) and period(.) anymore.
- Disable plug-in instead of deleting the DLL registry value if uninstallation is canceled.
- Changes to some DPI-sensitive calculations to improve code efficiency.
- Minor registry fix for incorrect variable name used.
v1.0.3.1 (21-03-2008):
- Minor fix for possible installation and uninstallation woes.
v1.0.3 (21-03-2008):
- Added registry value to enable or disable the alarm icon display.
v1.0.2.1 (20-03-2008):
- Fixed problem with width of characters not read correctly due to an unexpected font linking behavior on Far East Windows Mobile.
v1.0.1 (17-03-2008):
- Fixed problem with custom font file not detected due to hard-coding of Program Files path name.
v1.0 (16-03-2008):
- Fixed auto-width adjustment when embedding inside other plug-ins like Spb Pocket Plus .
- Added registry values for customization. (See More Registry Tweaks page for more information.)
o Font color.
o Font size for time elements.
o Background color and opacity.
o Double or single-lined time marker.
o On action command.
- Text alignment is now done programmatically.
- Changed the program to retrieve time information from system instead of testing actual time output.
- Re-modified all custom fonts.
v1.3 RC (Private) (13-03-2008):
- Fixed undefined glyph if the time marker is blank.
- Fixed font sharing problem among other programs.
- Remapped font glyphs to unused area of the BMP unicode range.
- Redesigned font dimensions based on Tahoma.
- Pocket Digital Clock will now use Tahoma font when PDC.ttf is not found.
- Removed PDCcustom.tff from program detection.
- Changed PDC font family name back to PDC.
- Installation of files moved from %CE2% (Windows folder) back to %InstallDir% (Program Files folder).
- Reused the AddFontResource API to facilitate the changing of custom fonts. Custom font files will not be locked by system when the plug-in is disabled.
- Removed binary-resource-to-file function for PDC.ttf font file recreation.
v1.2 RC (07-03-2008):
- Check for "tt" in the time format string instead of "hh" or "HH" to determine if 24-hour format is used. This is to facilitate the printing of time markers.
- Added the ability to suppress second digits.
v1.1 RC (04-03-2008):
- Removed the AddFontResource API from the program and made use of the \Windows\ folder to register custom font instead. Fonts loaded by AddFontResource will take over other fonts used by programs not related to Pocket Digital Clock.
- Restructured program design due to removal of AddFontResource.
- Installation of files moved from %InstallDir% (Program Files folder) to %CE2% (Windows folder).
- Changed PDC default and custom font family name to zzPDC and zPDC respectively. Reason being Windows Mobile seems to load fonts alphabetically and placing the PDC font at the end of the line will minimize the chance of being picked by other programs that do not choose a font explicitly. (WM bug)
- Modified all custom fonts.
v1.0 RC (28-02-2008):
- Initial release.