buzz@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Mahboud Zabetian) (01/22/88)
I had used JClock for over a year and had never had anyproblems with it, until MultiFinder came out and JClock would write over MF's small icon. Now I use Menu clock which just displays the hour and minutes(as opposed to JClock's Hour minute and seconds), but I am not satisfied. With JClock, you knew the time no matter what you were doing. With MenuClock the clock stops during certain operations such as mousedown and downloads. I don't mean that it would lose time, but that it would remain unchanged till said operations ended and then would display the correct time again. With JClock, when that happened, it was safe to assume that the system had crashed, but with menuclock, you never know. Anybody know of a MF compatible JClock? Thank you. P.S. Also, you could get rid of JClock if you clicked on it, but you can't with MenuClock. -- Mahboud Zabetian buzz@phoenix.princeton.edu 183 Little Hall (609) 520-1271 Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 (609) 734-7760 ****** Anyone need a soon-to-graduate hardware/software engineer? ********
sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten) (01/25/88)
In article <1515@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> buzz@phoenix (Mahboud Zabetian) writes: >I had used JClock for over a year and had never had anyproblems with it, until >MultiFinder came out and JClock would write over MF's small icon. > >Now I use Menu clock which just displays the hour and minutes(as opposed to >JClock's Hour minute and seconds), but I am not satisfied. > >With JClock, you knew the time no matter what you were doing. With MenuClock >the clock stops during certain operations such as mousedown and downloads. I >don't mean that it would lose time, but that it would remain unchanged till >said operations ended and then would display the correct time again. As an aside, don't use JClock anymore, regardless of it's merits. It seems to steal too much time from the system, which is especially bad if you're running MultiFinder. As an example, hierarchical menus were taking about 2-3 seconds to display with JClock running. After removing it (and installing MenuClock101 in its place), things run fine again. I only wish MenuClock had an option that made it somewhat more belligerent -- I wouldn't mind it writing over the rightmost menu in those applications that insist on displaying more menus than they really need (RSG, for example). -- Steve Baumgarten | "New York... when civilization falls apart, Davis Polk & Wardwell | remember, we were way ahead of you." ...!cmcl2!esquire!sbb | - David Letterman