vbClock v1.3 (with Alarm, Stopwatch and World Time)

vBClock
version 1.3

DIFFICULTY: Beginner/Simple
TIME TO INSTALL: Less than 5 minutes
Templates to edit: 2
New phrases: 1
New files to upload: 6 (1 .php, 2 .html, 2 .gif, 1 .mid)

This adds an auto-updating javascript clock (ie: the seconds "tick") that is displayed in the WELCOME area of the NAVBAR. When you click on the phrase "The current time is" it opens a new popup window that displays the current time in every time zone. If you click on the alarm clock icon it opens a popup window that has an alarm clock which the user can either enter their own alert message, or they can play a midi file audio alert at a pre-selected time (the audio alert function seems to work on IE only at this point). If you click on the stopwatch icon it will open a popup window with a stopwatch. The stopwatch has stop/start, pause, reset and split time functions.

SEE SCREENSHOTS

INSTALL INFO

1) Upload the contents of the UPLOAD folder to your forum ROOT directory. If you want to change the alert file then simply substitute a midi file of your own and be sure to name it "alert.mid"

2) Make the edits to the NAVBAR template as indicated in template-edits.navbar.txt

3) Make the edits to the headinclude template as indicated in template-edits.headinclude.txt

4) Add the new phrase as indicated in new.phrases.txt

5) That's it!

version history
V. 1.1: added a Stopwatch function, and fixed a window size error and resized the clock gif image. To upgrade from 1.0 simply redo the file edits listed in template-edits.navbar.txt and also upload the following: stopwatch.html, alarmclock.gif, stopwatch.gif

v. 1.2: fixed the smilie error/conflict

v 1.3: added support for vBadvanced CMPS index.php



PLEASE CLICK INSTALL

[hotwheels]

i found it usefull, but i lost the use of my smilies in replies...........that really sucks

Please see what can be done to fix this.........thanks, hotwheels

[hotwheels]

oh, and if anyone read's this, DON'T INSTALL yet, it isn't working right............has a fault in it that seem's to shut off your smilies in replies.......

[hotwheels]

this should really be moved somewhere else so other's don't mess up there forum with this hack until it is fixed..........thing show's it was posted back in june, guy that wrote last looked at it on aug. 16th............

this is bad new's

[yoyoyoyo]

Originally Posted by hotwheels

this should really be moved somewhere else so other's don't mess up there forum with this hack until it is fixed..........thing show's it was posted back in june, guy that wrote last looked at it on aug. 16th............

this is bad new's

not really- I have been busy with a few other things. I will get to this soon, though. In the meantime if someone wants to move it to beta until it is fixed that is fine with me.

[yoyoyoyo]

actually no need to do that - I fixed it

updated to 1.2

[Drago912]

Originally Posted by yoyoyoyo

actually no need to do that - I fixed it

updated to 1.2

excellent....working great. One question. I cant see it from the portal page (cmps) only when in the forums....any ideas?

[yoyoyoyo]

Originally Posted by Drago912

excellent....working great. One question. I cant see it from the portal page (cmps) only when in the forums....any ideas?

I had to add a conditional to the navbar template to only allow it to appear on certain pages. You will also not see it on showthread.php, newreply.php or private.php to avoid conflicts.

At your request I updated it to version 1.3, to include support for vBadvanced CMPS index.php

To upgrade fom 1.2 replace the navbar edits with those included in the zip, which I have updated.

[hotwheels]

Work's perfect. Thanks for such a quick repair to the file. Hotwheels

[yahoooh]

u do not fix it , u just remove the function that make me install this hack
before this fake upgrade , the watch showing directly in navbar without any click ..but this make some trouple with js of bb codes , so u just remove it and said that u fix it

i unstalled this because now it will not showing the time directly in navbar

[yoyoyoyo]

Originally Posted by yahoooh

u do not fix it , u just remove the function that make me install this hack
before this fake upgrade , the watch showing directly in navbar without any click ..but this make some trouple with js of bb codes , so u just remove it and said that u fix it

i unstalled this because now it will not showing the time directly in navbar

Huh? It was not a "fake upgrade"

It works for me and others, without any need to click on anything and the time is displayed directly in the navbar- ticking off seconds as advertised. None of that code has changed at all. I just moved the javascript to the header (not a problem there) and cleaned up the html, and limited it to not appear in the navbar on a few pages which I mentioned, so if anything it should work BETTER (and it does for me and everyone else who has tried it, and posted to this thread). Can you take a screenshot of what it looks like on the index page?

You will not see the clock on the "showthread.php" or "newreply.php" or "private.php" to avoid conflicts, but I don't think that makes it a "fake" update (whatever that means).