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danielchalmers / DesktopClock

A digital clock for your desktop!
https://github.com/danielchalmers
MIT License
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Request: Textures #36

Closed breem42 closed 8 months ago

breem42 commented 8 months ago

I think it would be great to use a tiled bitmap instead of a colour, either for the background, or especially for the actual date or time. As I use large fonts, this would work well for me. I understand that this might not be a priority for you Daniel. You may just want a simple clock that sits there doing it's job.

BTW you may not be aware of a program for Linux named Variety. It works very differently from your DesktopClock, and a desktop clock is just one of it's many functions. But it is what inspired my interest in your project.

danielchalmers commented 8 months ago

Hi, I added an option for a custom background image in v4.1.0. It's stretched to fit. I'm open to more ideas so let me know what you think and feel free to re-open the issue!

breem42 commented 8 months ago

Thank you for your efforts.

I poked around some more. As far as I can tell there is no "TextImagePath" attribute or equivalent that would provide tile fill of the text itself. Perhaps someone has implemented some sort of extension somewhere, but I didn't find it. And thinking about it, why would they?

It looks like you can tile a background image in ".NET MAUI". I suspect it would require a complete re-write, since it looks like MAUI is mostly aimed at mobile developers.

gavin1970 commented 8 months ago

Only way is to do that is paint it.   I do that but its painted on a invisible win form.  SwitchWinClock/SwitchWinClock/DisplayForm.cs at master · gavin1970/SwitchWinClockgithub.comChizlOn Jan 4, 2024, at 11:51 PM, Tony @.***> wrote: Thank you for your efforts. I poked around some more. As far as I can tell there is no "TextImagePath" attribute or equivalent that would provide tile fill of the text itself. Perhaps someone has implemented some sort of extension somewhere, but I didn't find it. And thinking about it, why would they? It looks like you can tile a background image in ".NET MAUI". I suspect it would require a complete re-write, since it looks like MAUI is mostly aimed at mobile developers.

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