https://github.com/chicks-net/curses-clock

A clock based on curses in C
https://github.com/chicks-net/curses-clock

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A clock based on curses in C

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/chicks-net/curses-clock
• Owner: chicks-net
• License: gpl-2.0
• Created: 2013-07-21T04:08:57.000Z (almost 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2018-11-16T12:59:55.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-01-25T20:44:05.119Z (4 months ago)
• Topics: c, clock, curses
• Language: C
• Size: 56.6 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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curses-clock

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A clock based on curses in C that uses fixed-sized fonts (PSF) to allow varied displays.

![screen shot of default config](/docs/clock001.png)

Usage

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Run `make` to generate `cclock` and then run `./cclock`.  Enjoy.

Inspirations

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* tablespoon's clock written with tput in shell script

* George Carlin

Build Requirements

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* ncurses headers and libs (package libncurses5-dev in debian, ncurses-devel in RH)

* glib-json (package libjson-glib-dev in debian, json-glib-devel in RH)

TODO

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* BUG: handle window resizing

* BUG: segfaults on Fedora

* check for json config in home directory, read it in

* write out default config on request

* error handling for unknown timezones

Acknowledgements

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* https://github.com/talamus/rw-psf provided the best way to learn how to parse PSF that I have found yet.  Perl++  http://linuxgazette.net/91/loozzr.html is also informative.

* http://stackoverflow.com/questions/111928/is-there-a-printf-converter-to-print-in-binary-format made a good starting place for my byte_to_binary()

* http://www.gtkforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=178486 for how to get time out of glib