Overview

A blatant rip-off of the KDE source code with tips picked up from here and here. This code injects a DLL (FuzzyHook.dll) into the WndProc of TrayClockWClass to replace the standard numeric text with fuzzy text. The code also places a clock icon (taken from Crystal SVG; thanks Everaldo!) in the system tray. Right-click on the icon to exit the program.

Installation

1. Grab the latest version (Revision 33) and extract to a folder.
2. Grab the desired localization (right-click on link and save as FuzzyClock.xml in the same folder as above):
• Brazilian
• Chinese-PRC
• Chinese-Taiwan
• Croatian
• Czech
• Danish
• Dutch
• English (default)
• Finnish
• French
• German
• Hungarian
• Icelandic
• Indonesian
• Italian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Norwegian-Bokmål
• Norwegian-Nynorsk
• Polish
• Portuguese
• Romanian
• Russian
• Spanish
• Swedish
• Thai
• Turkish
• Vietnamese
3. Ensure that the localized file is named FuzzyClock.xml and that is in the same folder as FuzzyClock.exe and FuzzyHook.dll. By default, the program will generate an English version of FuzzyClock.xml if the file is not present.

Almost the entirety of these translations is from KDE source code. A few words were grabbed from Microsoft Terminology Translations. Editing of the XML files should be self-evident, but note that %0 represents the current hour and %1 the next hour.

Details

Built using Visual Studio 2005 SP1. Tested on WinXP SP2 and Win2K3 SP2. According to Softpedia, this should work on Win2K and Vista, too.

If you see this error:

you may require Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1 Redistributable Package, a free small download from Microsoft.