The ZOClock (Zero-One Clock) program emulates two-line LED display to show the time in binary form. Many aspects of ZOClock may be tune to good fit your desktop environment.

View

Main window is tiny desktop widget.

You can customize colors.

ZOClock can display popup tip window (on mouse over). You can set up colors, font, kind and format of information.

Some examples:

Time in AM/PM form:

Bigger font, time in 24-hours form and UNIX time:

The same as above in hex:

You can customize colors:

How to read (example)

Features (menu overview)

You can

• customize colors,
• customize format of time,
• enable/disable and tune tip window,
• enable always-on-top mode,
• stick the window (make it unmoveable) and
• save settings.

How to install

ZOClock built using Qt. So you can run it on all major platforms.

To compile you need for

• C++ compiler,
• make utility and
• Qt library (with developers files).

Now you may run two commands to compile:

• qmake and
• make

Test it:

• ./zoclock

And install:

• sudo make install
• or just copy zoclock somewhere

NOTE: Names of this commands depends of you system, it may be qmake-qt4, nmake, mingw32-make and other.

News

• 10 Nov 2009. ZOClock on brothersoft. Thanks the editors for their attention to the project.
• 23 Aug 2009. ZOClock on softpedia. Thanks the editors for their attention to the project.
• 15 Jul 2009. ZOClock 1.2.0 has been appended to AUR (ArchLinux User-community Repository). Thanks to pktfagr and all AUR-voters.
• 12 Jul 2009. Release 1.2.0.

Changes

Version 1.2.0

• Fix misprints
• Tooltip initially looks natively
• Add date on tooltip (configurable)

Version 1.1.0

• Add hours-modes (1-12, 1-12+am/pm, 0-23)
• Add tooltip (Thanks to Dmitry <Legh> Shulgachik for ideas, tests, patches and discassions)
• Add menu items to setup tooltip window
• Refactor code, make it better for reading and understand
• Add not empty install target to zoclock.pro/Makefile

Version 1.0.1

• Add "always on top" control
• Minor and cosmetic fixes

Do you know?

• Style of the application can be specified, using the -style command-line option. Try command zoclock -style plastique. Try -style motif, cde, windows, cleanlook... The complete list of available styles depends on you Qt installation.
• Some settings can be edit in file zoclock.h.
• Some X11 window managers are ignore "always on top" property of window. See the documentation on your WM.