WWW Digital Clock!

[Dgclock 1.2]

Latest Release 1.2 (August 20, 1995)
Initial Release 1.1 (August 16, 1995)

Access since August 19: and the local time is: **:**

The source code of 1.2 is avalable as a gzip'd tar file at: ftp.semcor.com

-Please limit your ftp session to after business hours-

This program is compiled and tested on a Sparc 10 (SunOS 4.1.4), gcc 2.6.3, NCSA httpd 1.4 , CERN httpd 3.0 and Netscape 1.1N for Unix. If you use it in a different OS, please let me know.

This program is developed in my own time. My employer SEMCOR, Inc. has nothing to do with it.

How to use it

  1. Refer to the program from your web page as: 
        <img src="/cgi-bin/dgclock.cgi?ft=9|fr=69|fg=139|fb=116" align=absmiddle alt="**:**">
    Please give close attention to the parameters after the ? mark. The explanation for these parameters are given below: 
      ft=9
     ft means frame thickness. 9 is the thinkness
     in pixel. The clock will be wrapped with a 3D
     frame of thickness 9. Use any value greater than 1,
     however for nice 3D effect use a value >= 6.

  fr=69
     fr is the red component of the frame color.
     It can be any value between 0 and 255.

  fg=139
     fg is the green component of the frame color.
     Valid range: 0-255.

  fb=116
    fb is the blue component of the frame color.
    Valid range: 0-255.
    Each parameter is separated by a | character. Make sure there is no newlines in the <img src= line and no space in the query srtring ( ?ft=9|fr=69|fg=139|fb=116). Please note that fp, fr, fg and fb all have to be in lower case. If you do not provide these parameters or if you provide someting wrong, no frame will be wrapped around the clock. You can be creative about the frame thickness and color.

    If you do not want any frame, you can refer to the program like: 

        <img src="/cgi-bin/dgclock.cgi">

If you use Netscape, you can use client-pull to load the clock in every minute. Add the following line as the first line of your web page: 
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT=60>
Note: this may not work if you are caching images in the disk, because image will be loaded from the previous cache.

server-push hook as a option will be added for Netscape to the program itself in the next release or so. Transparent GIF support will be there as well.

Copyright

Copyright 1995 by Muhammad A Muquit. Permission to use, copy and modify this program for personal use is hereby granted without fee, provided that the program is not used for any financial gain and this copyright notice appear in all copies and both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation. If the progam is ported to some other platform, no binary only distribution is allowed, the source and this copyright notice must be included with the distribution. This program is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty. Note: This program is developed in my own time. My employer SEMCOR, Inc. has nothing to do with it.

Acknowledgment

Thanks to John Cristy for ImageMagick. I took many routines from ImageMagick for the GIF image combining library.

I like to hear from you

If you are using this program, I like to hear from you. Please drop me a line. If you are having any problem with the program, please let me know as well. Feel free to send any suggestion. If you think that the program is cool, please consider sending me a picture postcard of the area where you live.

Muhammad A Muquit
SEMCOR, Inc.
65 West Street Road
Warminster, PA 18974
USA

Thanks.

Enjoy!

muquit@semcor.com

Last Update: August 20, 1995

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