[Xastir] Time

[Keith Kaiser]

On the other hand, adding the time to the upper or lower, right hand  
side of the title bar would not exactly be intrusive would it. I  
wasn't thinking of a watermark but a clock running on in Xastir and  
showing the time in one of the title bars.


On Jun 12, 2009, at 12:58 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Jun 2009, Keith Kaiser wrote:
>
>> I would like to request that the local current time or whatever is  
>> set in the configuration is shown on either the top or the bottom  
>> of the Xastir screen. This would make for a good way to see what  
>> the time of the last captured png file was without having to make  
>> it part of the name.
>>
>> Any chance this could be done on a future release?
>
> I have a nagging feeling that this (or something like it) has been
> brought up on the list before.
>
> I think it was suggested last time that they have IM or GM add a
> timestamp "watermark" sort of thing onto the image, and that they
> got it working.  I don't recall whether it was a script or whether
> they modified Xastir sources to do this.
>
> Something like this:
>
>  http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/annotating/#wmark_text
>
> You should be able to do the same thing with GM but add "gm " in
> front of the regular IM command.  GM is a fork of the IM code.
>
> My feeling on the matter is:  It's not an option a lot of people
> would want so it's better left out of Xastir proper.
>
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Keith Kaiser
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