02-09-2009, 02:50 PM | #381 |
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The only reason it's important is because MA2.6 had it. Users complain loudly when a new version is missing something a previous version had. A lot of executives liked to be able to just glance at the screen to see what time it was.
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02-09-2009, 03:06 PM | #383 |
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OK, I'll use the Registry Key to change the 24-hour time format, because that's pretty easy. But changing the start day of the week is more difficult, so that will have to wait. It will be quite some time before international versions of this program come out, because it's changing so rapidly.
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02-09-2009, 03:26 PM | #384 |
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Originally posted by Jim Sachs:
.... A lot of executives liked to be able to just glance at the screen to see what time it was.
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02-09-2009, 03:45 PM | #385 |
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I concur with figuring out how the date/time should be displayed by reading the user's locale settings.
It is only if that user goes out of their way to change things that will notice any difference.
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02-09-2009, 04:46 PM | #387 |
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Originally posted by cjmaddy:
I agree! ... So why do we need it? ... Can we have a vote?
A clock is a clock! ......... And this is supposed to be an Aquarium! I have to say I agree with cjmaddy. For me it's about aquatics. I wouldn't dream of spoiling the scene with a clock. Personally I'm much more interested in other developments within MA3 and I would hate the clock to get in the way of those. |
02-09-2009, 08:15 PM | #388 |
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We need live clams!!! If you want to know the time, buy a clock! What day it is, put a calendar next to your computer! Don't need music, time, calendar ...... NEED clams, anemones, an eel!! an octopus!!!!
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02-10-2009, 06:23 AM | #389 |
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hey, I know...perhaps Jim could strap a watch around one of the fish as he redoes them, and it could just swim along with the scrolling... same with a calendar, just pierce a dorsal fin and it could carry it along, or maybe some sort of crab could just carry it around... or perhaps the time could pop out of a clam as it opens...see...easy enough to get this ball rolling...... *wink
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02-10-2009, 06:30 AM | #390 |
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someone mentioned eels before....I viewed a "live" plasma aquarium tv program, you know, one of those things you put on when you aren't watching telly( I much prefer MA and DreamAquarium for that)....it had an eel inside those pink/maroonish striped things that the bubbles emerge from in MA3...that might be another optional home/hiding place for Jim's future fun critters, along with the cave...
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02-10-2009, 10:23 AM | #391 |
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Yes, that's one reason for the hollow barnacle shells. Critters will be able to hide in them.
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02-10-2009, 10:52 AM | #392 |
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Hopefully we will all live long enough to see a critter.
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I am regrettably beginning to think that we won't!
It's rapidly approaching that point where I fear that the lunatics may have taken over the asylum... |
02-10-2009, 12:49 PM | #394 |
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Sorry, I haven't been paying attention. Working on the clams, you know.
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Clams.....clams...,.clams.....clams.....clams....: )
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02-10-2009, 02:30 PM | #396 |
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I'm still not quite clear on what Windows does with the 24-hour clock info.
I put in code to read the Registry settings for 12-hour/24-hour display mode. When I fired up MA3, the clock was in 24-hour mode. So I used the Control Panel / Regional and Language interface to change it to 12-hour mode. MA3 adjusted itself to that mode. So it appears that the setting on my computer had always been 24-hour mode, which I can't understand, since the time readout in the lower-right corner of the screen has always been in 12-hour mode.
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02-10-2009, 03:57 PM | #397 |
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hello even if it s not important, i disagree with some comments : this is NOT an aquarium but a screensaver, and having the hour is something good. at work or at home, it can help, rather than having a clock and otherthings on your desk and it s not because of marine 2.6 but the most important is to have fun with our sceen saver my only complaint, and i m surely the only one , it's rhe back which is too ... clean no problems for me with beta9a except it doesn't ask me for the key 2.6. surely because i have enterd it for a previous beta ...
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02-10-2009, 04:04 PM | #398 |
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It's a marine aquarium simulation. People can use it as a screensaver if they wish.
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