I've just noticed something on the Hyperion-Entertainment Website; the second image included as part of the original OS3.2 release announcement shows the date & time within the title bar! I didn't think this was possible on OS3.2.

Anyone know how you add this to the title bar (I only really want the time shown)?

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@Tpod

OS 3.2 (or even 3.1.4) lets you add variables to the title bar, so all you need is s silly loop script that frequently dumps time to the variable. In short, yes it is possible.

But not really the most elegant solution.

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Thanks for the explanation kolla but as a point-and-click guy there is no fear of me managing to come up with a functioning script!

Presumably the script would somehow use Clock (from Utilities draw) to send the time & be added to User-Startup or be placed in WBStartup draw? Also I guess something would be added to the Workbench Preferences, Workbench Screen Title Bar Text box?

It's a bit baffling for me to be honest, I don't even fully understand what's meant by 'variables'. Currently I have Clock in WBStartup; a System Request always pops up asking for you to close the Clock whenever changing Workbench screen modes... be much nicer to have it in the title bar.

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@Tpod

I write a little program for this exact purpose on OS4. Despite back porting it to 3.2 it doesn't work, and I'm at a loss why. It's here if anybody wants to look at it:
https://github.com/chris-y/envClock

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@Tpod

I use this;

http://aminet.net/package/util/time/ScreenTime

@Chris_Y

Thanks for at least trying to get it working on 3.2. Hopefully someone will take up the challenge & fix the 3.2 compatibility problem; I would think it would get well used if anyone manages it.

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@hotrod

ScreenTime sounds interesting; do you have to close it whenever you change Workbench Screen Mode? It at least pretends to do what I'm after, the read me says

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ScreenTime will open a small borderless window on top of the screen bar, adopting the font and colors of the screen to make it look like it's part of it

Seems like an improvement on just leaving the Clock out, but fingers crossed someone will get Chris_Y's envClock working.

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@Tpod

Beware that it will only show time when workbench window is active, and since it also uses a few seconds to update and you don't want to write to a var in file system every second, it should just show hour:minute. Another challenge is to align it to the right, AFAIK that's only doable by using a bunch of spaces... as I wrote, not very elegant.

Personally I prefer to have the clock there always, regardless of whether workbench window is active or not, and I do prefer to see seconds tick by. I also ue ScreenTime, which in addition provides a nice popup calendar.

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@Chris_Y

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Despite back porting it to 3.2 it doesn't work, and I'm at a loss why.

The FormatDate function requires a valid Locale pointer. It crashes if you call it with NULL.

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ARexx is also an option. I just wrote this, pulled out weekday, month, day og month, year, hour and minute as separate variables, so one can easily format them to ones own liking. Beware though, it only "speaks" English.

/*
  $VER: EnvClock 1.1 (05.05.2025) Kolbjørn Barmen 
*/

DO FOREVER
  WDAY   = DATE(W)
  MONTH  = DATE(M)
  DATE   = DATE(N)
  MDAY   = SUBWORD(DATE, 1, 1)
  YEAR   = SUBWORD(DATE, 3, 1)

  DAYMIN = TIME(M)
  HOUR   = SUBSTR(100 + DAYMIN % 60, 2, 2)
  MINUTE = SUBSTR(100 + DAYMIN // 60, 2, 2)

  EC_TIME = WDAY MDAY MONTH YEAR  HOUR || ':' || MINUTE

  ADDRESS COMMAND SETENV EC_VAR EC_TIME
  ADDRESS COMMAND WAIT 59
END

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So although envClock seemed to fit the bill if it actually worked on 3.2 & ScreenTime sounded like a good alternative, I decided to do some dinging. I'm pretty certain I've discovered what software put the time & date in the OS3.2 Announcement image .

It's called DateVar, I discovered it looking through walkero (George Sokianos) AmigaOS 3.2-Next steps Youtube videos (see #3, 40mins into stream). There's no obvious way to configure DateVar but you can decided where to place it in the title bar & you can edit how other things are displayed in the bar.

My Workbench Screen Title Bar Text (in Workbench Preferences) now reads -

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%e DateVar OS %r %mceb chip mem %mfeb fast

which results in the Title Bar displaying e.g.

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Friday 10-May-24 00:30 OS Release 3.2.2.1 821,272 chip mem 6,064,624 fast mem

This is a nice layout IMHO, it took a bit of trial & error to get what I wanted in the bar to actually fit & look good but I got there in the end. If you have more RAM i.e. over 1MB chip or 10MB fast, it wouldn't fit in the bar. Personally if I needed to free up some space I would delete "%r" from the Title Bar Text box (in Workbench Preferences) removing the word "Release" & just enter 3.2.2.1 after OS manually (obviously remembering to change it if you do an OS update). DateVar works great I'd certainly recommend it.
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Just to add - if your using RTG your obviously not going to lack space, but if using PAL High Res. like me then my title bar text shown above may be of some use.

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I just keep DOpus minimized which shows me date & time at top of my screen

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@Tpod

To remove "Release" just fix the variable ${Versions/Relase} for example by editing ENVARC:Versions/Release - or just make a new variable and use %e.

You can also shorten how free RAM is displayed by using f.ex. kilobyte, like "%mcek kB" and "%mfek kB" (beware, here are bugs - if you for example want to display "19.683kB" instead of "19.683 kB" there is no way of doing this as workbench treats "%mfekkB" same way as "%mfekB", or for that matter "%mfekkkkkkkkkkkkB")

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@kolla

Good tip on how to remove the word “Release�, I gave it a try & it's certainly a much better idea than using my bodge job method!

To be clear (for fellow script clueless folks) go to Prefs/Env-Archive/Versions/Release. Open TextEdit then drag & drop Release onto it, remove the word Release & then save; job done.

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@Tpod

If you don't want to mess around with scripts etc. just put BarClock in WBStartup, I've used it on all of my Amigas for years, works great:

http://aminet.net/package/util/time/BarClock22

Hear hear about BarClock - I also use it.

I use ScreenTime on Workbench screen and BarClock on other screens.

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I've been busy so have only just got round to looking at this.

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thomas wrote: The FormatDate function requires a valid Locale pointer. It crashes if you call it with NULL.

Thank you, that did it!

I've uploaded v1.2 to Aminet, or you can get it here:
https://github.com/chris-y/envClock/releases/tag/v1.2

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A thread on the internet with an entire page full of people assisting with a question with solid and dare I say even FRIENDLY responses!

Multiple opinions and ways to solve a particular problem and not even a HINT of hostility or conflict.

This thread is a shining example of how things SHOULD be.

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