Nixie Clock -- Version 1.51


Default mode


Digit mode ('nixieclock -d')


Hour mode ('nixieclock -h')


Now on Mac OSX!

This simple little desktop clock displays the current date and time in various time formats (including a custom 'strftime(3)' format) using little icons of actual nixie tube digits. (For those of you into old 1960's vacuum tube display technology)

This started as just a fun little excercise doing stuff with flipping up little image icons, and decided it was an actual useful program. Colormap eating issues under Xwindows were resolved recently.

Source Code

If you want to diddle with the source, or compile it yourself, you can download the latest 1.51 source code which can be extracted either with tar or Winzip. To compile the source, you'll need the fltk 1.x library installed.

For more info on doing the build, see the README.txt file for more info.

Download

You can download the source, or the pre-compiled executables for:

How It Works

To move the clock, just click and drag it to where you want it. To kill it, click the clock (to select the window) and hit the ESC key. To view the available command line options, use 'nixieclock -help'.

New Demo Program

The clock comes with a little demo called 'nixie-text-viewer' which will load up any text file and display it in the nixie font. You can page through the file with the arrow keys.

This test app demonstrates how the NixieDisplay FLTK widget that's used by the clock can be used in other ways, and shows how the font supports (most of) the ascii character set.

By default the app loads one of the clock's header files as a demo (pic below):








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