Ship's Clock News

The Windows port has been updated. New features include:

• Support for all versions of Windows from XP to 7.
• Support for 64-bit Windows platforms
• Added features in ShipsClockConfig: Test button, Start/Stop the service

Steve Levis has kindly provided a Linux port for Ship's Clock. This uses the same code base as the Mac OS X port. To install on Linux, get the source distribution (v. 2.0.1 or above) and follow the instructions in platforms/linux/INSTALL.linux. Well done, Steve!

I've been working on a port of Ship's Clock to the Mac and other Unix-like platforms. To differentiate from the Windows version, I've upped the version to 2.0.

• Runs as a cron daemon (launchctl on Macs), to simplify the code and remove the requirement that Ship's Clock remain resident at all times
• Leverages OpenAL (http://www.openal.org), including freealut.
• Under Mac OS X, a System Preferences panel is provided to easily change settings.
• Under Mac OS X, the download is an installation package, making installation and setup simple as pie.
• Linux binaries will be forthcoming; if you build Ship's Clock for Linux please let me know; you may save me some work :)
• The code should also work in Windows, but I have no reliable Windows platform at the moment so cannot build or test.

Version 0.1.0.2 is a minor bug fix release, but also contains some enhancements:

• failure to chime every four hours, reported by pnernst, has been fixed.
• added volume control
• added refresh of settings before each chime, so that restarting the app is not necessary after changing settings.

I created a web page (embarrassingly simple) for this project which you can get to from the project summary page or at http://shipsclock.sourceforge.net. There's a link there to the documentation (which is only really of interest to developers), or you can see it here: http://shipsclock.sourceforge.net/html/index.html.

The source files have been updated with this documentation and re-released as version 0.1.0.1; other than the addition of all the documentation there are no significant changes to the code.