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Clocks palette tips and tricks |
World Clock Deluxe lets you quickly accomplish many frequent tasks directly from the Clocks palette.
To do an action, follow the tips indicated below.
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| Opening panes and preferences | ||
| Open the Clocks pane | Click any clock and choose Clocks from the displayed pop-up menu | |
| Open the Cities & Time Zones pane | Click any clock and choose Cities & Time Zones from the displayed pop-up menu | |
| Open the Time Converter pane | Click any clock and choose Time Converter from the displayed pop-up menu | |
| Open World Clock Deluxe Preferences | Click any clock and choose Preferences from the displayed pop-up menu | |
| Open the Date & Time pane of your System Preferences | Click any clock and choose Date & Time from the displayed pop-up menu | |
| Open the International pane of your System Preferences | Click any clock and choose International from the displayed pop-up menu | |
| Make World Clock Deluxe active and bring all its windows to the front | Click any clock and choose Bring to Front or Bring All to Front from the displayed pop-up menu | |
| Quit World Clock Deluxe | Click any clock and choose Quit from the displayed pop-up menu | |
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| Showing the weather | ||
| Show the weather in one of your clocks' cities | Connect to the Internet, then Shift-Control-click any clock and choose the desired city from the displayed pop-up menu | |
| Show the weather in all your clocks' cities | Connect to the Internet, then Shift-Control-click any clock and choose All Cities from the displayed pop-up menu | |
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| Showing, hiding and viewing clocks | ||
| Hide a clock | Command-click the clock and drag it out of the palette - or - Control-click the clock and choose Hide from the displayed pop-up menu |
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| Hide all clocks but one | Control-click the clock you don't want to hide and choose Hide Others from the displayed pop-up menu | |
| Show a hidden clock | Control-click any clock and choose the desired Show command from the displayed pop-up menu | |
| Show all clocks | Control-click any clock and choose Show All from the displayed pop-up menu | |
| View clocks | Click any clock and view the clocks listed in the displayed pop-up menu - depending on how you configured the menu you can view all clocks, the clocks that are visible in the palette or the clocks that are hidden in the palette | |
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| Editing clocks | ||
| Change a clock's format | Shift-click the clock and select or deselect the desired item in the Show submenu of the displayed pop-up menu | |
| Change a clock's date format | Shift-click the clock and choose the desired date format from the Date Format submenu of the displayed pop-up menu | |
| Change a clock's time format | Shift-click the clock and choose the desired time format from the Time Format submenu of the displayed pop-up menu | |
| Assign or remove a clock's label | Shift-click the clock and choose the desired label or None from the Label submenu of the displayed pop-up menu | |
| Associate a new city or time zone to a clock or assign an alternate text to a clock | Shift-click the clock and choose Edit Clock from the displayed pop-up menu | |
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| Rearranging and scrolling clocks | ||
| Rearrange clocks | Command-click clocks and drag them in the palette (the Keep clocks arranged by checkbox in the Clocks pane must be deselected) | |
| Scroll clocks | Click the left and right If controls are hidden, Control-click the palette's background and choose Scroll Left and Scroll Right or, if the palette is vertical, Scroll Up and Scroll Down from the displayed contextual menu |
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| Changing the way the palette looks | ||
| Show analog or digital clocks | Control-click the palette's background and choose Analog Clocks or Digital Clocks from the displayed contextual menu | |
| Change the palette's orientation | Control-click the palette's background and choose Display Clocks Horizontally or Display Clocks Vertically from the displayed contextual menu - or - Shift-Command-click the palette's background |
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| Condense or expand clocks (digital clocks only) | Control-click the palette's background and choose Condense Clocks or Expand Clocks from the displayed contextual menu | |
| Start or stop clocks rotation | Control-click the palette's background and choose Rotate Clocks or Stop Clocks Rotation from the displayed contextual menu | |
| Adjust the rotation speed | Control-click the palette's background and choose the desired time interval from the Rotation Speed submenu in the displayed contextual menu | |
| Add or remove a rotation transition effect | Control-click the palette's background and choose the desired effect or None from the Transition Effect submenu in the displayed contextual menu | |
| Change the palette's level | Control-click the palette's background and choose the desired level from the Level submenu in the displayed contextual menu | |
| Change the palette's font | Control-click the palette's background and choose the desired font from the Font submenu in the displayed contextual menu | |
| Change the palette's type size | Control-click the palette's background and choose the desired size from the Font Size submenu in the displayed contextual menu | |
| Change the dial size (analog clocks only) | Control-click the palette's background and choose the desired size from the Dial Size submenu in the displayed contextual menu | |
| Change the palette's opacity | Control-click the palette's background and choose the desired opacity from the Opacity submenu in the displayed contextual menu | |
| Make the palette's text opaque when clocks are transparent | Control-click the palette's background and choose Don't Apply to Text from the Opacity submenu in the displayed contextual menu | |
| Show or hide the palette's controls |
Control-click the palette's background and choose Show Controls or Hide Controls submenu in the displayed contextual menu - or - Shift-click the palette's background |
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| Moving, resizing and hiding the palette | ||
| Move the palette | Click the palette's background and drag the palette | |
| Anchor the palette to a screen corner | Click the palette's background and start dragging, then press Command-A to activate an anchor corner (note that it is important that you press the key combination after you have started dragging) | |
| Resize the palette | Drag the resize control If controls are hidden, Control-click the palette's background and choose the desired number of clocks from the Resize To submenu in the displayed contextual menu |
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| Hide the palette | Click the If controls are hidden, click any clock and choose Close Palette from the displayed pop-up menu - or - Control-click the palette's background and choose Close Palette from the displayed contextual menu |
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