Digital Clock 4

installer is under heavy development, issues may happen. installer should be stabilized during this week. I don't use any "setup.exe constructors", I'm using .msi installer (the right way to install Windows apps), but I'm almost not even familiar with any of Windows technologies, so this is mostly trial and error way for me. unfortunately, .msi is too sensitive to changes, any these changes do not only affect new installer, but also what was already installed, and sometimes this produces very unexpected results. to make upgrade process smooth, both previous and current version must be installed using the installer built in the same way. this is not a just "extract and replace files" (like almost any "setup.exe" does, that's why they have "uninstall.ini" or other files to track anything copied and corresponding "uninstall.exe", but note - I don't have it - it is not required at all), this is a very complex process. old installer sources are unusable as is (and also it is know that they contained some issues I was aware of), and even more they assumed many manual steps I wanted to avoid (now installer is automatically generated on build server, how it should be). now my primary goal is to collect early feedback, many experimental things are uploaded, sorry for inconvenience and thanks for reporting.

new (next) version was written from scratch, and it is under heavy development, so many things are still missing, only basic functionality is available. I just published it in hope to get any early feedback. +/- same functionality will be available in ~3-4 months (March-April). but even now, new version has more customization options and incredible font rendering quality (old clock even can't be compared to it). old skins are completely supported (this was the one of primary goals), and even can have advantage of new "font-like" skin engine, what was not possible in old clock and imposed constraints on what can be represented by skin. the only big missing part is plugin system, but in old clock it is just a set of various "hacks and wheels" accumulated with time. new one even not designed yet.

thank you! new (next) version was designed to have great font support (compared to old one), it is almost (but not completely) identical to regular font rendering. it was thoroughly tested with a lot of "fancy" (aka "Photoshop") fonts to be sure that everything is fine.