XYplorer Beta Club

We keep XY open all the time, a auto-updating clock somewhere sounds pretty useful, eh?

Maybe a section on status-, tool- or the menu-bar (in descending order of preference), or even overlayed on the right edge of the addressbar

I wouldn't expect a clock in a file manager. Someone even may call it bloat... What about the clock in your taskbar? Is your taskbar hidden?

yes, my taskbar is hidden.

ed: and both moving the mouse all the way down or pressing Win+t are soooo unnecessary....

SammaySarkar wrote: moving the mouse all the way down or pressing Win+t are soooo unnecessary....

when under pressure I also need to keep track of time up front - in my field of vision. ALWAYS. Which is why an XY feature wouldn't do it for me. I rather carry a bunch of portable helpers, click-through clocks with transparency and alarm, sometimes even desktopcoral to reserve space at the edges ...

No, thank you. That thing in the bottom right corner of my screen does the job just fine. From a purely selfish POV, I would rather Don spent his cycles working on my wishes

There're several ways:
1) Have a infinite looping script
setting "allowrecursion", 1;
status text, [color RRGGBB], [icon=ready|progress|alert|stop]
Or, if you don't want a looping xys, just use a looping Autohotkey script

2) Autohotkey script: Tooltip

Thanks for the great suggestion of freezing XY to show the time!

I think this is a good suggestion; maybe it could be added as a variable for the Title Bar template. "<date hh:nn>" can be used today, but it only updates when you're doing stuff in XY, so the clock can go 'stale'. But I agree with Pagat and zer0 that DonL probably has higher priorities.

There are third party programs that will add a clock to application title bars generally - perhaps one can be found that you like that is free or inexpensive?