Prayer Clock
Written by using C and C++, depends on GTK+ and Expat. I spent about 3 days to study GTK+ and Expat since never used them before. I wrote this application because sometimes, I want to say a prayer, especially Angelus. But I need the prayer to read and also a reminder. So, I decided to wrote this program, at the same time I can also learn about GTK+ and Expat. And I decided to open source it as a contribution to Catholics.
I upload it with the source code included. Download at below. There is a lot of improvements can be added.
After running the program, minimise it. Then at 6:00 am, 12:00 am, and 6:00 pm, the window will pop-up with Angelus. At 3:00 pm, 3 o’clock prayer to the Divine Mercy will pop-up.
Screenshots
Windows version.
Linux (Ubuntu) version.
News
2010-05-14 - Finally, I successfully build the Java version Prayer Clock, jprayer-clock.
Changelog
0.1.2 (2010-05-31)
- Minor changes on the interface, that the prayer will always scroll to top when it is selected.
- Also add a function for relative day from the Easter, based on JPrayer Clock.
2010-05-14 - Please download the prayers.xml, because I have mis-calculated the days of Novena to the Holy Spirit.
0.1.1 (2010-05-08) - Fix pop up which do not update the prayer, because of the the left pane prayer list
0.1.0 (2010-05-07) - Add Novena prayers to the Holy Spirit - Redesign the interface, by moving the prayers to the side pane.
0.0.8 (2010-04-24) - Fix bugs for Easter Season calculation
0.0.7 (2010-03-31) - Add Divine Mercy Novena Prayers
0.0.6 (2010-03-29) - Add “prayers” item to the file menu so that the user can choose to display different prayers. - Change the algorithm so that do not load all the prayers into the memory, load only when needed - Redesign prayer(s) data structure - Redesign XML loading algorithm using Expat
0.0.4 (2010-03-07) - Add in Regina Caeli for Easter Season - Add in status bar - Using GTK UI Manager instead of Item Factory
0.0.2 (2010-02-09) - Add scrollbar to the window - Add the unit of second to the time - Fix the time of “3 o’clock prayer” - Fix the window so that it is not always on top
0.0.1 (2010-02-09) - First release
Future development
- Add more prayers, show a random prayer when the program started.
- Add in Douay-Rheims Bible with SWORD API