Clock Zones
This page / section pertains to BrightAuthor Classic, our legacy app. BrightSign Author is our latest app for managing content and players.
Development of BrightAuthor Classic has largely ceased and the app will eventually be deprecated and replaced with BrightSign Author.
The Clock Zone allows you to display the date or time. You can add two Clock zones if you want to display both date and time. The Clock zone can be displayed in its own space or over a video. Image zone overlay is not supported, but you can add a Background Bitmap to the Clock zone by selecting Zone Properties and selecting the Advanced button. You can also place a Clock zone over a Background Image zone. See the Multi-Zone Presentation tutorial for more information.
Use the Zone Properties window of a Ticker zone to edit the following:
- Rotation: Use the dropdown list to select the angle of text rotation in the Clock zone.
- Foreground text color: Click Choose to select a color for the text in the Clock zone.
- Background text color: Click Choose to select a color for the text background in the Clock zone.
- Transparency: Use the slider to set the transparency of the text-background color: 0% is fully opaque, while 100% is fully transparent.
- Font: Click Browse to select a font for text in the Clock zone. You can use any TrueType font. Click Reset to System Font to reset the font.
Advanced
Click the Advanced arrow to reveal the following options:
- Background bitmap: Click Browse to navigate to and select a file for a background image.
- Stretch to Fit: Select Yes if you want to stretch the image to fill the zone. Otherwise, select No.
- Safe text region: Define the dimensions of the text region in the zone. If this region is not defined, the time/date text will be displayed to the edge of the zone.
- X: The horizontal coordinate (in pixels) of the top-left corner of the safe text region.
- Y: The vertical coordinate (in pixels) of the top-left corner of the safe text region.
- Width: The width of the safe text region (in pixels).
- Height: The height of the safe text region (in pixels).
