************************ CHANGES TO CLOCKMAN ************************** To see ClockMan's new features for yourself, load the SAMPLES.ALR file. Then select each alarm and click on the "Test" button! VERSION 1.1 (05/22/92) ====================== THE INFOBARS -- --> NEW! DateBar - Displays today's date on the active window's caption bar. TimeBar was so popular, we thought we'd keep it company! --> IMPROVED! Both DateBar's and TimeBar's formats are controlled by the International settings from the Control Panel. --> NEW! DateBar & TimeBar are both hotspots. Right-click on them to quickly bring up the ClockMan system menu. Left-click on them to go directly to the Set Alarms dialog. You can even run ClockMan hidden, and yet still have full access to its dialog boxes! MORE ALARM OPTIONS -- --> NEW! TimeSquare message type. Your alarm message scrolls across the active window's caption bar. Choose from several scrolling patterns. "It's NEAT-O!" \ /\ / /\ \ / --> NEW (Win31)! Audible alarms can now play \/ \/ /--\ \/ files! See Help: "Audible alarms/WAV files". LAUNCHING PROGRAMS & SENDING KEYSTROKES -- --> NEW! Send keystrokes to a DOS APP! You can send _any_ key to a DOS app in a DOS box. (It can't be iconized or full screen.) Read Help: "Sending Keystrokes To A DOS App". --> NEW! You can now put a datafile in the program line instead of having to specify the program name itself (if there's an associa- tion for it in WIN.INI). --> NEW (Win31)! Exit Windows, restart Windows, or reboot the system! With the {#exitwindows} command you can also return an errorlevel back to DOS, as in {#exitwindows 4}. Use it to automate DOS processes that can't run when Windows is running! --> IMPROVED! More nonstandard keys have sendkey names. If you use a 122-key keyboard, Olivetti, or Nokia, then sending those strange extra keys should be much easier! --> IMPROVED! ClockMan is even more tenacious in sending keystrokes to the correct window. INTERNATIONAL -- --> NEW! The date formats respond completely to your WIN.INI [intl] settings. Change the long and short date formats, & the dates change accordingly in the Set Alarms listbox, When dialog spin- fields, Now dialog spinfields, DateBar, and icon title. --> NEW! ClockMan now supports foreign names for days of the week and months. Just adapt one of our "language customization" files to your needs! See Help: "Power User's Secrets/Different Countries & Languages". MISCELLANY -- --> NEW! F1 context-sensitive help available from whichever dialog box you're in. --> NEW! Customize the icon's title bar. Add date, day of week, alarm filename, etc. Make it short - make it long; it's all up to you. See Power Users' Secrets for more details. --> NEW! If you want ClockMan to run hidden, you can now choose it directly from the Options dialog instead of having to add a CLOCKMAN.INI entry. --> NEW! If you try to start another instance of ClockMan with the same alarm file, you now get a File|Open dialog to choose a dif- ferent or a new alarm file. --> NEW! The Set date/time dialog now starts with focus on the minutes field, to make it even simpler for you to correct clock drift. --> FIXED! Countdown alarms no longer count down 3 times per second. --> FIXED! LAN users should experience fewer SHARE violations when running many ClockMans in (C)lient mode with the same alarm file. --> NEW (Win31)! You can drag & drop a ClockMan alarm file onto the ClockMan icon to load another instance of the program with that file. --> IMPROVED! Each field in the date & time spinfields now carry over to the next higher field if you spin to the end of the range. (i.e. spinning past March 31 bumps up the month to April.)