Timer Version 1.5 Stopwatch/Countdown Timer/Alarm Copyright (c) Gries Toy Company 1992, 1993 Timer was conceived while waiting in the phone queue to Microsoft's technical help line. I was beginning to wonder how long I had been on hold, and why there wasn't a simple program to... Timer consists of two timers (stopwatches), a countdown timer, an alarm with a pop-up message capability and a provision for setting the system time and date. It was written in Visual Basic Ver 1.00 and therefore REQUIRES the presence of the VBRUN100.DLL library in your Windows directory in order to run. The current version adds these features to version 1.0: ùBoth of the timers now have split time capabilities. ùTimer1 now has the capability to track cost in dollars or cents per hour or minute. This can be handy for tracking the on-line charges you've racked up. From the main ("Timer") window, the alarm set window may be popped up, the alarm can be turned on or off (assuming an alarm time has been set), the timers may be started, the countdown timer window may be opened, the system time/date set window may be activated, a 12-hour time format may be selected (24 hour is the default), and you may have the time displayed in the caption bar. If the time is displayed in the caption bar, it will also be visible below the icon when the window is minimized. Note that when a window has both "close" and "quit" buttons, the quit button will shut down the entire program while the close button only shuts down the current window. Thus, you can start a timer and close down the main window to reduce screen clutter. In order for the alarm to be active, however, the main window must be active; i.e., it can be minimized but must not be closed. The timers can be started/stopped/restarted, etc. just like a stopwatch. The timers can also be stopped/started by clicking on the stopwatch icon in the Timer1 or Timer2 windows. The stopwatch time may be displayed in the caption (and under the icon when the window is minimized) by clicking on the words "Elapsed Time:" in the timers or on "Time Remaining:" in the countdown timer. With this version, the timers may also be split. When a timer is split, the time will change to red to distinguish it from a timer that is simply stopped. Timer1 has the ability to track cost per unit time by clicking the cost option button; a window will pop up asking for the cost per unit time. If you wish to set another cost later, simply click the time button, then click the cost button again. The current system time may also be displayed by clicking the "Time" check box. The countdown timer starts with a default of 10 minutes and can quickly be incremented or decremented in 10 minute blocks by clicking on the "+" and "-" buttons. These buttons will also work while the countdown timer is running. The countdown time can be manually set to any time value up to 24 hours. (Ok, so it's actually limited to 23:59:59. Big deal.) The general time format is as follows: hh:mm:ss or hh.mm.ss Time values can be entered in either 24 or 12 hour format (21:00:00 = 9:00:00 pm) regardless of which format is currently selected. *** NOTE *** DO NOT rename the executable to TIMER.EXE. Windows 3.1 refuses to run any program with that name (Microsoft's response: "Yeah, that's a bad name in Win 3.1"). This program is shareware; you are given a free three week trial period to determine if Timer is useful for your purposes. If you decide to keep the program, you must register it by sending $10.00 to the address at the end of this file. Registered users will receive a disk with the latest version of Timer (without the introductory "nag screen") along with some of our other shareware programs. You may freely distribute Timer as long as no fee is charged for it other than a nominal fee for the media (not to exceed $5.00). Timer is copyrighted software and as such may not be altered in any way, and must be distributed with all files intact. Timer consists of the following files: TIMER1_5.EXE 40,101 bytes README.TXT 6,607 bytes The latest version of Timer can always be found on Houston Windows BBS: (713) 996-7439. Even if you decide not to keep Timer, please send me any comments, questions, gripes, or suggestions that you may have. I am especially interested in the discovery of any bugs or inaccuracies, as well as suggestions for features you would like to see in future versions. INTERNET: gries@nasamail.nasa.gov PRODIGY: ftnv47a AMERICA ONLINE: gries Special thanks to my fianc‚e Shannon Craddock for support, encouragement, ideas, and findin' all them bugs. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Here it comes, the ------------------------------------------------------------------- LEGAL STUFF W A R R A N T Y Timer is provided AS IS without any warranty, express or implied. This includes without limitation the fitness for a particular purpose or application and any warranties of merchantability. While I tried to be as thorough as possible while debugging Timer, Gries Toy Company/Brian Gries shall not be liable for any damages, whether direct, indirect, special, or consequential arising from a failure of this program or accompanying files to operate in a manner desired by the user. Gries Toy Company/Brian Gries shall not be liable for any damage to data or property which may by caused directly or indirectly by use of this program. In no event will Gries Toy Company/Brian Gries be liable to you for any damages, including any lost profits, lost savings or other incidental or consequential damages arising out of your use or inability to use the program, or for any claim by any other party. In other words, I'm not responsible for anything. Nothing, zero, zip, zilch, the natural log of one, and the number of sentient beings in Congress. But I hope you enjoy it anyway. Timer is Copyright (c) 1992, 1993 by Gries Toy Company/Brian Gries 303 El Toro Ln Webster, TX 77598 (713) 280-0911 All Rights Reserved