ÉÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ» º The Ultimate Alarm Clock º º for OS/2 º º By º º Scott D. Ganyo º ÈÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍͼ Version 1.1 9 Sept. 1993 This program was written to provide an small, attractive, and easy-to-use alarm clock for all of those reoccuring appointments none of us can afford to miss! This alarm clock has been kept purposefully small and simple to allow anyone to use it right from the beginning. Therefore, the remarks in this file will brief and to the point... To put it simply, if you have appointments that reoccur weekly - this is the program to use! Sure, you could use one of those big, fancy schedualing programs to keep track of your life (and you still may want to), but for quick and easy schedualing of one-time, daily or weekly appointments... your ship has come in! (All the schedualing power you may need and the requirements are just incredible: only about 30K of hard disk space and a running copy of OS/2 1.3 or better. Is it quick? Is it easy? You bet! If you've ever used a PM program before and have an alarm clock at home, you can use this alarm clock! Just put it in one of your menus, start it up, enter your alarms, and you will always be reminded of that 1:00 meeting every Tuesday or that special lunch date you are always late for. Hey, you may never be late again! All that's required is that the clock program is running at the time! Okay, so how easy is it really? Well, let's say to have an appointment with your boss every weekday at 1:00 pm.... 1) Click on the system menu or click on the clock with the right mouse button and select Edit Alarms (or type Alt+A) 2) Click on the ADD button (or type Alt+A again) 3) Enter the time in hours and minutes in the first two fields either by using your mouse on the arrows, or typing it in directly. 4) Select PM by using the mouse or by tabbing to the PM button and hitting the spacebar. 5) Click on the Message checkbox and enter a message for yourself... for example: "Meeting with Boss in Cafeteria." and then click on OK or hit Enter. 6) Now, click on the Su and Sa checkboxes to turn them off (you only need to talk to your boss on weekdays) - you may, of course, use the tab and spacebar here as well... 7) Now let's say it takes you 5 minutes to get ready for this important meeting. No problem, just hit the up arrow with the mouse on the minutes early field three times or type in a 5 in the field directly. 8) Click on OK or hit the Enter key. You will now see your appointment in the listbox. Make sure it is correct. 9) Click on Close or hit Enter to finish (or repeat the above steps to add another alarm). That's it! That's all you do! By the way, if that sounds like a lot of steps, just try it once - and I think you'll agree that this is one of the easiest alarm clocks to use for repeating alarms. And, by the way, you still have up to 39 more alarms that can be set! Okay, here's a quick feature rundown: - You can set the System Time from within the clock. - By selecting Always on Top, you will always be able to see the clock - even if another window is placed on top of it! - You can hide (and redisplay) the system menu to make the clock even smaller than it already is. To do this, just double click on the time display to make it go away and do the same to make it come back... or hit Alt+H (for Hide) to do the same thing. (Remember, even when the system menu is hidden, you may still get to the menu by right-clicking with the mouse on the clock). - The position of the clock, the visibility of the system menu, and the Always on Top toggle are all saved whenever you close the program or shut down the system. - It is possible to have more than one clock running with two sets of alarms (just in case having 40 different alarms just doesn't satisfy you!) All you have to do is start each one from different directory. (Each running alarm clock will create a UACLOCK.INI file in the directory it is started from.) - Can bring up pop-up menu by clicking right mouse button on clock. By the way, there are a number of Shortcut Keys you may want to use: ALT+A = edit Alarms ALT+H = Hide/restore system menu ALT+S = Set system time ALT+T = always on Top (toggles off and on) F1 = About Box for Ultimate Alarm Clock Okay. That's it! If you use this program (and I hope you will), I ask only two things: 1) Let me know of anything you like or don't like about this program! I can be reached by mail at: Scott D. Ganyo 2272 North Church Street Decatur, IL 62526 or on the following on-line services: America On-Line Name: Grimm One Compuserve ID: ????? 2) Make a donation of only $5 and I will do my best to keep you informed of any new versions of this and other programs that I write. Please help a starving artist! Support future OS/2 development! Register Now! Release List: Version Date Comments ------- ------- --------- 1.0 6/29/93 First Release 1.1 9/1/93 Now even smaller! (only 29896 bytes!) Fixed (small) bug in system time setting Documented ability to right-click to get menu Increased speed of alarm beeps