BarClock(tm) Copyright (C) 1993 by Patrick Breen - All rights reserved. This file lists the changes between revisions of BarClock. v2.3 - October 3, 1993 Increased the price to $15 (boo - hiss!). Fixed bug with weekly repeating alarms - they tended to change their trigger dates near the end of the month. Repeating alarms can be set to start at any date in the future. Once the date occurs, the alarm will start to repeat with the specified frequency. If the computer is off, repeating alarms that repeat weekly, monthly or yearly will be displayed when BarClock is started. Added Bi-weekly to the list of repeating alarm types. Added Set... button to make it easier to choose an application to run when an alarm is triggered. Added format keywords for Julian date, day of year (1 - 366), days remaining (365 - 0) and months and days can now be displayed in CAPS. Shift-click allows edit of date and time format at the keyword level. Warning levels can now exceed 65535 Kb. Added ability to set the font that BarClock uses to display its information. Added full featured count-up, count-down timer - the timer includes automatic hourly rate conversions. Added ability to test .WAV files by holding the SHIFT key down when pressing the Set... button. Changed Setup... dialog so that the lists of items can be modified using fewer dialogs. Known problems with v2.3: There is a potential problem when using an Orchid Farenheit 1280 video board. Switching in and out of a DOS session may cause the computer to hang. If this happens, hit CTRL-ALT-DEL to terminate BarClock. I am currently working on a solution to this problem. There are problems with WinDock, NewCap and CapC10 that cause BarClock not to function properly if BarClock is started first. The problem can be avoided by starting the other applications before BarClock. Thanks - Thanks to all the people who contributed ideas and bug reports - I will continue to listen and respond to all contributions - good or bad! v2.2 - August 26, 1993 Well, that was a short lived version. This version includes a fix for a bug introduced in v2.1 that caused alarms to vanish when repeating alarms occurred - not exactly the ideal behavior. I was using the system settings for AM/PM text but this caused problems when the system was set for 24 hour mode. I now store the strings in the BARCLOCK.INI file. Shift-double-click in calendar display will always create a new alarm regardless of whether one already exists for that day. v2.1 - August 25, 1993 Fixed serious bug that caused random behavior/crashing after (or while) using the File Open dialog to choose a .WAV file. Fixed bug that caused all "lunchtime" (12pm - 1pm) alarms not to work properly. Warnings will shut off automatically if resource level is restored. Fixed bug that caused warnings on other than disk C to always display disk C status in warning. All alarms are always displayed - this allows you to leave your machine (even turn it off) and never miss an alarm. Made alarm listing wider so time/date are visible more often. v2.0 - August 22, 1993 Major revision - new features include o requires Windows 3.1 o new documentation in .WRI format o dialogs for all options o full featured alarm mechanism o popup calendar o low resource warnings o message display in caption bar o support for multiple time zones o support for multiple disk drives o text/background color support is back o "pedestal" background option o option to chime once per hour o option to have BarClock icon on desktop Bug fixes include o text disappearing from caption bar o BarClock menu access from within Excel o various compatability problems o free resource readings are more accurate o using more robust Windows 3.1 hook functions v1.32 - April 9, 1993 Really fixed bug in calculation of free disk space on disks that had a large amount of free space! Finally was able to reproduce, and fix (I hope), the problem with not using the system colors for the clock background on all systems - however, there is still a problem if a dialog or other window obscures a portion of the display. v1.31 - April 5, 1993 Made change so that changes made to the .ini file would not overwritten when the clock exited. Fixed bug in calculation of free disk space. Fixed bug that caused small drawing problem when clock was on a dithered background. v1.3 - March 28, 1993 (Beta Distribution) Renamed from WinClock to BarClock to avoid conflict with an existing shareware product. This includes the .ini file which is now "BarClock.ini". Eliminated flicker when mouse is positioned over display. Fixed compatability problem with Ami Pro that caused information to overwrite the text they place in the title bar when selecting from the menu. Fixed compatability problem with a handful of applications that would cause them not to redraw properly. Clock never gets put in a window that is always topmost. Added full date picture support that is syntactically equivalent to Windows. See readme.txt for more details. Added all long and short month and weekday names to a string table in the resource file which can be editited with any resource editor. This provides support for international days and months. Added full control of format of the resource, free memory and free disk space strings. See readme.txt for more details. Added support for hour, half hour and quarter hour chimes. See readme.txt for more details. Reduced memory footprint to about 12k. v1.21 - February 24, 1993 Fixed bug that caused 12 noon and 12 midnight to display as 0 when not using the 24 hour clock. Fixed bug that caused an invalid HDC to be released. Fixed compatability problem with MS Word that caused several items to toggle with one click. Better support for Norton Desktop - information now appears in main caption rather than the group window captions. Changed display of memory and disk space to use scaling - can be forced to always use "Kb" with change to .INI file. Fixed compatability problem with XVision that caused it clock to ignore all session windows. Fixed text so that the window title is not overlapped. Fixed problem that caused clock to appear in some dialog windows. Save window size and position in .INI file for window that appears when the clock is homeless. Reorganized code so that memory footprint is about 16k. v1.2 - February 20, 1993 Hopefully removed bug that caused system colors not to work on certain configurations. I now default to using the active colors rather than the inactive colors. (I was only able to reproduce and fix this using Windows 3.0 - if this is still a problem, let me know what version of Windows you are using) Completely tested and compatible with Windows 3.0. There were a few compatability issues introduced with v1.1 that are now fixed. Removed custom colors - the clock now always uses system colors for the background and the text. Removing this option also eliminated a bug which caused a "COMMDLG.DLG could not be found" message. (Custom text color is still supported by options in the .INI file.) Make sure that the clock does not cover the entire caption bar on small windows. Items on left are given preference over items on right. When all windows are iconized and clock is left homeless, information is displayed in the clock caption bar. Can be disabled by setting in .INI file. Moved all preferences out of win.ini and into WinClock.ini. Added new display items for displaying free memory, free resources and free disk space on a chosen drive. Added options for what gets displayed when and where it gets displayed. Setup dialog is now a collection of radio buttons that allow the setting of these options. Added better support for international time and date settings. I now use the system settings for time separator, AM/PM text, and date separator. In addition, DD/MM/YY and YY/MM/DD formats have been added. Setup dialog now uses current date for sample. Added option to disable invalidation of entire desktop on machines running Windows 3.0. v1.1 - February 7, 1993 Fixed drawing problem that resulted in "ghost" clocks. This version uses the Windows 3.1 function RedrawWindow() to invalidate the caption of the previous window which had the clock. If RedrawWindow() is not available (ie, Windows 3.0 is being used), the entire desktop window is invalidated. This does solve the problem, but it causes a noticeable flicker. I will continue to look for a better solution. Fixed drawing problem in very small windows - the clock would cover the system menu and the window border. Now it will never extend outside of the caption area. Added date. A short click on the clock will display the date in the caption bar for a few seconds before displaying the time again. There are a couple of date formats available in the Setup... dialog. Removed flashing colon when seconds are not displayed. Added ability to position the clock on either the left or the right of the caption bar. This is controlled by an option found in the Setup... dialog. Added Setup... dialog so that many options can be set at once. Added Color... dialog. This dialog allows you to specify the text and background color of the clock. It now defaults to using the system colors. The Set... buttons are enabled if you have the Windows COMMDLG.DLL (I didn't want to create a fancy color dialog). Otherwise, type in the RGB value of the color you desire. v1.0 - January 30, 1993 Initial Release