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3/Nov/93 ABOUT TIME ⌐ Ver 1.0
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* ⌐ Peter Crain. *
* 20 Enford Street *
* HILLCREST QLD 4118 *
* AUSTRALIA Ph(07)8006283 *
* Compuserve 100237,2735 *
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This is yet another clock/calendar programme. It's main
feature is that is not necessary to maximise it to tell
the time: it places the time right on the title bar
(caption) of your currently active application, as long
as that application is not iconized, and as long as the
Window is a parent window.
Unfortunately, the un-registered version of ABOUT TIME has
a nag screen that frustrates automatic loading of ABOUT
TIME. You need to respond to the Nag screen before ABOUT
TIME will function at all, however this is the only
'crippling' that the un-registered version has endured.
Ideally, you will load ABOUT TIME from the "Load=" line of
WIN.INI, that way it's use is entirely automatic, and not
even slightly difficult to operate. It will then be
iconized, and well out of the way.
Double click on the date to obtain info about that date,
and double click on the year to check for Leap Years, and
others. The little button to the right of the Calendar
takes you back to the current month.
ABOUTIME.LZH (or .ZIP) contains six files:-
ABOUTIME.EXE - Executable
ABOUTIME.INI - Initialisation file
GRID.VBX - Custom control
THREED.VBX - Custom control
_READ_ME.TXT - This text file
_SYS_OP1.TXT - Note for the BBS SysOp
ABOUT TIME *WILL* *NOT* *RUN* without VBRUN300.DLL. This
is the runtime file for Visual Basic 3.00, and is
available separately from the bulletin board from which
you obtained this Beta copy. If you have a copy for
another program, you don't need to download another.
It is not included here in an effort to save your
down-load time.
The registered version of ABOUT TIME will include
VBRUN300.DLL, plus an installation program which
will make most of the following redundant.
Files:
1. You can put the ABOUTIME.EXE file anywhere, but the
best place is in your Windows directory. Even if you
rename ABOUT TIME and put that name in the Load= line
of your WIN.INI file, ABOUT TIME will 'find itself'.
If you elect to run ABOUTIME.EXE every time that Windows
is run, you need only enter "Load=ABOUTIME.EXE" in the
existing WIN.INI file, assuming you are not loading any
other programs.
In the example above, the full path (ie.
"C:\WIN\ABOUTIME.EXE") is not necessary, as your Windows
directory *SHOULD* be in your PATH statement.
Alternatively, if you put ABOUTIME.EXE in a directory that
is not in your PATH statement, your "Load=" line should
include the full path name ie.
"Load=C:\ABOUTIME\ABOUTIME.EXE" or
"Load=calc.exe C:\ABOUTIME\ABOUTIME.EXE" or
"Load=C:\ABOUTIME\ABOUTIME.EXE winword.exe"
NOTE: The quotation marks should not be in your
INI file, and only serve to illustrate the point.
2. The ABOUTIME.INI file can *ONLY* be in your Windows
directory. It doesn't matter if your Windows directory is
"C:\WINDOWS" or "C:\WIN" or "D:\WIN31" or "J:\DOGSBODY",
ABOUT TIME will find it via the Windows API. Do not
manually edit the ABOUTIME.INI file, as ABOUT TIME
may not work.
3. GRID.VBX, and THREED.VBX *MUST* go in your
Windows\SYSTEM directory. See above re Windows directory.
If you have older versions (check the date in File
Manager) of these files on your hard disk and do not
overwrite them with the files supplied in
ABOUTIME.LZH, then ABOUT TIME will not run. This point
should be remembered if you have other Visual Basic
programs that worked before you installed ABOUT TIME and
have since adopted a negative attitude.
4. The other files are text files that you can read from
Notepad, which is probably what you are doing right now.
End of file.