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- NAME
- HFK
-
- VERSION
- 39.46
-
- AUTHOR
- Herbert West
- email: ali@extro.ucc.su.oz.au
-
- DESCRIPTION
- HFK is yet another TitleBar clock, which tries too look like part
- of your Workbench title bar. It actually opens a very small, non-
- draggable window in the upper right corner of the screen. HFK opens
- on the default public screen, which will usually be Workbench.
-
- OK, so why should you use HFK instead of any other clock available
- on the Amiga? Firstly, HFK uses almost 0% of CPU time, as it is
- written very efficiently in C, taking advantage of the timer.device.
- This means that HFK has to wake up only once a minute to render the
- time.
-
- Secondly, HFK is NOT CONFIGURABLE! Why is this an advantage? Well,
- if you like it, you will love it, and if you dont like it, then
- get nicked! HFK is a simple clock, that's all. To quit HFK, all you
- have to do is run it again!
-
- Finally, HFK will only work under Workbench 3.0 (V39) and above, as
- it uses the extended DrawInfo structure to render itself in the same
- colours as your title bar, hence looking very sexy.
-
- Finally, thanks to Martin Huttenloher for the nice 8 colour icon!
-
- Oh yeah, I take no responsability for any evil things this program
- may do to your system, although it has been thoroughly tested.
-
- REVISION HISTORY
- 39.30 Initial release
- 39.32 Fixed MAJOR bug, 39.31 and below would stop working after
- midnight!
- 39.35 AT LAST! Fixed the last remaining bug! I wasnt handling fonts
- correctly, resulting in random crashes. Hooray!
- Now HFK 'toggles'. If you are already running HFK, running it
- again will cause it to exit! No more TaskX!
- Stack set to 1000 bytes (this is more than enough). Had the
- stack set higher before cause I though it was causing that
- 'mystery bug'.
- 39.40 Guess what? The above problem was not the major bug :( The bug
- was I was forgetting to call Forbid(); before replying to the
- workbench message.. now fixed, and clock works 100%
- 39.41 Program has been working flawlessly. One *minor* change, and
- added HFK24 for those people asking for 24 hour time. Too
- lazy to use tooltypes. Besides, code size is kept to a
- minimum, which is my #1 priority.
- 39.45 Many optimisations, saving many k's :)
- Fixed unnoticed bug in public screen handling; wasnt opening as
- a visitor window
- 39.46 Ooops!! Forgot to include HFK24 is 39.45
- I am working on a a new HFK with tooltypes for 24 hour/locale
- time format at the moment.. hope it's done soon!
-
- SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
- Kickstart/Workbench 3.0 (V39) or above.
-
- DISTRIBUTION
- HFK is freely distributable. It is a gift from me to the Amiga
- community worldwide. However, the archive may not be modified
- in any way. The only duty you have as user of HFK is to send me
- email to say you like it, or say hi to me on irc! (my nick is 'herb')
-
- HFK should be available on all aminet sites, and will be initially
- uploaded to ftp.luth.se.
-