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Siege Watch v1.01 August 9, 1993
** use the Map control panel to set your time zone **
Description:
A small application which functions both as a standard analog clock and which
keeps track of the time left in the current United States presidential
administration.
Requirements:
Requires System 7 or above. (This is because I rely on offscreen gworlds to
give flicker free updates).
The RAM requirements vary quite a bit depending on your color setup. If you
have a black & white system you should be able to get flicker free updates
with a relatively small partition size (≈ 45K) while 24-bit systems require
a larger amount (≈120K). If you don't mind flickering updates 40K should work
ok.
I've just added support for the new Speech Manager so if you've installed
the Speech Manager extension (systems later than 7.1 should have it built in) and
there is enough memory available. The clock can be made to 1) speak the number
of days left in the administration on startup and 2) say the current hour every
hour. I don't have any documentation on the Speech Manager so I'm only hoping
that I've done everything right. This might take a little extra memory.
History:
initial release v1.0d0
current release v1.01f
Fixed bug involving not having tested for a minimum amount of available
memory when allocating an offscreen GWorld.
Now make sure that speech is finished before doing anything major.
Conceived by:
Joseph G. Howes
Art by:
James M. Howes
Code by:
Glenn R. Howes
Written in Think Pascal 4 (because I needed the practice and I want Joey to
learn Pascal as a first language).
Warranty:
None whatsoever. Any damage or loss caused by this program is entirely the
users responsibility.
I (Glenn Howes) place this program into the public domain. Feel free to
distribute it wherever and however you like, but please do not distribute
modified copies without consulting me.
Misc:
This app creates a preference file which stores the state of the clock window.
When the current administration is over, the time till the end of the one after
that will be displayed.
You need to set your location on the globe using the Map control panel. This is
because the presidential swearing in ceremony occurs in Washington D.C. at noon
and the application needs to know the time difference between there and the
location of the computer.
You might want to put an alias (or the app itself) into the Startup Items folder
in your system folder.
Thanks to the rest of the family: Mom, Dad, Anne, John, David, Andy, Tommy, and
Sarah.
Doing a copy from the edit menu will put the current date/time into the clipboard.