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Pilot StopWatch v2.01
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General Information
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Pilot StopWatch is a program designed to run on the USR/3-Com/IBM PDA that
functions as a stop watch. It allows five simultaneous stop watches to be
running. Just like a real stop watch, this program has the ability to
start the watches, stop the watches, pause the watches (for lap times), and
to reset the watches.
Pilot StopWatch is written and maintained by Chris DiPierro of X-Cellent
Software Corporation.
Installation
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* Delete any version of Pilot StopWatch you have installed (especially v2.01)
* Install this one
Usage
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Each stopwatch has a label and 4 buttons associated with it.
The label is the name of the watch and defaults to "Stop Watch #:"
where # is from 1 through 5. To rename a watch, simply click on its name
like any other field on your Pilot and edit it.
The buttons are designed to resemble a VCR:
* The right facing triangle is "Go" or "Run". It starts the stopwatch
timing.
* The square is "Stop". It stops the stopwatch.
* The two parallel lines are "Pause". This pauses the stopwatch until
"Go" or "Stop" is hit.
* The "R" stands for "reset". This resets the stopwatch to all 0's. Note
that you can only reset a stopped stopwatch.
The current state of the stopwatch is reflected by which button is inversed.
The four buttons on the bottom of the screen labeled with "All ..." are
equivilent to pressing that button for every stopwatch.
There are some options you can set via the Preferences selection of the
Options menu.
* The option "Hardware" allows you to use the hardware buttons to control
one of the watches. If you check this box, be sure to select a watch
from below it. If you do so, the "Calendar" button becomes "Go",
the "Address Book" button becomes "Stop", the "ToDo List" button becomes
"Pause", and the "Notepad" button becomes "Reset" for the watch you have
selected.
* The other box allows you to disable the Pilot's auto-off feature while in
the program. If you select this option, the Pilot's auto-off feature will
be reinstated when you leave Pilot StopWatch.
Important Notes
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Pilot StopWatch will time when the Pilot is in other applications (if you
set a stopwatch to "Run" or "Pause" and then you leave the application) or
while the Pilot is off. *HOWEVER* when the Pilot is off, the best timing
accuracy that can be kept is on the order of 1 second. So if you care about
precision, do *NOT* turn the Pilot off, and disable the auto-off feature of
the Pilot in the Preferences menu.
Registration Info
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Pilot StopWatch is Shareware and costs $10 to register. Benefits of
registration include automatic free updates to new versions of the program
if the user has an Internet email address, otherwise the user will only be
notified of new releases. In addition, you will no longer have to hit the
"Ok" button on the splash screen at the start of the program.
To register, please refer to http://www.llamas.org/pstw/
Changes in this version (2.02)
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* Added the ability to specify "All" for the hardware buttons to control
all watches with the hardware buttons at once
* Fixing the bug in v2.01 broke the hardware buttons, this is fixed
Changes in version 2.01
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* Fixed a slight timing inaccuracy that could occur with the "All" buttons
Changes in version 2.00
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* Can now rename the watches
* Stores the timing info when you switch apps and come back
* Added hardware button support
* Added ability to disable auto-off
* Changed what the buttons look like
* Changed the program icon
* Now works under Palm OS/3.0
Known Bugs
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* Because the program forces an event every 1/100th of a second to get
accurate time counting, this does not let the CPU sleep much and as such it
seems to affect battery life. There's nothing that I can do software wise
to prevent this while retaining full functionality, but it's worth being
aware of.
* Timing will not work in CoPilot, this is a CoPilot limitation, not a
program limitation
Version History
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v2.02 - Bug fix, feature addition
v2.01 - Bug fix
v2.00 - This Version (features and bug fixes!)
v1.11 - Bug fix
v1.10 - New feature release
v1.01 - Service release (fixed a few bugs)
v1.00 - First public release
v0.10 - First prerelease, testing to make sure the product worked
Tech Support/Info
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The author of this program does not guarantee technical support for the
product, but feel free to contact him by email at cdipierr@llamas.org
Most questions will be answered/addressed within a few days time.
The latest version and information about the product can always be found at
http://www.llamas.org/pstw/
Special Thanks
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Special thanks to Peter Johnson for the new icon.
Liability
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The author of Pilot StopWatch is not affiliated with Palm Computing, and is not
liable for any damages caused to the user or the user's computer equipment
(including both their home PC and their Pilot). This program has been tested
on a Pilot 1000 with the professional upgrade and with an AMD K6/233 PC and
to the best of the author's knowledge will not harm similar equipment.
However, by installing this product, the user dissolves the author of all
liabilities related to this program or otherwise.