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- Changes to Clock5 since v1.82
- =============================
- * Clock5 is now Osaris compatible (as well as Revo, S7, netBook, etc.)!
- It was a tight squeeze getting everything in (especially the Calendar view)
- but I think it looks pretty good - nice to see some analog clocks on the
- Osaris too. Having said that, sound playback seems to be an issue on the
- Osaris so one or two things didn't make it - the voice and chimes have had
- to be disabled (and so needn't be installed on the Osaris), as has the
- SweetDreams mode. Everything else is there though.
-
- * Tim Sneller pointed out that it was impossible to add a city name such
- as Tel Aviv to the World Time: Multi zone view because pressing the
- space bar when entering the name caused the dialog box to think that
- you'd pressed the 'OK & Repeat' button. I've now changed this button
- to use Ctrl+R to fix this.
-
- * 'Marko' discovered a bug in the Calendar view when running on the Revo.
- If the date changed, the calendar changed but the date under the clock didn't
- - now fixed.
-
- * Changed the look of the Calendar display when running on the Revo. I've
- removed the 'direction' buttons and replaced them with the same 'curled
- edges' that Clock5 uses on other machines. It makes the display look much
- better I think.
-
- * Increased the delay slightly between the counting hour chimes - thanks to
- Rostislav Psota for this suggestion.
-
- * Fixed a bug when running on a Series 7 / netBook. In order to have the
- colour icon replace the B&W one on the Extras bar, S7/netBook users had
- to soft reset their machines - not exactly user friendly! Now the colour icon
- will automatically replace the B&W one after the program is first run. My
- thanks to Phil Spencer at Symbian for his advice.
-
- * Fixed a bug in the Worldtime: Multi Zone view. The am/pm indicators
- didn't display correctly if the home city was far east of GMT (e.g. Asia,
- Australia, etc.) and the selected city/cities were much west of GMT (e.g.
- the USA). Now fixed. My thanks to Peter Kleiss in Melbourne for pointing
- this out.
-
- Changes to Clock5 since v1.81
- =============================
- * Clock5 is now Revo, Series 7, and netBook compatible! :-)
-
- * Richard Chaplin found a bug when setting an alarm in Clock5. Basically,
- setting any alarm in the last 5 minutes of the hour caused the program to
- crash. This has now been fixed.
-
- * Fixed the Tab button in the WorldTime: MultiZone view which wasn't
- depressing correctly.
-
- * Changed the 'OK & Repeat' key in the Change Cities option of WorldTime:
- MultiZone from Tab to Space so as to allow the Tab key to bring up a scroll
- box in the cities and GMT Offsets lists.
-
- * Christopher Hurley spotted a bug whereby if you changed the Digital clock
- settings in Program Options whilst displaying either the Mystify screensaver
- or the Big analog clock, the screen stopped running or became semi-
- transparent...! This has now been fixed.
-
- * Nigel Molyneux spotted a related bug. If you've had Clock5 running
- with the Logo display (say) running and you used Settings|Program options to
- Invert or Reverse the digital views (whilst still in Logos view) and _then_
- switched to one of the digital views, the digital view would start with a
- greatly oversized clock. Also, if you did this repeatedly (about 15 times),
- you could crash Clock5. Both these bugs have now been fixed.
-
- * Kevin Davison discovered that Clock5 wouldn't close from the 'Open files/
- folders' screen or via PsiWin if either the program Menu was open or the
- chimes were playing. It still doesn't do these things but at least now it
- will display a 'busy' message in the 'Open files/folders' list if you try it.
-
- * Rostislav Psota found a bug whereby if the alarm was set to go off at the
- hour and the chimes were set also, the alarm would go off and Clock5 would
- get stuck in the background trying to play chimes that wouldn't play. It'll
- now either time-out after 45 seconds or come to foreground when you use the
- Hot-key (Ctrl+Menu).
-
- * Improved the look of the Clock5 icon - and added colour for the S7/netBook
- version.
-
- * Justin Barley pointed out (some time ago actually - sorry Justin!) that the
- chimes struck the full hour (albeit without the hours themselves) at 15
- minutes before the hour. This has now been fixed.
-
- Changes to Clock5 since v1.80
- =============================
- * Added the FreEPOC dialogs and details to the Help file.
-
- * Added the latest version (v5.01) of Symbian's SysRAM1.sis
- installation file to the Clock5.zip file.
-
- * Some minor changes to the Stopwatch views to accomodate some
- of the language translations.
-
- * Olivier Peyrat kindly pointed out that Clock5 would crash if a
- countdown (or countup) elapsed whilst Clock5 was in the background.
- This has now been fixed.
-
- * Justin Barley pointed out that Clock5 would crash when you went to
- Menu/Program Options if the Standard Folder wasn't set on your
- machine. I've now fixed this.
-
- * Justin also pointed out that the Chimes volume didn't seem to be
- varying with its volume control. In fact both it and the voice volume
- were working off the voice volume setting! Ahem. Now fixed.
-
- Changes to Clock5 since v1.79
- =============================
- * A count-down and count-up stopwatch has been added to the available
- views. Access via the main menu or by using Ctrl+N and Ctrl+U
- respectively. The Stopwatch runs off the system clock and so should
- handle both multi-tasking with other programs and switch-offs without
- any problem.
-
- * The Help file has been greatly enhanced to better describe many of
- Clock5's recently added features.
-
- * All the calendars in Clock5 now automatically check what day is set in
- the system as the first day of the week and adjust themselves accordingly.
- This is primarily aimed at North American users who tend to call Sunday
- the first day of the week v's us Europeans who say that Monday is the first
- day of the week. The program doesn't care any more - it'll quite happily
- show Wednesday as being the first day of the week if that's what you've
- set in the Control Panel...!
-
- * Rostislav Psota was kind enough to point out to me that even though 24hr
- clocks are common on the continent, they still only use 12hr chimes! I was
- unsure of this when I wrote that code. I've now fixed it so that all clocks
- will only chime up to 12 times. :-)
-
- * Alan Foo CheeLun pointed out that at midnight the chimes just kept on
- chiming and didn't stop! Woops... Thanks for that Alan. Now fixed.
-
- * Added the option (under Program Options) to display a leading zero in
- 24 hour digital clock mode. I.e. 08:23 instead of 8:23.
-
- * Changed the digital clocks so that 0:00 (or 00:00!) now shows as 12:00am
- instead of 0:00am. 0:00 remains for the 24 hour digital clocks however.
-
- * Changed the funtion of the Tab key in both the digital clocks so that it
- toggles between 12hr and 24hr mode. This seemed like a more useful
- function to me than toggling between an inverted display and non-inverted
- display...
-
- * A couple of people had mentioned that their home town name was quite
- large and that it wouldn't fit into the Worldtime: Multi Zone view where it
- shows the home town name. The program now auto-scales the size of the
- text (up to a point) to help it fit.
-
- * Fixed some of the power consumption issues that had begun to creep in
- to previous versions. Clock5 should once again be frugal with your
- batteries! My thanks to Jim Turnbull for reminding me about this.
-
- * I've gone back to packaging the various OPX installation files separately
- again (e.g. Systinfo.sis). Various people have had problems installing
- previous versions of Clock5 when these files were built in.
-
- Changes to Clock5 since v1.78▀2
- ==============================
- * Hourly, half-hourly, and quarter-hourly chimes have been added to Clock5
- based on the Westminster chimes. There's a new option under the Clock5
- menu to enable or disable them and they're configurable via the Settings/
- Program Options menu. The new Chimes folder (in system/apps/Clock5/)
- can be deleted to save space if the chimes are not required and the program
- will detect this and 'grey out' the Enable Chimes option... Alternatively you
- can replace the Wesminster chimes I've used with sound files of your own -
- just use the same names and the program will be happy.
-
- * The chimes (if enabled) will also play when Clock5 is in the background.
- Use Clock5's Hot-Key (Ctrl+Menu) to silence them (unless 'Sleep Mode' is
- active in which case any letter key should do it).
-
- * The program now also looks for the Voice folder (in system/apps/Clock5/)
- and will 'grey out' the Voice Time option (as above for the chimes) if the
- Voice files are not present.
-
- * Tweaked the sound playing routine (i.e. for Voice Time and Chimes) so
- that all the animated displays keep on running now whilst the sound is playing
- - e.g. Digital Seconds, Mystify, etc.
-
- * Fixed a bug in the Logos view when running on a 5mx. Psion have moved
- the location around of some of their logos in the ROM and this could cause
- the program to crash...
-
- * Fixed another small bug in the Logos view which could crash the program
- if a logo had a long filename (more than 11 characters).
-
- * Fixed a minor bug in the Mystify views where the polygon(s) would some-
- times get 'trapped' at the edge of the screen and/or bounce beyond the edge
- of the screen.
-
- * Tweaked the background keyboard scanning routine again. I'd previously
- told it to ignore the letters 'y' and 'n' and the Space bar. However, this
- was
- causing problems for people when typing quickly with 'Sleep Mode' enabled.
- I've now removed this restriction which should fix the problem.
-
- Changes to Clock5 since v1.78
- ==============================
- * Clock5 is now ER5 compatible. I.e. it should now work on the new 5mx
- machine as well as the Series5/Geofox. Also, all the OPX files that were
- previously packaged as seperate .SIS installation files (e.g. Sysram1.sis)
- are now package inside Clock5.sis for easy installation.
- * Fixed a small bug whereby I'd forgotten to disable the Ctrl+Esc 'backdoor' -
- now fixed.
-
- ==============================
- * Clock5's password interface has been greatly enhanced. Users had previously
- commented that all that could be done once the password had been entered was
- navigate Clock5's options via the Menu. There are now options (both via
- on-screen
- buttons and via the normal shortcut keys) to disable the password immediately
- upon entry, to send Clock5 to the background, or to revert to the menu as
- before...
-
- Changes to Clock5 since v1.76
- ==============================
- * Clock5 can now act as a speaking clock. There's a new option under the
- main Clock5 menu called 'Voice Time (Ctrl+V)' and you can choose the volume
- that you want the voice played at - see 'Program Options'. The SweetDreams
- function has also benefited from this option and both SweetDreams and Voice
- Time can be stopped at any time by pressing any key (previously Sweet Dreams
- could only be stopped in between words).
-
- * There's now an option to add a Clock5 icon to your Standard Folder (usually
- c:/Documents/) in the - now renamed - Program Options menu.
-
- * The location of the Clock.ini file has been changed so that it's always kept
- on c: drive (i.e. in c:\system\apps\clock5\) whether the app is installed to
- either
- c: or d: drive. The reason for this is that I was advised by Malcolm Bryant
- (author of the excellent freeware banking program, abp) that Symbian recomend
- that all .ini files are stored on c:. This apparently because in a low
- battery
- situation, the machine may refuse to write to a CF card even though it'll
- still
- write okay to c: drive. I've also associated the .ini file with the Clock5
- icon...
-
- * The options have been split out slightly under the Settings/Sleep Time menu
- dialog to allow the sleep timer to be active with - or without - the keyboard
- activity monitor being active when in the background.
-
- * There's a new option under the View/Logos/Choose logo menu dialog to cycle
- through the available logos, changing each after a preset time. Therfore you
- could - if you wanted to - use a number of full-screen images to act as
- changing
- wallpaper in Clock5.
-
- Changes to Clock5 since v1.75
- ==============================
- * A new time view has been created: Worldtime - Multi Zone. This sets
- up 12 clocks to show the time in different cities. The first clock is
- automatically
- set for your home town location (taken from the Time app) and the others
- can be set as required by pressing the 'Tab' key or the "Worldtime" button
- on the screen. You can also choose to switch between analog and digital
- clocks
- or to remove the borders between the different clocks.
-
- * Added a tweak to the Logos view so that using a 640x240 mbm (or 640x320 mbm)
- on a Geofox - i.e. a full-screen image no longer jiggles the image. It now
- stays
- static so that it can be used as 'wallpaper'!
-
- Changes to Clock5 since v1.74
- ==============================
- * Fixed a v1.74 bug in the background activity monitor whereby it would crash
- if brought to the foreground with the password enabled - sorry about that!
- This new keyboard scanning routine now places far less load on the Psion -
- which
- means that there's now negligible delay in typing in other apps whilst Clock5
- is
- 'scanning' in the background.
-
- * Added 2 new options to the 'Viewing Options' menu that lets you display
- either
- the digital seconds or the digital minutes clock as an inverse image and/or
- with
- the digits' image/shadows reversed. Pressing 'Tab' in either view also
- toggles
- the image inversion.
-