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Mr. Timer v2.2 Documentation
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Hi there! Great to see you’ve downloaded yet _ANOTHER_ one of
Kitty - Kat Software’s programs, Mr. Timer v2.2.
Please, please... read through **ALL** the documentation
before using the software. There are mostly probably some
features that you’ll never see, as well as things you won’t
understand, unless you read this. Thanks!
** Mr. Timer v2.2 Released: 6/18/94 **
About Version 2.2 Docs...
-------------------------
“So, what’s so special about these docs?” you might ask. Once
again, the Mr. Timer documentation appears in Setext form.
Setext is a form of text that uses regular ASCII characters
and together with a view, makes special styles using the text.
If you’re view this as Setext, you see the word **COOL** just
now boldened, while users with a regular text reader see it
as two starts, “COOL” and then another two stars.
To read these docs in the special setext form, open it up
using Akif Eyler’s Easy View. Be sure, once you’ve opened it,
to select “Use Styles”.
If you’d like to contact Akif, his Internet address in Turkey
is: <eyler@bilkent.edu.tr> (Not including the “< >”)
About Mr. Timer v2.2...
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Mr. Timer v2.2 includes a variety of new features, but still
not quite enough to make it up and over to version 3.0. I got
numerous suggestions from many people these past couple of days
about new features to add to Mr. Timer v2.2. Since so many were
already being planned to be added, I made an extreme effort to
include them all. I did include many, but not every one!
** Mr. Timer v2.2 is copywrited software, © 1994 Charles **
** DeLauder. All Rights To The Software Reserved. **
Mr. Timer is just about what its name implies: a timer! But not
you’re ordinary timer! It’s both a stopwatch, a counting down
timer, a system clock reader of date and time, a day of the week
teller, not to mention nice features like the ability to choose
the cursor you’d like to have over a selection of hour glasses
( :) ) as well as text styling!
Freeware/Shareware... what?
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Once again, Mr. Timer remains to be a great freeware piece of
software. As usual, I’m going to quickly run down some terms...
PUBLIC DOMAIN -- (NOT Mr. Timer v2.2) public may disect it,
take code, package it up, and ship it out
with their name on it without caring a bit
about the author.
FREEWARE -- (Mr. Timer v2.2 is this) You may use it and
distribute it to boards, your friends and family
without fee. All credit to the program must be
given to the author, and the package must be
distributed exactly the way it was found.
SHAREWARE -- (NOT Mr. Timer v2.2) You can try it out for a
certain number of days, then if you wish to
continue using it, you must pay a certian fee
to the author.
Why is Mr. Timer v2.2 freeware? Because I know right now that
if Mr. Timer was otherwise, (shareware, I mean) I’d be lucky
to get one registration.
What I want out of the program... well, I always enjoy
comments from people. I require you pay nothing, but I do
enjoy reading and replying to mail. It always makes me feel
great for someone to say, “Hey! Great job!”. And how long
does it take you to do that? Not long.
At the end I’ve included contact addresses. Please send some
sort of a comment, even if you hated it. Also, bug reports
are always nice to know, though I thouroughly test each
program before shipping it out to the Macintosh community.
Special Thanks
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I give alot of thanks here to Steve Schulin, SysOp of the
_Rad Insp BBS_ in Maryland. You can reach his board by
calling: ** (301) 309-1808 ** If you’d like to know, he
runs the FirstClass software, so you can use either the
Client or a regular terminal to call.
What’s New in v2.2?
-------------------
What’s new? A good bit! As usual, I’ll just give you the
“run down”, which includes the “features”:
• New About... Information and picture
• Cool **NEW** surprise for three seconds after a countdown
• Balloon Help
• Five new times to countdown from
• New _HALT_ menu item to stop a countdown in progress
• New menu, “System Clock”
• Can print day of the week
• Can print your current system time
• Can print your current system date
• Can print the day of the way, current system time, and
current system date all together! :)
• Still runs at 110K RAM!!
• _SHOULD_ work on any model using any system version!
• New sleeker code! Cleaned up some of the old sloppy
stuff
• ** And many, many more! **
The Menus
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Apple Menu
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About Mr. Timer... <--- Mr. Timer about Box
Timer Menu
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Start Timer <-- Starts the stopwatch like timer
Stop Timer <-- Stops the stopwatch like timer
Reset Timer <-- Resets the timer to zero seconds
Display Timer <-- Shows the current time if autoupdate
has been turned off
Update On <-- Turns on autoupdating if turned off
Quit <-- Quits Mr. Timer v2.2
_Notes About The Timer Menu_
** Autoupdating ** is a feature on Mr. Timer. That’s when
the screen updates itself to make the stopwatch time always
correct. When you stop the timer, autoupdating remains on.
The screen may “annoyingly” flicker. To turn it off, hold
down the option key. To restart this, use the “Update On”
menu item. Note that when you “Start” the timer, auto-
updating will auto matically re-enable itself.
Countdown Menu
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Halt Countdown <-- Halts countdown currently in progress
One Minute <-- Counts down 60 seconds
Two Minutes <-- Counts down 120 seconds
Five Minutes <-- Counts down 300 seconds
Ten Minutes <-- Counts down 600 seconds
Thirty Minutes <-- Counts down 1800 seconds
Sixty Minutes <-- Counts down 3600 seconds
Seventy Minutes <-- Counts down 4200 seconds
Eighty Minutes <-- Counts down 4800 seconds
Ninty Minutes <-- Counts down 5400 seconds
_Notes about the Countdown Menu_
** Halt Countdown ** can be a hard to understand feature.
Here’s what it does. You’re in a countdown, and you want
to stop it. You select “Halt Countdown” from the menu. The
time suddently changes to six seconds left. It counts those
down, then “finishes”... right after it finishes, the old
countdown that you are trying to cancel will count down
a max of 6 more seconds, after which it will finally end.
What that means is that at a max of 12 seconds after you
select “Halt Countdown” the countdown will totally cease.
Cursor Menu
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This menu allows you to select what cursor you want to
use while in Mr. Timer. The default is arrow, except when
in countdown mode, where it is a rotating hour glass.
Text Menu
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This menu lets you style the text in the program box the
way that you like it. This includes point size, and the
basic “styles”.
System Clock
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Day of Week <--- Prints the day of the week
Current System Time <--- Prints the current system time
Current System Date <--- Prints the current system date
Show All Three <--- Shows all three of the above
choices, all together.
Distribution Notes
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Mr. Timer v2.2 may be distributed freely as long as the
original archive with the Mr. Timer v2.2 application, and
this documentation document, “Mr. Timer v2.2 Docs” are
together, and all credit is given to the author, Charles
DeLauder.
This may be included on club Macintosh User Group CD’s, as
long as the author is notified of such a thing first.
If you a commercial company who sells shareware/freeware on
disks, please contact the author before doing anything.
This may be uploaded to commercial bulletin boards; I
encourage this as well as uploading it to your favorite
local board.
Mailing List!
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If you have an Internet address, and would like to be
informed when future versions of Mr. Timer, or other
products by Kitty - Kat Software are available, please
send a note to Kitty - Kat Software, with your Internet
address and name, as well as a little note saying you
want to be put on the list to:
kitty.kat@his.com
You can also get your name off the list by doing the
same thing, but saying that you’d like to be taken
off the list. This isn’t a computer at this address!
It’s a human being...! :)
Contacting Kitty - Kat Software
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There are three ways to contact Kitty - Kat Software
for whatever reasons (comments, questions, bug reports,
a commercial company dying to by the rights to it, [:)]
donations, etc.)... yes, I will except donations...
** Method One: Internet **
kitty.kat@his.com
** Method Two: Fidonet (Netmail) **
1:109/432.12 To: KKS
** Method Three: Snail Mail **
Kitty - Kat Software
20613 Beaver Ridge Road
Gaithersburg, MD 20879-4331
Thanks for downloading, and I hope you enjoy another
version of Mr. Timer!! **(2.2 Release: 6/18/94)**