The alarm or timer notifications look like this:
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Alarm and Timer Marker Settings
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This dialog is used to edit the
alarm or timer
marker
settings. There a 6 markers for alarms and 6 for timers.
(You can set 140 timers and 288 alarms but there are
only 6 different marker types for each class available).
Both marker types have nearly the same properties, but the
'Repeat daily' feature is only available for alarms.
The pressed marker button indicates the currently
active marker, you can choose any of the 6 markers.
The marker name field contains up to 8 characters,
these are shown in the hint area of the alarm or timer
settings window and in the alarm or timer notification.
The Color... button is used to choose a predefined
or self-composed color for the current marker. This
color is used to paint the alarm or timer indicator ticks and the
marker rectangles in the alarm or timer window.
By pressing the Run... button you can choose a
file that should be started or played when an alarm
or timer is triggered. You can also modify the
file name directly.
WAV or MID files are played directly and
you can choose to loop these files until
the alarm or timer notification message is closed.
Other types of files are started like in the
'Run' dialog of the desktop 'Start' menu.
So any application, document or multimedia file
can be triggered by an alarm or timer!
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Color Settings
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This dialog is used to edit the color settings of the
clock icon,
alarm and timer
windows.
You can press the Color button to select or compose
colors for any of the drawing elements
and you can press Reset to reset every single
color to its default.
And because a disabled alarm window is
automatically shown below the color settings dialog,
you can view the color changes by pressing Apply.
The Close button will just close the window without
applying the changes.
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Report Settings
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Here you can modify the name of the report file and you
can enable or disable the report.
After pressing Choose File... you can select an
existing or new file.
A new header is written to the report file if the
name of the report file was changed.
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Report
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The report is opened with notepad, it looks like:

The Cobasoft Clock writes the report to a file.
A new header is written when a new day
starts or when the program is being started.
And a new report line is written when the
user activates another window.
The line contains the current time,
the elapsed time since the
last window activation change and the window
caption.
You can use the report to track
your own work and that of others on your computer.
See also: Private
You can open the Report by Choosing 'Show Report...'
on the Clock Menu.
A Notepad is started where you can view, modify
or delete the report.
The report is comma-separated,
so that you can import it into other programs easily.
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Edit License Information
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By filling out the license information screen,
you indicate that you are the owner of this
software. You can obtain serial numbers and
registration keys by buying Cobasoft Clock.
A valid license makes the "No Logo" option visible
in the main menu of the clock,
you can then turn the Logo off, if you like.
Please read the
License carefully before
buying our using Cobasoft Clock!
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AutoStart
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By checking or unchecking the AutoStart menu item,
you can enable or disable the autostart feature.
If AutoStart is set, then the Cobasoft Clock will be loaded
any time somebody logs on to the computer.
Cobasoft Clock uses a registry setting for AutoStart,
so it is not visible in the 'Startup' folder of the
'Start' menu.
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Private
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By checking or unchecking the Private menu item,
you can enable or disable the Private feature.
When it is enabled then the Cobasoft Clock icon will
only be displayed for you! Nobody else who uses
the same computer will see the the clock although the
report will continue to work!
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No Seconds
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To save CPU time or reduce the number of lines
in the report you can check the No Seconds
menu item.
The clock will then disable the seconds display
in the icon and refresh the clock icon
and the report only once every minute.
On a battery-driven machine this will also
reduce the amount of disk writes and save
some energy.
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Show Moon
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By checking or unchecking the Show Moon menu item,
you can show or hide the moon phase display.
The moon phase icon
is shown above the usual clock icon
and it displays the moon phase of the current day and time.
When you move the mouse over the icon and hold it there
without pressing a button, the tooltip
will appear and show more detailed information about the
moon phase.
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Registry Settings
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Machine Configuration
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Personal Configuration
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The per-machine configuration of Cobasoft Clock is stored
in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE area of the Windows Registry.
You can view and edit the registry with tools like 'RegEdit.exe'.
It is organized as a tree, like the file system of your computer,
and the path to the 'folder' with the startup settings is
"\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\ CurrentVersion\Run" .
The entry with the name "CsClock" contains the path to the
Cobasoft Clock and it is managed by the
AutoStart menu option!
The global settings are in the folder:
"\SOFTWARE\Cobasoft\Clock" .
The entry with the name "Private" controls if the Cobasoft Clock
icon is displayed, as described in the
Private menu option!
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The personal configuration of Cobasoft Clock is stored
in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER area
and the path to the folder with the settings is
"\SOFTWARE\Cobasoft\Clock" .
If there is an entry with the name 'Log' then its string value
will be used as filename for the report file. If the value is
missing then the default
"%TEMP%\csclock.txt"
is used.
(%TEMP% is a placeholder for the temporary-files
directory.)
In the starting folder and below are further items and folders
that contain the color, alarm and timer settings.
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Uninstall
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You can choose the Uninstall item in the
Options menu of the clock icon to uninstall the whole
Cobasoft Clock program, all its files and all its
registry settings. Be careful with that option
because you will loose all alarms, all timers and all
other settings and you will have to reinstall CsClock
before you can use it again.
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Keyboard Shortcut
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Usually you open the main menu by right-clicking on the
clock icon. But you can also
access it by keyboard, for example to copy the timestamp
and paste it into a word processor or to set some options.
To implement this in a resource saving manner we are using
the already existing keyboard shortcut features of Windows.
To install it you have to create a shortcut to the program
'csclkm.exe' and set the keyboard shortcut in its properties
dialog to the key combination that you want to use for it.
You can create the shortcut very easily by right-clicking
on the Windows taskbar, choosing 'Properties', going to the
second tab, pressing the "Add..." button and then following
the instructions of the wizard. Then you have to open
the Start menu by right-clicking on the 'Start' button,
choosing 'Open' and going to the folder where you placed the
shortcut (with the wizard). There you can open the properties
dialog of the shortcut and set the keyboard shortcut.
With Windows 2000 the above is not neccessary because
there already are keyboard methods for accessing the taskbar
icons.
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Your comments are welcome, just send an
email
to the author.
We can also write customized version on request.
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Copyright (c) since 1999, Karl-W.Geitz
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