February 4, 1992

	This is my first attempt at programming Borland's powerful 

Turbo Vision.  For my  application,  I had  the need to constantly

display  the  date and  time on  my DeskTop.  To display  the time
 
I used the clock object from  the gadget unit that came with Turbo

Pascal 6.0.  Necessity  being the motivation for invention,  I set 

out to write my own Turbo Vision  unit that would display the date 

as well.  This was a leaning experience to  say  the least.  Using 

Gadgets as a template, and an  OOP unit  I had previously  written 

to display the date as a string, XDate was born.  Use TestPlat.PAS

to demonstrate  the use of XDate in the upper right portion of the

MenuBar.  DT_Test.PAS  demonstrates  the  use  of the clock object,

from  gadgets, in the  MenuBar and  XDate in  right portion of  the

StatusLine.
                                                Enjoy

						Michael Peters
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