TimeTracker™
Written by William E. Modesitt.
Copyright ©1994, Maui Software.
The unregistered version of this product may be freely distributed and uploaded to bulletin boards.

Description
TimeTracker is designed to help you keep track of time and charges.
Press the Start button to start a new time entry and begin tracking time; press the Stop button to stop tracking time. Each time entry can have associated notes. TimeTracker documents can be saved to disk, printed, and exported.

TimeTracker requires System 6.0.5 or later, and System 7 users additionally can enjoy an easy “drag and drop” interface.

Menus
File Menu
New
Opens a new TimeTracker document.

Open
Opens an existing TimeTracker document.

Close
Closes the current TimeTracker document.

Save
Saves the current TimeTracker document.

SaveAs…
Saves the current TimeTracker document with a new name.

Export…
Exports the current TimeTracker document as a tab-delimited text file which can be imported into any database, such as Excel or FileMaker.
Notes on the export file:
The exported file that TimeTracker creates is a text file with creator type 'XCEL', which makes it an Excel text file. Double-clicking on the file causes Excel to start and read the file (assuming, of course, you have the application Microsoft Excel). If you want the the creator type to be from another application, edit resource number 128 of type “STR ” with a resource editor such as ResEdit or Resorcerer.

Page Setup…
Sets printing options.

Print…
Prints the current document.
If you find your Notes running off the printed page, you can either export the data and print it from your database application (which probably has more printing options), or select landscape (wide) in Page Setup before printing.

Quit
Quits TimeTracker.

Edit Menu
Cut, Copy, Paste
Not used with TimeTracker.

Clear
Deletes the selected time entry from the current TimeTracker document. Pressing the Delete key does the same thing ( a time entry has to be selected before it can be deleted).

Preferences…
Sets personal preferences for TimeTracker. 

Time Menu
Notes…
Enter notes for the selected time entry (limit of 255 characters per time entry).
Notes are also accessible by
1) selecting a time entry and then pressing the Return or Enter key, or
2) double-clicking on a time entry.

Set Hourly Rate…
Change the hourly rate for the current TimeTracker document. This is originally set to the hourly rate from your preferences selection.

Windows Menu
Lists all open TimeTracker windows, if any.  Selecting a window from this list brings it to the front.

Buttons
Start
Start recording time and create a new time entry field. The Start button then becomes the Stop button.

Stop
Stop recording time. The Stop button then becomes the Start button.

?
Displays this documentation.

Preferences
Select Preferences from the Edit menu, or type Command-D
Auto-Save
Checking this box sets TimeTracker to automatically save documents to disk at your specified intervals.  This is handy in the event your Mac ever crashes.

Hourly Rate
Sets the default hourly rate for new files.

Miscellaneous
Arrow Keys
Up Arrow moves up the time entry list.
Down Arrow moves down the time entry list.
Left Arrow moves to the top of the time entry list.
Right Arrow moves to the bottom the time entry list.

Zoom
Clicking on the Zoom box (upper right corner of the TimeTracker window) zooms TimeTracker to a reduced size displaying only the upper left portion of the window (the start/stop button and the current elapsed time, if any).  Clicking on the Zoom box again displays the entire TimeTracker window.

Suggestions & Comments
Please send comments and suggestions to the address below.
Some people have suggested a Pause/Continue button.  This doesn't make sense with this application because the start and end times are displayed. If a time entry was paused, the end time would somehow have to be adjusted to reflect this change. Or would it be the start time that is adjusted?

Aloha,

William E. Modesitt
Maui Software
189 Auoli Dr.
Makawao, Maui, HI 96768-9313

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