(For details, about XTimer Spy, see the documents in the folder, "XTimer Spy ƒ.")
Several "Web Site Releases" of XTimer preceded this new official public release. I make new versions available at my web site as soon as I have a new feature ready, or any bug fixes. I wait to make a full public release until I've completed everything I have planned for the next release. There's no prohibition on distributing those releases to other places, I just don't upload them myself any place else, until I'm ready. Web site releases will always be tagged at the end of the file name with (w), denoting it as a Web site release. You'll notice below what happened in those releases, since the last public release.
One thing I should mention; I failed to note it in the Help; when you use the Rate Switcher to change rates when the time charged reaches a certain level, in order to remember that the rate has reached its switch level, XTimer must save that time into the log for that rate. So, if you have a rate set to change from your free rate to a pay rate at a certain time, say 300 minutes, then XTimer must save the time for the free rate at 300 minutes in the log. If XTimer didn't save the time, if you set it to change to the free rate when your application is in front, it would not know that the rate has maxed out the next time you use it, and wouldn't know to switch to the pay rate.
NEW IN 1.9:
• Expanded automatic log clearing feature by adding settings which you can use to have XTimer prompt you to save a copy of the log before automatically clearing it, in standard format unless you check the setting to use the tab-delimited format.
• Added new General Preference settings allowing you to have XTimer prompt to save a copy of the log when you quit, in standard format unless you check the setting to use the tab-delimited format.
New In 1.8.4(w):
• The Auto-Launcher now allows up to 7 applications to be selected; and you can also select control panels now (like Config PPP), if needed.
• The Auto-Launcher now let's you have XTimer automatically launch as many of your selected applications as desired when XTimer is launched.
• The Mini-Timer can now be shrunken down to just the Time Charged Total at the top of the timer, or the Current Rate Total at the bottom, by double-clicking on the total you want to be shown. Double-clicking again returns the Mini-Timer back to its normal condition.
New In 1.8.3(w):
• The Auto-Launcher has been expanded; allowing you to choose up to 5 applications which can now be launched directly from XTimer's new Launch menu.
• The "Current Rate Total" on the larger timer can now be toggled to display the current rate's total charges, instead of the time. The current rate total is the total of the time/charges in the log added to those on the timer. To toggle between the time and charge totals, click on the text that says, "Current Rate Total", or on the total itself.
New In 1.8.2(w):
• XTimer now provides a continuous Session Logging feature. See the document included in this archive, "Help - Addendum", for information about how to configure and use this feature.
Changes in 1.8.4(w)
• The command key shortcut for Append Text To File, in standard format, was changed to the "]" character; which on my keyboard is above the return key. I made this change from the "/" character, so that I could use the "/" as a command key to Launch an application from the Launch menu. This keeps all the command keys for the Launch menu available on the numeric keypad and makes them easier to remember.
Changes in 1.8.3(w):
• I think many people were confused by the 100 hour "roll over factor" in the Current Rate Total display, so I modified it to display the total without rolling over if the time in the log added to the time on the timer is greater than 100 hours. Only that particular display was changed; XTimer will still not allow more than 100 hours to be saved in the log.
• When adding a time to the log, if the time in the log will exceed the 100 hour limit, XTimer now alerts you that the time will roll over, and asks if you want to continue and add the time anyway. Previously, XTimer only allowed users to cancel adding, or set the log time to 100 hours.
• The behavior of certain error trapping mechanisms, involved in correcting erroneous keyboard input from users, were modified to be less confusing and more like standard Mac application error correcting methods. It's still a bit unorthodox, but it works, and will do fine until version 2.0 eliminates those older routines, created when I was just learning to write Mac code.
Fixes in 1.8.3(w):
• I believe the conflict with 68000 Macs, like the Classic and SE, has been conquered. More testing still needs to be done to prove that nothing else is present in the code that those Macs can't handle. I don't have a lot of feedback to go on, if you have a problem, let me know, and I'll get right on it.
• Error corrected in "Modify Logged Time" routine, which could have caused undesirable results if a non-numeric key was pressed upon immediate opening of the dialog.
• XTimer now correctly allows time to be logged on the time all the way to 100 hours, instead of only to 99 Hours 59 minutes.
• An aptly timed click on "Reset" while the timer is paused, would leave the bullet indicator still drawn on the timer. It now erases properly.
Fixes In 1.8.2(w):
• Corrected formatting error when non U.S. number format is being used and a user triggers the "Unused" rate macro to set a rate to unused in the Charge Rates settings.
• I learned that some countries use a different time seperator than the colon, so I set XTimer to use the time seperator in the System's settings.
• Bugs were fixed in the behavior of XTimer as related to automatic rounding and adding of times to the log when the Round function is selected while the timer is Paused, and when the timer is running and XTimer is Quit.
