This is a little application that I did quite a lot of work on in 1996 and never quite got around to finishing properly. Its purpose in life is to keep track of time spent on tasks or projects. I've designed it to take up as little desktop space as it is possible to use and still have a usable application.
Most of the application is complete. What's missing is the ability to produce reports to a printer. You can produce reports to a file and this works. The file is not deleted so you can then use that to print a hardcopy version if you want. In addition the log files that are produced by the application are in comma separated variable form so could be read into a spreadsheet if you wanted to work on the data outside of my reporting functions.
Rather than let it rot I've decided that I'm going to release it as "email-ware" for individual use (not corporate use). It has a registration code checking feature built into it and will disable itself after 30 days if you haven't registered it by then. Registration is FREE and all you have to do is send me an email to Trevor-Hemsley@dial.pipex.com to request your code. The code that you receive is based on the name that you enter so you need to tell me what the name is that you will enter into the registration dialog. I will then email you the registration code that will stop the application from expiring. Your name and email address will not be used for any other purpose (no junk mail, no nothing). If you intend to use this application in a corporate environment and deploy it across hundreds of machines then you do NOT have a licence to do so!
Since you're reading this I assume that you have already unzipped the distribution file into a directory somewhere on your system. If not then that is your first step. I supply an INSTALL.CMD and an UNINST.CMD and I recommend that you use these. Install will run in an OS/2 command window and will prompt you for the target location for the application. It will copy the necessary files to this location and will then create an icon on your desktop to invoke the app. Uninst.cmd will just remove the icon from your desktop and you can then delete the directory where the app was installed. If you are upgrading from a previously installed version you can just copy the EXE and HLP file to your installation directory - obviosuly you must close the running version first.
There is extensive, if somewhat confused, online help available once the application is running. I recommend that you read this and play about to find out what it all means.
The app runs in one of two modes - either you set "Calculate Duration" to on in the setup dialog or you don't. In "Calculate Duration" mode Time Tracker keeps track of what you last told it that you were doing and when it was that you told it. It remembers this until you tell it you are starting to do something else and then writes a log entry saying what time you started the thing that you just finished and how long it took. This is the mode that I recommend that you use and it is the default in 1.01 and higher.
In the other mode all logging is done retrospectively and Time Tracker relies upon you to tell it how long you spent doing things. When you hit a button it either logs the time that's defined on that button OR it will prompt you to tell it how long it took if you define the time duration as zero minutes. In this mode it's easiest to think that when you hit a button that you are telling Time Tracker that you just spent the last X minutes doing <whatever>. All that Time Tracker does in this mode is keep the log for you.
Bug reports and enhancememt requests may be sent to me but I don't guarantee to fix anything.
As usual the author is not responsible for any damage that may be caused by use of this program.
