Sleeper is a control panel for desktop Macs that dims the screen and spins down SCSI disk drives after periods of inactivity. Separate "sleep" times can be set for the two features. Setting up via the control panel is straightforward, and there is help available via balloon help and by clicking the Sleeper icon. If you have any problems, please contact St. Clair Software at one of the addresses listed in the "Sleeper Documentation" file. Also, please note that Sleeper is shareware. If you decide to keep it, please register your copy.
Known problems:
- Sleeper fails to dim the screen if a Lapis ProColor Server 8-16 board is
being used to drive the monitor.
- Disabled items in the control panel are drawn in a stippled pattern rather
than true gray.
- The hotkey display does not recognize the A key on Japanese keyboards.
Release Notes:
Version 1.1.1:
- Correct a problem with the startup icon not being displayed with Now
Startup Manager.
- Worked around a problem with Greg's Buttons 3.7 which caused all the
SCSI checkboxes to be disabled in the Sleeper control panel.
Version 1.1:
- Corrected the problem which caused the Finder to display black and
white icons on grayscale screens after dimming and waking up.
- Enhanced gestalt support to work with SuperClock (aka the System 7.5
Date & Time control panel) and to check whether other dimmers have
dimmed the screen when "Only when screen is dimmed" is turned on.
- Made hotkey work with After Dark and other SAVC-enabled screen
savers.
- Fixed error handling on flaky SCSI buses.
- Fixed a bug which caused hangs with Apple's CD Audio Player.
- Changed check box enabling so Sleeper only allows setup of SCSI devices
that identify themselves as hard disks.
- Changed dimmer to wake up instantly rather than gradually undimming.
- Added workaround for bug in 660AV and 840AV internal video.
- Added wake-up cursor to indicate that a drive is spinning up.
- Added VISA and MasterCard registration.
- Fixed more icon positioning problems during startup.
Version 1.02:
- Fixed bug that caused Sleeper to ignore any device at SCSI ID 6.
- Added the "Only when screen is dimmed." option for disk sleep.
- Added logging of sleep and wake operations.
- Added balloon help.
- Added support for 'SAVR' gestalt, for those that use it.
- Reset sleep timers when control panel settings are changed.
- Improved error checking in screen dimmer code.
- Updated to new ShowInit code so icon positions correctly at startup.
- Expanded explanations in the "About Sleeper" file.
- Changed icon in control panel to better reflect its help function.
Version 1.01:
- The hotkey did not work if drive sleep was turned off.
- Putting non-existent disks to sleep could hang Macs for almost a minute.
- Checkboxes that appeared disabled were sometimes enabled.
- Added watch cursor during SCSI bus scan before control panel comes up.
Version 1.0:
- Wakeup sometimes failed with drives formatted with LaCie's SilverLining
running on a PowerMac.
- Support for international keyboard layouts was added in the hotkey display
in the control panel.
- A conflict with PowerBar which caused the Finder to hang until a modifier
key was pressed was resolved.
Version 1.0b4:
- Apple CD-ROM 5.0 woke up the drive every 2 seconds. The sleep code is now
device specific, so that only the device that is receiving the request gets
awakened.
- Resolved a conflict with After Dark.
- Typing unexpected characters in the delay boxes in the control panel caused
incorrect characters to be displayed.
- Sleep and dim can now be explicitly turned off.
- You can now remove the hotkey setting, so that there is no hotkey defined.
- Better identification of SCSI requests is done so drives will not awaken
unnecessarily.
- The "About Sleeper" file updated to acknowledge lack of support for the SE/30.
