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RunTime 1.1
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Hello !
This little application gives you the total power on time of your Mac,
that is the total number of hours and minutes that your Mac has been
turned on EVER. This information is kept in PRAM (battery-powered
memory) and gets updated by the system every five minutes.
New in version 1.1 : The “Toggle View” button changes display from
hours & minutes to years, months, weeks and
days (requested by some users).
Fixes several cosmetic problems & bugs when run
on machines without Color QuickDraw (Thanks Judd).
The given time may be inexact in the following cases :
• The PRAM has been completly re-initialized (zapping the PRAM by
holding down the cmd-opt-p-r keys during startup DOES NOT destroy
this information) or the battery has been removed, replaced...
• Your Macintosh model is prior to the IIci, which means it doen't
remember how long he's been running. RunTime should notice
this and inform you that it cannot run on this Macintosh.
• Your Mac has been turned on for more than 5 years (which seems
to be the capacity of the counter). In this case, the counter just
restarts from zero. Note that if the counter is exactly at zero,
RunTime assumes that the Mac doesn't record its power on time,
and it tells you that it cannot run on this model. If this happens,
wait five minutes and try again.
Note that the “sleep” mode of a PowerBook or Duo (and of other
Macs that can sleep) does NOT count as runtime (Thanks Bill).
Views
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Hours view : Displays runtime in hours & minutes.
Standard view : Displays runtime in years (12 months), months (4.35 weeks),
weeks (7 days) and days (24 hours).
Business view : Displays runtime in years (12 months), months (21 days),
weeks (5 days) and days (8 hours). These are average
work days, weeks & months.
RunTime has only been tested on System 7 (on the following Macs : IIci,
IIfx and IIvx), but it should work with System 6. Also tested on a
PowerMacintosh 8100... and it works !!!
RunTime uses a trap that (to my knowledge) Apple hasn't documented. Thus,
it may not run under new System software or new Macintosh models. If you
have trouble with it, please let me know.
RunTime is freeware. Please, send me comments, suggestions & bug reports.
Thanks to everyone who sent comments & suggestions about previous versions.
Written by : Patrick Stadelmann
Vergers 22
2022 Bevaix
SWITZERLAND
e-mail : Patrick.Stadelmann@etudiants.unine.ch
Version history
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1.0.1
Fixed a bug in the PRAM decoding process
Fixed a problem with BNDL rsrc.
1.0.2
Now checks to see if info is available.
Now checks to see if trap is implemented.
1.0.3
Now calls UnloadScrap at startup. This fixes a
bug which caused a system error 25 (out of memory)
with big Clipboard.
1.0.4
Fixed another bug during the PRAM decoding.
1.1 (March 31, 1994)
Fixed a bug which caused the dialog to be dismissed
when the user clicked on the copyright infos.
Optionnaly displays power-on time in years, months
weeks and days (requested by some users).
Fixes several cosmetic problems & bugs when
run on machines without Color QuickDraw (Thanks Judd).