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- Ticker is PUBLIC DOMAIN and was written by Ray Lambert in 1988.
- Executable and source for Ticker may be distributed freely as long as
- no fee is charged for it and this file accompanies it. If you make some
- super-incredible modifications to Ticker I'd like to see them! Please
- send me a copy! You can reach me via USSnail at: 415 Sanford Road,
- Westport, MA 02790 Thanx!!
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- Using Ticker:
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- Ticker will open an Intuition window which consists of a close
- gadget, two depth gadgets and a drag bar. The current system time will
- be continuously displayed upon the drag bar in twelve-hour format. The
- window can be conveniently placed upon the Workbench Screen drag bar
- where it will be out of your way. Ticker takes very little memory and
- uses very few microprocessor cycles, which means that it won't slow
- your system down. It normally 'sleeps' until it is time to update the
- clock display (about every sixty seconds) or until a message from
- Intuition arrives to refresh the display, etc.
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- Running Ticker: Using the supplied icon Ticker can be easily run
- from Workbench. From the CLI however you will have to use the AmigaDOS
- RUN command ( eg. RUN Ticker ). If you need to close the CLI that
- Ticker is RUN from however, you will have to use RUNBACK (PD) or the
- ARP replacement for RUN called ARUN. If you use ARUN you must specify
- the NOIO option ( eg. ARUN Ticker NOIO ).
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- Ticker for programmers:
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- This program was an exercise in learning to work with devices. In
- this program the timer.device is programmed to send a message to a port
- (that Ticker creates) every time the 'minute' advances in the system
- clock. timer.device will also be polled for the time every sixty
- seconds or so when the time display is updated. I've put many comments
- in here to make it easy to follow and learn from.
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- Compiling: Ticker was written with Lattice C then converted to Manx.
- It should still compile under Lattice with little or no modification
- using the command: LC -v -L Ticker
- Manx produces a smaller executable code size. Use the make file
- (Ticker.make) to compile under Manx: MAKE -f Ticker.mak
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- Enjoy!! - Ray
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