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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!!
Using Ticker:
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.
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 ).
Ticker for programmers:
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.
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
Enjoy!! - Ray