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BarClock(tm)
Copyright (C) 1993 by Patrick Breen - All rights reserved.
This file lists the changes between revisions of BarClock.
v2.3 - October 3, 1993
Increased the price to $15 (boo - hiss!).
Fixed bug with weekly repeating alarms - they tended to change
their trigger dates near the end of the month.
Repeating alarms can be set to start at any date in the future.
Once the date occurs, the alarm will start to repeat with the
specified frequency.
If the computer is off, repeating alarms that repeat weekly,
monthly or yearly will be displayed when BarClock is started.
Added Bi-weekly to the list of repeating alarm types.
Added Set... button to make it easier to choose an application
to run when an alarm is triggered.
Added format keywords for Julian date, day of year (1 - 366),
days remaining (365 - 0) and months and days can now be displayed
in CAPS.
Shift-click allows edit of date and time format at the keyword level.
Warning levels can now exceed 65535 Kb.
Added ability to set the font that BarClock uses to display its
information.
Added full featured count-up, count-down timer - the timer
includes automatic hourly rate conversions.
Added ability to test .WAV files by holding the SHIFT key
down when pressing the Set... button.
Changed Setup... dialog so that the lists of items can
be modified using fewer dialogs.
Known problems with v2.3:
There is a potential problem when using an Orchid Farenheit
1280 video board. Switching in and out of a DOS session may
cause the computer to hang. If this happens, hit CTRL-ALT-DEL
to terminate BarClock. I am currently working on a solution
to this problem.
There are problems with WinDock, NewCap and CapC10 that cause
BarClock not to function properly if BarClock is started
first. The problem can be avoided by starting the other
applications before BarClock.
Thanks -
Thanks to all the people who contributed ideas and bug reports -
I will continue to listen and respond to all contributions -
good or bad!
v2.2 - August 26, 1993
Well, that was a short lived version. This version includes a
fix for a bug introduced in v2.1 that caused alarms to vanish
when repeating alarms occurred - not exactly the ideal behavior.
I was using the system settings for AM/PM text but this caused
problems when the system was set for 24 hour mode. I now store
the strings in the BARCLOCK.INI file.
Shift-double-click in calendar display will always create a new
alarm regardless of whether one already exists for that day.
v2.1 - August 25, 1993
Fixed serious bug that caused random behavior/crashing after
(or while) using the File Open dialog to choose a .WAV file.
Fixed bug that caused all "lunchtime" (12pm - 1pm) alarms not
to work properly.
Warnings will shut off automatically if resource level is
restored.
Fixed bug that caused warnings on other than disk C to always
display disk C status in warning.
All alarms are always displayed - this allows you to leave
your machine (even turn it off) and never miss an alarm.
Made alarm listing wider so time/date are visible more often.
v2.0 - August 22, 1993
Major revision - new features include
o requires Windows 3.1
o new documentation in .WRI format
o dialogs for all options
o full featured alarm mechanism
o popup calendar
o low resource warnings
o message display in caption bar
o support for multiple time zones
o support for multiple disk drives
o text/background color support is back
o "pedestal" background option
o option to chime once per hour
o option to have BarClock icon on desktop
Bug fixes include
o text disappearing from caption bar
o BarClock menu access from within Excel
o various compatability problems
o free resource readings are more accurate
o using more robust Windows 3.1 hook functions
v1.32 - April 9, 1993
Really fixed bug in calculation of free disk space on
disks that had a large amount of free space!
Finally was able to reproduce, and fix (I hope), the
problem with not using the system colors for the clock
background on all systems - however, there is still a
problem if a dialog or other window obscures a portion
of the display.
v1.31 - April 5, 1993
Made change so that changes made to the .ini file
would not overwritten when the clock exited.
Fixed bug in calculation of free disk space.
Fixed bug that caused small drawing problem when
clock was on a dithered background.
v1.3 - March 28, 1993 (Beta Distribution)
Renamed from WinClock to BarClock to avoid conflict
with an existing shareware product. This includes
the .ini file which is now "BarClock.ini".
Eliminated flicker when mouse is positioned over display.
Fixed compatability problem with Ami Pro that caused
information to overwrite the text they place in the
title bar when selecting from the menu.
Fixed compatability problem with a handful of applications
that would cause them not to redraw properly.
Clock never gets put in a window that is always topmost.
Added full date picture support that is syntactically
equivalent to Windows. See readme.txt for more details.
Added all long and short month and weekday names to a
string table in the resource file which can be editited
with any resource editor. This provides support for
international days and months.
Added full control of format of the resource, free memory
and free disk space strings. See readme.txt for more
details.
Added support for hour, half hour and quarter hour chimes.
See readme.txt for more details.
Reduced memory footprint to about 12k.
v1.21 - February 24, 1993
Fixed bug that caused 12 noon and 12 midnight to display as
0 when not using the 24 hour clock.
Fixed bug that caused an invalid HDC to be released.
Fixed compatability problem with MS Word that caused several
items to toggle with one click.
Better support for Norton Desktop - information now appears
in main caption rather than the group window captions.
Changed display of memory and disk space to use scaling -
can be forced to always use "Kb" with change to .INI file.
Fixed compatability problem with XVision that caused it
clock to ignore all session windows.
Fixed text so that the window title is not overlapped.
Fixed problem that caused clock to appear in some dialog
windows.
Save window size and position in .INI file for window that
appears when the clock is homeless.
Reorganized code so that memory footprint is about 16k.
v1.2 - February 20, 1993
Hopefully removed bug that caused system colors not to work
on certain configurations. I now default to using the active
colors rather than the inactive colors. (I was only able to
reproduce and fix this using Windows 3.0 - if this is still a
problem, let me know what version of Windows you are using)
Completely tested and compatible with Windows 3.0. There
were a few compatability issues introduced with v1.1 that are
now fixed.
Removed custom colors - the clock now always uses system colors
for the background and the text. Removing this option also
eliminated a bug which caused a "COMMDLG.DLG could not be found"
message. (Custom text color is still supported by options in the
.INI file.)
Make sure that the clock does not cover the entire caption
bar on small windows. Items on left are given preference over
items on right.
When all windows are iconized and clock is left homeless,
information is displayed in the clock caption bar. Can be
disabled by setting in .INI file.
Moved all preferences out of win.ini and into WinClock.ini.
Added new display items for displaying free memory, free
resources and free disk space on a chosen drive.
Added options for what gets displayed when and where it gets
displayed. Setup dialog is now a collection of radio buttons
that allow the setting of these options.
Added better support for