The alarm or timer notifications looks like this:
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Alarm and Timer Marker Settings
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This dialog is used to edit the
alarm or timer
marker
settings. There a 6 markers for alarms and 6 for timers.
(You can set 140 timers and 288 alarms but there are
only 6 different marker types for each class available).
Both marker types have nearly the same properties, but the
'Repeat daily' feature is only available for alarms.
The pressed marker button indicates the currently
active marker, you can choose any of the 6 markers.
The marker name field contains up to 8 characters,
these are shown in the hint area of the alarm or timer
settings window and in the alarm or timer notification.
The Color... button is used to choose a predefined
or self-composed color for the current marker. This
color is used to paint the alarm or timer indicator ticks and the
marker rectangles in the alarm or timer window.
By pressing the Run... button you can choose a
file that should be started or played when an alarm
or timer is triggered. You can also modify the
file name directly.
WAV or MID files are played directly and
you can choose to loop these files until
the alarm or timer notification message is closed.
Other types of files are started like in the
'Run' dialog of the desktop 'Start' menu.
So any application, document or multimedia file
can be triggered by an alarm or timer!
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Color Settings
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This dialog is used to edit the color settings of the
clock icon,
alarm and timer
windows.
You can press the Color button to select or compose
colors for any of the drawing elements
and you can press Reset to reset every single
color to its default.
And because a disabled alarm window is
automatically shown below the color settings dialog,
you can view the color changes by pressing Apply.
The Close button will just close the window without
applying the changes.
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Report Settings
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Here you can modify the name of the report file and you
can enable or disable the report.
After pressing Choose File... you can select an
existing or new file.
A new header is written to the report file if the
name of the report file was changed.
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Report
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The report is opened with notepad, it looks like:

The Cobasoft Clock writes the report to a file.
A new header is written when a new day
starts or when the program is beeing started.
And a new report line is written when the
user activates another window.
The line contains the current time,
the elapsed time since the
last window activation change and the window
caption.
You can use the report to track
your own work and that of others on your computer.
See also: Private
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AutoStart
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By checking or unchecking the AutoStart menu item,
you can enable or disable the autostart feature.
If AutoStart is set, then the Cobasoft Clock will be loaded
any time somebody logs on to the computer.
Cobasoft Clock uses a registry setting for AutoStart,
so it is not visible in the 'Startup' folder of the
'Start' menu.
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Private
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By checking or unchecking the Private menu item,
you can enable or disable the Private feature.
When it is enabled then the Cobasoft Clock icon will
only be displayed for you! Nobody else who uses
the same computer will see the the clock although the
report will continue to work!
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No Seconds
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To save CPU time or reduce the number of lines
in the report you can check the No Seconds
menu item.
The clock will then disable the seconds display
in the icon and refresh the clock icon
and the report only once every minute.
On a battery-driven machine this will also
reduce the amount of disk writes and save
some energy.
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Registry Settings
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Machine Configuration
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Personal Configuration
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The per-machine configuration of Cobasoft Clock is stored
in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE area of the Windows Registry.
You can view and edit the registry with tools like 'RegEdit.exe'.
It is organized as a tree, like the file system of your computer,
and the path to the 'folder' with the startup settings is
"\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\ CurrentVersion\Run" .
The entry with the name "CsClock" contains the path to the
Cobasoft Clock and it is managed by the
AutoStart menu option!
The global settings are in the folder:
"\SOFTWARE\Cobasoft\Clock" .
The entry with the name "Private" controls if the Cobasoft Clock
icon is displayed, as described in the
Private menu option!
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The personal configuration of Cobasoft Clock is stored
in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER area
and the path to the folder with the settings is
"\SOFTWARE\Cobasoft\Clock" .
If there is an entry with the name 'Log' then its string value
will be used as filename for the report file. If the value is
missing then the default
"%TEMP%\csclock.txt"
is used.
(%TEMP% is a placeholder for the temporary-files
directory.)
In the starting folder and below are further items and folders
that contain the color, alarm and timer settings.
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Uninstall
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You can choose the Uninstall item in the
Options menu of the clock icon to uninstall the whole
Cobasoft Clock program, all its files and all its
registry settings. Be careful with that option
because you will loose all alarms, all timers and all
other settings and you will have to reinstall CsClock
before you can use it again.
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Your comments are welcome, just send an
email
to the author.
Copyright (c) since 1999, Karl-W.Geitz
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