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- Gallagher Computing Corp.
- Kevin S. Gallagher
- CIS 70034,2313
- clock by: Ben Echols
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- Clock function for Clipper 5.1 (or higher)
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- This function is not PUBLIC DOMAIN, but may be used as long as it is
- for your own personal use, anything other than personal use, then
- you should send me five dollars (ten dollars for source code .asm)..
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- PS. If you can not afford the $5.00's no sweat, just send comments!
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- I really like to hear feedback (good or bad) about the clock if you
- have the time to either leave a message on Compuserve or send a post
- card with comments.
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- This clock was written in assembly language, and adheres to Clipper's
- extend system. Ticker.obj has two function calls, one (1) to install
- the "event driven" clock, and (1) one to uninstall the clock. Both of
- them will return "nErrorlevels" (see .prg files). The clock can be
- installed many times in a application, but MUST be uninstalled prior
- to exiting the application, or the computer system will crash.......
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- There are two (2) parameters that the install function takes, which
- are <nRow>,<nCol> while the uninstall function takes none.
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- nVar := BK_TICKINS( <nRow>, <nCol> ) --> nErrorlevel
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- nVar := BK_TICKREM() --> nErrorlevel
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- If the positioning coordinates are invalid the clock will not be
- installed. If the clock is already installed, and you attempt to
- place the clock on the screen again it will know that it's already
- installed, hence will not reinstall itself. The colors used are the
- colors at <nRow> , <nCol> which is nice if you are using a screen
- saver, such as one of the ones from GRUMP.LIB "Grumpfish library",
- that will change colors randomly. If you were using one of clock
- functions from another third party library (not naming any because
- they do get the job done, and its not nice to compare um this way!)
- they would not inherit the new colors while the screen saver was in
- use.
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- I have tested the clock with EBASE50.LIB, FLEXFILE.LIB, GRUMP.LIB,
- NANFOR.LIB and also OVERCL.LIB and have had no problems with any of
- these libraries (FUNCKY and NT250 libraries have clocks already)!!!
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- Gallagher Computing will be placing several other functions written
- in assembly, for Clipper 5.x within the coming months. We are working
- on several different functions at the present time, but want to keep
- them a under-wraps for now...
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