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- Windows 3.0 Performance Meter Version 2.02
- ==========================================
-
- Performance Meter has grown up! Starting entirely from scratch I rewrote the
- program in Turbo Pascal for Windows (Thanks to Borland! I never liked C!).
- Now you can choose between an icon _or_ a popup-window in any size up to
- 1030x64 pixel.
-
- To use Performance Meter just enclose it in your run= our load= section of
- win.ini. Or, if you don┤t like it showing up every time you use windows, you
- may start it just you start any other windows program.
-
- There is an file called perfmetr.ini that will be created in your windows
- directory the first time you run perfmetr. You may change any of the
- parameters in this file. This is a description of each one:
-
- Time= Time in milliseconds between each screen update
- XPosition= Position of the upper left corner of the popup
- YPosition= guess it!
- Height= Height of the window
- Width= Width of the window
- KeepInFront= Either 1 (default) or 0, if 1, Perfmeter tries to be visible all
- the time.
- CustomColors= Either 0 (default) or 1. If 0, the background color defaults to
- the desktopcolor, as defined in Control Panel, and the foreground
- color is black. If it is 1, the following additional parameters
- are used:
- ForegroundRed= \
- ForegroundGreen= |-- define the red, green and blue part of the Foregroundcolor,
- ForegroundBlue= / Range: 0 -- 255, Default for all: 0 (Black)
- BackgroundRed= \
- BackgroundGreen= |-- define the red, green and blue part of the Foregroundcolor,
- BackgroundBlue= / Range: 0 -- 255, Default for all: 255 (White)
-
- If XPosition or YPosition is negative, it is relative to the right resp.
- lower edge of the screen.
-
- If you want to resize or move the Performance Meter, just click on it with
- the mouse, and you will get a popup menu.
-
- Some people may remember that it was possible to run several instances of Perfmeter
- in Version 2.00/01. I think that there is no need for this any longer, because you
- can use the KeepInFront parameter to have Performance Meter visible all the time.
- But, I have to confess that I encountered a lot of problems when adding the KeepInFront
- option, especially that Performance Meter crashed Windows when there were more than
- two or three instances running. The problem may be the method I used, so I call
- all the Windows programming pro's to help me: How can I implement the KeepInFront
- without disabling the multi-instance facility? Please send me a mail if you know
- a solution!
-
- COPYRIGHT & DISCLAIMER
- ======================
-
- This program may be copied and used freely by anyone, as long as this file is
- copied also and nothing has been changed. It is nevertheless copyrighted and
- protected by several laws.
-
- It may not be sold by anyone except me. This also includes shareware-
- and public-domain-traders. If they want to sell my program or want
- to charge anything for copying it, they need my approval.
-
- Since this program is for free, I do not guarantee anything. It has
- been tested by me and works fine on my machine. I use it every day and
- it has never crashed anything (well, sometimes it has, but only when I
- tried to implement some new features...). But if it does so on your computer
- please be aware that you use(d) it on your own risk. I am not
- responsible. Please report this problems anyway (see below), so I can
- fix these bugs.
-
-
- KNOWN BUGS
- ==========
-
- You have to restart Perfmeter if you want to make changes to perfmetr.ini
- become active.
-
- THANKS
- ======
-
- Thanks to everybody who made this program possible.
- Special Thanks to the people on comp.windows.ms.programmer, who
- helped me to solve several problems.
-
-
- BUGREPORTS, SUGGESTIONS AND EVERYTHING ELSE
- ===========================================
-
- If you have questions or suggestions, if you find bugs or anything else, feel
- free to send a mail and ask, complain or --- even better --- acclaim. If
- you really like the program, you have the chance to send $1 or more to the
- following address. If you do not like to send money to programmers, you
- may send a postcard (but a nice one!!).
-
- +---------------------+
- | Ulrich Hund | <----------- cut here !
- | Weseler Str. 131 |
- | D-W4400 Mⁿnster |
- | Germany |
- +---------------------+
-
- I am also subscribed to comp.windows.ms and comp.windows.ms.programmers, so
- I may help you there, too.
-
- Have fun!
- Ulli
-
- +----------------+-----------------------------+------------------+
- | Ulrich Hund |Internet: | No joke yet. |
- | stud. of math. | uhund@math.uni-muenster.de | Sorry. |
- +----------------+-----------------------------+------------------+
-
- *******************************************************************************
- Version History:
-
- 1.0 | - First Version that became distributed.
- -----+
-
- 1.01 | - Improvements in calculating used CPU-time.
- -----+ - Checking for the icon size (limited to 65 pixels width)
- - better positioning of graph within the icon
- - some other minor improvements
-
- 1.02 | - some changes to the aboutbox
- -----+
-
- 1.03 | - minor bug fixes
- -----+ - smoother graphic
- - three different speeds, put "S","M" or "F" on the command line
- to achieve slow, medium or fast speed (default: medium).
-
- 1.04 | - bug fix. Bug did not appear in 1.02 but in 1.03
- -----+ - even smoother graphic
- - new icon (the old one was too ugly)
-
- 2.00 | - Program fully rewritten (now TPW -- no more C!)
- -----+ - more than one instance
- - no more limitation in icon size
- - improved scrolling
- - own .ini file for saving size and speed information
- - no more command line option for speed
-
- 2.01 | - minor bug fix
- -----+ - much smaller memory usage (before: >45K now: <16K
- - a lot of tuning has been done
-
- 2.02 | - KeepInFront option
- -----+ - CustomColor option
- - again only one instance allowed
-
- *******************************************************************************
-
- (c)1991 Ulrich Hund
-