What-I-DID Help Index
What-I-DID! ™     Help

 This feature provides automatic counting of the user's keystrokes and mouse clicks.  Companies use this feature to record the:

1)	Utilization of the PC
2)	Productivity of workers who are doing heavy data entry in Windows
All What-I-DID! monitoring is unknown to the worker.  The logsumry.rpt and the logtimes.rpt reports this data and show the productivity.  Keystrokes and clicks are counted and stored for each Application & Window that the user enters.  If a window is up for less than your user defined parameter for seconds, the keystroke and click counts are carried forward to the next window to reduce output clutter.  This eliminates the many yes/no boxes, etc. that may appear.

You can sort and compare the productivity and utilization figures in the logtimes file to achieve different types of reports, if you have any product compatible with Paradox files.

What-I-DID has a small memory footprint of only 50K bytes.  It uses global memory to retain keystrokes and flushes the log data to the file after any keyboard idle period of 5 minutes.  So you should not experience any loss of performance while What-I-DID does its thing.

How To Set Up:

If different users use the same computer, make sure your network login establishes a DOS environment variable called "USER."  This can be done as part of any network login script, e.g. "SET USER=%LOGIN_NAME% works in Novell Netware Login Scripts.  What-I-DID will read this DOS variable to log the usage against that username.  If this name is not found, all the entries in the Paradox 4.0 file "LOGTIMES" will have the user name "SUPERVIS".  Leaving it blank is adequate for single user installations.

Add the whatidid.exe as an icon to the user's Windows startup.grp.  When the user boots into Windows, the What-I-Did program will be automatically loaded, but is INVISIBLE.  It will not appear in any task list and the user cannot activate it.   Press CONTROL-F12 to activate it and make it visible.

F)ile S)etup allows you to change the seconds between windows limit.  If a user is in a Window, like a yes/no prompt window for less than ___ seconds, What-I-DID will carry over the count of the keystrokes and mouse-clicks to the next Window.  This is initially set at 16 seconds.  You can also check/un-check the option to show the opening billboard, and to play back sound when What-I-DID comes up and when it flushes activity to disk.  You may want to turn these off so NOTHING is visible to the user!

F)ile R)eport and S)ummary provide the log reports of the usage.

The layout of the file report is:

"UserName"	"A10"
"LogDate"	"D"
"LogTime"	"A8"
"AppName"	"A30"
"AppWindow"	"A30"
"No Keystrokes"	"N8.0"
"No Mouse Clicks"	"N8.0"
"Actual Stamp"	"N"
"TimeinWindow"	"A8"
"SecsinWindow"	"N8.0"


Registration

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License

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Copyright laws apply to both Shareware and commercial software, and the copyright holder retains all rights, with a few specific exceptions as stated below.  Shareware authors are accomplished programmers, just like commercial authors, and the programs are of comparable quality.  (In both cases, there are good programs and bad ones!)  The main difference is in the method of distribution.  The author specifically grants the right to copy and distribute the software, either to all and sundry or to a specific group.  For example, some authors require written permission before a commercial disk vendor may copy their Shareware.

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DISCLAIMER - AGREEMENT

Users of Quick-Bar! must accept this disclaimer of warranty:  Quick-Bar! is supplied as is.  The author disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability and of fitness for any purpose.  The author assumes no liability for damages, direct or consequential, which may result from the use of Quick-Bar!."

Quick-Bar! is a "shareware program" and is provided at no charge to the user for evaluation.  Feel free to share it with your friends, but please do not give it away altered or as part of another system.  The essence of "user-supported" software is to provide personal computer users with quality software without high prices, and yet to provide incentive for programmers to continue to develop new products.  If you find this program useful and find that you are using Quick-Bar! and continue to use Quick-Bar! after a  reasonable trial period, you must make a registration payment of $19 to Mission Critical Software.  The $19 registration fee will license one copy for use on any one computer at any one time.  You must treat this software just like a book.  An example is that this software may be used by any number of people and may be freely moved from one computer location to another, so long as there is no possibility of it being used at one location while it's being used at another.

Commercial users of Quick-Bar! must register and pay for their copies of Quick-Bar! within 30 days of first use or their license is withdrawn.  Site-License arrangements may be made by contacting Mission Critical Software.

Anyone distributing Quick-Bar! for any kind of remuneration must first contact Mission Critical Software at the address below for authorization. This authorization will be automatically granted to distributors recognized by the (ASP) as adhering to its guidelines for shareware distributors, and such distributors may begin offering Quick-Bar! immediately (However Mission Critical Software must still be advised so that the distributor can be kept up-to-date with the latest version of Quick-Bar!).

You are encouraged to pass a copy of Quick-Bar! along to your friends for evaluation.  Please encourage them to register their copy if they find that they can use it.  All registered users will receive a copy of the latest version of the Quick-Bar! system.

Call and register today and get the latest version.  With registration you will also get information on our retail versions of Bar Code IT!, Clock-IN!, and other fine Windows products.  You'll also receive information on our customization services.

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