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Stop Watch 1.0 © March 28, 1991 by Joe Rattz, Jr.
Stop Watch is a program that times events. It will also time
intermediate events.
The START gadget starts the timer and displays the system time in the
START TIME window. The STOP gadget stops the timer and displays the
time interval from START to STOP in the STOP TIME window. (If system
time is not set to correct time, Stop Watch will still make its time
measurements correctly).
The EVENT gadget displays the time interval from START to EVENT in the
EVENT TIME window. Selecting the EVENT gadget does not stop the
timing. The EVENT gadget may be selected more than once. Each time
it is selected, the EVENT TIME (time from start to last event) will be
displayed in the EVENT TIME window. This gadget only functions after
the START gadget has been selected and before the STOP gadget has been
selected. The EVENT function is similar to the Lap function on some
other timers.
Time is displayed in hours/minutes/seconds/hundredths of seconds.
The maximum time displayed in the EVENT TIME window and the STOP TIME
window is 999:59:59:99 (999hours/59minutes/59seconds/99hundredthsecond).
After that Stop Watch recycles to zero and continues timing. There
is no upper time limit to Stop Watch, but 1000 hours per recycle must
be added to the display time if Stop Watch does recycle. It takes
about 41 2/3 days for Stop Watch to recycle once.
Any time that a time appears in the START TIME window and nothing
appears in the STOP TIME window, Stop Watch is timing.
The JUMP gadget causes Stop Watch to jump to the next screen and then
causes that screen (along with Stop Watch) to be brought to the front.
This allows one to position Stop Watch on the most convenient screen.
The HELP gadget displays a small screen of basic information about
Stop Watch.
The ABOUT gadget displays the author and publisher of Stop Watch.
The Quit gadget terminates the program.
To conserve memory, one should JUMP Stop Watch to another screen
before closing the screen that Stop Watch is displayed upon. If a
screen is closed with Stop Watch being displayed upon it, Stop Watch
will terminate, but approximately 10kbytes of memory will not be
returned to the system. Stop Watch may again be selected, however.
The overall accuracy of Stop Watch should be considered to be about
.25 seconds (250 milliseconds). The actual accuracy of Stop Watch,
itself, should be about .02 seconds (20 milliseconds) or greater.
However, after taking into consideration how long it takes to select a
gadget (EVENT or STOP) after one decides to, the accuracy drops to
about .25 seconds.
JumpDisk Magazine has paid a fee that authorizes the permanent use of
this program by purchasers of their disk. Purchasers of JumpDisk
Magazine also have exclusive use of this program until September 15,
1991. On September 15, 1991, this program becomes ShareWare. If you
did not purchase this program from JumpDisk, please send $5 USA to:
Joe Rattz, Jr.
1051 Nottingham Drive
Sumter, SC 29153
(803) 778-2823