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- Time It
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- Time It is a simple stopwatch program for Windows 3. It
- is most useful for people who get paid an hourly rate to work
- using Windows. You can start and stop the stopwatch as you
- start and stop work on a project. It also can be useful for
- keeping track of how long you are connected to a BBS that is
- costing you money, either in user fees or phone bills.
- To use Time It, install it as a Windows program in the
- usual way. When you pop this program up, you will see a small
- window with two buttons and an output display. The output
- display will initially read "00:00:00", indicating zero
- hours, zero minutes, and zero seconds. The top button will be
- labelled "Clear". The bottom button will initially be
- labelled "Start".
- To use the stopwatch, the simplest method is to click on
- the "Start" button with the mouse. When you do this, the
- label on the button will change to "Pause", because once the
- stopwatch is running, this button causes it to pause. When
- you click on the "Start" button, the timer will start
- counting in one-second increments. When you click on the
- "Pause" button, the counting will stop. The label on the
- button will change to "Restart". Clicking on this button
- again will cause the timer to resume counting where it left
- off. You can repeat this start-stop process as many times as
- you like.
- When the bottom button is labelled "Pause", clicking on
- the "Clear" button with the mouse will reset the timer to
- "00:00:00". Clicking on the "Clear" button while the timer is
- running will have no effect. This is a safety precaution
- against accidentally resetting the timer while you are timing
- something.
- When Time It is the active Windows application, you may
- notice that there is a small square around the label on the
- bottom button. This means that you can also press this button
- by pressing the Enter key or space bar. When Time It is not
- the main program being run under Windows, this square will
- disappear, indicating that you must use the mouse to press
- the button. You also can move this square to the "Clear"
- button by pressing the TAB key. When this happens, pressing
- the Enter key or space bar presses the "Clear" button.
- Pressing the TAB key again would move the square back to the
- bottom button.
- Clicking on the word "About" near the top of the Time It
- window will give you some information on Time It.
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- Once you have the timer running, you can load and use
- other applications. You can even minimize Time It down to an
- icon. It will still continue counting the time. When you pop
- it back up, it will display the correct amount of time since
- you started it.
- When the Time It window is displayed and the timer is
- running, it will normally update the timer display once each
- second. A few Windows functions may tie up the computer, so
- that the display is not being updated. However, the counting
- continues, and the display will be properly updated as soon
- as the computer is free. This is true even if you pop out of
- windows to DOS with the Windows "DOS Prompt" option or shell
- out of Windows to a non-Windows application. The only thing
- you cannot do is exit Windows entirely with the "Exit
- Windows" option.
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- Requirements
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- This program requires Windows 3.0. It also requires the
- Visual BASIC runtime module, VBRUN100.DLL. This can be
- downloaded from Compuserve or GEnie, and also comes on the
- shareware disk distributed by Leithauser Research (see below).
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- Paying for Time It
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- Time It is a shareware program. If you continue using it,
- please pay for it by sending $5.00 to:
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- Leithauser Research
- 4649 Van Kleeck Drive
- New Smyrna Beach FL 32169
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- In addition to a clear conscience, you will receive a
- disk containing other shareware and freeware programs by
- Leithauser Research. You are, of course, under no obligation
- to register these programs unless you also decide to keep
- using them.
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- Custom Programming
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- The primary function of Leithauser Research is custom
- computer programming. If you need an unusual program that you
- cannot find commercially, contact us at the above address for
- a price quote. Our rates are very reasonable. You acquire all
- rights to the programs you hire us to write, so you can
- market these programs yourself if you like.
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