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Time It
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.
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.
Requirements
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).
Paying for Time It
Time It is a shareware program. If you continue using it,
please pay for it by sending $5.00 to:
Leithauser Research
4649 Van Kleeck Drive
New Smyrna Beach FL 32169
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.
Custom Programming
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.