Description

Timer is a small utility intended to count the time used for tasks. It provides abilities to create different timers, describe them, run and pause them and finally delete them trough a simple interface. Hope it will be useful.

The utility was inspired from my job. Most of my customers pay me per hour. That's why I decided to create this tool to measure the time I spend working on their projects. Of cource this can be done using any PIMs (Outlook, etc.) but they cost money and most of them are very "fat" applications, slow and full with features you'll never use. Timer is small, fast, does not consume a lot of memory and it's FREE OF CHARGE. More precisely - it's distributed under GNU public license (see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html).

One of requirements of GPL is source code availability. This package does not provides it but if you want it e-mail me at momchil@geocities.com and I'll send you it. Timer is written with Delphi 5.

Timer is written and tested under Windows 98. It should work correctly under any 32 bit Windows (95, ME, NT4, 2000, XP) but it's not tested.

Timer comes with NO WARRANTY. Use it at YOUR OWN RISK. The author is not responcible for any damages and/or data loss on any computer systems runnig Timer. For more details please read GNU Public License as mentioned above.

Comments and bug reports are welcome at same e-mail address.

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The Main Window

When you first start timer it represents just title bar and tool bar with 4 buttons.

Here is a description of them:

• Creates a new Timer (Ctrl+N). It displays Timer's properties window where you can set Title and Description for the new Timer and it's initial values
  
  
  
  
• Displays "Delete Timer(s)" window (Ctrl+Del). See below
• Exits application (Ctrl+W)
• Displays this page in your default web browser (F1)

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Creating a new Timer

Click to create new Timer. Fill "Timer Options" form and click OK. After creating new Timer main window resizes itself to hold it. The total number of Timers you can create is practically limited from your screen height. I was wondering should I make the form scrollable but I was able to create 20 Timers on 800x600 screen resolution so I decide it's enough for most of users. However I will make the form scrollable in next version. Every newly created Timer holds 2 buttons and a label which shows the elapsed time. Let's take a look at them:

Description of elements:

• Start newly created or paused Timer. When clicked turns to
• Pauses running Timer
• Displays Timer's properties window we discussed above
• Shows the time counted by Timer

Mousing over the time shows you Time, Title and Comment as a hint.

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Deleting Existing Timer(s)

As we said above clicking button displays a window where Timers can be deleted

Timers shown here have same order as in main window. Check these timer you want to delete and press "Delete selected" button or press "Delete All" button to remove all Timers. NOTE! This operation can not be UNDONE! Use "Close" button to close the window. Clicking it does not deletes any (checked or not) Timer.

Exiting Timer does not deletes Timers you've create. They are stopped and saved for next time you run Timer. When you start Timer again they will be inserted automatically.

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Installing Timer

Use the supplied Setup Timer 1.0.exe and just follow the instructions. Setup process will offer you to install Timer in subfolder of your windows' programs folder (e.g c:\Program Files\Timer 1.0). Setup will create a program group in Windows menu. After the finish you'll be prompted to run Timer. Setup does not write any data in the system registry and/or any files outside the folder that you specify at setup process. The setup process adds Uninstall feature wich can be used to uninstall Timer. See the following section Uninstalling Timer.

Setup package was created with freeware Setup Generator by Gentee Inc. Visit their web site at http://www.gentee.com or http://www.gentee.net.

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Uninstalling Timer

You may use two methods yo uninstall Timer.

1. Choose Uninstall from Timer's program group or
2. Start Add/Remove Programs control panel, select Timer 1.0 and click Remove button. If you've run Timer at least once there will be Timer.ini created for you. You'll be prompted to delete this file.

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Bugs

Not reported yet.

If you encountered any bug e-mail me it with a short description how it was raised.

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