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                                   Timer
				Version 1.0
                      Stopwatch/Countdown Timer/Alarm  
                      Copyright (c) Gries Toy Company
                               24 April 1992


Timer was conceived while waiting in the phone queue to Microsoft's 
technical help line.  I was beginning to wonder how long I had been 
on hold, and why there wasn't a simple program to...

Timer consists of two timers (stopwatches), a countdown timer, an 
alarm with a pop-up message capability and a provision for setting 
the system time and date.  It was written in Visual Basic Ver 1.00 
and therefore REQUIRES the presence of the VBRUN100.DLL library in 
your Windows directory in order to run.

From the main ("Timer") window, the alarm set window may be popped 
up, the alarm can be turned on or off (assuming an alarm time has 
been set), the timers may be started, the countdown timer window may 
be opened, the system time/date set window may be activated, a 
12-hour time format may be selected (24 hour is the default), and 
you may have the time displayed in the caption bar.  If the time is 
displayed in the caption bar, it will also be visible below the icon 
when the window is minimized.  Note that when a window has both 
"close" and "quit" buttons, the quit button will shut down the 
entire program while the close button only shuts down the current 
window.  Thus, you can start a timer and close down the main window 
to reduce screen clutter.  In order for the alarm to be active, 
however, the main window must be active; i.e., it can be minimized 
but must not be closed.

The timers can be started/stopped/restarted, etc. just like a 
stopwatch.  The timers can also be stopped/started by clicking on 
the stopwatch icon in the Timer1 or Timer2 windows.  The stopwatch 
time may be displayed in the caption (and under the icon when the 
window is minimized) by clicking on the words "Elapsed Time:" in the 
timers or on "Time Remaining:" in the countdown timer.  The current 
system time may also be displayed by clicking the "Time" check box.  
The countdown timer starts with a default of 10 minutes and can 
quickly be incremented or decremented in 10 minute blocks by 
clicking on the "+" and "-" buttons.  These buttons will also work 
while the countdown timer is running.  The countdown time can be 
manually set to any time value up to 24 hours.  (Ok, so it's 
actually limited to 23:59:59.  Big deal.)

The general time format is as follows:
hh:mm:ss or
hh.mm.ss

Time values can be entered in either 24 or 12 hour format (21:00:00 
= 9:00:00 pm) regardless of which format is currently selected.



*** NOTE ***

DO NOT rename the executable to TIMER.EXE.  Windows 3.1 refuses 
to run any program with that name (Microsoft's response: "Yeah, 
that's a bad name in Win 3.1").


This program is shareware; you are given a free three week trial 
period to determine if Timer is useful for your purposes.  If you 
decide to keep the program, you must register it by sending $10.00 to 
the address at the end of this file.  You may freely distribute 
Timer as long as no fee is charged for it other than a nominal fee 
for the media (not to exceed $5.00).  Timer is copyrighted software 
and as such may not be altered in any way, and must be distributed 
with all files intact.  Timer consists of the following files:
            TIMER1_0.EXE           37,090 bytes
            README.TXT             5,628 bytes

Even if you decide not to keep Timer, please send me any comments, 
questions, gripes, or suggestions that you may have.  I am 
especially interested in the discovery of any bugs or inaccuracies, 
and suggestions for features you would like to see in future versions.

INTERNET: gries@mdcgwy.mdc.com
PRODIGY:  ftnv47a
AMERICA ONLINE: gries man


Special thanks to Shannon Craddock for support, encouragement, 
ideas, and findin' all them bugs.


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LEGAL STUFF

                            W A R R A N T Y


Timer is provided AS IS without any warranty, express or 
implied.  This includes without limitation the fitness for a 
particular purpose or application and any warranties of 
merchantability.  

While I tried to be as thorough as possible while debugging Timer,
Gries Toy Company/Brian Gries shall not be liable for any damages, 
whether direct, indirect, special, or consequential arising from a 
failure of this program or accompanying files to operate in a manner 
desired by the user.  Gries Toy Company/Brian Gries shall not be 
liable for any damage to data or property which may by caused 
directly or indirectly by use of this program.

In no event will Gries Toy Company/Brian Gries be liable to you for 
any damages, including any lost profits, lost savings or other 
incidental or consequential damages arising out of your use or 
inability to use the program, or for any claim by any other party.

In other words, I'm not responsible for anything.  Nothing, zero, 
zip, zilch, the natural log of one, and the number of sentient beings 
in Congress.  But I hope you enjoy it anyway.



 
                Timer is Copyright (c) 1992 by

                 Gries Toy Company/Brian Gries
                        303 El Toro Ln
                      Webster, TX  77598
                        (713) 280-0911 
 
                     All Rights Reserved