Alpha Clock v1.3.1 (c) 2002 Irnis Haliullin, http://www.irnis.net, mailto:irnis@irnis.net -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction Alpha Clock is an tiny clock utility with miniature, but very nice LCD-style watch display. You can choose any colors for display background and digits, or use any predefined color sheme. On Windows 2000 or Windows XP also possibly to set the transparency for watch display. Alpha Clock can display your local time or UTC (Coordinated Universal Time). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- System requirements * any system running Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000 or Windows XP. * less than 0.2 Megabytes of free space on hard disk. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Installation Alpha Clock is very simple utility and, for this reason, does not demand any installation utility. Simply unzip all files to any folder and run the executable file (usually, "alphaclock.exe"). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes history v1.3.1 - added item to disable restriction of moving area by desktop. v1.3.0 - when mouse pointer over watch display, the current local date is displayed. v1.2.0 - support for 12-hour mode is added. v1.1.0 - first public release. v1.0.0 - support for multiple languages is added. v0.9.0 - support for multiple profiles added. v0.8.1 - bugfix release. v0.8.0 - tracking of the screen resolution and the workspace size is added. v0.7.0 - about box is added. v0.6.0 - support of the UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) is added. v0.5.0 - possibility to auto start with system is enabled. v0.4.1 - bugfix release. v0.4.0 - support of color shemes and various mouse pointers is added. v0.3.0 - dialog box for choosing the display colors is added. v0.2.0 - the possibility to remember program settings in the system registry is added. v0.1.0 - first release for internal purposes. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Overview After starting the program, on the screen should appear the watch display. By default, the watch display will have the "LCD-display" color sheme and will be placed in the top right corner of desktop. You can drag with mouse the watch display to any place of desktop. The program will remember the new position, and at next run the watch display will appear there. Pressing the right mouse button on the watch display, you will call popup menu, which allow you control of functioning of the program. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Command line parameters Currently, AlphaClock support only one command line parameter, the profile name: -profile or -profile "". Using profiles allow you to simultaneously use two or more instances of program with different settings. The profile includes all settings of the program: color sheme, cursor of mouse pointer, a time mode (local or universal) and even the "Auto start" parameter. For example, you can run one instance without profile name ("default" profile will be used) and watch local time, and run another instance with profile name (for example, "UTC time") and watch universal time. Profile name is case unsensitive and must be quoted, if contains spaces or quote symbols. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyrights and licenses All copyrights to AlphaClock are exclusively owned by the author - Irnis Haliullin. AlphaClock is Freeware, you may use this product free of charge. You are hereby licensed to make as many copies of the complete and unmodified package of this product and distribute it by any mean. There is no charge for this right. You may not reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or alter anyhow this software product. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact If you have any questions or suggestions about AlphaClock, please contact by mail to irnis@irnis.net or using feedback form at http://www.irnis.net/form/aclk.shtml