Apr/05/94		        ABOUT TIME!  Ver 1.2
		
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Ver 1.2 new functions:

NEW.  Double-clicking on the time display on the top right of  
the calendar page will pop-up the system date & time changer. 
The same function is available from a button on the OPTIONS page. 
No need to start up the Windows Control Panel to set the time!
The date/time setter is slightly more friendly than the one in 
the Control Panel.

NEW.  When the ABOUT TIME! form is minimized, the caption now 
tells the time.  Not the ABOUT TIME!, but dumb old digital time.
There simply isn't the room for the verbose alternative that 
this program fosters.

NEW.  More data is presented when you double-click on a valid 
date, when the current year is displayed. You'll wonder how you 
lived without this enhancement.
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General functions:

This is a another clock and calendar program.  Its main
claim to fame is that it uses 'fuzzy logic' to place the
approximate, or 'about' time right on the title bar
(caption) of your currently active application,as long 
as that application is not iconized, and as long as the
Window is a parent window.

You do not HAVE to view the time in clinical hh:mm:ss
fashion, you can have it display "Its about five after
nine" or a similarly less precise format.

Unfortunately, the un-registered version of ABOUT TIME! has 
a nag screen that frustrates automatic loading of ABOUT 
TIME!. You need to respond to the Nag screen before ABOUT 
TIME! will function at all, however this is the only 
'crippling' that the un-registered version has endured.

Ideally, you will load ABOUT TIME! from the "Load=" line of 
WIN.INI, that way it's use is entirely automatic, and not 
even slightly difficult to operate.  It will then be 
minimized, and well out of the way.

Double click on the date to obtain info about that date, 
and double click on the year to check for Leap Years, and 
others.  The little button to the right of the Calendar 
takes you back to the current month.

A_T12.LZH (or .ZIP) contains seven files:-
	
	ABOUTIME.EXE	- Executable
	ABOUTIME.INI	- Initialisation file
	MSAFINX.DLL     - Maths library
	GRID.VBX	- Custom control
	THREED.VBX	- Custom control
	_READ_ME.TXT	- This text file
	_SYS_OP1.TXT	- Note for the BBS SysOp

ABOUT TIME! *WILL* *NOT* *RUN* without VBRUN300.DLL. This 
is the runtime file for Visual Basic 3.00, and is 
available separately from the bulletin board from which 
you obtained this copy.  If you have a copy for another
program, you don't need to download another. It is not
included here in an effort to save your down-load time.

The registered version of ABOUT TIME! will include
VBRUN300.DLL, plus the latest versions of the custom controls 
that ABOUT TIME! uses.
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Files:

1.  You can put the ABOUTIME.EXE file anywhere, but the  
best place is in your Windows directory. Even if you 
rename ABOUT TIME! and put that name in the Load= line 
of your WIN.INI file, ABOUT TIME! will 'find itself'.   

If you elect to run ABOUTIME.EXE every time that Windows 
is run, you need only enter "Load=ABOUTIME.EXE" in the 
existing WIN.INI file, assuming you are not loading any 
other programs. 
 
In the example above, the full path (ie. 
"C:\WIN\ABOUTIME.EXE") is not necessary, as your Windows 
directory *SHOULD* be in your PATH statement.  
Alternatively, if you put ABOUTIME.EXE in a directory that 
is not in your PATH statement, your "Load=" line should 
include the full path name ie. 
"Load=C:\ABOUTIME\ABOUTIME.EXE" or 
"Load=calc.exe C:\ABOUTIME\ABOUTIME.EXE" or
"Load=C:\ABOUTIME\ABOUTIME.EXE winword.exe"

    NOTE: The quotation marks should not be in your 
    INI file, and only serve to illustrate the point.

2.  The ABOUTIME.INI file can *ONLY* be in your Windows 
directory.  It doesn't matter if your Windows directory is
"C:\WINDOWS" or "C:\WIN" or "D:\WIN31" or "J:\DOGSBODY", 
ABOUT TIME! will find it via the Windows API.  Do not 
unnecessarily alter the INI file, as ABOUT TIME! may not 
work.

3. GRID.VBX, MSAFINX.DLL and THREED.VBX *MUST* go in your 
Windows\SYSTEM directory.  See above re Windows directory. 
If you have older versions (check the date in File Manager)
of these files on your hard disk and do not overwrite them
with the files supplied in ABOUTIME.ZIP, then ABOUT TIME! 
will not run. This point should be remembered if you have 
other Visual Basic programmes that worked before you 
installed ABOUT TIME! and they have since adopted a
negative attitude.

4. The other files are text files that you can read from 
Notepad, which is probably what you are doing right now.
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Version Notes:

This is version 1.2, which corrects a few minor oversights 
in Ver 1.1. This version also has a new facility to enable
setting of the system DATE and TIME, without your leaving
ABOUT TIME!, which is fully INTERNATIONALISED.  The Stay
On Top feature now works ALL the time and a we use a
different method of finding other copies of ABOUT TIME!
running on your desktop.  The digital time is displayed in  
lieu of the program name, when the program is minimized.

The Future:

We may include a tiny .DLL that will keep ABOUT TIME! notified 
of changes relative to which window has the focus. This will 
obviate the occasional "stranded" ABOUT TIME! message, and 
reduce the necessity to examine each window in turn.  We 
expect a MINOR speed enhancement with such a DLL, but a small 
increase in the amount of disk space required.

Peter Crain.

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