COBASOFT CLOCK
TUCOWS
A single-user license costs only $ 9.95! You can buy online from DIGIBUY and SWREG or per FAX from Cobasoft.
The Cobasoft Clock makes some of your daily tasks easier and faster:
The analog clock looks good in
the system taskbar and it is the control center of the clock.
The report tracks the usage of your computer.
The alarms and timers
can be set very quickly.
The clock can copy the current date
and time into the clipboard.
And it can display the current moon phase
as another icon.
Installation is easy, just start the 'setup' shortcut.
See also: AutoStart,
Private,
Uninstall
and Shortcut.
shows the current time in appealing analog form.
The short, thick line shows the hour,
the long and thin line shows the minute
and the little dot shows the second.
The display is exact up to the second.
The icon has a tool-tip that shows the current date and time.
Clicking on the icon starts various actions:Right-Click: Main Clock Menu
Right-Click+Shift: QuickMode Alarm
Right-Click+Ctrl: QuickMode Timer
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Options... Close! Help... Edit Alarms... Edit Timers... Show Report... Copy Timestamp! |
By filling out the license information you indicate that you are the owner of this software. You can immediately go online to order Cobasoft Clock. Pressing the 'Order!' button will open a browser and go to the DIGIBUY web site where you can shop immediately for single, multiple and network licenses of Cobasoft Clock. Please read the license carefully before buying or using Cobasoft Clock!
An unlicensed copy of Cobasoft Clock is restricted to 5 alarms, 5 timers and the startup logo cannot be turned off. The clock will show notifications messages on most commands after the 30 day evaluation period has expired!
Using the license key: When you buy Cobasoft Clock you get RegCodes which look like this: "
1109001-025000-200005-000000 2LKMNO98*&0+".
This code consists of two parts:
the serial number and the registration
key, separated by a space. You cut-and-paste (or type)
the first part into the 'Serial' and the second part into
the 'Key' field of the dialog. The 'Owner' and 'Firm' fields
must be filled, but their contents are not part of the key computation.
You then press OK. When the serial number and key code match,
the Cobasoft Clock is unlocked and you can use it without restrictions.
The alarm settings window consists of a hint window, an area with 9 marker colors and the alarm scale. The hint window is in the top-left edge. It will show the name and color of a marker when you pass with the mouse over the marker. It will show the time when you drag a marker on the scale. The alarm window works in QuickMode when you start it by holding the shift key and clicking with the right mouse button on the clock icon in the taskbar. It will then close automatically when you have set or modified a single alarm. This means that you can set an alarm (or timer) with only 2 mouse click. Every tick on the alarm scale represents 5 Minutes. You can choose one of 9 marker colors by clicking in the marker color area. You can set a large number of alarms (in fact, one for each tick of the scale) and the properties of the alarms are defined by one of the 9 marker types. Each marker type defines the color, text and other properties of one alarm or timer. See Marker Settings for further details. You set an alarm by clicking on the alarm scale or by clicking into the color area and dragging into the scale area. You modify an alarm by dragging it around. You delete an alarm by dragging it outside the scale area. The mouse cursor will change to indicate the action. You can press Ctrl-Del to delete all alarms. Pressing F10 or right-clicking anywhere in the window opens a context menu. There you can close the window, clear all alarms or modify the Marker Settings. In the context menu you can also set the zoom to 100, 150 or 200 percent. This will enlarge the whole window content and make it easier to use. A right-click on the color area of a marker directly opens the settings dialog for that marker! The alarms window is closed by pressing the Enter or Escape key or by clicking on the close box.
The timer settings window works more or less like the alarms window. The timers window goes into QuickMode when you start it directly by holding the control key and clicking with the right mouse button on the clock icon in the taskbar. If you have set some timers and keep this window open long enough, you can see the timer pins walk left once every minute until they trigger a notification. You can have one timer for every minute and the timers have their own 9 marker types, as described in: Marker Settings.
The alarm or timer notifications look like this:
The number in the bottom-right edge is a countdown timer. It closes the notification window automatically and stops the sound. It is only used when a timeout has been specified in the Marker Settings.
This dialog is used to edit the alarm or timer marker settings. There a 9 markers for alarms and 9 for timers. (You can set 140 timers and 288 alarms but there are only 9 different marker types for each class available). Both marker types have nearly the same properties, but the 'Repeat daily' feature is only available for alarms. The pressed marker button indicates the currently active marker, you can choose any of the 9 markers. The marker name field contains up to 8 characters, these are shown in the hint area of the alarm or timer settings window and in the alarm or timer notification. The Color... button is used to choose a predefined or self-composed color for the current marker. This color is used to paint the alarm or timer indicator pins and the marker rectangles in the alarm or timer window. By pressing the Run... button you can choose a file that should be started or played when an alarm or timer is triggered. You can also modify the file name directly. WAV, MID or RMI files are played directly and you can choose to loop these files until the alarm or timer notification message is closed. (Some sample WAVs are include with the Clock!) Other types of files can be started, too. You can open a DOCument, EXEcute a program, start a BATch or go to an HTML file in the WWW. A notification timeout (greater then zero) shows a countdown timer in the notification window and closes it automatically. Sounds are stopped, too. Other started programs or documents continue to run.
This dialog is used to edit the color settings of the clock icon, alarm and timer windows. You can press the Color button to select or compose colors for any of the drawing elements and you can press Reset to reset every single color to its default. And because a disabled alarm window is automatically shown below the color settings dialog, you can view the color changes by pressing Apply.
The Close button will just close the window without applying the changes. (The hint background color is not used anymore because the alarm and timer windows now show the hint in the color of the marker.)
The report keeps track of activities on your computer. You can use it to keep track of the projects you worked on or of what others did with your machine while you were away. The tracking is done automatically by recording the actice window's title and the time and duration during which the window was active. Pauses in user activity are usually indicated by long times during which no other window was activated. A new header is written into the report when a new day starts or when the Cobasoft Clock is started. The Cobasoft Clock writes the report to a file. You can use the Report Settings dialog to activate the report or choose a name for the report file. When you turn on the Private feature, the report can be written without the clock icons being visible. You open the Report file by Choosing 'Show Report' on the main menu. A text editor (usually Notepad) is then started to show the report file. The report is comma-separated so that it can be imported into other programs. The number of lines in the report file can be reduced greatly by turning on the No Seconds feature. The Clock will then check only once per minute for changed active window titles.
Here you can choose the name of the report file and enable or disable the report. After pressing Choose File... you can select an existing or new file. A new header is written to the report file if the name of the report file was changed.
In this dialog you can define a keyboard shortcut for the Cobasoft Clock main menu. This shortcut can be used from any application! Make sure that the cursor is in the input field, then press and hold the wanted keyboard keys together. The input field will show a string that represents the keys, like "Ctrl + Alt + M". Then press OK to activate the shortcut. The shortcut cannot be used to start Cobasoft Clock because it is only available while Cobasoft Clock is running. The OK button will only be enabled if a valid combination is typed. Valid key combination have to include the ALT key. You can delete the shortcut key by pressing DEL in the input field.
The hot key allows you to set some options faster by using the keyboard instead of the mouse. For example:
<Ctrl-Alt-M>C copies the timestamp,
<Ctrl-Alt-M>OU toggles the AutoStart option,
<Ctrl-Alt-M>OS toggles the moon phase display option and
<Ctrl-Alt-M>R shows the report.
This only works if the Cobasoft Clock can find the name of the currently logged-on user. Under Windows NT and Windows 2000 this is always the case but under Windows 9x and Windows Me the user name may not be available because the computer starts without requiring any log-in.
is shown near the usual clock icon
and it displays the moon phase of the current day and time.
When you move the mouse over the icon and hold it there
without pressing a button, the tooltip
will appear and show more detailed information about the
moon phase.
"\SOFTWARE\Cobasoft\Clock".
"\SOFTWARE\Cobasoft\Clock".
If there is an entry with the name 'Log' then its string value
will be used as filename for the report file. If the value is
missing then the default
"%TEMP%\csclock.txt"
is used.
(%TEMP% is a placeholder for the temporary-files
directory.)
Copyright (c) since 1999, Karl-W.Geitz, Cobasoft GmbH