HISTORY.TXT ----------- This development report in English has been started recently, though Clocky is developed since 1989. Clocky were inspired by several utilities: QuanTOS, Maccel, Dunkel, KbdSwitch and others. 1998/3/7 - Clocky 2.09beta ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ o first English version of Clocky and SETCLOCK. Quick translation of non-existing Clocky's documentation. o invers colors (white on black) re-implemented. Hotkey is 'B'. Works in monochrome on SM124 and in 2, 4, 16 and 256 colors on Falcon. o external keys handling made easier - it also allows several EHC at once. o MegaSTE switching 8/16 MHz is re-implemented again. Please test. o Cookies "DATE" and "TIME" are searched for twice (when Clocky starts and also after start of GEM). That means you need not to put DTCOOKIE before Clocky anymore :-) It also allows me to put these Cookies into MiNT kernel so you won't need DTCOOKIE under MiNT then... o screen saver and invers colors on non-Falcon machines test the presence of SM124 and do not work on TV. o The pointer to CookieJar in SETCLOCK is get by Setexc() - hopefully it will improve compatibility (no need to switch into Super mode) 1998/3/10 - Clocky 2.10beta ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ o Thanks to English version Clocky were exported to Norway :-) Heh, in return I got a lot of bug reports :-) o algorithm for EHC was changed: the external hotkey (actual_key in the Clocky cookie struct) is valid for only 105 milisecond now. If the actual_key is changed anyhow in this time period, the key is lost for system (i.e. it's used as a hotkey and so system must not detect it). Otherwise the pressed key is put back to keyboard buffer and actual_key is zeroed. Since the timeout is just about 0.1 second, the keypress-lag is minimal. 1998/3/14 - Clocky 2.11beta ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ o Printer conversion can be enabled/disabled by hotkey again (bug fix) o Clocky now estimates the 1 second period even when DTCOOKIE is installed (DTCOOKIE and system time goes in 2 second step). That means you should have DTCOOKIE installed always, because Clocky gets only better with it. 1998/3/15 - Clocky 2.20beta - Clocky's CookieJar struct changed!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ o old bugfix concerning MegaSTE Turbo hotkey o Jo Even Skarstein suggested a very reasonable idea about EHC registering. See and use his EHC-lib when you program your own External Hotkey Client. o dead keys can be defined freely (up to 30 dead keys). Need to update SETCLOCK.PRG first. o internal's Clocky hot keys can be defined freely. But please wait for new version of SETCLOCK... 1998/3/24 - Clocky 2.21beta - I've got NOVA graphics card in my Falcon!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ o Clocky is now finally compatible with graphics cards (at least with NOVA in 256 colors) o CPX module from JAY Soft is included - great work, guys! o thanks Jo Even Skarstein for his EHC-lib 1998/3/29 - Clocky 2.22beta - a beep tone when a hour is over ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ o Clocky makes a beep tone at new hour. You can enable/disable this feature in CPX module only (SETCLOCK hasn't been updated yet). o NOVA graphics is supported in 2 and 256 colors now o fixed a deep hidden bug which could affect system stability under certain condition. o optimized print routines - Clocky are much shorter now. 1998/4/21 - Clocky 2.30beta - English TOS is emulated ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ o if you have got a non English TOS and you prefer English before German, you can turn the "Emulation of English TOS" on. Several programs start talking in English even when they always talked in German with you. Namely ICD harddisk driver, HDDRIVER and also several CPX modules and perhaps other multilangual programs... o you can turn on/off the beep at new hour in SETCLOCK now. 1998/5/6 - Clocky 2.31beta - NOVA Falcon screen saver! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ o English TOS emulation fixed and enhanced (now affects also the _AKP Cookie) o NOVA Falcon screen saver implemented - it simply turns off the horizontal sync for monitor output, which should yield in screen saving (on VESA Powersaving compatible monitors at least). 1998/6/14 - Clocky 2.34beta ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ o internal/external hot keys work better now, as the key auto-repeat is disabled. o EHC handling has been changed - there's no 105 ms timeout. o Clocky contains an experimental code for displaying free RAM under MiNT. Unfortunately the code does no work at all :-) 1998/6/19 - Clocky 2.36beta ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ o great news - Clocky can uninstall itself cleanly! Just start Clocky second time and if it detects another running instance in memory they uninstall itself from VBL, IKBD, mouse and prntout interrupt vectors as well as remove the JCLK Cookie. It also returns back the original keyboard layout and updates the screen if time/date was shown. So do not reboot your computer if you just want to remove Clocky! :-) o keyboard layout switching on-the-fly (using hotkey + O, N or C) is much much safer now. Previously I've been calling XBIOS Keytbl() from VBL interrupt, which was not too safe (even if I tried to ensure its safety as much as possible). Now I just set the keyboard tables' vectors. Thanks for idea goes to Julian Reschke. So do not hesitate to switch between the keyboards - it's safe and fast! o the 'hour beep' is the last XBIOS Dosound() call in VBL in Clocky. Since this version I lock all interrupts around the Dosound() call to make it even more safe. The Dosound() call itself does nothing but sets one vector (in TOS 4.04), so it should be OK to call Dosound(). But if something bad happen during the 'hour beep' just turn this feature off and let me know what happened. You have been warned... :-) I personally use it without problems under TOS/MiNT. o I have removed the experimental code for displaying free RAM under MiNT. It will return into MiNT-Clocky, a new version of Clocky designed specially for MiNT operating system. 1998/6/21 - Clocky 2.37beta ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ o fixed bug with displaying in 15 and 16bit color depth on NOVA graphics o new SETCLOCK can edit the dead keys (up to 30 dead keys can be defined)