Millennium-III Introduction: This is another countdown to the year 2000 util. But Millennium-III can be put anywhere on the Workbench, since you can give it coordinates where it should appear. Or put it on any screen, or just let it print the text to CLI instead. It also have a little surprise when year 2000 starts! And 24hrs after 2000 it starts to countdown to the 3rd Millennium (2001), the same surprise will pop up when 2001 starts :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Requirements: Non really, but a battery backed-up clock would be nice :-) Installation: Just copy it where you want it, or put it in the WBStartup drawer (prefered). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Workbench usage: Just double click the icon. You may also want to set the tooltypes: TOP=x Where x is how many pixels from the top of the screen, that Millennium-II should put it's window. LEFT=x Where x is how many pixels from the left of the screen, that Millennium-II should put it's window. PUBSCREEN=x Where x is the name of a public screen. If you put Millennium-II in WBStartup, remeber to use the DONOTWAIT tooltype, this prevents Workbench from waiting for a program to finish. Other Workbench specific tooltypes like DONOTWAIT etc can be used, read your WB manual for more info on these special tooltypes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CLI usage: Same as for Workbench, the same "ToolTypes" can be entered from cli. From CLI there is also a NOGUI option, when using this Millennium-II will print a line of text and quit. You can enter the TOP and LEFT values directly, example: C:2000 11 305 NOGUI PUBSCREEN="DW Screen0" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ History: v1.0 First release! v2.0 Added REAL countdown to 3rd Millennium, plus some minor internal improvements. Big thanks to "Nick Waterman " for his detail info/history on years and millennias. v2.1 Fixed some bad coding, now it should countdown properly to 2001, thanks to "Randall Blank " for noticing that. Cleaned up the code and docs a bit. v2.2 Millennium-III always started with a active window, thanks to "Ian King " for noticing, and informing me of the correct way to spell Millennium. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Disclaimer: Millennium-III is Freely Distributable FreeWare, use at your own risk. Permission granted for any use: CD-ROM publication (Fred Fish, Aminet, etc.) and you may put it on magazine coverdisks without notifying me at all. In other words do what you want with it as long as you do not charge anything for the program it self. Please keep this text with the program, the same goes for the icon. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ © Msi Software 1997 Roger Hågensen http://www.sn.no/~msi/index.htm