Status: Beta/Work-in-Progress
Language: Visual Basic .NET
Platform: Win9x, Win2000/XP
Downloads: 438

This program was the answer to all the problems my previous "found on the internet" alarm program had (see images). My alarm focuses on reliability, ease-of-use, and useful features so that the user is always alerted in the appropriate manner of their choosing and with minimal hassles. The features from the Documentation follow. ...

This program was the answer to all the problems my previous "found on the internet" alarm program had (see images). My alarm focuses on reliability, ease-of-use, and useful features so that the user is always alerted in the appropriate manner of their choosing and with minimal hassles. The features from the Documentation follow.

• Multiple alarms that are easy to add, change, or delete
• 9 alarm date types ensure that you'll quickly be able to set alarms to match your schedule
• Big button text on the alarm dialog helps the sleepy-eyed and visually-impaired in the mornings
• Customizable action list lets you predefined what happens when alarms go off
• Choose from 4 different action types, such as playing a sound or showing a message box
• Sound actions can play any number of sound formats (WAV, MP3, WMA, OGG, etc) courtesy of the included FMOD library
• Program interacts with system standby to either prevent it or wake the computer up when there's an active alarm
• Intelligent, threaded time monitor manages its own polling rate and process priority to keep system usage down (especially when minimized to tray)
• Many options to suit the user's needs and personal preferences

0.9.3b:
-fixed monitor standby on snooze option
-fixed max snooze
-fixed a bug where one could use the number key shortcuts to snooze when snoozing wasn't allowed due to max snooze
-fixed another bug where daily alarms weren't displaying their time in the alarm settings

0.9.2b:
-fixed a bug with configuration backups backing up to the wrong directory (i.e. root)

0.9.1b:
-fixed a bug with incorrect snooze lengths
-fixed a bug where the time an alarm was at (%b) was not displayed in the systray tooltip for daily alarms

0.9b:
-First Public Release

Snake's Alarm 0.9 beta 438 Downloads	Download

Status: Release/Final
Language: Visual Basic .NET
Downloads: 364

Microsoft says:

Note: This function is provided only for compatibility with 16-bit applications written for Windows. Applications should store initialization information in the registry.

-GetPrivateProfileString, MSDN Library (Jan 2006)

WRONG! Applications shouldn't store their settings in the registry. It centralizes ...

Microsoft says:

Note: This function is provided only for compatibility with 16-bit applications written for Windows. Applications should store initialization information in the registry.

-GetPrivateProfileString, MSDN Library (Jan 2006)

WRONG! Applications shouldn't store their settings in the registry. It centralizes application-specific data, making the reinstallation, copying, and settings tweaking of applications more cumbersome. For all of my programs, I use these "Windows 3.1 compatibility" functions to read/write settings to a .ini configuration file that can be placed in the directory with a program. They're actually far easier to use than the registry, too, and with minimal drawbacks. Over the years, I've been refining these functions with a wrapper module that makes accessing application settings even easier, which you can download here. It includes the following members:

• ConfigFile
• Class KeyPair
• Function Backup()
• Function Clear()
• Function ClearKey()
• Function ClearSection()
• Function DeleteSection()
• Function ReadFloatKey()
• Function ReadIntKey()
• Function ReadSection()
• Function ReadSectionNames()
• Function ReadStringKey()
• Function RestoreBackup()
• Function WriteKey()
• Function WriteSection()

1.2.2:
fixed a bug with backups without a path passed failing to backup

VB.Net Config File Module 364 Downloads	Download