Time Field (Please Help)

[William T. Simmons]

I can't address the menu-disabling issue, but I'll just mention *a* reason
for having the clock onscreen - I had designed ToolBook equivalents to my
PowerPoint presentations - the presentations ran full-screen just like
PowerPoint and had little fields that showed the current time in hours and
minutes - I needed that to easily keep track of my remaining time in rooms
that didn't have wall clocks (it looks kinda tacky to constantly be checking
a watch, and I was always losing my travel clocks). PowerPoint couldn't
display the time like that, so the time field solution came in handy.
Tommy Simmons
Employment Law Advisory Network
www.employmentlawadvisors.com

----- Original Message -----

> on 3/5/02 2:05 PM, David Vaughan at drvaughan55 at mac.com wrote:
>
> > Rob
> >
> > You can not depend on it fail silently because Transcript is less
> > bashful than HC. If the field does not exist then (in the development
> > environment) you get an error dialog with "Chunk can't find object to
> > store into". Using the if construct avoids that problem.
> >
> > Of course, you could always set idleRate to 1 second and use the idle
> > message rather than send in. Who needs the seconds ticking by anyway?
> > Set it to 30 seconds and display hours and minutes.
> ----------
> Another whole approach. I don't know what the overall reason for having
the
> clock onscreen is, or what platforms the stack(s) need to run on. In my
own
> case, on a Mac with any system that puts the time in the menubar, I think
> I'm just going to leave the menubar and the clock/date visible. I will
> delete any other menus, except 'File', which I don't think you can delete,
> but maybe you can make it non-functional.
>
> Maybe in Rev, you can delete it, though, since they're just, ultimately,
> buttons. Is this true?
>
> Best regards,
> Ken N.