xEvent

xEvent allows you to start specified tasks at a given time. This can simply be a reminding message as well as backing up files or shutting Windows down. So take a look on this page!

   
1) Introduction

Probably you are downloading a large file from the internet, but you gotta leave home. So what now, when you are away and the download has ended, the machine's still online. The time has come for xEvent: start it and tell that Windows has to shut down in half an our.
Problem #2: you have fallen into deep work and forget to fetch some coffe or to smoke a cigarette (Sometimes programmers use to...). Problem #2 is no problem, cos simply instruct xEvent to display a message every 45 minutes. Of course, dis is only a tiny glimp on xEvent's possibilities, so go ahead and see.

Fig.1: main window with tasks

 
2) How it works

You, the user, specify the tasks to perform (see 3) and close xEvent. Then it adds itself to the systemtray just next to the clock (fig. 2). When activeted in the options, xEvent loads on every system's start and opens the library containing the tasks. You can always reach xEvent by right-clicking the icon in the tray.

Fig. 2: You can take special files from the CD over to the database. So you can view the contents of a file without having the real media in drive.

 
3) Telling what to do

On xEvent's left you can see several kinds of events (fig. 3). By double-clicking one, you will get an event-editor (fig. 5) where you can set it's properties. When done, it is added to a list containing all events, grouped in daily, weekly, monthly and single events (fig. 4).
The checkboxes indicate if the task will be performed or not. So you can disable it temporarily instead of deleting the task. En plus, you can specify, if xEvent shall ask the current user prior to execute the event. In the following list you'll se a list of supported events in this version:

     
- textual messages (reminders)   - exiting windows, new logging
- alerts (playing a wave)   - switching the desktop resolution
- starting an application    
- copying, renaming or deleting a file    

Fig. 3: each icon represents a new task

Fig. 4: waiting events

 
4) BQuestion of identity

At any given time, you can en-/disable an event. Additionally, you have the possibility to convert a task to another type. As shown in fig. 5, you can call an event's properties and manipulate time, kind and content.

Fig. 5: readme-file inserted from CD into databse


5) Features & Requirements

-runs on Windows 98 or Win95 + IE4   - handles several types of event (see above)
-Pentium 166 or equal recommended   - tasks can be disabled at any time
-needs approx. 2 megs (app) of free space   - dynamic property editor
     
- runs in the system tray    
- autostart-feature