SandUhr User's Guide

Jochen Voss

  voss@mathematik.uni-kl.de

This is version 1.0 of the SandUhr User's Guide.

Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Using SandUhr
2.1. Starting SandUhr
2.2. The Alarm Time
3. Customisation
3.1. Properties
3.2. Preferences
4. Controlling SandUhr with CORBA
4.1. Introduction to CORBA
4.2. Simple scripting with CORBA
4.3. Advanced CORBA examples
5. Authors
6. License
A. The SandUhr CORBA interface
SandUhr::Timer -- CORBA interface for SandUhr timer objects
SandUhr::AlarmAction -- CORBA interface for the SandUhr alarm actions
SandUhr::TimerFactory -- CORBA interface for the SandUhr factory objects

1. Introduction

SandUhr is an alarm clock, which is shaped like a sand glass. One may choose one of several possible alarm actions, e.g. it is possible to automatically play a sound file when the alarm time is reached. This program is useful for people which, like me, tend to forget the time when sitting in front of a computer. It helps them to produce properly timed tea anyway.

The program uses (and requires) the GNOME desktop environment. Thus it needs the X Window System to operate. I built parts of it with the help of the Glade interface builder (see glade.gnome.org) and the GTK+ object builder (see http://www.5z.com/jirka/gob.html).

SandUhr is free software and comes without any warranty. For details see Section 6.

I would be glad to receive any comment on my program, especially bug reports. My email address is . Your message should include the program's version number. This may be obtained from the program call sanduhr --version or may be found at the About window (the right mouse button opens a window where you should choose Help->About).