New Feature: User Paging

Hey guys!

I've just added a new feature to Chronos, which is the ability to "page" your users!

Basically, admins can now select a user from the connected user list on their overview and click the "Page User" button. This will then cause the user to be notified that their attention is required. This is useful for calling in raiders who are sitting out, etc.

Client users can set up what sound to use for their page in their Basic Settings. This box works the same way as setting up text to speech / sounds in timers and triggers. Simply type something you want it to say upon receiving a page, or look for a WAV file to play instead.

Users that have received a page will get a flashing notification at the bottom of Chronos and their chosen sound effect will play once every 3 seconds. They can stop their "page alarm" by clicking the "End Page" button in the bottom right of the program. Of course, you can only see this button if you are currently being paged.

Admins that send a page to a user will receive an automatic notification in their log box that the user has successfully been paged. This message is a definite confirmation receipt, so there's no "I didn't get it!" excuses! The admin will also receive a notification in their log box when a user ends their page alarm in their client. This is useful for knowing when someone has seen the notification and have responded to it. There's a new option in the Basic Settings of the admin version that will allow you to turn on or off an audible speech notification that a particular user has turned off their page alarm.

Have fun!

Larks.

Quick Update

I've added in an "Inherit Style" checkbox in the themes panel. If this is checked, it will inherit the styling from the theme you're activating. If it is unchecked, whenever you activate a theme it will keep your current color settings in the new theme.

Happy theming!

Version 0.4.3.0 Released! Overlay theming introduced!

Hey everyone!

Chronos has been updated and now supports overlay themes!

You can create themes by editing a .chronosoverlay file. These files can be found in your ChronosServer or ChronosClient folder under OverlayThemes. Simply copy the default theme (1.chronosoverlay) to your desktop (don't make a copy in the same folder) and then edit it as you like! Next, head to the basic settings page of Chronos and add your new theme!

When you first start Chronos, your current overlay settings are preserved.

However, activating a theme (whether or not it is already active) will inherit the theme colors. You may put your own colors on top after that point by changing the usual overlay settings, but remember that activating a theme again will use the colors from that theme again.

So basically, load a theme up and change the colors how you want :).

I've started the ball rolling with a "compact" theme available on the downloads page. Be sure to let me know if you guys come up with any interesting themes!

By the way, if you need to change the colors of the timer progress bars in any custom themes you might create, you'll need to set Overwrite Windows Style to [True]. If you've loaded Chronos with the default green Windows progress bars and you've tried to change their color, try applying your theme and restarting Chronos to make it show up correctly.


Thanks!


Feina.

0.4.2.0 Released

Just a few updates today!

Chronos now saves the text in your logbox to dated logfiles in either your ChronosServer or ChronosClient folder. I will probably be adding in extra "detail" output information to these logfiles later.

I've also added in a bunch more "Chronos tags" that you can use in your HTML code to display extra data on your web report page (sample), along with the option to automatically update this page whenever you start or stop your server or close Chronos.

Thanks!

Larks.

Chronos 0.4.0 Released!

Hey everyone!

Chronos 0.4.0 has been released, which includes an updater! I've ironed out a few bugs, including a bug which prevented personal events having timers longer than 100 seconds (thanks to Anonymous for the report).
The file structure of Chronos has also been significantly changed, so this means that you can not simply update your executable with this version. Don't worry, I don't expect to make file structure changes ever again. Hopefully, for the first and last time, here are the steps on how to update and keep your current data:

1) Go to your current Chronos directory.
2) Back up your entire Chronos directory to a different location.
3) Download a fresh install of Chronos from the Downloads page (the full RAR)
4) Extract the files back to your original Chronos directory, or to wherever you like
5) Run the fresh install of Chronos and then close it
6) Go to your backup of Chronos and copy all of your .chronos files
7) Go back to your fresh install of Chronos and paste all of your .chronos files into the ChronosServer or ChronosClient folder (depending on your version)
8) Open Chronos, go to your update settings on the Basic Settings page and change your update URL to http://chronostimers.info/Chronos/

That should be it!

If you're wondering, the Icons folder can now be found in the ChronosData folder.

New users of Chronos can simply download the full installation and follow the instructions on the Downloads page as normal.

As always, please report any bugs with the updater or Chronos itself either by commenting on the blog or Emailing chronosdevelopment@gmail.com!

Thanks,

Larks.

Multiple Log Files Now Supported!

Yep! You can now use more than one logfile with Chronos!

The multilog settings can be found on the basic settings page.

I suggest everyone who has downloaded Chronos go ahead and update from the downloads page.

Larks.