12noon :: Alarm++ 8.0.1 released

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Alarm++ 8.0.1


This is a major release of Alarm++, so there are a number of significant
changes.


  <http://www.12noon.com/alarmdoc/menu_tray.png> New visual styles


You can select one of a number of visual styles for Alarm++. Some are based
on Outlook's various appearances in the most recent versions.

There are new icons for the toolbar, options window, properties window, and
menus.


New file format


Alarm++ now uses XML to store its data. The previous .alm format was binary
and unreadable. The new .alarm format is XML and easily quite readable. If
you want to make changes to many different alarms at once (such as changing
the path to your media files), it's easy to exit Alarm++, edit your .alarm
file in Notepad, and start Alarm++ again.

Alarms are now copied/pasted as XML instead of tab-delimited text. Alarms
can also be copied/pasted as files, allowing them to be easily exchanged
with other people. You can drag/drop one or more alarms into an e-mail
message or onto your desktop. Then you or someone else can drag/drop them
back into Alarm++.

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New "pre-offset" date/time columns


Alarm++ has two new columns in the main window that display the "base" date
and time of the alarm. This is the date/time before any offset is applied,
not necessarily when the next event will occur.


Unicode Support


If you're not familiar with Unicode, don't worry about it. It means only
that there is more broad support for the character sets of different
languages.


More features and fixes


You can read about additional changes on the Alarm++ Changes
<http://www.12noon.com/alarm_history.htm>  page.



Registered Customers


If you've registered Alarm++ 6 or 7, you're entitled to a free upgrade. Go
to www.12noon.com and click on the "Registration" link to request your
registration upgrade. Your new registration will be mailed to you right
away.

When Alarm++ opens your existing .alm file, it will automatically convert it
to the new .alarm format. It will also rename your .alm file to .alm.old.

If you have an Alarm++ shortcut that specifically opens your .alm file, you
will need to modify it to open the new .alarm file. For example, your
shortcut might be like this:

"C:\Program Files\12noon Alarm++\Alarm.exe" "C:\Users\GUEST\My
Documents\MyAlarms.alm"

That will need to be changed to something like this:

"C:\Program Files\12noon Alarm++\Alarm.exe" "C:\Users\GUEST\My
Documents\MyAlarms.alarm"

Or you can modify the shortcut not to pass anything to alarm.exe and use the
"Open the most recent alarm file at startup" option instead.

"C:\Program Files\12noon Alarm++\Alarm.exe"


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Thank you for using Alarm++.

Stefan Tucker
12noon


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12noon :: Alarm++ 8.0.1 released

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