Calendar combined with alarming program

I am now using a freeware Alarm Clock by manually input the news content and time, so that for the important news release, I will be alarmed by sound 2 minutes prior to the news.

Is it possible to program it that the input is done automatically once a week, while all I have to do is watch for the sound?

The freeware Alarm program is here:
http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/B...arm_Clock.html

Thanks in advance for the help.

Happy trading!

P.S.: incomplete part: Business/Time_and_Clock_Tools/Talking_Alarm_Clock.html

A screenshot is attached.

I have attempted to install the Alarm Clock, but I can't get it to run. Admittedly I'm running Win-98, perhaps that's the problem. When I click on the icon in the SysTray, nothing happens, including the Add New Alarm option.

I've tried running Alarm.exe, AlarmTray.exe, AlarmClock.exe - none of them appear to do anything. I can't reproduce the image you have on your screenshot.

In the help file, it talks about adding new alarms by running Alarm /n "alarmname" from the DOS command line. Hence I think it might be possible to write a batch command file that adds a whole week's worth of news items. You could take the CSV output from FFcal.EXE v1.09, edit it (e.g. using macros, and/or regular expressions in Search/Replace) in a text editor like EmEditor, save the resulting command file, and run it.

But unless I can somehow get the Alarm Clock software to run, I can't test this.

Sorry
David

This is exactly what comes up in my mind. But for me I see no chance in reaching that with my poor programing capability.

Thanks anyway for your kind effort, David.

So far I have to keep it manually working.

Happy trading.

Hi Samuri

I managed to get the Alarm app running on my wife's notebook PC which runs Win-XP.

The DOS command line function simply fills in the name of the new alarm, but not the content, so it is pretty much worthless. Unfortunately this particular Alarm software appears to store its database of alarms in non-text format, making it impossible to easily supply it with an auto-generated list of alarms (for news events).

It might be possible to use macros (i.e. playback a preset sequence of keystrokes, as if an invisible typist was sitting at your PC) to drive the alarms. But you would need to find (e.g. Google) compatible macro playback software. However, one problem with macros is, if for whatever reason, the generated keystrokes get out of sync with the (in this case, Alarm) application, then obviously there is chaos as the wrong keys get typed into the wrong fields, and once started it may not be easily possible to halt the macro.

You could try to search for different Alarm software that stores, or at least allows the import of, all of the alarm data (e.g. time to ring, message to display) from a text file. If you can find one of these, I could try to write some software to automatically build the text file from FFcal.EXE's Events History database.

Let me know how you fare.

Good luck
David