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Secretarial Program

Page-5: Acknoledgements

Alarms:

I will take you along with me as I do a little programming. Actually, it is more of working with graphics. You see...
I have this bird.

Pop_Bird.gif, 2.9kB

And I want to animate it.

Which I have done here.
Pop_Remember-Animation.gif, 24kB

After I placed it into the program, I discovered that I have a couple of problems.

Forget the graphics and the bird for now. There is a bigger problem with the "Rain".
You will hear a Weather Secretary talking about "One rain", "two rain", and on and on.
That stupid vocalisation has to stop! It is obnoxious.
I know what she is saying:
She is saying that last night while I slept, that the Weather report was for rain. And the meaning is rain after 24 hours from 1 in the morning the next day, also after 24 hours past 2 in the morning, also 24 hours past 3 in the morning, also 24 hours from 4 o clock. In other words, the same time the next day. The problem is that this cryptic stuff is vocalized. Vocalised, on and on.

OK, I got that fixed. Still displayed, but not vocalized.

By the way, that blue Galaxy looking thing inside the old roman clock, is a representation of a BlackHole.
It is my way of saying the Alarm is gone. The BlackHole is the ultimate in something gone.
Also, the pigion is supposed to be a dove. For me, the dove is Forgiveness.

Just incase you are interested; this example is a "Deferred Event".

Delayed Notices. I also call these Remembrances, that are deferred, and have no immediate action,
because they occurred during my sleep time. For example Weather Events that I will deal with later.
At 09:00 all delayed or deferred events are gathered, recategorized, and given to me.
Some of these deferred events will Trigger a Casual Reminder Notice every six minutes, until Acknowledged.

Getting back to the graphics:
I discovered that I do not like the white background for the animated bird.
Ideally, I would prefer a transparent background.
But I can quickly understand why a transparent background would be difficult, if not impossible in an Animated Gif.

I am taking you along, while I work; Litterly. Together, we will see how it goes...
I have to choose a color for the background.
I choose Dark Green.

Pop_Reminder-Grn-Anam.gif, 30kB

I have to stop the program, and it will not come back to life in an alarmed condition. So, I have to simulate a test alarm by hitting "F3", my chosen key to simulate stuff.

When the program first comes to life, I had previously hard coded my desire to briefly hear about upcoming events, right off the bat. No details. Those will naturally be divulged in time. She says no events today, and no events tomorrow. Good girl.

Then I hit F3, and simulate the alarm. Not too happy, there are white dots around the bird. Oh well, that will do.
RULERMAR