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Last update: 07 Nov 1999.

PTT - Project Time Track is a wizard (addin) that keeps track automatically of your work on projects. It is useful for programmers who bills for time on projects or just wants a simple solution for keeping track of work time.

The information on the projects can be grouped (by project, session, username, day, week and month) and sorted (by project, session, username, day, week, month, total time, work time and idle time).

There are versions of PTT for Delphi 4 and 5, Visual Basic 6, and shortly for C++ Builder 4 and Visual C++ 6.

PTT monitors all your activities while you are working on IDE. Some activities monitored are opening and closing projects, compiling, source code and form changes.

Handling these information PTT controls AUTOMATICALLY, for each work session, the opening and closing date/time, the total open time, the idle time, and the effective work time.

PTT creates a new file (extension .PTT) for each project to save the persistent historic information. If, for any reason this file is deleted, PTT creates another, however all project historic information is lost.

• All events and activities are monitored automatically.
• All configuration options are individuals for each project.
• Inactive time for consider the project idle can be configured.
• Minimum session work time for keep track can be configured.
• Time increment of seconds.
• Time display in decimal hours or minutes.
• Export project's history to text files (flat or CSV) and Clipboard.
• Date/Time Display format based on system settings.
• An external utility (PTTViewer.exe) allows opening the PTT files from outside IDE.

1. Unzip the PTT file to directory of your choice.
2. Execute the installer corresponding to the proper version of Delphi ("InstallD4.exe" for Delphi 4 or "InstallD5.exe" for Delphi 5).
3. For installation to be complete Delphi needs to be re-initialized.

1. Unzip the PTT file to directory of your choice.
2. Choose Menu: Component|Install Component.
3. Press button "Add" in the Install Components dialog box.
4. Press the "Browse" button to find file TTExpert40.bpl (or TTExpert50.bpl if you have Delphi 5). Then press the OK button and PTT has been installed.

After installation, PTT adds the menu item "Project Time Track" to menu "View", and starts to keep track of your work on yours projects.

TTExpert40.bpl uses vcl40.bpl and vclsmp40.bpl packages.
TTExpert50.bpl uses vcl50.bpl and vclsmp50.bpl packages.

1. Unzip the PTT file to directory of your choice.
2. Execute the installer "InstallVB6.exe".
3. For installation to be complete VB needs to be re-initialized.

1. Unzip the PTT file to directory of your choice.
2. Use a utility such as Regsvr32.exe to register PTT ActiveX components (PTTAddIn.dll and PTTLib.dll) on your system.
3. Include the line "PTTAddIn.PTTAddInClass=3 " in the [Add-Ins32] section of the Vbaddin.ini file located on WINDOWS directory.
4. For installation to be complete VB needs to be re-initialized.

After installation, PTT adds the menu item "Project Time Track" to menu "View", and starts to keep track of your work on yours projects.

PTT can be operated in two different modes: IDE project group driven or IDE project group independent.

When PTT Dialog is shown from IDE and there is at least one open project, it is not allowed to open existing PTT files. In other words, PTT is being commanded by IDE, therefore the projects that are open in your IDE are the ones that are being controlled by PTT and appear in PTT Dialog.

However, if PTT Dialog is shown from IDE and there are NOT open projects, it’s allowed to open and/or close existing PTT files. Actually this operation mode is similar to PTTViewer, except for the fact that username can be changed in this mode and can’t in PTTViewer.

PTT can also be accessed through the PTTViewer utility. PTTViewer allows opening the PTT files from outside IDE. Besides it allows projects data be analyzed in project groups different from the project groups defined in its respective IDE. This can be made even among project data of different tools. For example, it is possible to analyze the data of a project of VB jointly with another of Delphi 4. In this case, of course, you need to have both versions of PTT.

To each work session in a project is associated an username. This username can be defined during the initialization of the IDE, when PTT shows a username dialog box. The username can defined through Tools Tab on PTT interface.

PTT always suggests the user currently logged onto the system. If there is not a user currently logged then the user "anonymous" will be considered. The startup dialog can be disabled, and if you do this PTT will consider then user currently logged onto the system. The last used usernames are stored to facilitate its choice.

NOTE: PTT just controls the username for effect of work session documentation, there is not any association between PTT and windows 9x or NT security.

Due to a difference among Visual Basic and Delphi environments, PTT also has a basic behavior difference.

This difference refers to the form as PTT treats files that are open in IDE but are not formally associated to an open project, or are associated the more than an open project. The problem is that PTT needs to know for which project the activities detected in these files will be attributed. See below the policy adopted for each environment:

File not associated to an open project:

File associated the more than an open project:

File not associated to an open project:

File associated the more than an open project:

PTT is not able to work with projects that are in some specific directories. The directory depends on the environment:

All the directories below the Template directory, defined in the edit box "Template Directory" of the dialog Tools|Options|Environment

All the directories below the Windows directory.

All the directories below the Projects directory in the Delphi installation directory.

PTT is distributed as an unregistered trial version. Unregistered versions are limited to 10 work sessions. When a new session is added, the first one is lost to conform to limitation.

Registering entitles you to receive e-mail technical support and get free updates and fixes for a year.

Go to http://www.optimasw.cjb.net for actual price and registering information.

If you would like to register PTT for Delphi 4 and 5, you can enter the registration online on the Internet at http://shareit1.element5.com/programs.html?productid=107125. Alternatively, you can go to http://www.shareit.com and enter the program number there: 107125.

If you would like to register PTT for Visual Basic 6, you can enter the registration online on the Internet at http://shareit1.element5.com/programs.html?productid=130140. Alternatively, you can go to http://www.shareit.com and enter the program number there: 130140.

If you do not have access to the Internet, you can register via phone, fax or postal mail. Please print out this form, and fax or mail it to:

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