Re: need to add clock to application
Chris Anderson <[email protected]>
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Wow..at POS as well. You could always change policy to disallow date/time changes - but of course they could just change it back being local admins. Perhaps worth consideration though, if only because of the extra knowledge requirement needed -----Original Message----- From: "Stacey Levine"<[email protected]> Sent: 12/04/07 22:00:38 To: "[email protected]"<[email protected]> Subject: Re: [DOTNET-WINFORMS] need to add clock to application Unfortunately, the point of sale software requires administrative rights... -----Original Message----- From: Discussion forum for developers using Windows Forms to build apps and controls [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Anderson Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 4:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [DOTNET-WINFORMS] need to add clock to application Remove the users from the respective local Administrators groups, and they can't change their date/time, otherwise like Phil I thought there was a StatusBarPanel style that showed the time out of the box. -----Original Message----- From: "Stacey Levine"<[email protected]> Sent: 12/04/07 18:15:50 To: "[email protected]"<[email protected]> Subject: Re: [DOTNET-WINFORMS] need to add clock to application Just display the clock. We have shut off the display of the system clock because our users kept changing the date.. so they want the time displayed in this application. -----Original Message----- From: Discussion forum for developers using Windows Forms to build apps and controls [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter Ritchie Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 12:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [DOTNET-WINFORMS] need to add clock to application Do you simply need to display time or need to synchronize time with a server as well? I've usually just created a Forms timer that updates the text in a ToolStripStatusLabel. Windows Forms timers are a system-wide limited resource; so this might not be optimal in your situation. -----Unmodified Original Message----- Just display the clock. We have shut off the display of the system clock because our users kept changing the date.. so they want the time displayed in this application. -----Original Message----- From: Discussion forum for developers using Windows Forms to build apps and controls [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter Ritchie Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 12:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [DOTNET-WINFORMS] need to add clock to application Do you simply need to display time or need to synchronize time with a server as well? I've usually just created a Forms timer that updates the text in a ToolStripStatusLabel. Windows Forms timers are a system-wide limited resource; so this might not be optimal in your situation. -----Unmodified Original Message----- Unfortunately, the point of sale software requires administrative rights... -----Original Message----- From: Discussion forum for developers using Windows Forms to build apps and controls [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Anderson Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 4:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [DOTNET-WINFORMS] need to add clock to application Remove the users from the respective local Administrators groups, and they can't change their date/time, otherwise like Phil I thought there was a StatusBarPanel style that showed the time out of the box. -----Original Message----- From: "Stacey Levine"<[email protected]> Sent: 12/04/07 18:15:50 To: "[email protected]"<[email protected]> Subject: Re: [DOTNET-WINFORMS] need to add clock to application Just display the clock. We have shut off the display of the system clock because our users kept changing the date.. so they want the time displayed in this application. -----Original Message----- From: Discussion forum for developers using Windows Forms to build apps and controls [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter Ritchie Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 12:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [DOTNET-WINFORMS] need to add clock to application Do you simply need to display time or need to synchronize time with a server as well? I've usually just created a Forms timer that updates the text in a ToolStripStatusLabel. Windows Forms timers are a system-wide limited resource; so this might not be optimal in your situation. -----Unmodified Original Message----- Just display the clock. We have shut off the display of the system clock because our users kept changing the date.. so they want the time displayed in this application. -----Original Message----- From: Discussion forum for developers using Windows Forms to build apps and controls [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter Ritchie Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 12:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [DOTNET-WINFORMS] need to add clock to application Do you simply need to display time or need to synchronize time with a server as well? I've usually just created a Forms timer that updates the text in a ToolStripStatusLabel. Windows Forms timers are a system-wide limited resource; so this might not be optimal in your situation.