Alarm Pak Extension for AlarmPak 2.01


What are the features of AlarmPak?

It enhances the persistent alarm concept of the newton and gives you
many ways of configuring it:

1) You can configure how many seconds should be between several rings.

2) You can configure how often a sound is played at every ring.

3) Possibility to configure auto-snooze. If the Newton falls asleep
   it awakes after a configurable amount of time to start giving
   alarms again. This is normally done until the batteries are empty
   or the user dismisses the alarm.

4) Option "Gradually increase volume". The first ring is silent and then
   the volume is increased with every further ring.

5) It stacks alarms, so that you can see all alrams you have not yet
   dismissed in a list.

6) The alarm window also has a manual snooze button.

7) It contains 2 Soundpaks with some good alarm sounds (Church bells is
my favourit)

The tool is almost perfect, but just almost.

1) The Newton switches off after 1 minute. If you have configured
   gradually increase volume with an acceptable distance between the
   rings (30secs-1minute), the Newton stops at a whisper volume and snoozes.

2) If you configure auto-snooze and you are not at home when an alarm goes off,
   your Newton will ring (with sleep intervals) until you switch it off (when
   you are home again) or the batteries are dead.

3) A mistake in the gradually increase routine has a wrap araound. When AlarmPak
   reaches maximum volume, the next volume is silent again.

4) If you have not dismissed an alarm and the newton awakens at 3am to
   shift its todos, AlarmPak continues to ring at that time -- nice feature
   which your wife will love...

I have made an extension package which will fix the points mentioned above:

to 1) You can now configure how often the newton should ring until
      it switches off the first time!

to 2) You can configure how many auto-snooze cycles should be made until
      the newton falls asleep without snoozing.

to 3) The overrund was removed. If AlarmPak reaches full volume it
      keeps this.

to 4) I have integrated a silent time between 2:50am and  3:20am. In this
      time no rings are allowed to go off.


Alarmpak can be downloaded at:

        http://home.earthlink.net/~allanmarcus/

Much fun with the extensions...