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Time control is a new Remote Control feature, allowing the user to perform actions at times controlled by the PC’s clock.
Time control dialog:

A new ‘timed’ event can be created by clicking ‘NEW’ to create an entry. Existing entries can be edited by ‘double-clicking’ to select. Both actions will open the ‘Edit Time Event’ dialog.

The following items can be configured for a time event:
| • | Name:
Name of the timed event (maximum length is 300 characters) |
| • | Kind:
Various kinds of timed events can be selected:
- None: disables a timed event
- Disconnect: executes a disconnect
- End remote: terminates this Remote Control program
- Phone book entry: executes a phone book entry
- Execute script file: executes a .ctr script file
(see Load File)
- Log file: creates a log file
(see Display Log File) |
| • | Time:
The time of day the event should occur. |
| • | Date:
The date on which the timed event should occur. |
| • | Interval:
This parameter determines the interval between repeated timed events. 0 to 30 days can be selected. 0 means no repetition. |
| • | Extra info:
This field is context sensitive to the kind of timed event.
- none,
- end remote,
- disconnect: this field is disabled;
- phone book: entering this field opens the phone book dialog;
- script file: entering this field opens a dialog to select a .ctr script file
- log file: enter the e-mail address where the log files should be sent to, whereas double-clicking this field opens the options dialog to enter the necessary e-mail data (see also menu item Expert/Options) |
An edited Timed Event is listed in the event table when the Edit Timed Event dialog is closed, by clicking on OK, but NOT if “Kind = None” is selected.
A Timed Event can be erased by selecting it, and pressing the DELETE button on your PC keyboard.
All Timed Events in the table become valid on closing the Timed Events dialog, by clicking on OK.
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