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• Summary: When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely in your thoughts advanced to the sta...

• Found under: time, minutes, logging, midnight, countdown

• Requirements:
Windows Mobile Pocket PC 5 , 6 , 6.1

• Arrived: Jul 8, 2008

• Downloaded 1,750 times

Minutes to Midnight free download for Windows Mobile phone

Rating: 1.6/5
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Made by: Chris Craft


When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely in your thoughts advanced to the state of science.
- Lord Kelvin (William Thomson)


Simple, simple application, but I would say it is useful. At first I just had it say 2 hours, 45 minutes, and 38 seconds remaining. But I decided that was too simple. I decided to use progress bars, because it adds a visual element that gives the application a little, let's call it, "weight".

Then I looked at the application and felt it looked a little sterile, aka dull, dull, dull. I decided the answer was to add some color. I did this by going to http://www.colourlovers.com/ and browsing their color palettes. I was even able to search color palettes by using the color of the progress bar, which I got by doing a screen capture and getting the hex color from Paint .NET.

I didn't take me long to notice I had an issue. From my point of view, it's subjective, the progress bar wasn't right. progressBarHours.Value = timeSpan.Hours; needed to be progressBarHours.Value = 24 - timeSpan.Hours;. Once I did this it was working like I wanted it to.

I wasn't thrilled with the top progress bar. It was meant to show the total remaining time left in the day, but I didn't have room for another label. But there is a saying, "The perfect is the enemy of the good." I think of this as, if you follow the road to Perfect forever, you may never get to Good. If Another reason to use the color scheme to help break the form into logical sections: yes, there is method to my madness, well, at least sometimes.

The only other thing I had to handle was total minutes left. Depending on the math, it would sometimes display "X.666666666 of 1440 total minutes left". Fortunately, there is an easy fix for this, custom numeric format strings: timeSpan.TotalMinutes.ToString("#.0").





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Roberto @ July 15th 2008 11:44 pm

Thanks alot, do you know if there is a program lake autohangup for nokia but for wm6, this program cut a call before 5 minutes.

Ardwych @ July 10th 2008 9:15 pm

If you'd like to explain what it is, rather than give your 'personal journey' during development, I'd be happy to comment.. =8-0 Which lines relate to which text, for instance?

Elmo @ July 10th 2008 5:06 pm

CNN Reports..."Minutes to Midnight is a triumph of human achievement!"

Frant @ July 10th 2008 12:02 pm

Another feature-rich program for the Windows mobile platform. It's really quality programming like this which keeps the windows mobile crowd from running en-masse to the Iphone...

Nick @ July 9th 2008 5:21 pm

That is going to be such a sweet little application every December 31st...my life is complete now, thank you!

Russian @ July 8th 2008 11:30 am

Work good. Easy to use. But its not really that useful

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