XCra 2.1 (X11 Compte Rendu d'Activite') S.Carrez ciceron@chorus.fr xcra is a tool which will help you recording the time spent on various tasks, and manage a set of notes strongly or loosely coupled with the active task. If is very useful if you are faced to one of the following problems: - at the end of the day, you don't know where you have spent your time, - your project manager (or you) needs to charge the time on your project, - you have to remember complex commands (related or not to your project), - you have to remember some actions to do. xcra integrates a task manager and a note manager. The xcra task manager will help you on the following points: o it records each day the time spent on your different activities; o you inform xcra of the task that you are working on by clicking on a button; o you are able to add/subtract the time for a particular task and for a particular day; o you can create/remove tasks; o it produces several summary reports to understand where you have spent some time, on which activity, and how much. o it can save the information in an external database (specific database, Oleo data-sheet, ...). The xcra note manager will help you on the following points: o it records various free-text which are correlated or not with a task. Such free-text could be: - a set of complex commands to launch (and to remember!); - a set of actions to do to finish the activity; - the result of a command that you want to save for some time; - personal notes... o it allows you to retrieve quickly some information related or not to the current activity; xcra contains an online help (English) for each dialog box it contains. Online help is organized in topics and sub-topics for clarity and easiness of use. Requirements: - X11R5 or X11R6, (Athena widgets) - gcc, g++ 2.6.3 or 2.7 (libg++ not used), - perl 4.036 Xcra has been tested on the following platforms: - SunOS 4.1.1, sun3, g++ 2.6.3/g++ 2.7.2, X11R6 - SunOS 4.1.3, sun4, g++ 2.7.2, X11R5 - SunOS 5.3, sun4, g++ 2.7.2, X11R5 - SunOS 5.3, sun4, Sun C++ SparcWorks 4.0.1, X11R5 - Sco ODT 3.0, i486, g++ 2.7.2, X11R5 GNU configure is used so that porting it to another platform should be quite straight forward. February 1996