Xnote Stopwatch

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Dmitry, the creator and owner of the fine stopwatch program Xnote Stopwatch (xnws.exe) changed his program on request and the last version of Xnote is now broadcasting information about  start, snap (lap)  and reset.

The required modifications for Camstudio are incorporated in the last 1.60 release on his site. Beware that because this is a little change he did not released it as a new release.  Hence, Xnsw v1.60 you can pickup from generic software support sites as download.com and others can lack this for us required function.

You can use the version here:

xnsw160_setup_(dd05juli2010)

Or visit the home of Xnote yourself.

www.xnotestopwatch.com

With both release it is possible to minimize the flash time, the flash time is the time that the Xnote counter in the screen is frozen to give life audience the possibility to read the time from a monitor. With Camstudio we do not want to have the screen frozen for too long.

With the undocumented Xnote feature we can define our own freeze duration.

  • Open : C:\Documents and Settings\[User]\Application Data\XNote Stopwatch\xnsw1.ini
  • Goto section [Display].
  • Define or change flashtime ( time is in milli seconds, default value is 150)
    • Flash=10

In xnote the max ‘skip bounce contact’ time to set is limited to 100 ms.  If we want to be sure that we can use a sensor to start and to stop xnote when someone passses this time might be to short. In that case one can can overwrite the max value manual. Beware that max 100ms will be applied again as soon as  you configure the external control settings again. To set Skipbounce  to 2 seconds.

  • Define or change the ‘Skip bounce time’:
    • SkipBounce=2000