READ THIS FIRST!
	
	First, i speak well spanish and russian. Although my english is acceptable, there can be some grammar errors in the program or this readme. Plese let me know if you find an error.

I have created this program thinking about how i would like a kit to be. It can replace the science kit, the health kit and the observation kit if you use them for monitoring only.  I am not trying to make a copy of Cyberlife's kits, so don't ask me to add the Doctor page from the health kit. If you have any suggestions, please email me.

The program is a beta version, so be careful. It shouldn't destroy anything. I have been running it on my computer for hours and it runs really fine. But i would recommed to export all your norns, make a copy of one of them, import it and see what happens. Try the injector and all that you can, and if it works, import all your nors back.

If you use the CAOS command line, be VERY CAREFUL. Some of the presets i have included haven't been tested, and you can damage your world by using them. However, if you have tried a caos command that could be interesting (and works), email it to me and i will add it to the presets list.

The program creates a log file located in the same directory where the program is installed. It is called POWERKIT.LOG. Please send me this file after testing the program. It contains the log of all the program failures and errors. If you get an error, send me a description how it has happened and how to make it happen again.

The other txt files in this directory are configuration files. Please do not edit them, as you can do it from the program.

The program isn't finished, so don't expect all the features to work. The following pages do not work yet:

Wolfing run

If anybody has or knows where can i find documentation about the Creatures 1 or Creatures 3 OLE interface or how to read the 'allchemicals.str' file, please send me an email.

If i find C1/C3 documentation, or i receive it, i will try to make my kit compatible with Creatures 1 and Creatures 3.

If you want to talk with me, because the program has errors or has screwed up something, or you are a programmer or you simply want to chat, you'll find me in the IRC.

The server name is irc.jet.es
Look for me in the following channels: #madrid, #div, #visualbasic, #english-chat.
My nick is merlin18 or gandalf18

I get connected from 20:00 to 21:00 (spanish time, time zone: GMT+01:00)
If you don't find me there, try again after fifteen minutes. I get connected from a cybercafe, and sometimes i have to wait for several minutes.


The Kit (how it works and what it can do)
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It should work on any system. I run it on a P-133 with 48MB ram. The processor speed isn't too important. It should not use more than the 10% of the processor time on a P-133. If you have a P-166, you shouldn't see any slowdown and if you have a P-266 or higher, you shouldn't even worry about that. The kit comes in two versions, normal and optimized (PowerKit.EXE and OPowerKit.EXE). The normal is more stable, but slower and the optimized is faster but could fail, although it has never failed on my computer) If you get a General Protection Fault with the optimized version, try the normal one.

If you have already run it, it's possible that you have seen a "Refresh each xxxx ms" text box in almost each page. This field is used to set how often data is updated. If you set it to 1000 ms, the page will be updated each second, if you set it to 500, two times a second. The program updating system is built using "Timer" controls. Each timer refreshes some data when it is active. Some of them are very fast, as the Name timer and others can be very slow, as the chemicals monitor. Here's a complete list:

Name			Functions
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Name			Gets the name of the current norn and the monikers of all the norns. Does the autonaming function.
Chemicals refresh	Refreshes the internal chemicals list. It's quite fast. All the pages depend upon this to get
			information.
Norn page		Information about the current norn, as his drives and glucose and glycogen levels. Quite slow
			only if the norn page is active (it takes some time to redraw all those progress bars)
Chemicals monitor	Monitors chemicals. Fast if using the graph mode (works only with user-defined chemicals)
			Slow if using the list mode with options other than user-defined
Injector		Injects chemicals at defined intervals. Very fast unless you have a really long set of chemicals

The main timers are the Name and Chemicals refresh. All the others depend upon them, so do not set an interval higher than five seconds for them. Chemicals should have an interval of 500-2000ms to work well. Name should have an interval of 1000-5000 to work well.

The chemicals are updated at the Chemicals timer speed. That means that if you have set Chemicals each 2 second and then set a graph in the Chemicals monitor each 500ms you will see that the graph changes every two seconds. I mean that the graph will draw four times the same values. If you want a smooth graph, you'll have to set Chemicals to 500 ms.


Creatures 2 failures
Everybody knows that Creatures and Creatures 2 sometimes fail. If your game suddenly exits, you will see in the kit's status bar the following message: "Ole Automation failure. Creatures 2 is not responding". In this case, you should quit the kit too. After that, you can reload creatures again. After the failure, creatures keeps running because the power kit stills connected to it. If creatures was launched by the kit, it won't quit after a failure unless you quit the kit too.