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XCalendar is a simple interactive calendar program with a notebook
capability. It is built on the X Toolkit and the Athena Widgets.
If you are writing your first toolkit application this
program is an example of an extensive use of callbacks
and event handlers. It also takes advantage of application
specific resources and actions.
CREDITS:
Version 3.0
Authors: Roman J. Budzianowski - MIT Project Athena
Copyright 1988 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Richard Bingle - Comp. Sci. Dept., Purdue University
Copyright 1990 Purdue University
Contributions:
Beth Chaney - Comp. Sci. Dept., Purdue University
You can start the program as: xcalendar [ month [year]]
If month and year are not provided they are assumed
to be current.
INTERACTIONS:
Clicking the left mouse button on a day will start a text editor.
You can edit and save a text. This text will be associated with the
day. You can later on read and edit this text when you open the editor
for the same day. The text is saved in a file in the directory
~/Calendar. The editor lets you also clear an entry associated with
a particular day. You can also scroll through days while in the editor
by clicking on the arrows on either side of the date label. If an already
open day is scrolled to, an appropriate message is displayed and the
editor is brought up in read only mode.
It is also possible to scroll through months in the main window by
clicking on the arrows on either side of the current month label.
You can highlight all entries in a month by invoking
the function ShowEntries. By default this function is
called when the left mouse button is pressed in the
title window (where month and year are displayed).
Pressing the same button again will unhighlight the entries.
MISSING FEATURES:
To remove all entries in a particular month
you have to use your system's commands. The naming scheme for
the files makes it easy : the command "rm ~/Calendar/xc*sep1988 "
on UNIX(TM) will remove all entries from september 1988.
The facility to do that from the xcalendar should be provided.
One can imagine many other useful features. For example
automatic parsing of the current day entry in search for
appointments to trigger alarms (reminders) at the approriate
time. Well, maybe one day...
RESOURCES:
The resource data base lets you alter the visual appearance
of the program. You can change fonts, border widths, labels,
and other resources used by widgets. One use of this facility is
to change names of week days and months.
Here are the names of widgets you can use to set
various resources:
XCalendar - class of the application
xcalendar - top level pane
controls - control panel
quitButton - quit button
helpButton - help button
date - date label
calendar - calendar pane
daynumbers - day numbers frame
1-49 - day number buttons
daynames - day names frame
MON,TUE,WED,THU,FRI,SAT,SUN - day name buttons
helpWindow - help window
bcontrols - month buttons frame
prev - previous month button
succ - succeeding month button
cdate - current date widget
dayEditor - editor popup
editorFrame - editor frame
editorTitle - editor title
editor - editor
daybuttons - day buttons frame
prevday - previous day button
succday - succeeding day button
editorControls- control panel
doneButton - done button
saveButton - save button
clearEntry - clear entry button
Application specific resources:
reverseVideoMark - if True entries are highlighted in reverse video
default True for black and white, and False for color
displays
setMarkBackground - if True and reverseVideoMark is False entries are
highlighted by setting background to markBackground
markBackground - background color for highlighting entries
setMarkForeground - analogous to setMarkBackground
markForeground - foreground color for highlighting entries
setMarkBackground and setMarkForeground can take any combination of
values.
january,february,..,december - these resources can be used for
changing names of months.
firstDay - an integer between 1-7, indicating the day to start a week with,
default: 7 (Sunday);
markOnStartup - if True mark the entries upon startup,
default: False;
helpFile - full pathname of the xcalendar.hlp file,
default: /usr/lib/X11/xcalendar.hlp;
textBufferSize - maximum size of the text buffer in the day editor,
default: 2048;
DEFAULT RESOURCE DATA BASE:
!
XCalendar*showGrip: False
XCalendar*calendar*internalBorderWidth: 0
XCalendar*input: True
XCalendar*resize: False
XCalendar*resizable: True
XCalendar.title: XCalendar v.3.0
XCalendar.dayEditor.title: Day Editor
XCalendar.helpWindow.title: XCalendar Help
XCalendar*Font: 8x13
XCalendar*helpFile: ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////usr/STAGE/slib/X11/xcalendar/xcalendar.hlp
XCalendar*firstDay: 7
!bitmaps
XCalendar*prev*bitmap: ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////usr/STAGE/slib/X11/xcalendar/larrow.xbm
XCalendar*succ*bitmap: ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////usr/STAGE/slib/X11/xcalendar/rarrow.xbm
XCalendar*prevday*bitmap: ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////usr/STAGE/slib/X11/xcalendar/larrow.xbm
XCalendar*succday*bitmap: ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////usr/STAGE/slib/X11/xcalendar/rarrow.xbm
XCalendar*helpButton*bitmap: ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////usr/STAGE/slib/X11/xcalendar/qmark.xbm
XCalendar*quitButton*bitmap: ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////usr/STAGE/slib/X11/xcalendar/quit.xbm
! colors
! Note: These may cause problems using the -rv option on monochrome displays
XCalendar*Background: lightgray
XCalendar*markBackground: Steel Blue
XCalendar*daynames*Background: lightgray
XCalendar*daynames.SUN*Foreground: Red
XCalendar*daynames.SAT*Foreground: Black
XCalendar*daynumbers*Foreground: Black
XCalendar*daynumbers.1*Foreground: Red
XCalendar*daynumbers.8*Foreground: Red
XCalendar*daynumbers.15*Foreground: Red
XCalendar*daynumbers.22*Foreground: Red
XCalendar*daynumbers.29*Foreground: Red
XCalendar*daynumbers.36*Foreground: Red
XCalendar*helpButton*Background: slategray
XCalendar*helpButton*Foreground: White
XCalendar*quitButton*Background: slategray
XCalendar*quitButton*Foreground: White
XCalendar*editorTitle*Background: lightgray
XCalendar*editorTitle*Foreground: Black
XCalendar*editorControls*Background: lightgray
XCalendar*editorControls*Command.Background: slategray
XCalendar*editorControls*Command.Foreground: White
XCalendar*setMarkBackground: True
XCalendar*markOnStartup: True
XCalendar.BorderWidth: 2
XCalendar*calendar.borderWidth: 1
XCalendar*borderWidth: 0
XCalendar*date*borderWidth: 0
XCalendar*date*vertDistance: 5
XCalendar*date*font: 8x13bold
XCalendar*daynames*font: 8x13bold
XCalendar*dayEditor*editorTitle*font: 8x13bold
XCalendar*helpWindow*editorTitle*font: 8x13bold
XCalendar*helpButton*vertDistance: 12
XCalendar*quitButton*vertDistance: 12
XCalendar*editorTitle*vertDistance: 5
XCalendar*editorControls*doneButton*label: Done
XCalendar*editorControls*saveButton*label: Save
XCalendar*editorControls*clearEntry*label: Clear Entry
XCalendar*dayEditor*geometry: 300x150
XCalendar*helpWindow*geometry: 600x350
XCalendar*doneButton*Label: done
XCalendar*editorTitle*Label: Help
XCalendar*helpButton*Label: help
XCalendar*quitButton*Label: quit
XCalendar*saveButton*Label: save
XCalendar*bcontrols*borderWidth: 0
XCalendar*prev*highlightThickness: 0
XCalendar*succ*highlightThickness: 0
XCalendar*prevday*highlightThickness: 0
XCalendar*succday*highlightThickness: 0
XCalendar*daybuttons*borderWidth: 0
XCalendar*Scrollbar.borderWidth: 1
XCalendar*editor.scrollVertical: whenNeeded