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- IconCalendar 1.0
-
- Copyright © 1994 Mika Kuulusa
- Written by Mika Kuulusa
- Released: 22-Jun-94
-
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- DISTRIBUTION
-
- IconCalendar is CardWare. That means it is freely distributable, but
- if you really like it, ought to send me a POSTCARD! My address is in
- the end of this document.
-
- DESCRIPTION
-
- This user-friendly utility gives your Workbench a nice touch:
- it displays the number of the day in month as a nice AppIcon, and
- the icon has the name of the month. The user may translate month
- names as he/she wishes, by writing the translations as arguments
- in CLI or as tooltypes in Workbench (e.g. month January could be
- translated to "Janvier" (French) or "Januari" (Swedish)).
-
- REQUIREMENTS
-
- OS2.x or higher required. In order to use the program, Workbench
- must be running, because IconCalendar uses an AppIcon.
-
- The program takes only about 12k bytes of memory when running.
-
- INTRODUCTION
-
- As I use cm (calendar manager) in Sun Sparc workstations, it
- occurred to me that there was no such utility for Amiga that shows
- the date so nicely, on the background. Actually cm is much more
- than just an icon on the background, it is a scheduler, too.
-
- After some careful planning I decided to program it, just for fun!
- I cold bloodedly used xv to grab the icon from the Sparc. Then
- I modified it a bit and also made those number fonts used in it.
- Then I made some test with timer.device and other resources I needed,
- tested it and gave it some finishing touches.
-
- I have still one remark to make: if you get the same good feeling
- about this nifty utility like I do, use it, and really like it...
- DO SEND ME A POSTCARD! That way I know that people really use it
- and maybe, just maybe, I could make an update some day... ;-)
-
- My address is in the end of this document.
-
- INSTALLATION
-
- From Workbench:
- Just drag IconCalendar icon to the place where you want to use
- it from. If you drag it to the WBStartup drawer, it will be executed
- every time you boot your system.
-
- From CLI:
- Copy "IconCalendar" file to a directory that is in your command
- path (e.g. C:).
-
- I suggest you use IconCalendar with its icon from Workbench. By using
- it this way, modifying the translations is *much* easier with tooltypes
- than it is with command-line arguments.
-
-
- USAGE
-
- From Workbench:
- Doubleclick the icon, and the AppIcon appears. You may modify the
- tooltypes by selecting the IconCalendar icon and using
- "Information..." from the Workbench menu.
-
- From CLI:
- Simply execute the program by writing "IconCalendar". Arguments
- are written after the commandname.
-
- Tooltypes (Workbench) and command-line arguments (CLI):
-
- XPOS/N
- X position where topleft corner of AppIcon should apperar (e.g. 590
- for right hand corner of the Workbench). Default: NO_ICON_POSITION
-
- YPOS/N
- Y position where topleft corner of Appicon should appear (e.g. 210
- for bottom edge of PAL:High Res screen). Default: NO_ICON_POSITION
-
- UPDATE/N
- Time in seconds after which IconCalendar checks if it should update
- the AppIcon (e.g. if 3 is set, the program checks every 3 seconds if
- the date has changed). Default: 60, minimum: 1
-
- JANUARY/K MARCH/K MAY/K JULY/K OCTOBER/K NOVEMBER/K
- FEBRUARY/K APRIL/K JUNE/K AUGUST/K SEPTEMBER/K DECEMBER/K
- Month name translations (e.g. set JANUARY=Janvier if you want January
- to be translated in french). All month names are translated in the
- same manner. Defaults to: English
-
- Examples:
-
- > IconCalendar
- (appears some free position, names in English, check every 60 seconds
- for the date)
-
- > IconCalendar 550 30 15
- (appears in position (550,30), names in English, check every 15 seconds
- for the date)
-
- > IconCalendar 10 200 january=Janvier february=Février
- (appears in position (10,200), translate January and February to french
- (more tranlations should be added), check every 60 for the date)
-
- The same arguments could be given in tooltypes of Workbench.
-
- BUGS
-
- When the AppIcon is refreshed (i.e. the date changes) and you have
- dragged the icon to some other place in the Workbench, the AppIcon
- jumps back to its original place. Reason: I can't read the current
- position of the AppIcon (an OS bug?). Hints how to do it, anyone?
-
- AUTHOR
-
- Any suggestions, comments, etc. are welcome! :)
-
- My address is: Mika Kuulusa
- Yliopistonkatu 46 B 49
- 33100 Tampere
- FINLAND
- Europe
-
- Internet: sunshine@cs.tut.fi
- IRC: MKsa
-
- Sie können auch auf deutsch schreiben! Ni kan skriva på svenska också!
-
- Thanks to my betatester crew: Stefan Gybas, Patrik Lundquist, Hans
- Ander Christiansen and Scott Pinard.
-
- Greetings to the nice ppl in Internet Relay Chat (IRC) in channels
- #amiga, #amiga! and #amigager. Special hi5s to: SpaceC, lundman, NeilM,
- PatrikL, Xed and Dense.
-
- HISTORY
-
- v1.0 26/06/94 Initial release.
-