Calendar Magic V14.1

[Alex Balfour]

Calendar Magic V14.1 is now available for downloading from:

http://www.stokepoges.plus.com

or

http://www.simtel.net/pub/dl/55320.shtml

New features include:

The modern Bangla calendar has been implemented throughout the relevant
components in Calendar Magic (Year Calendars, Month Calendars, Calendar
Comparison, Date Conversions, New Years' Days).

A new command button "Hindu Festivals" has been added to display a list
of Hindu festivals for any year in the range 2000 to 2031.

The list of observed days for India in any year in the above date range
also now includes these Hindu festivals.

A new command button has been added for the dates of Islamic festivals
in any Gregorian year.

A new command button "Baha'i Festivals" has also been added to generate
a list of Baha'i festivals for any year from 1845 (the start of the
Baha'i calendar) onwards.

At the request of a user in Saudi Arabia, users may now choose to
display/print calendars with weeks starting on a Saturday.

The relevant two-letter state abbreviation has been appended to each
Brazilian town or city name in Calendar Magic's world-wide locations
database. In cases where, for time-zone reasons, it is necessary to
distinguish between the western and eastern parts of a state, the state
name abbreviation is followed by W for West or E for East.

The layout of the "What time is it in?" form has been modified slightly
to reduce the amount of screen space it occupies.

Numerous additions and updates have been made to the observed days for
various countries in Calendar Magic's world-wide locations database.

The observed days for Israel are now listed directly, instead of a
reference to the Hebrew Festivals command button.

Enjoy!

Alex Balfour

 

[burnr]

Calendar Magic V14.1 is now available for downloading from:

http://www.stokepoges.plus.com

or

http://www.simtel.net/pub/dl/55320.shtml

Very nice. Thanks.

 

[John Corliss]

Calendar Magic V14.1 is now available for downloading from:

http://www.stokepoges.plus.com

or

http://www.simtel.net/pub/dl/55320.shtml

New features include: (clipped)

Alex, I like your program a lot. However, does it now (I may have
missed something) or do you ever plan on making it able to print out
normal appearing calanders like this program for instance:

http://www.waseo.de/en/Products/Freeware1/DateTimeSoftware/CalPaint1/calpaint1.html

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[Alex Balfour]

Alex, I like your program a lot. However, does it now (I may have
missed something) or do you ever plan on making it able to print out
normal appearing calanders like this program for instance:

http://www.waseo.de/en/Products/Freeware1/DateTimeSoftware/CalPaint1/calpaint1.html

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Hi John,

I've no plans to go in this direction since I'm essentially more
interested in the mathematics and algorithms behind different calendar
systems than I am in producing output enhanced with pretty pictures.

Having said that, it is easy to copy and paste from Calendar Magic into
other applications. For example, each year I paste next year's calendar
from Calendar Magic into MS Photodraw, after which I add lots of small
images of my grandchildren. This produces a very attractive calendar,
fully under my control, which looks great when colour printed on photo
paper.

With best wishes,

Alex

 

[John Corliss]

Hi John,
I've no plans to go in this direction since I'm essentially more
interested in the mathematics and algorithms behind different calendar
systems than I am in producing output enhanced with pretty pictures.
Having said that, it is easy to copy and paste from Calendar Magic into
other applications. For example, each year I paste next year's calendar
from Calendar Magic into MS Photodraw, after which I add lots of small
images of my grandchildren. This produces a very attractive calendar,
fully under my control, which looks great when colour printed on photo
paper.

Alex,
I agree, the pretty pictures aren't important. I'm only interested
in a regular calendar format. Seems like that's about the only missing
ingredient in your program (YMMV) 80)>

 

[Alex Balfour]

Alex,

I agree, the pretty pictures aren't important. I'm only interested
in a regular calendar format. Seems like that's about the only missing
ingredient in your program (YMMV) 80)>

Hi John,

Sorry, I misunderstood. However, it's still not clear to me what you
would like. Can you explain what you mean by a "regular calendar
format"?

Cheers,

Alex

 

[John Corliss]

Hi John,
Sorry, I misunderstood.

Not your fault. I should have clarified that. It was the first picture
I could find of a regular format calendar. Should have said that the
background picture was unimportant.

However, it's still not clear to me what you
would like. Can you explain what you mean by a "regular calendar
format"?

Sure. A grid of week rows by day columns, just like the calendar that
hangs on the wall. Here's an example:

http://web.onetel.net.uk/~tinnes/ss/desktopcal/mini.png

from this freeware program:

http://web.onetel.net.uk/~tinnes/desktopcalendar/index.html

Also, small one year calendars are nice. Not a big deal though.

I was just surprised that your calendar program doesn't have the
abiliity to print standard wall calendars. And if you're going to say
that they don't agree with the ISO 8601 standard (screw those power
mad idiots), just look in any office or home in the US or most of the
world and you'll see the format that I refer to above.

 

[Alex Balfour]

Sure. A grid of week rows by day columns, just like the calendar that
hangs on the wall. Here's an example:

http://web.onetel.net.uk/~tinnes/ss/desktopcal/mini.png

from this freeware program:

http://web.onetel.net.uk/~tinnes/desktopcalendar/index.html

Also, small one year calendars are nice. Not a big deal though.

I was just surprised that your calendar program doesn't have the
abiliity to print standard wall calendars. And if you're going to say
that they don't agree with the ISO 8601 standard (screw those power
mad idiots), just look in any office or home in the US or most of the
world and you'll see the format that I refer to above.

Hi John,

The calendar example you pointed me at shows Monday as the first day of
the week (in line with the ISO standard), although my understanding is
that it is the norm in North America for calendars to show Sunday as the
first day of the week. You can set Calendar Magic to use either Sunday
or Monday (or now, in V14.1, Saturday) as the first day of the week when
displaying/printing calendars by selecting the appropriate option in the
bottom right-hand corner of the main Calendar Magic screen.

Or is there some other point I'm still failing to understand?

Cheers,

Alex

 

[John Corliss]

Hi John,

The calendar example you pointed me at shows Monday as the first day of
the week (in line with the ISO standard), although my understanding is
that it is the norm in North America for calendars to show Sunday as the
first day of the week. You can set Calendar Magic to use either Sunday
or Monday (or now, in V14.1, Saturday) as the first day of the week when
displaying/printing calendars by selecting the appropriate option in the
bottom right-hand corner of the main Calendar Magic screen.

I missed that the example showed Monday as the first day. Guess it's
just the "yank" in me. 80)>

Or is there some other point I'm still failing to understand?

Nope, thanks for getting back to me.