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Alex Balfour
V15.0 is now available from:
http://www.stokepoges.plus.com
and, within the next few days, from:
http://www.simtel.net/pub/dl/55320.shtml
Enhancements in this release include the following.
The reminders functionality has been considerably enhanced in this
release by providing support for easily defining a reminder for a series
of dates. Three types of date series may be defined. Examples of the
three types are:
-- November 17, 2004 and every 10 days thereafter to the end of
September, 2005.
-- The second Thursday in every month from December, 2004 to June, 2005.
The selection options include first, second, third, fourth, penultimate,
last and every.
-- Day 5 of every month from February, 2005 to July, 2005. In specifying
the day value, apart from the obvious choices of 1, 2, 3, ..., 31, other
available options are penultimate, last and every. If a day value does
not exist in any month specified, for example day 31 in November, it is
ignored for that month.
Once defined, the reminders within all three types of series are treated
by Calendar Magic as being independent of each other, enabling
individual reminders in the series to be updated and deleted.
In Reminders by Month, the current date is now highlighted in green
(unless it has associated reminders, in which case it continues to be
highlighted in red).
In Reminders by Month, when using the "Print Month with Active
Reminders" button, day values associated with active reminders are now
underlined in the printed month calendar. A new command button "Print to
Text File" has also been added for copying the same output, unformatted,
to a text file. If no name is specified for the text file, the default
name results.txt is used. The text file can then be opened in a word
processing program to apply more extensive formatting.
When Calendar Magic is initiated, the "List All Reminders" command
button may now be surrounded by a red or orange rectangle. "Red"
indicates that one or more reminders have been set for the current date.
"Orange" indicates that one or more reminders are imminent within the
next seven days.
Added two utility functions for reminders, displayed by pressing the
Ctrl-U key combination when the text-box on the main Calendar Magic
screen "has the focus", i.e. a blinking cursor is visible in the
text-box (left-click in the text-box if it is not visible). One utility
function prints reminder internal data structure information. The other
compacts the main reminders file, person.dat, to reduce its size. Users
will rarely require to use these reminder utilities in normal
circumstances.
Consolidated all Sun and Moon related calculations under a new command
button "Sun and Moon Data". Location specific Sun and Moon data can now
be easily calculated for any location in Calendar Magic's locations
database for any date in any year from 1583 to 2200. Other non-location
specific results continue to be available up to the year 3000.
The former Sun and Moon command buttons have been eliminated, as have
Sun and Moon based results in Date Conversions output. Now there is one
command button to initiate all relevant calculations and there is also
no need any longer to use the Set Location command button to choose the
location of interest.
In "Global Distances", whenever a city or town is selected, its latitude
and longitude are now displayed.
Improved the code for preventing the same reminder being stored more
than once in Calendar Magic.
When describing years and dates in the Vietnamese calendar,
transliterations of the Vietnamese names for the celestial stems and
terrestrial branches are now used, in preference to transliterations of
the Chinese equivalents.
Setting a new worldwide location in Calendar Magic now triggers a
message of confirmation. Left-clicking "OK" returns the user to the main
screen.
Provided an "access key", Alt+H, for the Help command button.
Eliminated any use of Windows system default colours for backgrounds in
Calendar Magic. On PCs with user modified Windows system default
colours, the appearance of various Calendar Magic screens could be less
than desirable.
In Religious Festivals, when a new religious type is chosen, the year
value no longer changes to the current year, unless it is out-of-range
for the new religious type.
Enjoy!
Alex Balfour
http://www.stokepoges.plus.com
and, within the next few days, from:
http://www.simtel.net/pub/dl/55320.shtml
Enhancements in this release include the following.
The reminders functionality has been considerably enhanced in this
release by providing support for easily defining a reminder for a series
of dates. Three types of date series may be defined. Examples of the
three types are:
-- November 17, 2004 and every 10 days thereafter to the end of
September, 2005.
-- The second Thursday in every month from December, 2004 to June, 2005.
The selection options include first, second, third, fourth, penultimate,
last and every.
-- Day 5 of every month from February, 2005 to July, 2005. In specifying
the day value, apart from the obvious choices of 1, 2, 3, ..., 31, other
available options are penultimate, last and every. If a day value does
not exist in any month specified, for example day 31 in November, it is
ignored for that month.
Once defined, the reminders within all three types of series are treated
by Calendar Magic as being independent of each other, enabling
individual reminders in the series to be updated and deleted.
In Reminders by Month, the current date is now highlighted in green
(unless it has associated reminders, in which case it continues to be
highlighted in red).
In Reminders by Month, when using the "Print Month with Active
Reminders" button, day values associated with active reminders are now
underlined in the printed month calendar. A new command button "Print to
Text File" has also been added for copying the same output, unformatted,
to a text file. If no name is specified for the text file, the default
name results.txt is used. The text file can then be opened in a word
processing program to apply more extensive formatting.
When Calendar Magic is initiated, the "List All Reminders" command
button may now be surrounded by a red or orange rectangle. "Red"
indicates that one or more reminders have been set for the current date.
"Orange" indicates that one or more reminders are imminent within the
next seven days.
Added two utility functions for reminders, displayed by pressing the
Ctrl-U key combination when the text-box on the main Calendar Magic
screen "has the focus", i.e. a blinking cursor is visible in the
text-box (left-click in the text-box if it is not visible). One utility
function prints reminder internal data structure information. The other
compacts the main reminders file, person.dat, to reduce its size. Users
will rarely require to use these reminder utilities in normal
circumstances.
Consolidated all Sun and Moon related calculations under a new command
button "Sun and Moon Data". Location specific Sun and Moon data can now
be easily calculated for any location in Calendar Magic's locations
database for any date in any year from 1583 to 2200. Other non-location
specific results continue to be available up to the year 3000.
The former Sun and Moon command buttons have been eliminated, as have
Sun and Moon based results in Date Conversions output. Now there is one
command button to initiate all relevant calculations and there is also
no need any longer to use the Set Location command button to choose the
location of interest.
In "Global Distances", whenever a city or town is selected, its latitude
and longitude are now displayed.
Improved the code for preventing the same reminder being stored more
than once in Calendar Magic.
When describing years and dates in the Vietnamese calendar,
transliterations of the Vietnamese names for the celestial stems and
terrestrial branches are now used, in preference to transliterations of
the Chinese equivalents.
Setting a new worldwide location in Calendar Magic now triggers a
message of confirmation. Left-clicking "OK" returns the user to the main
screen.
Provided an "access key", Alt+H, for the Help command button.
Eliminated any use of Windows system default colours for backgrounds in
Calendar Magic. On PCs with user modified Windows system default
colours, the appearance of various Calendar Magic screens could be less
than desirable.
In Religious Festivals, when a new religious type is chosen, the year
value no longer changes to the current year, unless it is out-of-range
for the new religious type.
Enjoy!
Alex Balfour