Calendar Magic V15.2

[Alex Balfour]

Calendar Magic V15.2 is now available for downloading at:

http://www.stokepoges.plus.com

and, within the next few days, from:

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

The main enhancements and improvements are listed below.

Enjoy!

Alex Balfour

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A third utility function for reminders has been added to support the
importation of simple reminder information from other programs via a
text file.

Implemented two variations of the modern Hindu lunisolar calendar -
those used in the Indian state of Gujarat and the region Saurashtra
within Gujarat.

When using the "What Time is it in?" capability, as soon as a country is
chosen, the current time in the first town or city in that country, in
Calendar Magic's database, is now automatically displayed. The effect of
this is that, for any country with only one (political) time zone, there
is no longer any need to choose a town or city to see the current time
in that country. A new caption below the country name also indicates
whether one or multiple time zones are in operation in the country.

The design of the "What Time is it in?" form has been improved in line
with feedback received from a Danish user, Kaj Nielsen.

In the Unit Converter, you may now specify the number of significant
digits you wish displayed in results. Changing that number will
automatically force a recalculation and redisplay.

Added additional old Danish units of length, area, volume and mass to
the Unit Converter. This information was provided by Kaj Nielsen who
also corrected the plural forms of various unit names.

Added additional old Swedish units of length, area and mass to the Unit
Converter.

Improved the use of diacritic marks in the names of towns and cities in
various European and South American countries. Kaj Nielsen provided
additional input.

To satisfy a request from an Australian user (his video recorder would
not accept year values greater than 2004), the output from Gregorian
date conversions now shows up to 5 earlier years with calendars
identical to that of the year in the date input.

Added coverage of Buddhist religious festivals. The festivals and dates
listed are based on fixed dates in the Chinese lunisolar calendar.
However, Buddhist festivals and dates vary from country to country and
between different branches of the Buddhist faith, with local lunar
calendar systems often being used. The information must therefore be
treated with considerable caution.

Updated Observed Day information for Denmark using information provided
by Kaj Nielsen.

Updated Observed Day information for India. Added some Tamil New Year
data for both India and Sri Lanka.

Added World Red Cross Day (May 8) to the list of Observed Days under
"various".

Added date of Super Bowl Sunday, where known, to the Observed day list
for the USA.

Added Grandparents' Day (fourth Sunday in September) to the lists of
Observed Days for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Added a line to the Inno Setup installer script for Calendar Magic to
resolve a problem encountered by a user on Windows XP when running
without administrator privileges. An option is also now provided, during
installation, to add Calendar Magic to your Windows start-up folder.

Version history information (enhancements, changes, bug fixes etc.) is
now stored in the separate file history.pdf.

 

[Susan Bugher]

Calendar Magic V15.2 is now available for downloading at:

http://www.stokepoges.plus.com

and, within the next few days, from:

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

Thanks Alex.

Susan

 

[Bjorn Simonsen]

Alex Balfour wrote in

Calendar Magic V15.2 is now available for downloading at:
http://www.stokepoges.plus.com

Very nice - as always!

The design of the "What Time is it in?" form has been improved in line
with feedback received from a Danish user, Kaj Nielsen.

One minor detail: In the pulldown menu, if you hit M it takes you to
the first country beginning with M (currently Macedonia), as expected,
but from there you can not use the down (or up) arrow to navigate
down (or up) the list - as it only brings you to the next entry in
the list. Say if from Macedonia I wanted to navigate down to Mali, the
down arrow only takes me to Madagaskar. In short it is pretty
mouse-dependent, not for the keyboard-junky, so it would be nice if...

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen

 

[Alex Balfour]

One minor detail: In the pulldown menu, if you hit M it takes you to
the first country beginning with M (currently Macedonia), as expected,
but from there you can not use the down (or up) arrow to navigate
down (or up) the list - as it only brings you to the next entry in
the list. Say if from Macedonia I wanted to navigate down to Mali, the
down arrow only takes me to Madagaskar. In short it is pretty
mouse-dependent, not for the keyboard-junky, so it would be nice if...

Hi Bjorn,

I could be wrong, but I don't believe it's possible to navigate up and
down a combo box pulldown menu in VB5 using the up and down arrow keys.

However, there is a keyboard based alternative -- in your example, hit
m, then a, then l, then select Mali using your mouse. I use this
approach frequently, particularly when selecting towns and cities - just
hit the first few letters of the town or city name until it becomes
visible, then select.

Hope the above helps.

Best wishes,

Alex

 

[Bjorn Simonsen]

Alex Balfour wrote in

I could be wrong, but I don't believe it's possible to navigate up and
down a combo box pulldown menu in VB5 using the up and down arrow keys.

What do MS use for their Regional Options Control Panel applet? Not
VB5 maybe? I don't know.. all I know is that arrows works in the
pulldown lists (list of countries) there, and in many similar
"pulldown menus". Don't know what language these and other such
"pulldown-boxes" are written in or what libraries they use and so
on...

However, there is a keyboard based alternative -- in your example, hit
m, then a, then l, then select Mali using your mouse. I use this
approach frequently, particularly when selecting towns and cities - just
hit the first few letters of the town or city name until it becomes
visible, then select.

Thanks for the tip, but as long as the mouse must be used in the first
place...oh well.

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen

 

[Alex Balfour]

Hi Bjorn,

I had another look at VB5 combo boxes and I was wrong -- I can get the
up and down arrow keys to behave the way you would like.

That's the good news. However, at the moment, as you move up and down,
say, the drop-down list of countries in "What Time is it in?", a
recalculation of "time there" etc. takes place on each arrow key press.

I can get round this problem by providing a separate calculate button
and adjusting some related code. On balance, I don't think users gain
anything by this approach so I'm inclined to leave things as they are.

Regards,

Alex

 

[Bjorn Simonsen]

Alex Balfour wrote in

I had another look at VB5 combo boxes and I was wrong -- I can get the
up and down arrow keys to behave the way you would like.

That's the good news. However, at the moment, as you move up and down,
say, the drop-down list of countries in "What Time is it in?", a
recalculation of "time there" etc. takes place on each arrow key press.

I can get round this problem by providing a separate calculate button
and adjusting some related code. On balance, I don't think users gain
anything by this approach so I'm inclined to leave things as they are.

Please do, no need to add complexity to usability - for a minor
adjustment like that. Better I and other keyboard-junkies just "mouse"
when needed.

All the best,
Bjorn Simnonsen