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Alex Balfour
Calendar Magic V15.5 is now available for downloading from:
http://www.stokepoges.plus.com
and will also shortly be available from Simtel at:
http://www.simtel.net/pub/dl/55320.shtml
New features and enhancements are listed below.
Enjoy!
Alex Balfour
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Created flexible colouring options for Calendar Magic screens covering
screen backgrounds, non-button text and button backgrounds. Screens may
be colour customised individually, or grouped together for colour
customisation. Button background colours may also now be assigned to the
various logical button groupings on the main screen. Colour choices for
screens are "sticky", i.e. remembered once chosen.
The "Set Your Location" button on the main screen has been renamed
"Personal Settings". More importantly, this button is now used for
setting your country and location, for setting the start day for
calendar weeks, and for colour customisation of screens.
Created a single file, calmag.ini, for the "sticky" data values which
used to be spread across multiple files (myalarm.dat, myfsizes.dat,
myopt.dat, myplaces.dat, mysigfig.dat). This makes it easier to add
further customisation options to Calendar Magic in future releases.
However, existing "sticky" values must be respecified after V15.5 is
installed.
Created a separate form for Planning Calendars to support the display
and printing of individual planning calendars.
Added the creation of fiscal calendars with fiscal week numbers as a
third Planning Calendar option. Any fiscal calendar created is specified
through four parameters:
1. The year in which the fiscal calendar begins.
2. The starting day of each fiscal week (Saturday, Sunday or Monday as
selected via the Personal Settings button).
3. The first month of the fiscal calendar. Clearly any fiscal calendar
not starting on Jan. 1 will spread across two calendar years.
4. How fiscal week number 1 is determined. Currently the possibilities
are "week with first day of first month", "first full week of first
month" and "first week with at least 4 days".
Modified the layout of the planning calendar with ISO week numbers to
make it consistent with the layout of generated fiscal calendars.
Implemented a Pregnancy Calculator for calculating the due date of a
pregnancy and other pregnancy related dates.
In the Unit Converter, the names of selected categories and units are
now "sticky" values.
Added "week of the year", as calculated in the United States, to the
output from Date Conversions for dates from Jan. 1, 1780 onwards.
In the Time Calculator, results are also now displayed as decimal values
in response to a user request. In addition, the formatting of results of
the form d:h:m:s has been improved.
The current day of the week is now displayed on the main Calendar Magic
screen.
In the Geometry Calculator, the colour of label text associated with
input data now changes to red rather than yellow, since red text is
easier to read against many coloured backgrounds. Similarly, in the
Alarm Clock, the "Alarm On" message is now shown in red for the same
reason.
http://www.stokepoges.plus.com
and will also shortly be available from Simtel at:
http://www.simtel.net/pub/dl/55320.shtml
New features and enhancements are listed below.
Enjoy!
Alex Balfour
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Created flexible colouring options for Calendar Magic screens covering
screen backgrounds, non-button text and button backgrounds. Screens may
be colour customised individually, or grouped together for colour
customisation. Button background colours may also now be assigned to the
various logical button groupings on the main screen. Colour choices for
screens are "sticky", i.e. remembered once chosen.
The "Set Your Location" button on the main screen has been renamed
"Personal Settings". More importantly, this button is now used for
setting your country and location, for setting the start day for
calendar weeks, and for colour customisation of screens.
Created a single file, calmag.ini, for the "sticky" data values which
used to be spread across multiple files (myalarm.dat, myfsizes.dat,
myopt.dat, myplaces.dat, mysigfig.dat). This makes it easier to add
further customisation options to Calendar Magic in future releases.
However, existing "sticky" values must be respecified after V15.5 is
installed.
Created a separate form for Planning Calendars to support the display
and printing of individual planning calendars.
Added the creation of fiscal calendars with fiscal week numbers as a
third Planning Calendar option. Any fiscal calendar created is specified
through four parameters:
1. The year in which the fiscal calendar begins.
2. The starting day of each fiscal week (Saturday, Sunday or Monday as
selected via the Personal Settings button).
3. The first month of the fiscal calendar. Clearly any fiscal calendar
not starting on Jan. 1 will spread across two calendar years.
4. How fiscal week number 1 is determined. Currently the possibilities
are "week with first day of first month", "first full week of first
month" and "first week with at least 4 days".
Modified the layout of the planning calendar with ISO week numbers to
make it consistent with the layout of generated fiscal calendars.
Implemented a Pregnancy Calculator for calculating the due date of a
pregnancy and other pregnancy related dates.
In the Unit Converter, the names of selected categories and units are
now "sticky" values.
Added "week of the year", as calculated in the United States, to the
output from Date Conversions for dates from Jan. 1, 1780 onwards.
In the Time Calculator, results are also now displayed as decimal values
in response to a user request. In addition, the formatting of results of
the form d:h:m:s has been improved.
The current day of the week is now displayed on the main Calendar Magic
screen.
In the Geometry Calculator, the colour of label text associated with
input data now changes to red rather than yellow, since red text is
easier to read against many coloured backgrounds. Similarly, in the
Alarm Clock, the "Alarm On" message is now shown in red for the same
reason.