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Table of Contents
Copyright - Copyright information
Distribution - Copying conditions
Disclaimer - Legal Information
Trademark - Trademark information
Support/Updates - How to get updates and support
Author - How to reach the author
Description - What is Date.mcc?
Requirements - Requirements for using Date.mcc
Installation - How to install Date.mcc
Developer Info - Information for developers
History - Revision history of Date.mcc
Todo - Todo list
Known problems - List of known problems
Acknowledgments - Acknowledgments
Please rate - Please rate Date.mcc
Subclasses - Subclasses build on Date.mcc
Copyright
---------
This software and its documentation are copyright 1996-1997 by Kai Hofmann. All
rights reserved!
- Permission for COMMERCIAL USE is only given by an extra available commercial
license that must be validated!
Contact me directly for this license, because it will be individually handed
out per your needs!
- Permission is hereby granted, without written agreement and without license,
to USE this software and its documentation for any NON-COMMERCIAL purpose,
provided that the above copyright notice and the following paragraph appear
in all copies of this software (Non-commercial includes Giftware!).
Please send me a full version of your product at no cost including free
updates!
Extra money is welcome (For Bank Account see author - but *ONLY* send in DM
to this Bank Account!).
Distribution
------------
Permission is hereby granted, without written agreement and without license or
royalty fees, to copy and distribute this software and its documentation for
any purpose, provided that the above copyright notice and the following
paragraphs appear in all copies of this software, to:
- All who will distribute this software for free!
- All free accessible INTERNET servers!
- All Aminet® sites
- Fred Fish for his great Amiga-Software-Library
- The German SAAR AG PD-Library
- Angela Schmidt's Meeting Pearls series
- All others who do NOT take more than US$ 5.- for one disk that includes this
software!
IMPORTANT NOTE:
This package may not be included on any further Aminet CD-ROMs unless authors
contributing their software to the CD-ROM, (without mentioning distribution
"NoCD") are granted a copy of the CD *completely* *free* *of* *charge*.
The Meeting Pearls IV CD-ROM demonstrates that a Freebie policy is also
possible with "very-low-budget" CD-ROMs (*), so Aminet should quickly
re-establish the same Freebie policy it used up to Aminet CD 13.
(*) Suggested retail price for MP4 is DM 14,95/US$ 12/£ 8.95.
DISCLAIMER
----------
THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE
LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER AND/OR OTHER
PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER
EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE
QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE
DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING WILL ANY
COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM AS
PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL,
INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE
THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED
INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE
PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY
HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
THE AUTHOR HAS NO OBLIGATION TO PROVIDE MAINTENANCE, SUPPORT, UPDATES,
ENHANCEMENTS, OR MODIFICATIONS.
Trademark
---------
DateLib is a trademark of Kai Hofmann
Amiga, AmigaDOS, AmigaGuide and Workbench are registered trademarks of Amiga
International, Inc.
Aminet is a registered trademark of Stefan Ossowskis Schatztruhe GmbH
SAS/C is a registered trademark of SAS Institute Inc.
All other trademarked names used herein are used for the purposes of
identification and for the benefit of the trademark holder. No infringement of
trademarks is intended. Trademarks remain the property of the trademark holder.
Support/Updates
---------------
- Updates will be available via Aminet®
- Support will be available via the authors email address and via
http://home.pages.de/~i07m/amiga/mui/Date.html
Author
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Kai Hofmann
Arberger Heerstraße 92
28307 Bremen
Germany
Phone: (+49)-(0)421/480780
EMail: i07m@informatik.uni-bremen.de
i07m@zfn.uni-bremen.de
IRC : PowerStat@#AmigaGer
WWW : http://home.pages.de/~i07m/
Description
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Date is an abstract Custom Class of the Magic User Interface © by Stefan Stuntz.
It's a subclass of notify-class and only usable for developers who want to
build subclasses of Date.mcc!
The idea of this class was born during developing my Gregor application.
MUI abstract public custom class allowing easy
handling of dates. Because it is abstract it is only usefull for developers
who are working with classes that are based on Date.mcc (like DateString.mcc),
or who want to build their own classes based on Date.mcc.
Date.mcc features:
- Handles years from 8 to 8000
- Supports the Gregorian calendar reform
- Supports MUIM_Import and MUIM_Export
- Supports drops of other date objects and date-strings
- A week can begin with any weekday
- The date can be read as day/month/year format or as JD or MJD
- The date range can be restricted
- Method to set the current date
- Methods for increasing and decreasing the date
- Method to compare with another date object
Requirements
------------
- MUI 3.1 (Version 12)
- date.library
- To use the Greek MCC-Install script you need the
"Greek Workbench" © AC Software
- To use the Russian MCC-Install script you need
"Rusifier" © Dmitry Mikhilov
Installation
------------
Please only install Date.mcc when you are a developer!
Use the installer script!
(The Installer must be in your system-path!)
If you use an Installer prior to V42 you should set the LANGUAGE Tooltype to
your language. Installer V42 and better automatically use your current locale.
Please note that the installer-script is very special, because:
- It features uninstallation
- It is automated
- It is very flexible
- It is very intelligent (for an installer-script ;-)
- It uses WrapGuide (if present) for the AmigaGuide®
documentation if running under a pre V39 system.
- It can be reused by (hopefully) all other MUI custom classes, because the
authors of custom classes need to only change a few things:
* The #copyright variable
* The #min_os_version and #min_os_revision variables
* The #min_mui_version and #min_mui_revision variables
* The #language_mcc and #language_mcp variables
* The P_CustomExists, P_CustomInstall and P_CustomUninstall procedures
* The 'APPNAME' tooltype within the MCC-Install icon.
Information for Developers
--------------------------
There is no multiple inheritance for Boopsi/MUI for the moment, so we haven't
any chance to create a real Date basis-class. But there is another way to have
the same result (compatibility for all classes that are dealing with date).
The solution is called interface inheritance like it was done with IDL for CORBA.
Interface inheritance has some advantages and some disadvantages.
The advantages are:
- (Pseudo) multiple inheritance
- The same interface for all classes dealing with Date
The disadvantages are:
- Every one who wants to subclass Date.mcc must include the code for Date.mcc
in the new subclass.
But this can be easier done by using the DateLib and/or the Amiga-OS support
functions.
Btw. the same happens for IDL, but by using C++ it is possible to inherite
the implementation.
A future release of Date.mcc will include a full skeleton C code, so that
everyone can start his subclasses on this.
Please note, that you can not compile Date.mcc!
This is because I don't want to distribute the folowing files at the moment:
date.h, datesys.h, date_pragmas.h
These files are part of my DateLib (TM) project. A new release will be
available in 1997.
Please note that the supplied source is version 12.0!
Btw. it would be wise to use a
SetAttrs(obj,
MUIA_Date_Year, year,
MUIA_Date_Month, month,
MUIA_Date_Day, day,
TAG_DONE
);
instead of single set()'s.
History
-------
27.11.1997 - First release on Aminet
Todo
----
- Notify on locale preference change (country/language)
Known problems
--------------
- Old versions of the program called 'PhoneCost' written by André Schenk
<schenkae@tick.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> installed another
'date.library' into 'Libs:'.
Acknowledgments are going to the following people:
Rita Reichl : for correcting my English and being my inspiration
James Cooper,
Steve Krueger,
Doug Walker : For supporting SAS/C® after SAS suspends the support.
Stefan Stuntz : for the Magic User Interface and for his support
Klaus Melchior : for the MUI custom class support
Martin Huttenloher : for MagicWB
Udo Schuermann : for WrapGuide
Stefan Kost : for ag2txt
Jürgen Kohrmeyer : for the rexxtricks.library
Henning Thielemann : for help with the Cluster interface
Eric Gerard : for his great icons
Please rate
-----------
Please rate Date.mcc and MCC-Install. To do so, send an email to
aminet-server@wuarchive.wustl.edu with the following content:
RATE dev/mui/MCC-Install.lha <num>
RATE dev/mui/MCC_Date.lha <num>
where <num> is a mark from 0..10 with 10 being the best.
You can rate several programs in one mail.
Thank you!
Subclasses
----------
The following classes are build on Date.mcc:
DateString.mcc:
By Kai Hofmann <i07m@informatik.uni-bremen.de>
http://home.pages.de/~i07m/amiga/mui/DateString.html
Aminet:dev/mui/MCC_DateString.lha
MonthNavigator.mcc:
By Kai Hofmann <i07m@informatik.uni-bremen.de>
http://home.pages.de/~i07m/amiga/mui/MonthNavigator.html
Aminet:dev/mui/MCC_MonthNavigator.lha
This is a custom class of the
MUI - MagicUserInterface
Copyright © 1993-1997 by Stefan Stuntz
MUI is a system to generate and maintain graphical user interfaces. With
the aid of a preferences program, the user of an application has the
ability to customize the outfit according to his personal taste.
MUI is distributed as shareware. To obtain a complete package containing
lots of examples and more information about registration please look for
a file called "muiXXusr.lha" (XX means the latest version number) on
your local bulletin boards or on public domain disks.
If you want to register directly, feel free to send
DM 30.- or US$ 20.-
to
Stefan Stuntz
Eduard-Spranger-Straße 7
80935 München
GERMANY
Support and online registration are available at
http://www.sasg.com/
This product is based on or uses parts of
MagicWB - The Workbench Enhancer
--------------------------------
Copyright © 1992-1997, Martin Huttenloher
If you use and like this product you should very much consider to take a
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