BirthdayChecker is a small and ultra fast program which scans a TEXT-file and searches for birthdays which will be interesting in the next few days. If you put an alias in the startup-folder, your mac will check the birthdays every day for you!
A warning window looks like the following:
ハ
- How does it work?
BC searches for a TEXT-file in the same folder than itself named "BirthdayChecker.data". If no date is found during scan it quits itself and nothing will happen. If one or more dates are found, they will be shown in a nice window which can moved around the screen and left open in the background till you have reacted. Every keypress or a click in the close box of the window will close it.
The scan of the data needs only a part of a second (on my machine with my 100 dates!). For testing I have tried it out with a seven hundred of dates and there was no noticeable difference to the 1 hundred before!
It's fast and easy!
The number of days to warn before is adjustable. In the same way you can choose, if you want to use the German-date-format (DD.MM) or the American-format (MM.DD). Also you can use the German-format with english titles named Euro-format! The header displayed in the birthday window and the width of the window is adjustable, too. You can have several copies of BirthdayChecker in different folders. So you can't only check the birthdays, you can also check for every important date.
If you like BirthdayChecker please pay the registration fee!
Please support Shareware!
- Registration
If you like BirthdayChecker send me 6$ or 10 Deutsche Mark and you'll get a registration Code. Please send me only money because checks will bring more costs than profit! If you have no account which can be reached by the internet, please add an envelope with your name and german stamps or add 2$ for postage. The international voucher for stamps is not well accepted in Germany!
Registrated programs will never bring up a "pay"-message and the nerving beep will not longer reach you!
- Parameters
BirthdayChecker is adjustable in many ways. Adapt it for your own needs and wishes! To open the Preferences-Dialog, please hold down the Apple-key (or command-key) during the start of BirthdayChecker.
The following Window will be shown:
ハ
The following parameters could be adjusted:
- The number of days for warning-time (1-30).
- The number of maximally warnings per day. Useful if you start your machine more than once per day.
- The format of the date: There are 3 possibilities, American-, German- and European-format.
The American format follows the following declaration: month.day.year. In the German- and European-format the month and day are exchanged:day.month.year. The difference is that the German-format will use the german language while the European-format will use the english language.
- The width of the message-window.
- The titel of the warning window.
Author:
Benno Eberle
Schweriner Strasse 2b
76344 Eggenstein
- GERMANY -
benno_eberle@ka2.maus.de
(uhah@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de)
History
1.0 First release, works fine with 68k and PPC!
1.1 Now will work with no-ColorQuickdraw-machines like the MacPlus and SE!
1.2 Added handling routines for the standard Apple-events like
kAEQuitApplication, to have a "clean" shutdown.
1.3 Fixed a little bug in the display-procedure.
1.4 Added calculation of the age. Added display of the date.
Plays the sound asynchronous now. Compiled with CW7.
1.5 Added display of the day of week. Window width is now adjustable. Added additional seperators.
1.6 [15.12.95] Fixed a bug so the automatic termination of the program is now working correctly.
No more a Fat version but two seperate versions for both processor types for a better using of memory
and performance.
Added the option "E" for "Europe"- Date-Format so you can use the English titles with the old
"German" date format!
Fixed a stupid bug in the calculate age procedure!
Fixed a bug which prevents to recognize events occuring in the next year!
2.0 [24.02.96] Partly new written code. Complete new interface for adjusting parameters.
Handling is now a little bit more Mac-like! New functions. Minor bugfixes.