Calendar Tools™ was developed to easily facilitate creating graphic calendars to be pasted into page layout software (such as PageMaker™) or object drawing applications (such as MacDraw™).
Requirements
Calendar Tools™ requires that it be running on a Macintosh using Macintosh System Version 4.1 or higher with 128k of RAM available.
Calendar
The Calendar Window displays the calendar that can be copied into the clipboard. The calendar contains 3 "areas", the Month/Year area which displays the month and year of the calendar, the Day Of Week area which displays the "SMTWTF" text, and the Days area which displays the date numbers inside of rectangles. The font, size and style for each of these areas can be set independently. To change the font, size and style, click the mouse on one of the three areas, and hold it down long enough for a pop-up menu to appear. The menu contains 3 items, Font, Size and Style, each of which contain submenus containing font names, font sizes, and font styles respectively. The font size menu follows the usual convention of outlining font sizes available in the System file, all other fonts will be scaled when drawn, and may not be as aesthetically pleasing. An example of choosing a font for the Month/Year may appear as...
...with similar results for the Day of Week and Days areas.
Days of the month can be highlighted to indicate some special event occuring on that day. To highlight a day of the month, hold down the Option key while clicking on that day. This might be useful when building a "Calendar of Events", highlighting key days, and adding the appropriate text. There are no provisions in Calendar Tools™ to add text to the calendar.
The method used for highlighting days can be customized to either a text style attribute, or by framing or inverting the day to be highlighted. To change the highlighting method, hold down the Command (cloverleaf) key while clicking anywhere in the Days area of the calendar, hold the button down long enough for a pop-up menu to appear. Select the highlighting method from the menu. An example of changing from "bold" highlighting to the "Frame" method might appear as...
An additional piece of information is available in the lower-left corner of the Calendar window. The number of pixels horizontally and vertically that the calendar consumes.
In this example, the calendar is 152 pixels horizontal by 167 pixels vertical. The size of the calendar is determined by the size of the Calendar window. Changing the font sizes and styles in the calendar can change the size of the calendar itself. There are no provisions for setting the size of the calendar, the size is calculated mathematically depending on the size of the window, text sizes used, and the style of the month/year area (discussed in the next section).
Tools
The tools window provides additional customization features, as well as the scroll bars to change the month and year.
The pattern used to draw the lines in the calendar are selected by clicking in the "Line Pattern" box. Hold the mouse down long enough for the pattern menu to appear, and choose a pattern to be used to draw the lines.
Note that if the highlighting method is either "Frame" or "Invert", the pattern chosen in the "Line Pattern" item will be used to frame highlighted days, or will be the background pattern for inverted highlighting.
The thickness of the lines used to draw the calendar can be changed by clicking on the desired "Line Size" in the Tools Window.
The style used to display the Month/Year area can be toggled between
Month, Year
...and...
Month
Year
...by clicking once in the Month/Year rectangle in the Tools Window.
Clipboard
Once the calendar appears as you like it, choose the "Copy" item from the "Edit" menu to place it into the clipboard. Thereafter, the calendar can be saved in a Scrapbook, or pasted directly into a page layout or object drawing application.
MultiFinder
When using Calendar Tools™ with MultiFinder, when Calendar Tools™ is deactivated (not the frontmost application), it will close its Calendar, Tools, and Clipboard windows, and create a very small window with its icon in the upper left portion of the screen.
This is done to help alleviate the "clutter" of windows that can occur while using MultiFinder on smaller screens. To re-activate Calendar Tools™, simply click on the window, and the original windows will reappear at their previous sizes and positions.
