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Short: Never forget an important event again.
Author: rambridg@encore.com
Uploader: rambridg@encore.com
Type: util/cdity
A useful and simple commodity for remembering important dates.
Features:
- Fully customisable startup
- Very easy to install
- Can be used without Battery backup clock
- Easy to understand and use straight away
- Future events pre-warning
- Amigaguide documents
- History of past events (history length definable)
- Different classes of events
Once - The message appears once and thats it.
Persistant - The message appears on the set day and then every
day after that until you actually remove it.
Annual - The message appears every year on the same date.
Weekly - The message appears every week on the same day.
Monthly - The message appears every month on the same date.
Birthday - The message appears annually with a set pre-warning.
Relative - Select the day in every month,
e.g. 3rd thursday every month,
Last monday every month,
Relative Annual - Select the day of the month every year,
e.g. 4th Thursday in November
- Full OS 2.0 GadTools interface
- Hotkey user definable
- Completely hidden when not in use
- Each message can have a time attached, and an alarm 24hour & AM/PM format
- Font adaptive
- Custom sizeable
- Execute external command on message arrival.
- Can use on any screen format
- Requires workbench 2.0+
- Display week/month/year to view, and print in calender format
$HIS
;
; Version 1.0 - 28th May 1994
; Initial prototype. Badly coded and eventually discarded
;
; Version 1.1 - 10th June 1994
; Redesigned project.
; Split main window into seperate windows
;
; Version 1.11- 27th June 1994
; - The year number gadget in "Add New Note" always returned 0, see new.c
; - Added the Amend function.
; - Added comfirm quit from Double run of Commodity
;
; Version 1.2 - 5th July 1994
; - Prenotes can now be added to all types of notes.
; - Amend function was re-written making it now code efficient and
; also can be activated by double clicking on a note
; - Prenotes are now "attached" to the parent note, so when the parent
; note is amended/deleted so are the prenotes.
; - New note type "Relative" added. (See documents)
; - Some memory was not being returned to the system for some "Previous"
; notes. Now fixed.
; - A previous note is now not created when a prenote expires.
; - A space was added in the prenote between the date and the note text!
; - A lot of code was re-written to be more efficient and cleaner! If you
; could see the source code it is now much clearer, (less headaches for
; me)
; - Changing the period for the Within list made all deleted messages
; reappear. Now fixed.
; - The Freeze window until ready part never worked. Strange, it used to.
; - Any of the prefs options could be set to a negative number. This used
; to cause a lot of problems. Now fixed.
; - If the prefs filename was set to blank then the prefs would be loaded
; incorrectly the next time, and the data file would go walk about.
;
; Version 1.3 - 15th July 1994
; - Added font adaptability.
; - Included a size gadget. (Not as simple as it seems!)
; - The window size is now saved with a preference save.
; - Added a time feature. Each message can now be time stamped.
; - Messages for today can be displayed individually on startup.
;
; Version 1.31 - 20th July 1994
; - Changing the type of the note in Create/Amend used to erase Prenote
; value currently stored. Now it doesn't.
; - The Create/Amend window has been rearranged.
; - Added the execute command option for a message.
;
; Version 1.32 - 26th July 1994
; - Using NTSC Hi-res laced screens with certain system fonts gave
; some trouble and Remind couldn't create the gadgets in the window.
; This has now been fixed.
; - In some resolutions the Create note screen had some gadgets touching.
; These have been slightly moved.
; - The time format can be selected as 24hour or am/pm
; - The messages are now ordered in time of day as well as date.
; - Linked with utility.library for slightly smaller and faster code
; - External commands now executed with dos.library/Execute() for better
; compatability.
;
;
; Version 1.4 - 15th August 1994
; - The minimum size of the window has been reduced. So now the
; main window can become smaller.
; - Yet more problems with Resize and Fonts solved.
; - Midnight was being shown as 12:00PM!
; - Todays date and time have been added to the main window.
; - Added date and time to todays messages.
; - Added option to ignore all messages for today on startup.
; - Midnight support has now been added. If Remind is running and
; midnight occurrs the display is changed and the current database
; is saved indicating use of Remind for the next day. The
; implementation is a bit rough and improvement suggestions would
; be appriciated.
; - The timer routines have been rewritten, the old versions have caused
; crashing on my system.
; - The slider values for the day/month sliders in Add/Amend note now
; have the slider values displayed for easy reference.
; - Persistant notes can now be "Finished" by shift+double click on the
;
;
; Version 1.41 - 19th September 1994
; - The relative week number couldn't be amended.
; Now fixed.
; - Messages with commands can now disable the window
; which opens with the message.
; - Save always on exit option added to preferences.
;
;
; Version 1.5B - 21st March 1995
; - BETA release
; - Remind's screen now pops to front when hot key is pressed.
; - Add/Amend window changed to a more compact version.
; - Prefs window changed to a more compact version.
; - Weekly/Monthly/Yearly View feature added.
; - Email address changed to rambridg@encore.com!
;
;
; Version 1.5 - 17th May 1995
; - Fixed problem of adding messages after midnight.
; - The view list gadgets were not initialised correctly.
; - Selecting view list dates from=to caused a program crash
; - In view creation notes that occur on the "to" day could cause a crash.
;
;
; Version 1.51 - 22nd June 1995
; - Added Annual Relative feature
; - Added menus to new/amend window
; - The sliders now update the values in real time.
;
;
; Version 1.52 - 30th August 1995
; - If todays messages were displayed and then remind was quit the
; messages would on the next day complain that they were missed.
; - Prenote messages kept being flagged as missed until the actual note
; was shown.
; - Expired messages now have a copy added to the previous window.
; - After midnight Todays messages are shown if any. (Untested!)
; - Added print to file option in preferences for view list
; - View list printing now includes times.
;
;
============================= Archive contents =============================
Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
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5594 2253 59.7% 30-Aug-95 23:10:42 +History
918 514 44.0% 30-Aug-95 23:10:42 +README
435 220 49.4% 30-Aug-95 23:10:42 +README.info
85072 41086 51.7% 30-Aug-95 23:10:42 +Remind
31172 10900 65.0% 30-Aug-95 23:10:44 +Remind.guide
503 283 43.7% 30-Aug-95 23:10:44 +Remind.guide.info
502 224 55.3% 30-Aug-95 23:10:44 +Remind.info
628 251 60.0% 30-Aug-95 23:10:40 Remind1.52.info
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