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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 DateString.mcc?
- Requirements - Requirements for using DateString.mcc
-
- Installation - How to install DateString.mcc
- Beta testers - Installation information for beta testers
-
- Developer Info - Information for developers
-
- History - Revision history of DateString.mcc
- Todo - Todo list
- Known problems - List of known problems
- Acknowledgments - Acknowledgments
- Please rate - Please rate DateString.mcc
- Software - Software that uses DateString.mcc
-
-
-
- Copyright
- ---------
-
- This software and its documentation are copyright 1996-1998 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 serie
- - 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 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/DateString.html
-
-
-
- Author
- ------
-
- 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/
-
- Bank account : 1203 7503
- Account owner: Kai Hofmann
- Bank code : 290 501 01
- Bank name : Sparkasse in Bremen/Germany
-
-
-
- Description
- -----------
-
- DateString is a Custom Class of the Magic User Interface © by Stefan Stuntz.
- It's a subclass of string-class and date-class.
-
- The idea of this class was born during developing my Gregor application.
-
- MUI public custom class displaying a string gadget for date strings. The
- display format of the date string can be freely defined. An input string can
- be parsed by the given format string (see below), or in over 40 known
- formats.
-
- DateString.mcc features that are of interest for users:
- - Handles years from 8 to 8000
- - Supports the Gregorian calendar reform
- - Supports 21 languages
- - Supports drops of other date objects and date-strings
- - Can be dragged around
- - A week can begin with any weekday
- - Supports various string formats via template
- - Can autodetect over 40 date-string formats
-
- DateString.mcc features of interest for developers:
- - Based on Date.mcc
- - Supports MUIM_Import and MUIM_Export
- - 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
-
-
- The display format for a DateString object can be defined by the following
- formatting codes:
-
- Syntax of Amiga compatible % commands:
- %d - Day number with leading 0s
- %e - Day number with leading spaces
- %m - Month number with leading 0s
- %h - Abbreviated month name
- %b - Abbreviated month name
- %B - Month name
- %y - Year using two digits with leading 0s
- %Y - Year using four digits with leading 0s
- %j - Julian date
- %w - Weekday number
- %a - Abbreviated weekday name
- %A - Weekday name
- %U - Week number, taking Sunday as first day of week
- %W - Week number, taking Monday as first day of week
- %x - Same as "%m/%d/%y"
- %D - Same as "%m/%d/%y"
-
- Syntax of % commands:
- %Ddf - Day with leading 0s
- %Ddv - Day without leading 0s
- %DDf - Day within the year with leading 0s
- %DDv - Day within the year without leading 0s
- %Dmf - Month with leading 0s
- %Dmv - Month without leading 0s
- %Dms - Month string
- %Dma - Abbreviated month string
- %Dy2f - 2-digit year with leading 0s
- %Dy2v - 2-digit year without leading 0s
- %Dy4f - 4-digit year with leading 0s
- %Dy4v - 4-digit year without leading 0s
- %Dys - Scaliger year
- %Dj - JD date
- %DJ - MJD date
- %Dwn - Weekday number (1-7)
- %Dws - Weekday string
- %Dwa - Abbreviated weekday string
- %DWf - Weeknumber with leading 0s
- %DWv - Weeknumber without leading 0s
- %DMf - Age of the moon (0-30 ?) with leading 0s
- %DMv - Age of the moon (0-30 ?) without leading 0s
-
- The date-string autodetection knows over 40 date-string formats:
-
- (yesterday|today|tomorrow)
- wdn
- wdn[,] mmm d[ (yy|yyyy)]
- wdn[,] d[.][ ]mmm[,][ ][(yy|yyyy)]
- wdn[,] d[.][ ]m[.][ ][(yy|yyyy)]
- mmm d[ yyyy]
- mmm/d[/(yy|yyyy)]
- mmm-d[-(yy|yyyy)]
- yyyy[-]Www[-]n
- yyyy(-|/)m(-|/)d
- yyyy(-|/)n[n[n]]
- yy[-]Www[-]n
- yy-nnn
- d. mmm [(yy|yyyy)]
- d.m.[(yy|yyyy)]
- d-mmm[-(yy|yyyy)]
- d-m[-yyyy]
- Detection condition:
- yyyymmdd | ddmmyyyy (valid date test)
- jjjjjjj | yyyynnn (1723980 >= JD <= 2914672)
- JJJJJ
- JJJJJJ | yymmdd (MJD <= 514671)
- d-m-yy | yy-m-d (yy > 31 | valid date test)
- d/m[/yyyy] | m/d/yyyy (valid date test)
- d/m/yy | m/d/yy | yy/m/d (valid date test)
-
- Symbol explanation:
-
- () = grouping
- | = alternative
- [] = option
-
- d = day-number (1-2 digits)
- dd = 2 digit day
- n = 1 digit day within week (1-7 = Mon-Sun)
- nnn = 3 digit day within year
- ww = 2 digit week within year
- m = month-number (1-2 digits)
- mm = 2 digit month
- yy = 2 digit year
- yyyy = 4 digit year
- JJJJJ = 5 digit MJD
- JJJJJJ = 6 digit MJD
- jjjjjjj = 7 digit JD
-
- wdn = weekday-name (long|short in any support language!)
- mmm = month-name (long|short in any support language!)
- to the short version you can add a '.'
-
-
-
- Requirements
- ------------
-
- - MUI 3.1 (Version 12)
- - date.library
- - locale.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
- ------------
-
- Only 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_mcc variables
- * The P_CustomExists, P_CustomInstall and P_CustomUninstall procedures
- * The 'APPNAME' tooltype within the MCC-Install icon.
-
-
-
- Beta testers
- ------------
-
- Version numbers of beta release will not change, so you must uninstall an
- earlier installed beta version before you can install a newer one!
-
-
-
- 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 dates).
- The solution is called interface inheritance like it was done with IDL for
- CORBA.
- DateString.mcc inherits the interface from Date.mcc!
-
-
- 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.
-
-
- - The following attributes are filtered out, so that they can't bring
- a DateString object into trouble:
- MUIA_String_Contents, MUIA_String_Accept, MUIA_String_EditHook,
- MUIA_String_Integer, MUIA_String_LonelyEditHook, MUIA_String_Secret,
- MUIA_String_Reject, MUIA_FillArea
-
- - When MUIA_ObjectID is defined a DateString object will load/save the
- following data during MUIM_Application_Load/MUIM_Application_Save
- Day, Month, Year
-
-
-
- History
- -------
-
- 28.08.1996 - First release on Aminet
- 06.09.1996 - Second release on Aminet
- * Implementing MUIM_Import, MUIM_Export
- * Demo updated
- 13.12.1996 - Third release on Aminet
- * Using MUIV_Font_Button for buttons
- * Adding great icons from Eric Gerard
- * Fixed Assembler interface
- * Fixed Modula-II interface
- * Fixed Amiga-E interface
- * Fixed Oberon interface
- 27.11.1997 - Fourth release on Aminet
- * Now based on Date.mcc 12.1
- * Demo improved
- * Added Blitz Basic 2 interface
- * Added Cluster interface
- * Added ARexx interface
- * Added MUIBuilder3 description
- * Added German documentation
- * Own ParseDate() function
- * Added AmigaGuide® V40 features to the documentation
- * Added "Please rate" section to the documentation
- * Added MagicWB readme
- * MCC-Install 43.21
- * Compiled with MCCLib 12.4
- * MUIA_String_Contents will now be filtered
- * Accepts drops of date-strings
- 03.01.1998 - Fifth release on Aminet
- * Now need date.library 33.290
-
-
-
- Todo
- ----
-
- - BubbleHelp error text
- - Accept string by pressing Tab
-
-
-
- Known problems
- --------------
-
- - I heard that using 'test' and then 'cancel' the test settings within the
- MUI preference manager will not work as expected when in using your MUI
- classes within Libs:MUI/ instead of MUI:Libs/MUI/ !!!
-
- - 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
-
- Eric Gerard : for his great icons
-
-
-
- Please rate
- -----------
-
- Please rate DateString.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_DateString.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!
-
-
-
- Software
- --------
-
- The following software products use DateString.mcc:
-
-
-
-
- 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
- look at MagicWB, which is the authentic source of the style, colors and
- design elements contained in this package. It features hundreds of
- original icons, patterns, image-drawers, dock-brushes and some specially
- designed high-quality fonts to improve the comfort & legibility of your
- daily Workbench session.
-
- What is MagicWB? MagicWB is a full replacement for the Graphical User
- Interface of the Workbench and has become the standard visual interface on
- the Amiga. Over the last years MagicWB has received various merits and an
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-
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- into an impressive workstation environment that will be the envy of all PC
- Windows and Mac users. Update yourself to the state-of-the-art workbench
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-
- MagicWB is distributed as shareware. Get yourself the latest FREE PUBLIC
- RELEASE of MagicWB now: It is called
-
- ----------------
- MagicWB21p.lha
- ----------------
-
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- with which you can order and get the full registered version of MagicWB.
-
- If you want to order directly, feel free to send
-
- DM 30.- or US$ 20.- (cash, no checks!)
-
- to
-
- Martin Huttenloher
- Am Hochstraess 4
- D-89081 Ulm
- Germany
-
- You may also choose to visit the official MagicWB homepage on the world
- wide web. There you can find the latest news & support and even register
- your MagicWB online (which is much more comfortable and faster). You can
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-
- Ordering online also saves you a lot of time and work!
-
-
-
- WrapGuide is Copyright 1994-1995 Udo Schuermann
- All rights reserved
-