MakeSpot version3.2a


Thank you for downloading MakeSpot version3.2a.

1. Introduction
This software creates holiday data.
Similarly it can be used as a calendar.

2. Important explanation
Delete this program after deleting "holiday data" file.

(1). Delete a "holiday data" file by Tools screen.

(2). Delete "MakeSpot".
A "holiday data" file is not deleted only by deleting "MakeSpot".
The file name of "holiday data" is "MakeSpotData".

3. File composition

MakeSpot_jp.prc:Program(A national holiday of Japan)

MakeSpot_usa.prc:Program(A national holiday of USA)

readme.html:This file

beam.html:Other documents

4. Precondition
Palm OS 3.0 or later.

5. Windows version
The English-language edition of the Windows version is not released.

6. The operation method
6.1 Main screen
Choose the color of the trigger() of the portion on a screen.
Next, perform tap of the day to change.
of a trigger() means a weekday (with no color specification).
If "col def" is chosen from a trigger(), "Color definition screen" will be displayed.
In order to change the month to display, carry out the tap of the repeating button() currently displayed on the screen upper part.

If the tap of the same day is again carried out before carrying out the tap of the day to change and carrying out other operations, it will return to the original color.
Before carrying out a tap again, when other operations are carried out or the tap of another day is carried out, it does not return to the original color.

"Model" button:It moves to Model screen.

"Save" button:Change is registered and it ends.

"Cancel" button:Change is canceled and it ends.

6.2 Color definition screen
"A color this month", "The color of before/next month", "A holiday/weekday", and "Explanation of a color" are specified from the left-hand side of a screen.

"A color this month":A color of this month is specified.
The left is a background and the right is the color of string.
("The color of string" may not correspond depending on software.)

"The color of before/next month":The color of last month/next month is specified.
The left is a background and the right is the color of string.
("The color of before/next month" may not correspond depending on software.)

"A holiday/weekday":It checks, when the color is not necessarily a holiday.

"Explanation of a color": Explanation of the color is explained within eight characters.
(Being displayed on a screen is six characters.)

"Inport file" is used when taking in the data of the color created by other Palm.
The data of a color is created by Tools screen. When there is no data of a color in Palm, "inport file" is not displayed.

6.3 Model screen
Upside years/months: The range which wants to create holiday data is specified.
The range which can be specified is for ten years after two years ago.

Day of the week: The color of the data to create is specified.

National holiday: The color of a national holiday is specified.

"Memorial" button: It moves to Memorial day screen

"Init" button: All the defined holidays are deleted and it is made the value which this screen defined.

"Add" button:The value defined as the defined holiday on this screen is added.

"Delete" button:The data of the range of the years specified in the screen is deleted.

"Cancel" button:Change is canceled and it returns to a front screen.

- The color defined as the month which it was going to add by "Add" button replaces a new color.
Probably, it will be better to make the range which you add with the "Add" button into the range which is not yet defined.
For example, when January, 2002 is ending with a definition, it is the usage of adding from February, 2002.
- The file of "holiday data" cannot be deleted in "Delete" button.
Please perform deletion of the file of "holiday data" by Tools screen.

6.4 Memorial day screen
A memorial day can be specified a maximum of four.

"Left" check box: A memorial day can be specified if it is checked.
Specification of other items is attained.

Check box of a "weekday": It checks, when a holiday does not always come.
Example
      A birthday and a wedding anniversary are not checked.
      The anniversary of the founding (Holiday) is checked.

Color of a "holiday": The color displayed when the day is a holiday is specified.

Color of a "weekday": The color displayed when the day is a weekday is specified.
It can specify, only when the check box of a "Holi" is not checked.

At three or more versions, a holiday and a weekday can be displayed in a separate color.
For example, in a weekday, in the case of "yellow" holiday, it can be specified as "red."
In this case, please define "the color of a weekday" as "yellow" and define "the color of a holiday" as "red".

It is effective when "Holidays and weekdays are classified by the color" is checked by Preferences screen.
A weekday and a holiday become the same color when "Holidays and weekdays are classified by the color" is not checked.

6.5 Tools screen
(1) The file of holiday data can be deleted.
      The "Delete" button is not displayed when there is no file which can be deleted.
      Please delete "MakeSpot" and a "data of holiday" file in the following procedure.
         - Delete a "holiday data" file by Tools screen.
         - "MakeSpot" is deleted.


      After defining a holiday, unless it terminates "MakeSpot", a "holiday data" file is not created.

When "holiday data" is deleted on a tool screen, with "Cancel" button of a main screen, it does not return to origin.

(2) The information data of a color can be registered as that of a "color data file".
The registered file can be distributed as "a recommended color".
Moreover, the file of the information data of a color can be deleted.


6.6 Preferences screen
The next definition can be performed.
(1) Output in the format of a version 2.
      It exists for compatibility with the past version.
      It is not necessary to check.
(2) Classify a holiday and a weekday according to a color.
      When not performing "Holidays and weekdays are classified by the color",
      the software which refers to "holiday data" processes all colors as a holiday.
(3) Infrared reception/Bluetooth is enabled. Refer for the data transfer method using infrared rays/Bluetooth here to.


6.7 Notes
- Priority is given to the color specified with the national holiday when a national holiday and Saturday overlap.
Priority is given to the color specified on Sunday when a national holiday and Sunday overlap.
When a national holiday and Sundays overlap, Monday thinks that it is a national holiday.
When a national holiday is black, it is set as the color of a week.


- The national holiday of the USA version is defined as follows.
January1New Year's Day
The 3rd MondaysBirthday of Martin Luther King
February12Loncoln's birthday
The 3rd MondaysWashington's Birthday
MayLast MondayMemorial Day
July4United States of America's Independence Day
SeptemberThe 1st MondaysLabor Day
OctoberThe 2nd MondaysColumbus Day
November11Veterans Day
The 4th ThursdaysThanksgiving Day
December25Christmas Day
The public holiday which each state defined is not defined except for "Loncoln's birthday".

When a national holiday overlaps on Sunday, next Monday is changed and it is considered as a holiday.
When a national holiday overlaps on Saturday, last Friday is changed and it is considered as a holiday.

The USA version and a Japanese version cannot be used together.

A national holiday may be changed into the future.
In that case, the version which corresponded as soon as possible is due to be released.


- The national holiday of the Japan version is defined as follows.
January1New Year's Day
The second MondaysComing-of-Age Day
February11National Foundation Day
March20 every dayVernal Equinox Day
April29Greenery Day
May3Constitution Memorial Day
5Children's Day
JulyThe third MondaysSea's Day(It is on July 20 before 2002.)
SeptemberThe third MondaysRespect for the Aged Day(It is on September 15 before 2002.)
20 every dayAutumnal Equinox Day
OctoberThe second MondaysHealth Sports Day
November3Culture Day
23Labor Thanksgiving Day
December23Emperor's Birthday
When a national holiday overlaps on Sunday, next Monday is changed and it is considered as a holiday.
It is "national holiday" when the previous day and the next day are "national holiday".


- At Palm of monochrome, it classifies according to the form of a figure.
The figure is as follows. The form of a figure cannot be changed.


7. Copyright
"MakeSpot" is free software.
"Miday Workshop" holds copyright.

8. Support
Please bring near e-mail, if there are opinion comment over "MakeSpot".
I want to correspond as much as possible about a bug etc.
If there are a bug report, an opinion, and comment about this program, please send e-mail to the author.
Please understand that a reply should be overdue or there may be no reply.

9. Reproduction and redistribution
Unless the composition of the distributed file is changed, reproduction and redistribution are free.
Especially connection etc. is unnecessary when reproducing.
When you reproduce, please keep in mind to update to the newest version.

Although commercial use is also possible, selling this program itself forbids.

10. Qualification
About any results, such as damage produced by having used "MakeSpot", the author takes no responsibility.
Please use it under a user's responsibility.

11. Change career
27-Mar-2004 Version 3.2a
The bug which will be frozen from the model which has Bluetooth by an English-language edition if it is going to display a menu was fixed.

22-Mar-2004 Version 3.2
It corresponded to Bluetooth.
The backup flag of a holiday data file was set.
All the days were made into the holiday when "Holidays and weekdays are classified by the color" had not been carried out.
The file name of holiday data was changed. The conventional file is renamed at the time of "holiday definition" starting.
The bug which was not able to create the data of the form of a version 1 correctly was fixed.
The bug which lacks some characters by the English-language edition was coped with.

7-Feb-2004 Version 3.1a
The trouble frozen by reset was coped with from some models.

6-Feb-2004 Version 3.1
Infrared transmission and reception were attained.
The function to delete the data of the specified range by Model screen was added.
When the tap of "the day which carried out the tap to just before" was carried out once again, it was made to cancel by Main screen.

26-Dec-2003 Version 3.0
As for a maximum of 7 colors, specification of the number of colors was attained.
The memorial day became by a maximum of four.
The color can specify a holiday or a weekday now.
The deletion function of a "DateSpot" was abolished.

24-Nov-2002 Version 2.0
A maximum of three years of restriction was lost.
The year which can be specified by a "model screen" became in ten years two years ago later.
It can be specified now whether public holiday data is created.
("Public holiday data is not created" is the same as "being black about public holiday data".)

27-Sep-2002 Version 1.1
It corresponded to Palm OS 5.0.
The deletion function of a "DateSpot" and "holiday data" was added.

19-May-2002 Version 1.0
It is the first version.

12. Contact
Please inform the following address, supposing there are a bug report, an opinion, hope, etc.

E-Mail:Miday@info.email.ne.jp
URL: http://www.ne.jp/asahi/soft/miday/

Copyright (C) 2002-2004 Miday Workshop