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# $Header: Fixes2_1,v 2.1 89/05/09 14:26:54 billr Exp $
Bugs fixed in version 2.1:
    - the -m option does not use a default userid
    :: fixed to default to userid that started calentool

    - problems if no .appointment files exists
    :: calentool now prompts the user asking if he wishes to create
    :: a new .appointmnet file if it does not exist.

    - if there is only one entry in the .appointments file, it
      can not be deleted.
    :: this is actually an attempt at safety checking, to avoid
    :: copying a zero length file over the original .appointments
    :: file (in case of file system full or whatever). A check
    :: for zero length file is still made, but due to the new format
    :: it should never happen.

    - calentool dies if the input file is not in the expected
      format
    :: the whole input and output portions of the code have been
    :: rewritten with an eye towards making it more robust. Things
    :: like this should now print an error message, rather than
    :: just dumping core.

    - When going from month display to week display, sometimes the
      week displayed is not the one that was selected.
    :: fixed.

    - Calentool dies on OS 4.x machines when certain panel buttons
      are selected.
    :: argument list for some of the notify functions were incorrect.
    :: fixed.

New features in version 2.1:
    :: The user interface panel layout and button functionality
       has been redesigned (again) based on feedback from beta
       testers of version 2.0.  The new panel layout has the buttons
       grouped closer together (for ease of moving the mouse
       around) and is more consistent.  Most of the buttons also
       have menus accessible by pushing the right mouse button.
       "Current" and "Today" do not have menus.  When
       displaying a day or week, a particular day of that week
       can be displayed by selecting it from the menu under the
       "Day" button.  The "Next" and "Previous" buttons allow
       moving forward and back by days, weeks, months or years.
       The display type stays the same, so some options may be
       disabled, depending on display mode.  E.g., from a day
       display you can go to the same day next week, month or year
       (or the next day); but with a month display you can not
       go to the next week or day, only the next month or year.
       Clicking the left mouse button selects the next <whatever
       is currently displayed>.
       The Week, Month and Year buttons work much as they did in
       the 2.0 version, with the selection of larger timespans
       (e.g. week to month) keeping you in the same time period
       (e.g. same month) as you started.  When going to shorter
       time spans (e.g. month to week) the first event is displayed
       (e.g. first week in the month).  Current selects the
       current <whatever is displayed> that matches today.
       The Done button has been removed.  Use the frame menu
       close or quit options to close to an icon or quit the tool.
       A File button has been added to allow switching appointment
       files while calentool is running.

    :: Today is grayed out in the year, month, week and day displays
       as a way to highlight it.

    :: The current date and time is displayed in the control panel.
       The default is to update the time every second.  Optionally,
       one can set the UPDATE_RATE to "minute" in ct.h (or the
       Makefile) to change the update rate to every minute - with
       no seconds field displayed.

    :: A future appointment reminder is available to remind you
       every day for n days in advance about an appointment.  A
       popup frame is created to display the future appointments.
       This frame may be removed by selecting the "Done" button.
       Selecting one of the future appointments with the left
       mouse button moves you to that day and displays it.  (This
       can be handy for turning off the reminder, see below.)

    :: The repeating appointment facility has been expanded in
       capability.  In addition to the every year, month, day
       or repeat every n days appointments in 2.0, you can now
       specify a specific day of the week (e.g. every Monday).
       One can also tag that with specific weeks (e.g. 1st & 3rd
       Monday, Last Thursday).

    :: In the day display a menu is available with the right
       mouse button to allow cut and paste operations on appointment
       entries, as well as modification of an appointment.
       When Modify is selected, a popup window appears to allow
       setting special attributes, such as repeating appointments
       and future reminders.  This should eliminate the need for
       ever having to manually edit the .appointments file.  Note
       that the cursor has to be in an appointment slot to get the
       menu.

    :: The .appointments file format also supports the use of
       #include files to include *non-editable* appointments
       (such as site specific holidays, etc.).  The format for
       this is:
        #include "file"
       or
        #include "/somepathname/file"
       Where the '#' *must* start in column 1 of the .appointments
       file.  If the "file" form is used, the file is prepended
       with the pathname used for the initial .appointments file.
       Include files are not nestable.  Using include files is the
       one case where manual editing of the .appointments file is
       still necessary. Included appointments are marked as read-
       only, they can not be deleted or modified. (You can still
       modify it my invoking calentool with the include file as
       the alternate appts file (-f option).)

    :: Clicking the left mouse button on an existing appointment
       no longer deletes it.  You must use the "Cut" option of
       the popup menu to delete the appointment.

    :: An optional date may be specified on the command line.  This
       will tell calentool to display that day when it starts up.
       The date format is pretty flexible - it will accept day
       names (e.g. Tue, Th, fr, MONDAY) or numeric dates in m/d/y
       format.  Valid forms are: dd (e.g. 27 => 27th of this month),
       mm/dd (e.g. 11/27 => Nov 27th of this year) and mm/dd/yy
       (e.g. 11/27/90 => Nov 27th, 1990).  Preface the date with
       the "-d" flag.

    :: In the .appointments file, notes are now indicated by a "99"
       in the hour field, rather than "00".  This is in case
       someone works graveyard or wanted a 24-hour appointment
       display. The minutes field defaults to 00.  A "99" in the
       minutes field marks this note so that it will not show up
       in the month or year display.

    :: The .appointments file is now one-based - i.e., months and
       days start at 1, rather than zero. This was an option in
       2.0, but is now standard in 2.1.  Calentool has the built-in
       capability to automatically convert existing .appointment
       files (see the README file).

    :: Support has been added for keeping outdated appointments in
       a seperate file of the form ".appointments.YY", where YY
       is the year.  This is controlled with the "-i" (include
       outdated appointments) and "-o" (save outdated appointments)
       flags.  If "-o" is specified on an appointment file with
       outdated entries, the save file(s) is(are) automatically
       created upon quiting the calentool program.  If "-o" is
       specified on the first time calentool is invoked on a
       version 1 file, the outdated appointment files are created
       when the file format is converted from version 1 to
       version 2.

    :: Calentool now allows you to temporarily delete a recurring
       appointment.  That is, if one has a meeting every Monday,
       except next Monday, then the appointment can be "deleted"
       (or hidden, actually) for that day only.  Recurring
       appointments that are deleted for a single occurance like
       this are the only ones that can be "undeleted".

    :: Calentool finally supports overlapping and mulitple
       appointments for a given time period.  When more than one
       appointment exists during a particular 30 minute timeslot,
       a "More" button appears to the right of the timeslot in
       the day display.  Clicking on this button with the left MB
       will show the next appointment in sequence.  To add another
       appointment on top of an existing appointment, click the
       left MB as normal and enter the new message.

    :: Support for common date directory.  If an included file
       has the form '#include <file>' then "file" is prepended
       with a library directory path determined from the
       /CalenTool//LibDir entry in the suntools
       defaults file (if it exists) or from the compile time
       specified name (DATELIB_DIR), which defaults to
       "/usr/local/lib/calentool".  Several date/event files
       are included in the distribution in the "dates" subdirectory.

    :: Day of year and days remaining in year added to the bottom
       of the day display.

    :: Appointment entries that are longer than the width of the
       display are normally displayed left justified.  When a
       keyboard character is typed into the timeslot the displayed
       message is right justified for editing.  A set of left and
       right arrows are also displayed to allow viewing the entire
       text of the message.

    :: An up-arrow cursor has been added to the currently selected
       day slot to show where text entry/deletion will take place.

    :: A sun and moon image have been added to the main control panel.
       When they are selected, interesting information about the sun
       and/or moon is displayed in a popup window.  Edit the riseset.h
       file to adjust for your specific lattitude and longitude.  This
       code is based on code from the riseset and moontool programs.

    :: A "Print" button has been added to the main control panel to
       generate a raster or Postscript image file and send it to
       your printer.  This works for day, week and month displays.
       The day and week printouts are exact copies of what is seen on
       the screen. The month printout is in a different format.
       A menu is available with the Print button to allow changing
       the print command. The default print command is obtained
       from (in order): the suntool defaults file, the PRINTER
       environment variable and the #define for PRINT_CMD.

    :: A "File" button has been added to the control panel to
       allow selecting a different appointments file after
       calentool has been started.

    :: Calentool tries to auto-size itself based on the font in use.
       This should keep buttons, etc from overlapping when fonts
       other than screen.r.14 (default) are used.

    :: Once the tool is started, error messages are displayed in a
       popup window, rather than the console, if possible.

    :: The action of the middle mouse button in the day display
       has been changed. Point to the selected appt, push the middle
       button, drag the mouse to the termination timeslot and release
       the button.

    :: The "-t" option will display the current time below the icon
       when the tool is closed. The displayed time format and update
       rate is governed by the -u option (or UPDATE_INTERVAL #define).

    :: "-b" also puts a copy of the appt string in $HOME/.msgfile
       (in addition to the console) for use with nlock(1).

    :: Today's day and month are now displayed on the bottom of
       the icon's calendar page.

    :: Popup window added to allow direct entry of a date to view.
       Selected by a menu entry under the "Current" button.

    :: Extended "Current" button menu to allow selecting current
       year, month, week or day, along with setting the date as
       noted above.

    :: Add "Save" button to the "File" frame that forces an update
       to the current appointments file.

    :: Change the defaults entry from an appointment directory to
       the actual appointment file.  New name is /CalenTool/Appts.
       This change was made to (hopefully) allow easier use of
       the tool when accessing multiple people's calendars when
       using the "File" frame.  /Lib entry changed to /LibDir.

    :: Create the tmp file in /tmp, with a name /tmp/apptsNNNNN
       where NNNNN is the pid.  The file name used to be
       .tmp.apts.NNNNN created in whatever directory the appointments
       file was found in.

    :: Add "-w" option to turn off display of "Working!" message.

As always, bug reports and suggestions for improvements are encouraged.

        -Bill Randle
        Tektronix, Inc.
        [e-mail]
        May 9, 1989