MiniCalendar is a light weight calendar program that can be used with minimal effort. Its primary feature is the ability to display any calendar between January, 1582 and December, 29940 A.D. MiniCalendar has the option to highlight the current date either using the system highlight color or the default color red, balloon help is avaliable.
MiniCalendar has been designed to be small and efficient, every effort has been made to ensure that these design goals have been met.
A Tale of two Calendars
The Gregorian Calendar has not always been the calendar of choice. In 1582 A.D. Pope Gregory XIII created the Gregorian Calendar to deal with the inadiquaticys of the Julian Calendar, which did not properly deal with leap years. Both MiniCalendar and the MacOS use the Gregorian Calendar for their internal calculations.
Even though the MacOS can deal with dates between 30081 B.C. and 29940 A.D., MiniCalendar only operates between 1582 A.D. and 29940 A.D. since dates prior to 1582 A.D. are incorrect.
New in Version 1.0
Initial public release
System Requirements
68020 or greater
Color Quickdraw
System 7
150K of Free Memory
User Guide
MiniCalendar is a light weight calendar that can be used with a minimal amount of effort. Its primary feature is the ability to display any calendar between January 1582 and December 29,940 A.D. The following paragraphs describe the various commands, controls, and options:
Calendar Window
The Calendar Window is the main window, it displays the current calendar. By default, MiniCalendar uses a 3D grayscale effect to draw, this effect can be disabled in the preferences dialog. Closing the main window causes MiniCalendar to quit.
Keyboard Shortcuts
The following keyboard shortcuts can be used to change the display:
move to the previous month left arrow, cmd-[
move to the next month right arrow, cmd-]
move back one year down arrow, cmd--
move forward one year up arrow, cmd-=
jump to current date space bar, cmd-G
File Menu
Close: Closes the front most calendar window and quits the program.
Quit: Quits from MiniCalendar.
Edit Menu
Undo: Disabled
Cut: Disabled
Copy: Copies a picture of the current calendar to the clipboard.
Paste: Disabled
Clear: Disabled
Select All: Disabled
Preferences: Opens the preferences dialog box.
Date Menu
Increase Month: Increases the month by one
Decrease Month: Decreases the month by one
Increase Year: Increases the year by one
Decrease Year: Decreases the month by one
Current Date: Jumps to the current date
Set Date: Opens the Select Date Dialog
Select Date Dialog
The "Select Date Dialog" is used for jumping from one date to another. To change dates, choose the month from the popup menu and enter the desired year.
Preferences
Save window position: Saves the posistion of the Main Window and Select Date Dialog.
Display previous/next months: Fills in the current calendar with the previous/next months dates.
Use grayscale appearance: Draws the calendar using a 3D grayscale effect.
Highlight current date: Highlights the current date .
Use Highlight color: Uses the system highlight color to highlight the current date.
About Box
The "About Box" displays information about various operating parameters such as:
Free Memory - The amount of free memory available to MiniCalendar
Application Version - The current MiniCalendar version
System Version - The current system version.
Known Problems
If you have a PPC and "MathLibMoto" installed, you might need to up the memory partition using "Get Info" from the Finder.
