uCalendar is very simple and useful schedule software.
Red line is just explanation.
2. Calendar Window
You can write memos for single day and/or multiple days (called banner).
Also, you can create icons (like stamps) on the window.
2.1 Memo
Double-click on the day for which you want to write a memo. An editing area will appear and you can put text on it. When you have finished writing, just click on an area other than the editing area.
*** Warning *** Hitting the RETURN key proceeds to the next line. It does not mark the end of the writing
If you wish to edit a memo, please double click on it.
You can also create a memo with the "New Memo..." item from the "Memo" menu.
The "Alarm" facility is for reminding you (by means a dialog box) the time of scheduled events you have set forth. The dialog box shows up with a beep sound 5 minutes before the scheduled time.
When "Auto alarm set" is on at the "General" panel of the "Preferences..." dialog, the alarm is set-up automatically from memo text when you make a new memo or change it. A clock is displayed besides the memo when the alarm is set-up.
The "To-Do" facility allows to specify a task to be performed "within some day" of "by the some day". A check box is displayed in the memo for which this function is activated, and without having to click on a check box, the memo is moved to the forwarding day indicated on the "Memo dialog". When the task has been performed, you click on a check box, and the task is no longer moved to the next day.
2.2 Banner
Drag through several days on the calendar. A long editing area will appeare under those days. The editing and end of writing are performed in the same way as for memos. The banner is displayed as a dark ribbon.
If you select the black box located at the edge of the banner, you can change the banner's period to a longer or shorter duration.
You can also specify a banner using the "New Banner..." item of the "Memo" menu. This is more convenient if, for instance, you may want a banner covering 2 months.
You can also change the banner shape using the "Banner Shape" item of the "Memo" menu.
2.3 Icon
You can select one day and display in it an icon selected from the "Icon" Menu. The Icon will be plotted on top-right of the date rectangle.
2.4 Toolbar
On the tool bar, there are three buttons for moving the month. These are (from left to right), the "previous month" button, the "this month" button, and the "next month" button.
2.5 Weekly Event Button
The weekly event button allows to produce memos for repeated events like "a meeting on every Monday morning". If you click on this button, the following dialog will appear.
Above example shows that you program a sequence of "1000 meeting" memos, which give an alarm at 10 am, on every two weeks on Monday morning, between March 27th and the end of May.
You can also do it using the "Repeated Events..." item of the "Memo" menu.
If you need to delete all the repeated events at once, select the "Delete Events..." item from the "Memo" menu.
The "UpDown Arrow" and "DayPicker" buttons target at the focused date. If you select some days in the "Day Picker" dialog, those days are stored in both dates.
2.6 Change View button
You may change the view using the change-view-button. The three views available are the calendar view, the weekly view and the daily view.
The calendar file will be opened as the same view, the same size and the same position of the window at the last saving.
2.7 Weekly View
The banner and memo operations are the same as for the calendar view.
You may change the column size by dragging the border of the day cell.
2.8 Daily View
A text overflow in a cell is indicated by a "." appearing in the corner of this cell in the calendar view.
3. Preferences
3.1 General
You may specify what to do on program start up as creating a new calendar, opening the open-dialog or opening the calendar file you want to select.
You can also select the font to be used and the names of months and days from various languages like English, French, etc....
3.2 Calendar
You can set the font, size and colors to be used for day numbers and memos.
You may set the background colors for the 4 different categories of days, which are today, holiday, weekday, and the "darkdays" which are the ones out of the current month.
- "Week start from Monday " means to start the week from Monday, not Sunday. Start from Sunday is the default option.
- "Wrap holiday name" means to show all spelling of a long holiday name over cell.
- "Show week number" means to show the week number at the top of week, in the left bottom corner.
3.3 Holiday
Select the holidays' definition from the "Region" popup menu.
You can add some days like birthdays and memorial days in this list or new list.
Items of holiday list will show on the calendar after 1948.
If you check the "Holiday" check box, it will appear with the holiday's color.
There are four ways to define a date as follows:
(1) As a Date
If you check the [from the year] box, it won't show before the year.
(2) As a Week of day
Above example shows third Sunday on June -- it is the father's day.
(3) As a movable feast
Like Easter, it will move every year on a calendar.
(4) As a file format
Set the date as holidays' definition file format.
3.4 Color
Set the color of categories for memos and banners.
3.5 Icon
Change the icon and/or icon's name. If you want to change an icon, double click on the list or click the "Edit" / "Add" button. The icon dialog will appear on the screen, then drag and drop your favorite icon from the finder.
The maximum number of icons is 20.
If you change the icon name, the icon in the calendar screen will be changed [?].
Please delete it and set new one.
3.6 Output
Set the output options for printing and saving text.
4. Save as Text
4.1 Memo
Save all memos that are included in the period you have specified using the "Output options" item of the "File" menu, to a text file as follows:
Mon, Jul 19, 1999
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1000 meeting
Thu, Jul 22, 1999
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*Drink
with John
Fri, Jul 23, 1999
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1300 NNN
Sat, Jul 24, 1999
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<<Mt. Rockey (1)>>
Sun, Jul 25, 1999
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<<Mt. Rockey (2)>>
* shows "Icon" and << >> shows "Banner"
4.2 HTML
Create a calendar file in HTML format for months that you setup using the "Output options" item of the "File" menu. Also if you check "<IMG> tag for icon" box, the <IMG> tags of icons that you put on calendar will be written in the output file.
** Warning ** Banner shapes are not supported in HTML. All banners will then be indicated as rectangles.
** Warning ** uCalendar outputs only <IMG> tags, it doesn't output GIF files for icons. You need to make GIF files for your icons using some graphic tools like Photoshop, GraphicConverter, etc. You can also download GIF files for default icons from our web site.
If you put an HTML file named "Template.html" in the uCalendar folder, an HTML calendar file will be made by using it as template. You can examine the sample template located in the "Sample" folder.
Format of the html template file for uCalendar:
1) Replacements within calendars are to be made between lines which start "uCalendar" string and "#0", strings.
They are started from first column in each line.
uCalendar
:
:
#0
2) You can customize any parts of the calendar between #n and the next 2 lines if necessary as follows :
#1 cell width ,height and banner height
WIDTH=14% HEIGHT=48
HEIGHT=10
#2 start and end table
<TABLE WIDTH=100% BORDER=1>
</TABLE>
#3 pre & post month name
<FONT SIZE=+4>
</FONT>
#4 pre and post of week name
<FONT SIZE=-1>
</FONT>
#5 pre and post of date number
<B>
</B>
#6 pre and post of Banner text
<FONT SIZE=-1>
</FONT>
#7 pre and post of Memo text
<FONT SIZE=-1>
</FONT>
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