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- TITLE
-
- Recall
-
- VERSION
-
- 3.0
-
- AUTHOR
-
- Ketil Hunn
-
- Nabbetorpveien 35B
- N-1632 Gamle Fredrikstad
- NORWAY
-
- E-Mail: Ketil.Hunn@hiMolde.no
-
- DESCRIPTION
-
- A program to keep track of birthdays, anniversaries and other important
- events. It is an easy-to-use, intuition-based utility for the absent-
- minded and it is considered to be the best reminder utility, program
- launcher and alarm clock fascility available for the Amiga platform.
-
- FEATURES
-
- o be reminded with requesters, alerts or practically anything that can be
- displayed on an Amiga-monitor
- o automatically start programs (CLI/WB/AREXX/BATCH) depending on the date,
- time or weekday
- o create input events at certain days/time/weekday
- o keep track of the remaining days/time to important events
- o keep track of the days/time since important events happened
- o be reminded every # day (e.g. every 14th day)
- o be reminded # days before or after the event
- o be reminded once a day, every time you boot, before or after a certain
- date, before or after a certain hour or minute
- o be reminded about events until you acknowledge them
- o be reminded on certain weekdays
- o display unlimited lines of text in the same requester or alert
- o group different events and make them appear simultaneously
- o keep a simple database of the birthdays of family and friends
- o let your Amiga keep track of how old people are by insterting the date
- of birth in the middle of the string where you want to display the age
- (I.e. the text "Adam is {years:08/05/1970} years old today" may be
- displayed as "Adam is 24 years old today".)
- o make advanced events which are displayed for example after 21:00 every
- 3rd day the first 7 days of every 2nd month the next 4 years
- o combine all of the attributes mentioned above in the same event
- o enter these events in an easy-to-use, totally font adaptable multi-
- window environment and without the need of programming-knowledge, just
- by entering the desired text and pressing a few buttons
- o localized for most languages supported by Commodore as well as some
- unsupported ones
- o well documented - over 100K of documentation!
-
- NEW FEATURES
-
- NEW The checker may stay resident in memory (optional) and keep on
- reminding you until you quit the program or turn off your machine.
- Will check the events every minute (idle time may be overridden).).
- NEW The checker is a commodity, and may be controlled via the Commodore's
- Commodities Exchange program.
- NEW Unlimited number of dates can be attached to the same event.
- NEW The calendar now takes weekdays in account.
- NEW You can combine weekdays and date, allowing you to make events which
- will be shown i.e. the third Sunday in a month etc.
- NEW The calendar will put each day on its right weekday in the calendar.
- NEW Possibility to set the period before or after a specified time.
- NEW Major update of the calculation fields: allowing you to include both
- the current date, current time, calculation of days, calculation of
- years, current weekday and such in the SAME event! The fields can be
- selected and inserted from a requester.
- NEW LOTS of new fields types.
- NEW Tooltypes support.
- NEW Executed programs can be launched either as Shell or Workbench tasks.
- Programs started in Workbench-mode will use tooltypes in their icons.
- NEW Possibility to group only certain events, flash certain events etc.
- NEW Recursive directories, allows you to make folders of events i.e.
- keeping all birthday-events in a folder called Birthdays. Unlimited
- number of levels!
- NEW Search and replace of events.
- NEW Completely new graphic user interface.
- NEW Multi-window environment. All windows are 'multitasking'.
- NEW No longer needs MUI, but the preferences program is still font-
- adaptable and sizeable.
- NEW ALL window-positions and sizes (including the ASL requester), as well
- as font, screen, palette, etc. may be saved to disk.
- NEW Recall preferences will remember all sizes and positions when exiting.
- NEW Recall can pop up requesters on any public screen.
- NEW Cut and paste of texts and dates between events.
- NEW Cut and paste of texts to/from clipboard.
- NEW New powerful type of event: Input - generates input-events and
- hotkey-presses.
- NEW New type of event: AREXX - runs AREXX scripts directly.
- NEW Recall can now display both RECOVERY (Yellow) and DEADEND (Red)
- alerts.
- NEW Possibility to set the stack of executed programs.
- NEW Possibility to set the current dir for executed programs.
- NEW Possibility to set the priority of executed programs.
- NEW Possibility to set a timeout-value for alerts (V39).
- NEW Modular built. Its functionality may be extended with modules.
- Modules included: Imports ASCII, Recall V1.x, Recall V2.x. Exports
- ASCII. Modules that sorts and purges events. Browser-module for easy
- displaying all events.
- NEW Asynchronous on-line help.
- NEW Date in the calendar is now shown in your country's format under WB2.1
- and higher.
- NEW The calendar will show Sunday as first weekday in countries that use
- such format.
- NEW If Recall is resident in memory and the project is changed by Recall
- Preferences these changes will be detected and the new project will be
- loaded to memory.
- NEW Recall can now function as an alarm clock with snooze function.
- NEW Dansk catalogs.
- NEW Svensk catalogs.
- NEW Greek catalogs.
- NEW Francais catalogs.
- NEW Espanol catalogs.
- NEW Portugues catalogs.
- NEW Nynorsk catalogs.
- ...and more
-
- Various bug fixes.
-
- REQUIREMENTS
-
- OS 2.04 or higher. The binaries will take advantage of Kickstart
- 2.1/3.0/3.1 and 68020+ processors if found.
- OS 2.1 or higher for localization.
- Harddisk is recommended for unpacking the complete distribution.
-
- AVAILABILITY
-
- ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/pub/aminet/util/cdity/RecallV30.lha (237783)
-
- PRICE
-
- Shareware fee of $15 or 100 Norwegian kroner is requested.
-
- DISTRIBUTABILITY
-
- The archive may be spread through BBS, Internet, AmiNet and on Public
- Domain disks as long as the archive is not modified in any way. This
- means that you can copy it freely as long as you don't ask for a more than
- nominal copying fee. This fee must not be more than US $5 or 5 DM. It
- would be much appreciated if magazines notified me through e-mail or
- ordinary mail if they include Recall on a cover-disk.
-
- If you wish to include Recall on a magazine cover disk, you may do so as
- long as you send a complimentary copy of the magazine issue in which it
- appears to my home address. The entire package must be included on the
- disk, not just the executable. Please contact me in advance to ensure you
- have the latest version.
-
- If you wish to supply Recall as part of a CD-ROM compilation of freeware,
- you may do so as long as the disc contains at least 20 Mb of other
- freeware. Otherwise, contact me first please. Explicit permission is
- granted to distribute Recall on any CD-ROM produced by Fred Fish / Amiga
- Library Services, and on any officially supported Aminet compilation CD-
- ROM.
-