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CALENDAR WISE Version 1.11 Released 8/29/92 CALENDAR WISE BLUE CANNON SOFTWARE P. O. Box 7641 Charlotte, NC 28241-7641 USA REGISTRATIONS: 1-800-779-0850 SUPPORT LINE: (704) 398-0850 FAX: (704) 398-0928 EXT. 22 COMPUSERVE: 70372,421 PRODIGY: NNHP69A GEnie: M.BUCHANAN2 AMERICA ONLINE: MIKEB10676 Member of The Association of Shareware Professionals(ASP) Copyright (C) 1991,1992 Michael G. Buchanan All rights reserved world wide VERSION 1.11 USERS OF CALENDAR WISE MUST ACCEPT THIS DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY: CALENDAR WISE IS SUPPLIED AS IS. THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND OF FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. THE AUTHOR ASSUMES NO LIABILITY FOR DAMAGES, DIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL, WHICH MAY RESULT FROM THE USE OF CALENDAR WISE. ==================================================================== Welcome to CALENDAR WISE. This program is a multi-subject planning and tracking tool that simulates a desktop blotter or popular write-on/wipe-off wall calendar. It looks just like a large desktop calendar on your screen. It lets you keep all of your important scheduling and tracking information at the tip of your fingers. Any information entered with a recurring frequency will appear when you need to see it. Enter friends, relatives, or business contacts birthdays once, and you'll see them every year when you need to. Schedule information, Track information, See information! CALENDAR WISE is the easiest to use and most logical way to view and utilize vast monthly planning. Press <F10> from the opening screen to see a demo of CALENDAR WISE, read the CALENDAR WISE examples below, and give it a try, because you'll wonder how you ever did without it! CALENDAR WISE FEATURES * 100 different calendars allow you to keep unrelated planning separate. * Multiple calendars can be referenced at once to view or print together. * Information is easily entered using recurring yearly, monthly, daily and weekly frequencies. * Any item can be copied and pasted instantly. * Reminders can be attached to an item. * Items can be searched for and located quickly. * The format of the calendar can be quickly changed so that different numbers of weeks can be viewed. * Text size can be changed allowing more information to be viewed. * Customize all of your calendars colors. * Calendars can be printed to printer or file. * CALENDAR WISE can run on a network with unlimited users. *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=* EXAMPLES BEST ILLUSTRATE CALENDAR WISE APPLICATIONS. *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=* CALENDAR NOTE Birthdays, Anniversaries: Enter a 'Y' frequency, and relatives, friends, and associates birthdays will appear every year. Holiday Schedule: Keep work holidays here and quickly merge them into other calendars. Vacation Schedule: Keep track of an entire departments Vacation schedule. Work Schedule: Schedule employees to work. Enter 'W' frequency for employee that works every Thursday. Merge in the Holiday Schedule, cross reference it with Vacation Schedule, easily delete an occurrence from the Work frequency if there is a conflict. Pull all store schedules together for an overall view Bill Payment Schedule: Enter an 'M' frequency for bills due monthly.If insurance is due quarterly, enter an 'M3' frequency. Three months from now it will appear. Keep P. O. Box, Business license renewal dates. Enter them once and forget about them. Training Schedules: Schedule separate classes in separate calendars. Easily mark 5 day training class, paste in other weeks. Schedule instructors, equipment. View calendars together for printing or to find scheduling conflicts. Other Ideas: College student class schedule; Softball league play; Managers could keep daily commitments in separate calendars, so that a meeting can be scheduled by looking at the attenders schedules of availability; Nightly banking computer runs could be separated by checking, savings, mortgage processing so that each department could view the schedule kept in data processing; Schedule of auto maintenance to keep track of when oil changes are needed or when they were done; Family doctor and dentist appointments; History of employees absenteeism, comp days, etc.; And on and on................. ====================================================================== TABLE OF CONTENTS I: TECHNICAL INFORMATION A. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS B. PROGRAM AND DATA FILES C. NETWORK CONSIDERATIONS D. OTHER TECHNICAL CONSIDERATIONS II: USER INFORMATION A. CALENDAR LIST B. MAIN MENU C. CALENDAR D. EDITING DATA E. CALENDAR MENU III: REGISTRATION INFORMATION A. REGISTRATION BENEFITS B. PRICING STRUCTURE C. PAYMENT METHODS D. EXPLANATION OF SHAREWARE E. USER AGREEMENT F. OMBUDSMAN STATEMENT IIII: APPENDIX A. CRITICAL ERROR MESSAGES ==================================================================== I: TECHNICAL INFORMATION ==================================================================== A. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS 1. IBM PC or compatible 2. VGA or EGA monitor. 3. DOS 3.01 or higher. 4. 512K RAM 5. Hard drive. 6. 80286 or higher processor recommended -------------------------------------------------------------------- B. PROGRAM AND DATA FILES These 9 files need to be included in the CALENDAR WISE package. CW.EXE : executable file CW.HLP : online help file CW.DOC : CALENDAR WISE manual CW1.PCX : graphics file CW2.PCX : graphics file README.DOC : installation instructions REGISTER.DOC: registration form, survey INFO.DOC : CW user agreement, vendor, sysop information FILE_ID.DIZ : BBS description file These files are created by CALENDAR WISE. USER.INF : user registration information CONFIG.INF : configuration information MAIN.TTL : file containing calendar names MAIN.INF : file containing calendar layouts, colors CLNDR*.STT : data file containing nonrecurring items CLNDR*.FRQ : data file containing recurring items CLNDR*.NOT : data file containing notes "*" is for position on calendar list, from 1 to 100 -------------------------------------------------------------------- C. NETWORK CONSIDERATIONS If you run CALENDAR WISE on a network, you will encounter a warning screen when attempting to edit a calendar that is currently opened for update by another user. You may open the calendar in view-only mode. If you open the calendar for updating, it is possible that all changes someone else is currently making will be lost or all changes that you make will be lost. It simply is a matter of whomever saves their calendar last, erases the others changes. This same warning can appear in a single user environment (i.e. if the calendar file is open and power is lost, or some other reason causes the calendar file to not be closed properly). Simply choose "OVERRIDE FOR UPDATING" to circumvent the warning and reset the file status. D. OTHER TECHNICAL CONSIDERATIONS 1. The CALENDAR WISE executable file "CW.EXE" must be executed from the current directory. If you did not execute CW.EXE from the current directory, CALENDAR WISE will tell you so, and not continue to run. To run CW.EXE, change to the directory that you installed it into(for example. "CD \CWISE"), and then execute CW.EXE. If you are using a menu program to execute CALENDAR WISE,you must set it up appropriately. Normally this is done by specifying the path(\CWISE) separately from the command line (CW.EXE) in the menu program. (i.e. When then command line is specified as C:\CWISE\CW.EXE, most menu programs will not change to the \CWISE directory, and CW.EXE will not run then, because you are not in the correct directory) 2. CALENDAR WISE uses a portion of unused video memory to quickly swap menus onto the screen. Task switchers such as the one included in DOS 5.0 or Windows 3.1 capture the video display image and then restore it upon returning to the application. They do not however restore the extra memory on the video card which has critical infor- mation for CALENDAR WISE screen manipulation. Upon returning to CALENDAR WISE in these task switcher environments, CALENDAR WISE will automatically sense the corrupted memory, momentarily blank the screen to refresh the lost info, and then instantaneously allow you to continue. ==================================================================== II: USER INFORMATION ==================================================================== A. CALENDAR LIST Touch any key while on the opening screen and the calendar list will appear. 100 different calendars are available, 10 on each page. Calendars can be selected and unselected for menu operations such as move, delete, or merge. Multiple calendars can be marked<F2> to view simultaneously. A demo can be run showing various sample calendars<F10> after the calendar list appears. Movement Keys... Up arrow - Previous calendar Down arrow - Next calendar Left Arrow - Previous calendar list Right Arrow - Next calendar list Page up - Previous calendar list Page down - Next calendar list Action keys... F1 - Help F2 - Mark/Unmark calendar for viewing multiple calendars. - Mark/Unmark donor calendars of a merge operation. - Mark/Unmark source calendar for a move operation. - Mark/Unmark calendar for setting default colors. F3 - Mark/Unmark recipient calendar for a merge operation. - Mark/Unmark destination for a move operation. - Mark/Unmark calendar for a delete operation. F10 - CALENDAR WISE demo. Escape - Main Menu Enter - View calendar(s). F2 - Marking calendars for viewing. This function allows you to view multiple calendars at the same time. By pressing F2, an asterisk will appear to the left of the selected calendar's name. Any number of calendars can be chosen for viewing and printing simultaneously. The Enter key also chooses a calendar to view, so remember that this calendar will also appear if the selection box is not on a previously marked calendar. Also, while viewing multiple calendars, no editing may be done to the calendars chosen. "Multiple Calendars" will appear at the top of the calendar when multiples have been chosen. This feature can be extremely handy to determine multiple managers availability when scheduling a meeting, or to see all employee vacations or work schedules in different departments. It provides a quick overview of any or all calendars. **Note : You may automatically have CALENDAR WISE enter a specified calendar upon execution.Simply enter CW /(calendar #) on the command line. For example, to start in calendar 1, enter CW /1, or CW 1. F2 - Marking calendar for setting default colors. After customizing a calendar's colors, the colors can be designated as the default colors. The default color scheme will appear upon entering a new calendar. The default colors will also appear in the preset color schemes(see DISPLAY - SCREEN COLORS <F10>). By pressing F2, an asterisk will appear to the left of the calendar's name. You should then press Escape to get to the menu. SET DEFAULT COLORS is located under OPTIONS. After setting the default colors, any changes to the colors of the calendar selected will not affect the default color scheme. F2, F3 - Marking calendars for merging This function allows you to merge the contents of one or several calendars into another calendar. By pressing F2, an asterisk will appear to the left of the donor calendar's name. By pressing F3, an arrow will appear to the left of the recipient calendar's name. Any number of calendars can be selected as donors, but only one calendar may be selected as the recipient of the merge. You should then press Escape to get to the menu. MERGE CALENDAR is located under OPTIONS. You will be asked to verify the calendar to be merged. If you select "YES", you will then enter the merged calendar. When exiting this calendar you may still choose to not save any changes, in effect leaving the recipient calendar as it was prior to the merge. No changes are ever made to the donor calendars. This feature can be extremely handy if holidays are kept exclusively in one calendar. This way, when a new calendar is started, they can be easily merged in. (Registration Note: Please check REGISTER.DOC as holiday calendars are included in the registration package. F2, F3 - Marking calendar for moving This function allows you to move all of the information associated with a certain calendar to another location on the calendar list. Prior to moving a calendar, the source and destination must be chosen. By pressing F2, an asterisk will appear to the left of the calendar to be moved. By pressing F3, an arrow will appear to the left of the destination on the calendar list. You should then press Escape to get to the menu. MOVE CALENDAR is located under OPTIONS. Only one source and one destination may be chosen. You will be asked to verify the calendar to be moved. If a calendar exists at the destination, you will be asked if you want to overwrite it. F3 - Marking calendar for deleting This function allows you to delete all of the information associated with a certain calendar. Prior to deleting a calendar, one calendar must be chosen. By pressing F3, an arrow will appear to the left of the calendar to be deleted. You should then press Escape to get to the menu. DELETE CALENDAR is located under OPTIONS. You will be asked to verify the calendar to be deleted. ******************************************************************** NOTE - Possible File Status Error Encountered. If you run CALENDAR WISE on a network, you can encounter an error when attempting to delete, move, or merge a calendar that is currently opened for update by another user. You must make sure that the calendar is in the correct status before CALENDAR WISE will allow this operation. You can do this by simply choosing to view the calendar, and when the "CALENDAR IN USE" screen appears, choose "OVERRIDE FOR UPDATE". Make sure that no one is actually updating before you choose to override the file status. Upon exiting this calendar, the file status will be set correctly so that you can attempt the delete, move, or merge operation. This same error can appear in a single user environment (i.e. if the calendar file is open and power is lost, or some other reason causes the calendar file to not be closed properly). Simply choose "OVERRIDE FOR UPDATING" to circumvent the warning and reset the file status. ******************************************************************** -------------------------------------------------------------------- B. MAIN MENU The main menu is accessible by pressing <Escape> from the calendar list. Information and several options are available from the main menu. Movement Keys... Up arrow - Previous submenu selection Down arrow - Next submenu selection Left arrow - Previous menu selection Right arrow - Next menu selection Letter - Menu selection beginning with letter Action keys... F1 - Help Number - Submenu selection of corresponding number Escape - Calendar List Enter - Select INFORMATION - REGISTRATION NAME This displays the registration name for CALENDAR WISE. THE INFORMATION ENTERED IN THE NAME FIELD APPEARS ON ALL CALENDARS VIEWED AND PRINTED. Use one of the payment options listed on the PAYMENT METHODS screen to submit your registration fee. You may print the order form from the main menu and the calendar menu, or alternately COPY REGISTER.DOC PRN. ******IMPORTANT****** We will return your registration number to enter on this screen.Your registration number is based on the information entered in the Name field, so please be sure that this is what you will want to appear on all calendars. If the registration number and Name field do not match, the registration reminders will reappear. INFORMATION - PRICING STRUCTURE This displays registration prices for CALENDAR WISE. INFORMATION - REGISTRATION BENEFITS This displays the benefits of registration for CALENDAR WISE, detailing the separate registration packages. INFORMATION - PAYMENT METHODS This displays payment method information for CALENDAR WISE. INFORMATION - COPYRIGHT / ADDRESS This displays the BLUE CANNON SOFTWARE, CALENDAR WISE Copyright Notice. INFORMATION - DISCLAIMER / AGREEMENT This displays the disclaimer and trial use agreement that users of CALENDAR WISE must accept. INFORMATION - FILES / REQUIREMENTS The 9 files listed on this screen are included in the CALENDAR WISE package. INFORMATION - WHAT IS SHAREWARE Since CALENDAR WISE is a user supported program, an online explanation of shareware is included. INFORMATION - PRINT A REGISTRATION FORM This menu selection will print the CALENDAR WISE registration information. OPTIONS - MOVE CALENDAR This function allows you to move all of the information associated with a certain calendar to another location on the calendar list. Prior to moving a calendar, the source and destination must be chosen. By pressing F2, an asterisk will appear to the left of the calendar to be moved. By pressing F3, an arrow will appear to the left of the destination on the calendar list. Only one source and one destination may be chosen. You will be asked to verify the calendar to be moved. If a calendar exists at the destination, you will be asked if you want to overwrite it. OPTIONS - MERGE CALENDAR This function allows you to merge the contents of one or several calendars into another calendar. By pressing F2, an asterisk will appear to the left of the donor calendar's name. By pressing F3, an arrow will appear to the left of the recipient calendar's name. Any number of calendars can be selected as donors, but only one calendar may be selected as the recipient of the merge. If you select "YES", you will then enter the merged calendar. When exiting this calendar you may still choose to not save any changes, in effect leaving the recipient calendar as it was prior to the merge. This feature can be extremely handy if holidays are kept exclusively in one calendar. This way, when a new calendar is started, they can be easily merged in. OPTIONS - DELETE CALENDAR This function allows you to delete all of the information associated with a certain calendar. Prior to deleting a calendar, one calendar must be chosen. By pressing F3, an arrow will appear to the left of the calendar to be deleted. You will be asked to verify the calendar to be deleted. OPTIONS - SET DELETE DATE In order to save processing time, disk space, and memory, old data will automatically be deleted. You will be asked to enter a date. All nonrecurring items PRIOR TO THIS DATE WILL BE DELETED!!! All recurring items with an ending date PRIOR TO THIS DATE WILL BE DELETED!!! This option affects every calendar. Data is deleted at the time you exit a calendar. This date is displayed with the EXIT menu. CALENDAR WISE will, fortunately, not allow you to set this date within one year prior to your system date. *** BE CAREFUL !!! To be safe, leave it at it's default setting of 01/01/1980. OPTIONS - EDIT DATE AND TIME This function allows you to edit your computer's current system date and time. The date is in MM/DD/YYYY format, or DD/MM/YYYY format depending on your "SET DATE FORMAT" parameter. The time is in military (24-hour) HH/MM/SS format. OPTIONS - PRINTER SETUP Choose the default printer port for printing. An asterisk appear next to the current setting. OPTIONS - SET DEFAULT COLORS After customizing a calendar to your taste, you can then set the default color setting to your colors. All new calendars entered will use the color scheme, and all calendars already setup will have access to the default color scheme. (Check DISPLAY - SCREEN COLORS (F10) in section IIE). By pressing F2 while on the calendar list, an asterisk will appear to the left of the calendar's name. You will be asked to verify prior to setting default colors. After setting the default colors, changes to the selected calendar colors will not affect the default settings. OPTIONS - SET DATE FORMAT The order in which month, day, and year appear on screen, and when printed, can be changed here from MM/DD/YYYY to DD/MM/YYYY OPTIONS - PRINT THE MANUAL Included with CALENDAR WISE is a file called 'CW.DOC'. This manual can be printed via this selection. You've probably figured this out. EXIT - EXIT TO DOS -------------------------------------------------------------------- C. CALENDAR The default layout for a calendar is 5 weeks by 7 days. Appearing in the upper left corner is the registered owners name, from the REGISTRATION FORM screen. Top center is the calendar name from the calendar list, or 'Multiple Calendars". Top right is the currently displayed month and year. Vertically on the right is todays date, and across the bottom is a status line with certain key function reminders. Always check the status line across the bottom of the screen to see what common keystrokes are available, and which function keys are active. The highlighted box moves around the displayed days using the arrow and page keys. If more information exists for a day than can be displayed, a small box appears around the date. Movement Keys... Up arrow - Previous week Down arrow - Next week Left arrow - Previous day Right arrow - Next day Page up - Previous month Page down - Next month Backtab - Previous day Tab - Next day Home - Beginning of week End - End of week Ctrl-Home - January 1 Ctrl-End - December 31 Ctrl-Pageup - One year prior Ctrl-Pagedn - One year forward Shift-Home - Upper left corner Shift-End - Lower right corner Action keys... F1 - Help F5 - Copy F6 - Paste Escape - Menu Enter - Edit day F5 - Copy Move the day selection box to the day containing the desired data. By pressing F5, the item for the selected date is copied into memory. If you want to copy the fourth item displayed into memory, press F5 four times. The item in memory appears across the bottom of the screen. If this item is not recurring, pasting(<F6>) will simply place it on the new day. If this item is recurring, pasting will use the day being pasted as the beginning day, calculate the duration of this item and subsequently calculate the corresponding ending day for the item pasted. This feature can be extremely handy when scheduling infrequent items on many days. A workers name can easily be copied to memory and then added to all of the days he is scheduled (i.e. this Thursday, next Monday, next Wednesday). A five day stint in Atlanta can easily be added to the first week of May, second week of September, etc.. F6 - Paste By pressing F6, a previously copied item(see F5 under Calendar and Edit Day) will be inserted on this day. If the item to be pasted is not recurring, pasting will simply place it on the new day. If the item is recurring, pasting will use the day being pasted as the beginning day, calculate the duration of the item to be pasted and subsequently calculate the corresponding ending day for the item pasted. This feature can be extremely handy when scheduling infrequent items on many days. A workers name can easily be added to all of the days he is scheduled (i.e. this Thursday, next Monday, next Wednesday). A five day stint in Atlanta can easily be added to the first week of May, second week of September, etc.. It is important to know that pasting uses the day you currently are on as the beginning day.Therefore if you are pasting a recurring monthly item from the 31st of a month to the 30th of another month, this item will appear on the 30th and not at the end of every month, even if the 30th is the last day of the month. F9 - Search again A previous search operation can be repeated. If the last search was successful, this search starts with the day following where the day selection box is located. This means that if you see items that will match a subsequent search, you may move the day selection box past them, prior to searching again.If the last search was unsuccessful, the search starts with January 1 of the next year to search. A status line appears across the bottom of the page indicating the search parameters, and the status of the search. -------------------------------------------------------------------- D. EDIT DAY Fields... Item This field is what appears on the calendar. If more space is needed, the note field is available on the right, which may be toggled to fill the rest of the line by pressing <F8>. A second title line can be used as well, allowing both lines to be viewed on the calendar(for example, FAMILY on the first line, REUNION on the second line). To delete an item, simply space out this field, or press <F3> and it will automatically put spaces in this field. Remember that deleting an item will delete all occurrences of the item. Use <F7> to delete only one occurrence from a recurring item as described later. Frequency The frequency field consists of two parts, the frequency type and the frequency number. Four frequency types are available. Yearly, Monthly, Daily and Weekly. The first letter must be in the first position of this three position field. When the frequency is entered, default data will appear in the other fields. The day you are editing will appear in the beginning field and 12/31/9999 will appear in the ending field. The frequency number pertains to how many weeks apart, how many years apart, etc.. For every five years, enter Y5; for semiannual, enter M6; for biweekly, enter W2; and for every 4 days, enter D4. If the first part of this field is left blank, the item will be treated as non-recurring. If the second part of this field is left blank, it will be replaced with a 1. To change a recurring item to a non-recurring item, simply make the first part of this field blank. You do not need to blank any of the following fields. You may also make a frequency moveable. A moveable item is a monthly or yearly frequency item that doesn't happen on the 15th of every month, for instance, but rather on the first Tuesday of every month. See <F4> below. Beginning Date The Beginning field denotes when the first occurrence of this item will be. If the frequency for an item is monthly starting March 31, all occurrences of this item will be at the end of the month. Likewise if you want an item to fall on the end of each month starting February 28, type 31 in the day portion of this field. For processing speed reasons, the earliest beginning date year allowed is 1978. On your personal calendar of birthdays, put the birth year in the note field. Ending Date The Ending field denotes when the last occurrence of this item will be. If you are entering an event that happens for the next x frequencies (i.e. W2 for 10 times, M1 for the next 18 months), simply press any nonnumeric key while in this field. An asterisk will appear to the left. Now enter x in the ending date field, rather than the actual ending date. The actual ending date will be calculated when you press <Enter>. TIP: 1) The frequency, beginning and ending fields are only entered if the item is recurring. Notes This field is provided so that more information can be attached to an item. Everywhere this item appears,so will this note. Only one line of information may be attached to an item. If you need more space, fill in the item field on a second line, and attach a second note to it. If there is nothing in the item field, the note will simply disappear. You can expand the notes area by pressing <F8>. This feature can be extremely handy on your calendars of bills due, to see how much your insurance due quarterly will be, or how much your mortgage payment is. Movement Keys... Up arrow - Previous item Down arrow - Next item Left arrow - Previous character Right arrow - Next character Page up - Save data, Previous data page Page down - Save data, Next data page Backtab - Previous field Tab - Next field Home - First field End - Last field Insert - Toggle insert/overwrite mode Action keys... F1 - Help F3 - Make the item field blank for deletion F4 - Moveable frequency F5 - Copy F7 - Delete day from item F8 - Toggle expanded notes area Escape - Calendar Enter - Save data F4 - Moveable frequency By pressing F4, an asterisk will appear to the left of the frequency field. the item within the edit box will then have a moveable frequency. "Moveable" means that this item has either a yearly or monthly frequency, but each occurrence does not happen on the same date. Rather each occurrence happens at the same point in the month, relative to the first week of the month. (i. e. the first Tuesday of each month, the second Friday of every other month, political elections held on the first Tuesday of November every four years.) To make an non-moveable item moveable, or a moveable item non- moveable, you must be editing on the beginning date of the recurring item. F5 - Copy By pressing F5, the item inside of the edit box is copied into memory for later use in pasting. See also F5 and F6 under Calendar. If this item is not recurring, pasting(<F6>) will simply place it on the new day. If this item is recurring, pasting will use the day being pasted as the beginning day, calculate the duration of this item and subsequently calculate the corresponding ending day for the item pasted. This feature can be extremely handy when scheduling infrequent items on many days. A workers name can easily be added to all the days he is scheduled (i.e. this Thursday, next Monday, next Wednesday). A five day stint in Atlanta can easily be added to the first week of May, second week of September, etc.. F7 - Delete one occurrence of a recurring item By pressing F7, an asterisk will appear to the right of the frequency field. The occurrence of the item on the day being edited will be deleted from occurrences of this item. Actually what happens is two recurring items are created; one starting with the item's beginning day and ending with the occurrence previous to the day being edited; and one starting with the next occurrence following the day being edited and ending with the item's ending date. This feature can be extremely handy when softball is scheduled for the next 14 weeks, yet no games are played on Memorial Day and the team has a bye on the fifth week. * Note - Pageup and Pagedown save the data prior to displaying the next page. This may cause confusion as to what you are viewing if you have deleted some information on a page and are now looking at the next page. You may think that you are not seeing some data on the new page that you expected. Press Pageup to view the data you expected to be here. Of course you must have more than 10 items on a day to encounter this. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E. CALENDAR MENU Movement Keys... Up arrow - Previous submenu selection Down arrow - Next submenu selection Left arrow - Previous menu selection Right arrow - Next menu selection Letter - Menu selection beginning with letter Action keys... F1 - Help Number - Submenu selection of corresponding number Escape - Calendar Enter - Select DISPLAY - GRID SIZE <ALT-G> Each calendar can be viewed displaying anywhere from 1 to 25 weeks at a time(depending on your monitor). An asterisk appears to the left of the current selection. DISPLAY - TEXT SIZE <ALT-T> Each calendar can support large or small size text. Small text allows more items to be viewed on the calendar for each day. DISPLAY - SCREEN COLORS <ALT-L> Action keys... Left arrow - Change color Right arrow - Change color F1 - Help F9 - Display previous preset color setting F10 - Display next preset color setting Escape - Menu, don't save color changes Enter - Save color changes Each calendar can support various colors. The dates for the current month (i.e. month name displayed in the upper right corner) should be set to contrast with the not current month color. Text without a frequency can be set to a different color than text with a frequency. By pressing F10, several preset color schemes, including the default color setting (See OPTIONS - SET DEFAULT COLORS in section IIB). Custom coloring is available for: Border Color Calendar Color Calendar Grid Color Day Selection Box Color Menu Color Menu Text Color Current Month Color Previous/Next Month Color Recurring Text Color Nonrecurring Text Color If you are viewing multiple calendars,the text colors will not be different for recurring and nonrecurring items, but rather text from each calendar will be a different color until you view 10 calendars together. After the 9th calendar, all text will be the same. The text colors are, from lowest position on the calendar list to highest position: red, white, blue, black, green, purple, bright blue, light green, magenta, light blue. All calendar text after the tenth calendar will also be light blue. PRINT - PRINT WEEK <ALT-W> The first print option available is printing information by specifying a beginning and ending date range. If more information exists on a day than you have allotted room to print, an asterisk will appear to the left of the appropriate day on the printout. Fields... Filename If you wish to print a calendar to a file so that you may move the file to another computer attached to a printer, or want to import it into a word processor, enter the filename here. A blank filename will route the calendar to the printer. Beginning The default beginning date will be the same as the upper left hand day of the calendar that appears on the screen. Ending The default ending date will be the same as the lower right hand day of the calendar that appears on the screen. If you want to print x weeks from the beginning date, simply press any nonnumeric key while in the ending date field. An asterisk will appear to the left. Now enter x in the ending date field. The actual ending date will be calculated when you press <Enter>. Items Per Day This specifies how many rows each printed day will contain. The default is the number of days that can be displayed on one day on the screen. If more information exists on a day than you have allotted room to print, an asterisk will appear to the left of the appropriate day on the printout. Weeks Per Page This specifies how many weeks will be printed before a forms feed is sent to the printer. * Note - You may have to manually set your printer to 12 characters per inch or higher, or to landscape, to fit the calendar on the page. PRINT - PRINT MONTH <ALT-M> The second print option available is printing information by specifying a beginning and ending date range, one month per page. If more information exists on a day than you have allotted room to print, an asterisk will appear to the left of the appropriate day on the printout. Fields Filename If you wish to print a calendar to a file so that you may move the file to another computer attached to a printer, or want to import it into a word processor, enter the filename here. A blank filename will route the calendar to the printer. Beginning The default beginning date will be the same as the current month indicator that appears in the upper right hand corner on the screen. The day portion of this field is not used. Ending The default ending date will be the same as the current month indicator that appears in the upper right hand corner on the screen. The day portion of this field is not used. If you want to print x months from the beginning date, simply press any nonnumeric key while in the ending date field. An asterisk will appear to the left. Now enter x in the ending date field. The actual ending date will be calculated when you press <Enter>. Items Per Day This specifies how many rows each printed day will contain. The default is the number of days that can be displayed on one day on the screen. If more information exists on a day than you have allotted room to print, an asterisk will appear to the left of the appropriate day on the printout. * Note - You may have to manually set your printer to 12 characters per inch or higher, or to landscape, to fit the calendar on the page. PRINT - PRINT THE MANUAL Included with CALENDAR WISE is a file called 'CW.DOC'. This manual can be printed via this selection. You've probably figured this out. PRINT - PRINTER SETUP Choose the default printer port for printing. An asterisk appear next to the current setting. OPTIONS - SEARCH <ALT-S> An item can be quickly located by entering the text to search and the beginning day. The text field only compares against the title field of an item, not the notes field. A match does not need to be the entire title you are looking for, and the matching is not case-sensitive. You will be returned to the calendar screen following the search. Press <F9> to find the next occurrence or to search the next year if no match was found. Please read the section pertaining to successive searches by pressing <F9>. Of special note is how searches are handled depending on whether the last search was successful and if the day selection box is now located on a different day. It is located in the "Calendar" section of this manual. OPTIONS - GO TO DATE <ALT-A> Rather than paging thru multiple months to see a particular date, you may enter the date here and immediately it will be displayed. Also available here is the same feature for automatic date calculating available throughout the program. Press any nonnumeric key and an asterisk will appear. Enter 06 in the month portion of the date field and you will go 6 months ahead. OPTIONS - NAME CALENDAR <ALT-N> The name of this calendar is entered here. It will appear on the top of the screen, the top of printed calendars, and on the calendar list. You are initially prompted to type the calendar name. It can be changed by returning here and retyping it. OPTIONS - EDIT DATE AND TIME This function allows you to edit your computer's current system date and time. The date is in MM/DD/YYYY format, or DD/MM/YYYY, depending on your date format parameter set from the main menu. The time is in military (24-hour) HH/MM/SS format. For the following, please refer to the descriptions in section IIB. INFORMATION - REGISTRATION NAME INFORMATION - PRICING STRUCTURE INFORMATION - REGISTRATION BENEFITS INFORMATION - PAYMENT METHODS INFORMATION - COPYRIGHT / ADDRESS INFORMATION - DISCLAIMER / AGREEMENT INFORMATION - FILES / REQUIREMENTS INFORMATION - WHAT IS SHAREWARE? EXIT - EXIT THIS CALENDAR <ALT-C> This will return you to the calendar list. An option to save any changes is displayed prior to leaving this calendar. All menu colors, attributes, and data will be updated if save is chosen. The auto-delete date also appears on this screen. All nonrecurring items PRIOR TO THIS DATE WILL BE DELETED!!! All recurring items with an ending date PRIOR TO THIS DATE WILL BE DELETED!!!!! Please read the section of this manual pertaining to setting the delete date. To be safe, leave it at it's default setting of 01/01/1980. EXIT - EXIT TO DOS <ALT-X> This will return you to the DOS prompt. An option to save any changes is displayed prior to leaving this calendar. All menu colors, attributes, and data will be updated if save is chosen. The auto-delete date also appears on this screen. All nonrecurring items PRIOR TO THIS DATE WILL BE DELETED!!! All recurring items with an ending date PRIOR TO THIS DATE WILL BE DELETED!!!!! Please read the section of this manual pertaining to setting the delete date. To be safest, leave it at it's default setting of 01/01/1980. ==================================================================== III: REGISTRATION INFORMATION ==================================================================== A.REGISTRATION BLUE CANNON SOFTWARE markets CALENDAR WISE via the shareware marketing channel. Revenue is collected from satisfied customers who have evaluated the program and wish to continue to use it. Satisfied customers are premium advertisers and distributors of the software. If you like CALENDAR WISE, please register. On the REGISTRATION FORM screen, there is a Registration Name field. THE INFORMATION ENTERED IN THE NAME FIELD APPEARS ON ALL CALENDARS VIEWED AND PRINTED. ******IMPORTANT****** We will return your registration number to enter on this screen. Your registration number is based on the information entered in the Name field, so please be sure that this is what you will want to appear on all calendars. If the registration number and Name field do not match, the registration reminders will reappear. Use one of the payment options listed under PAYMENT METHODS in section IIIC to submit your registration fee. REGISTRATION BENEFITS All registered users receive: 1. The latest version of CALENDAR WISE on either 5 1/4 or 3 1/2 disk. This way when you register you are assured that your program will include all the newest features. 2. The "LIKE WISE" newsletter, which features news items and tips of interest to CALENDAR WISE users. 3. A discount subscription rate for Shareware Magazine, one of the industry's leading shareware publications. The $14.95 yearly subscription rate is reduced to $9.97 4. A FREE membership kit for CompuServe, an on-line service that provides access to electronic mail, shareware libraries, travel services, shopping, and much more. A $15.00 usage credit is also included. Two registration packages are offered to users of Calendar Wise. The $29.99 Registration includes: 1. Professionally bound USER REFERENCE MANUAL. Complete with screen shots, this attractive manual makes using CALENDAR WISE as easy as can be! It's a great tool to have handy on a shelf! 2. Technical support is offered via phone, fax, mail or Compuserve mail, for the current CALENDAR WISE version. 3. Substantial DISCOUNTS are offered on the newest version of CALENDAR WISE. Keep on top of all of the newest enhancements, and upgrade at fantastic savings! 4. VALUE PACKS of other great ASP shareware. BLUE CANNON SOFTWARE has selected some of the best shareware available, and placed them into three categories. Application programs(including the BOXER text editor, a screen blanker, virus program), Education(including programs great for younger children), and Games(including Jill of the Jungle). Movies to Go is always included! It's a fantastic graphic database of all of your favorite movies! (All Value Pack contents are subject to change, Also, just as with CALENDAR WISE, if you continue to use the products, you are expected to register with the respective authors.) 5. Holiday Calendars (legal, religious, etc). We've set them up. All you have to do is quickly merge them in! The $24.99 Registration includes: 1. Technical support via mail or Compuserve mail. 2. Upgrade notices for major revisions of CALENDAR WISE. This registration option doesn't include the professionally bound manual or the Value Packs. It's a great option for those that register multiple copies, but don't need more manuals. Remember, if you plan to use CALENDAR WISE on multiple computers at the same time, you must register each copy. Site licenses and group discounts are available! Check below. -------------------------------------------------------------------- B.PRICING STRUCTURE * An order form is contained in REGISTER.DOC, and can be printed from the menu. Full Registration Package - $29.99 Registration - $24.99 NETWORK COMPUTER USE Each server on local area network (2 manuals) - $149.99 LICENSES All parties interested should contact BLUE CANNON SOFTWARE for a license agreement. Discounts start at 25% for 5 copies, and can reach over 50% off. Special discounts are offered for multiple purchases from user group members, organization members, educational groups. -------------------------------------------------------------------- C: PAYMENT METHODS MAIL: Mail your registration with a check, money order,or credit card information to the BLUE CANNON SOFTWARE, PO Box 7641, Charlotte, NC, 28241, USA PHONE: Have the name you want to appear on all of the calendars already selected, and your credit card information available. Our order number is 1-800-779-0850. FAX: Be sure to fill out the credit card information. Our Fax number is 704-398-0928 ext 22. COMPUSERVE MAIL: Make a copy of REGISTER.DOC to upload. Fill out this copy. Be sure and complete the credit card information. Our Compuserve ID is 70372,421. INTERNATIONAL ORDERS Currently agents are available to take registrations in Europe and Australia. Their contact information is listed in REGISTER.DOC which can be printed from the menu. ------------------------------------------------------------------- D.EXPLANATION OF SHAREWARE Shareware is not a type of software, but rather a form of marketing and distribution. Users are given a chance to try software before spending the sometimes outlandish fees for retail software. If you try a shareware program and continue to use it you are expected to register it. Individual programs differ on details of registration and levels of support offered. It is important to know what is supplied with your registration, whether continued support, upgraded programs, or printed manuals will be available. Copyright laws apply to both shareware and commercial software, and the copyright holder retains all rights The main difference, however, is that shareware authors specifically grant the right to copy and distribute the software, either to all and sundry or to a specific group. For example, some authors require written permission before a commercial disk vendor may copy their software. When looking for software, you should find software that suits your needs and pocketbook, whether commercial or shareware. Shareware makes fitting your needs easier, because you can try before you buy, the ultimate money-back-guarantee. Most likely shareware can deliver a lower priced product because there is no overhead marketing and distributing. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E.USER AGREEMENT If you find this program useful and find that you are using CALENDAR WISE and continue to use CALENDAR WISE after a reasonable trial period(30 days), you must make a registration payment to BLUE CANNON SOFTWARE. The appropriate amount is stated on the pricing schedule and continued use is only valid for the amount received. If in the future you are no longer using CALENDAR WISE in the way it was originally registered, you must register again. -------------------------------------------------------------------- F.OMBUDSMAN STATEMENT This program is produced by a member of the Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP). ASP wants to make sure that the shareware principle works for you. If you are unable to resolve a shareware related problem with an ASP member by contacting the member directly, ASP may be able to help. The ASP Ombudsman can help you resolve a dispute or problem with an ASP member, but does not provide technical support for member' products. Please write to the ASP Ombudsman as 545 Grover Road, Muskegon, MI 49442 or send a Compuserve message via Compuserve Mail to ASP Ombudsman 70007,3536. The ASP Ombudsman may also be contacted by FAX: (616) 788-2765. In communication with the ASP Ombudsman, please include a telephone number and/or FAX if available. ==================================================================== IIII: APPENDIX ==================================================================== A.CRITICAL ERROR MESSAGES If you encounter a critical error message(i.e. one that halts processing, consult this table for an explanation of the message. If you cannot resolve the problem, call for technical support. Number/Explanation 7 Out of Memory 24 Device Timeout 25 Device Fault 51 Internal Error 57 Device I/O Error 61 Disk Full (should only run CALENDAR WISE from a hard drive) 67 Too Many Files (Increase config.sys "files=" command, check your DOS manual) 68 Device unavailable 71 Disk Not Ready (should only run CALENDAR WISE from a hard drive) 72 Disk Media Error