ECalendar Suite v1.01

 

ABOUT

PORTABILITY

INSTALLATION

STARTUP

GETTING HELP


Thank you for your interest in ECalendar Suite. This readme files provides information on requirements, how to use the library, and some information about the sample application that is included. If you decide this product would be useful to you or your company, please register it at http://www.e2technologies.net/ECalendar/register.html 

About the ECalendar Suite

The ECalendar Suite was created with the intent of making it easier for Java developers to implement easy-to-use selection tools without having to take the time necessary to contruct and test the tools. E2 Technologies hopes that these components will speed your development efforts and provide an elegent interface for your user to select dates and times. These componets are also take care of the error checking usually associated with such complex concepts.

The ECalendar Suite is composed of two main components: 

  • ECalendar - date selection tool for easy selection of day, month and year
  • ETimeChooser - time selection tool that allows for the easy selection of hour, minute, second, and AM/PM 
The ECalendar Suite also contains useful supporting components:  
  • ENumericSpinner - a spinner for numeric values
  • ETextSpinner - a text spinner of a list of defined strings
  • ESpinner - a generic spinner control that will accept lists of different objects
  • ECalendarPopup - a wrapper fo ECalendar that will handle to displaying and disposal of the ECalendar

Portability

All the components of the ECalendar are written in 100% Pure Java and should therefore run on any machine that has a Java Virtual Machine installed on it (in the form of a browser, JRE, or JDK). This Suite was also created using JFC Swing 1.1.x components and will therefore comply with the Swing Look & Feels. This also requires the presence of the Swing libraries (http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/index.html#download-swing) or the Java Plug-In (http://java.sun.com/products/plugin/index.html) in order to run properly.


*"Write once, run anywhere" Java apps still require testing (no surprise). As Java application developers, we sometimes find the need to write some additional code to work around defects exhibited by one or more VMs.


ECalendar Suite Installation

Make sure that the *.class files within this Zipped or Tarred file are located on your class path. That is pretty much it. You also need to make sure your Swing classes are also on your class path if you will be developing with other Swing components. Do not change the dirrectory structure of classes, as that will disrupt the package structure they were built in and will not be able run properly.

License installation

If you have registered this product on-line after already downloading the evaluation package, you may recieve the ELicense.class file via e-mail. If so, place the file in the net.e2technologies.util dirrectory. This will prevent the evaluation screen from appearing.



Start-up of ECalendar Sample App.

To start Sample App. in any Java machine

  1. Start command line (console, DOS prompt, etc.)
  2. Change working directory to /ECalendar (assuming you've installed the product to /ECalendar)
  3. Execute this file by typing: > java net.e2technologies.util.sample.ECalendarChooser (where > represents the prompt)


Getting Help

All the ECalendar Suite components have javadoc in the doc dirrectory. All the API calls need to use the components will be listed and explained in the javadoc.

ECalendar Suite JavaDoc


If you experience any problems or would like more functionality added please contact. We are also happy to help with any development problems you may encounter. 

E2 Technologies, Inc.

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