Ver 2.16 English

M-Diary is a very simple, easy-to-use program for managing a monthly schedule with beautiful icons. This application is not only using as a diary but also searching each event, showing the list of scheduled days and using several data files. If you would like to change icons, you can import them from other applications or folders to M-Diary.

Enjoy M-Diary and have a fun!

New in Ver.2.16E
• Show Holiday name at List form as option.
• Immidiate change schedule, when day changed.
• Move year schedule by shift-key + arrow-key.
• Add Tips-window what is show whole schedule at list form by holding mouse press.
• and some bugs are fixed.

New in Ver. 2.13E
• When printing, Font and Fontsize available.
• The bug is fixed that it sometimes occurred crash when you input 2byte caracter, On Mac OS8.1.

New in Ver. 2.12 E
• You can make your schedules almost unlimitedly in your data file.
• You can import 32-bit icon of OS 8.5 from icons and folders.
• Password protection for diaries is available.
• It is changed how to set holidays.
• You can resize "Schedule Space" window.
• The small triangle appears in the " Schedule Space" window when you write something in the " Diary Space".
• You can save the data of the schedules, diaries and holidays to each data file.
• Emphasis-expression mode is added in "Monthly" form.
• The frame to show the chosen area in "Monthly" form is changed to the emphasis-expression.
• The-background color of "Schedule Space" window is changed to white.
• The color of input-space of dialogues is changed to white.
• The bug is fixed that you couldn't use (Command +K) consecutively.
• The bug is fixed that "Monthly" wouldn't be able to appear when you closed "List" windows before they were shown completely.
• You can close "Search Windows" all together with option key.
• Return key is for going to a new line and enter key is treated as OK button in a "Schedule Space" window.
• The bug is fixed that it sometimes occurred to crash when you paste schedules.
• The bug is fixed that you couldn't input schedules after switching the window "List" to "Monthly".

CONTENTS

1.How to use

• Open.../Quit
• Input/Modify/Delete of schedules
• Show Schedule List
• Show Diary List
• Changing Icon
• Search
• Set up holidays
• Using data files
• About Menu

• You can open M-Diary by double clicking the application or "Schedule Data File". (When it doesn't have any data file, it will make a new one automatically in the same folder with an application.)
• When M-Diary opens, "Schedule" window appears first.
• When you want to quit M-Diary, select "Quit" from File Menu or close "Schedule" window.
• It saves a renewed data file automatically.
• About "Schedule" window
  • Click the upper left triangle, so "List" form is switched to "Monthly" form.
  • Click and drag the lower right corner when you want to change the size of the window.
  • The whole of a month move by using left right arrow keys.
  • Return/enter key sends back to this month.
  • You can drag & drop schedules between M-Diary and other applications(Finder, too).

• You can scroll up to see the days of the next month and scroll down to see those of the previous month by using a mouse or up down arrow keys.

• You can set the beginning of the week to Sunday or Monday.

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• Double click "Day Field" of the schedule window to input the daily schedule and diary. When you double click "Day Field" of the schedule window with command key, it shows the schedule-input window with opened "Dairy Space".

• You can input data and icons in the schedule window. Icon is treated as a character and you can select icons and a color of the letters from pop up menu.
• You can copy, paste, delete and drag&drop schedule data in "Schedule" window without showing the schedule input window.
• You can drag&drop them to other applications, too.
• "Schedule Space" fields have a 120 characters limit.

• Click the triangle below the schedule input window, so "Diary Space" appears.
• The small black triangle will appear in "Day Field" when you type something in "Diary Space".
• "Diary Space" fields have a 32000 characters limit. You can register about 2000 days' records as you type 1000 characters per day.

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• When you click the date of the upper "Schedule" window or select "Schedule List" from File Menu, the list of scheduled days "Schedule List" appears.
• You can see the number of the scheduled days at the upper of the window.
• Clicking the schedule of "Schedule List", it moves to its month.

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• "Diary List" appears when you select "Diary List" from Menu or click the date that is in the upper of the "Schedule" window with command key.
• "Diary List" lists the dates that contain written diaries.
• The number of the diaries is shown in the upper of the "Schedule " window.
• It moves to the month in the "Schedule" when you double-click the schedule of "Diary List"

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• Select "Set Icon..." from Icon Menu. You can change the icons.
• Drag & drop files and folders they have icons in to icons of "Icon List".
• You can see the available icon resource and select one of them.
• Clicking icons in "Icon List", you can select icon data files.
• Clicking icon with command key sets M-Diary's original icon.
• Add your message to icons. You can see them from Icon Menu.

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• "Search Window " appears when you put the search button in "Schedule" window. Set AND or OR. "Search... " of Search Menu is available, too.
• Put the search button with triangle and "Search Next..." of Search Menu, so it searches next schedule. You can search in the active window.
• The button "Pick up" shows results in "Picked up Window"
• You can open 20 windows.
• All the windows close at once with option key.

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• There are three ways to set the special dates like holidays and birthdays.
  1. Select the date directly with month-button and day-button.
  2. Select the number of the week and the month with their buttons.
  3. Select the Vernal Equinox Day, Autumnal Equinox Day and Easter day, so it calculates automatically.
• You can set icons for special days in the "Setting Holidays" window, so they appear in the "Schedule " window.
• The color of holidays is purple when you check both buttons of blue and red.
• You can set 400days for special days in each Data File.

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• You can save the data file as another one. (Select "Save as..." of File Menu) It's convenient to use for business and private one.
• Contents of Preference are set to each file.

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• Apple menu
  • It shows "About M-Diary"
  • You can type your name and ID number after registration.
  
  
• File Menu
  
  • "List Form/Monthly Form"
    • This switches "List" form and "Monthly" form.
  • "Schedule List"
    • This shows the window of scheduled days.
  • "Diary List "
    • This shows the list of the days that contain written diaries.
  • "Open..."
    • This opens data file.
  • "Close"
    • This closes an active window.
    • Closing "Schedule" window, so M-Diary quits.
  • "Save as..."
    • This saves the data file as another one.
    • You can save the data to a new data file or an existing file, furthermore the data of the schedules, diaries and holidays to each data file, too.
    • For example, you can make a new data file without your diaries for business. Or after setting holidays you can use them in your plural data files.
  • "Save Schedule As Text..."
    • This saves schedules of an active window. Icons are replaced to Alphabets with their messages. Set the blank or TAB between date, icon and schedule, so you can input them to each of cells of a table file.
  • "Save Diary As Text..."
    • This saves all of diaries as text files.
  • "Page Setup..."
    • This sets the size of paper.
  • "Print..."
    • This prints content of an active window.
    • Set the size of memory more than 2500 KB.
    • To change the size of memory click the icon of the application and show "Get Info" after quitting M-Diary.
  • "Preference"
    
    
    • ------ Setting for "List" ------
    • "640*480 mode"
      • This shows the whole of "List" form in 640*480 dot monitor.
    • "Underline"
      • This adds underline to "List" form.
    • "Scroll Bar"
      • This adds a vertical scroll bar to "List" form.
    • "This Month"
      • This sets the beginning of the day of the month.
      
      
    • ------ Setting for " Monthly" ------
    • "From Monday"
      • You can set the beginning of the week.
    • "Invert Day Title"
      • The date is emphasis-expressed. You can set the color in Appearance of Control panel.
      
      
    • ------ Whole setting ------
    • "Holiday..."
      • This sets holidays.
    • "Background Color..."
      • This changes background color of the windows.
    • "Hotspot..."
      • This sets hot spot and hotkey for Hide and Show.
    • " Setting Diary Password.../Remove Diary Password..."
      • It sets /removes password for diary data.
      • It is impossible to show the diaries when you set the password.
      • But notice that they are not converted to cryptograms.
    • "Today's Style"
      • This sets the style of 'Today'
    • "Font"
      • You can set the type of fonts in the "Schedule"
    • "Size"
      • You can set the size of fonts in the "Schedule"
    • "Move Month Button"
      • This shows the buttons of months at the top of the window.
    • "Animation"
      • This adds an animation for the window.
    • "Hide As Background"
      • This hides M-Diary when it is not active.
      • M-Diary appears when the cursor is on the hotspot.
    
    
  • "Quit" This closes M-Diary application.
  
  
• Edit Menu
  • This makes it available for input/change of data, setting of search, changing of the message of icons and setting of holidays.
  
  
• Search Menu
  • This searches the data in an active window.
  • "Pick up" button shows the list of the date and the data.
• Move Menu
  • This moves and sets the month and the year.
  
  
• Icon Menu
  • You can look the list of icons and their messages.
  • "Set icon..." You can change the icons with drag&drop and their messages.
  • The icon list appears with control key + mouse click in Mac OS8.
  
  
• Window Menu
  • You can select the active window.

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• You can make over 60000days' schedules in each data file.
• "Diary Space" fields have a 32000-character limit.
• You can set 400 days for special days in each Data File.
• The year from 1904 to 2039 is available.
• M-Diary Folder contains
  • M-Diary application
  • M-Diary Manual
  • Shareware Info of M-Diary
• M-Diary Data File will be made if there is no file in the folder.
• At the first time after launching M-Diary 'M-Diary preferences' is made in a Preference Folder of System Folder.
• You can use your data file in a newer version of M-Diary.

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• System Requirement
  • System 7.5 or later. Mac OS8.
  • Place Mac drag&drop extension in the Extension Folder when you use System 7.
  • Screen Resolution 640*480 dot or greater.
• Memory Requirements
  • 800 KB required (2.5MB minimum for printing).

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• Non-profit distribution of the software is acceptable, providing that the software is not modified in any way, and the complete works of the software are included in the distribution package. Please let me know about the distribution.
• I am not responsible for any damage to the purchaser's computer system or data by using M-Diary. I'm very glad if you could contact me when you find any bugs, unexpected behavior, or have a suggestion for a new version. I welcome ideas, but please understand that I can't use them all.
• M-Diary is Copyright reserved by Kyasu Soft.

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Keietsu YASUHARA

E-mail:	kyasu@sda.att.ne.jp
	PXE04672@nifty.ne.jp
URL:	http://member.nifty.ne.jp/kyasu/