TrayDay v6.14, for Windows 95, NT4 or later (c) MJMSoft Design Limited, 1996-1998 (see end of this readme.txt for version history) DESCRIPTION =========== TrayDay - date, calendar and counter utility for the Windows 95 or NT 4 tray. TrayDay places an icon showing the date (day of the month) in the system tray (the part of the taskbar which includes the clock). The icon resembles a page of a "tear-off" calendar. You can therefore see the date at a glance - often quicker and easier than resting your mouse over the clock, searching for an "Insert Date" menu, or having to reach for your diary. Move the mouse over the icon and the day of the week will appear. Left-click the icon and a pop-up menu appears showing the date in various formats - including up to ten user defined formats. Click one and it will automatically be inserted into your application (or copied to the clipboard, depending on the option checked in the right-click menu). You can select your favorite date format to be available by double-clicking the TrayDay icon. The user formats can include the date, time, and counters - particularly useful for date-stamping messages or files. From version 6.1 TrayDay also has a calendar option; you can choose to have the new monthly calendar "on top" all the time for quick reference. Navigate months and years using the mouse or keyboard - or the Microsoft IntelliMouse® wheel - and copy any date to the clipboard in the format of your choice. The calendar shows Sunday as first day of the week, but this can be changed to Monday in the Advanced options dialog. Version 6.1c added the option to have Saturdays or Sundays (or both) displayed in red on the calendar. To display the calendar, left-click the TrayDay icon and select Show Calendar. Or start TrayDay with "/c" in the command line. Note that TrayDay remembers the window position and whether the calendar is displayed from one session to the next. When the calendar is displayed, an extra icon, which looks like a small calendar, appears in the tray. If the calendar has been lost behind other windows, click this icon to bring it back to the top. This icon is not displayed (because not necessary) if "on top" is selected. To move from month to month or year to year refer to the following list. Note that the calendar needs to be the active window if the keyboard or IntelliMouse® wheel is to be used. Clicking [<], pressing left cursor key, or rolling the IntelliMouse wheel away from you, moves back a month. Clicking [<<], pressing up cursor key or "Page Up", or rolling the IntelliMouse wheel away from you with Ctrl key down, moves back a year. Clicking [•], pressing "Home" key, or clicking the IntelliMouse wheel with the mouse pointer over the calendar, goes to the current month. Clicking [>>], pressing down cursor key or "Page Down", or rolling the IntelliMouse wheel towards you with Ctrl key down, moves forward a year. Clicking [>], pressing right cursor key, or rolling the IntelliMouse wheel towards you, moves forwards a month. Clicking [T], pressing "t", or selecting appropriate menu items switches "on top" on or off. For fastest navigation, press and hold the up/down cursor key or "Page Up/Down" to move quickly through the years. To close the calendar (without exiting from TrayDay) click the close button on the title bar, press "Esc" when the calendar is the active window, or select Hide calendar from the TrayDay left-click menu or calendar right-click menu. The TrayDay right-click menu shows the various items used to configure TrayDay, and Exit. Selecting Options... brings up a dialog box which lets you choose different tray icons, define user formats, etc. From there click Advanced... to bring up advanced options; these include setting the first day of the week to Sunday or Monday for the calendar, selecting what will be displayed on the tooltip which appears when the mouse cursor is moved over the TrayDay icon - and whether to reset any counters at midnight and startup. You can also select from the right-click menu the action to be carried out when a date is selected on the left-click menu - the current action is marked with a tick. The three possibilities are: Copy - the date will be copied to the clipboard. Insert - the text will be inserted at the insertion point of your active or foreground window by simulating keyboard input. And Paste - the text will be copied to the clipboard AND automatically pasted in at the insertion point. [Note that if Insert is selected but the date includes character(s) which cannot be typed by a single combination of keystrokes, the Paste action will occur automatically.] By placing a shortcut to TrayDay.exe in your startup folder, you can have the date always available. See Help (run TrayDay, right-click the icon in the tray and select "Help...") for detailed instructions. Also see context-sensitive help in the Options dialog box - click [?] on the title bar, then the area of the box you require help for. *** When a date is being inserted (typed) into an application, you can stop it by clicking the TrayDay icon. *** LIMITATIONS =========== Inserting or pasting text to an MS-DOS window is not supported. Inserting or pasting text to a combo-box (edit control with a down arrow at the right to open a list) may not produce the required result. See Help for more information. TO INSTALL ========== IMPORTANT NOTICE: This TrayDay program and all associated documentation are the copyright of MJMSoft Design Ltd. The use of the TrayDay program is governed by the License accompanying this program. TrayDay requires Windows 95, Windows NT4 or later, and needs 250kb of space on your hard drive. Extract the files from the TrayDay zip file to a (temporary) folder, and run SetupTD.exe. During the install process you can choose to have TrayDay added to your list of programs which start every time Windows starts. To uninstall, select TrayDay from Add-Remove Programs in Windows control panel. Note that from v6.14, the TrayDay setup program SetupTD.exe is digitally "signed" by MJMSoft Design Ltd., using public key cryptography. This can be confirmed with the SafenSigned Verifier - available from http://www.securisys.com/ - and ensures that the file is authentic and has not been modified or tampered with in the distribution channel. Our signature ID is: 568M-XZU7-2PS42--JTXR-64J8-F5A02. TO REGISTER =========== TrayDay is a shareware program. When first run the welcome box displays: "Evaluation Version"; after 28 days it automatically becomes the "Unregistered Version". The only change to the program's function at that point is that the welcome box which appears at startup may also appear at other times. If you wish to continue using TrayDay after 28 days, you should register. You can convert to the Registered Version at any time by entering the registration number you will be given by mail or e-mail. Benefits of registering are: · The 'Shift icon' functions are enabled. · The welcome box which appears at startup (and more often after 28 days) can be turned off. · A sincere "Thank you" for supporting our efforts to develop quality software and offer it at a reasonable price. Registration covers this and any future version of TrayDay. Note that one registered copy of TrayDay may be used by a single person who uses the software personally on one or more computers. Site licenses are available, as well as quantity discounts. A single user license is 15 US dollars or 10 GB pounds (these prices guaranteed to end of December 1998). Multi-user dscounts are available. Once you have installed TrayDay, see the file "order.txt" or the TrayDay help file for details of how to register (online, via Compuserve, by 'phone/fax or by mail). Or go to http://www.mjmsoft.com for more information. LICENSE - TERMS AND CONDITIONS ============================== See the files "license.txt" and "Vendinfo.diz" for details. TECHNICAL SUPPORT AND CONTACT INFORMATION ========================================= For sales information, send e-mail to sales@mjmsoft.com, or for technical support, e-mail support@mjmsoft.com or Compuserve 101351,2115. Technical support is available to unregistered users for a period of 28 days and to registered users for a period of 90 days, both periods starting on the date on which the first request is made to the Company for support. You can also contact us by mail at: MJMSoft Design Ltd. 3 Johnsburn Road Balerno Edinburgh EH14 7DN United Kingdom Telephone (UK): +44 131 449 6768 Fax (UK): +44 7070 716425 VERSION HISTORY =============== 5.0 Added choice of date icons 5.0a Corrected a problem some users (with 256 color display or less) experienced with the color of the help box 5.0b Enhanced non-English language support 5.1 Changed the way insert date works: from copying to and pasting from the clipboard, to simulating keyboard input (applies only to single byte character set languages). This means that the user's clipboard data is preserved, and insert date now functions in dialog boxes and wherever keyboard input might be expected. Added choice of delay for "Shift Icon After Startup"; some users had reported that 1 minute was not long enough. Enhanced right-click menu and Options dialog box. Added counter, time, new line and tab options to user format. Added combo box to give recently used user formats. Altered Options Help box to reflect these changes. 6.0 Menu structure changed to give new left-click menu and make insertion of the date easier. Regular shifting of the TrayDay icon to the clock added, as requested by many users. New welcome box - removable on registration. Gray icons changed to match TrayText; transparent icons changed to give numbers only, per user feedback. Insertion ("typing") of date speeded up. Paste option added as an alternative to inserting (inserts by copying to clipboard then automatically pasting - quicker!) 6.1 Calendar feature added. Advanced options dialog added. Many users have asked for an easy way of checking the day / week of the year of the current date; these can now be shown (by going to Advanced options) in the tooltip which appears when you move the mouse over the TrayDay icon. They can also be used in a user date format with the letters 'a' for day of year and 'w' for week of year. Option *not* to have any counters reset at midnight and startup added. This has been included in advanced options, and means that counter values can be preserved from one session to the next. 6.1a Bug (new in 6.1) affecting regular shifting of the icon fixed. 6.1b On the calendar, some non-English language users had day letters and months appear in English. Now fixed, so that they are displayed in the user's own language. Fix of bug which meant that the calendar displayed dates incorrectly from the day of change to daylight savings, to the end of the month in which it occurred. Although effectively fixed in this version, the bug was not actually noted until after this release. 6.1c Option added to have Saturdays or Sundays (or both) displayed in red on the calendar. Minor "cosmetic" improvements to the tear-off-page style icons for dates 20 and 22 to 30. In previous versions the first digit touched the left border - now moved slightly right. 6.14 Maintenance update. ASP Ombudsman statement ======================= MJMSoft Design is 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 members' products. 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