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- Monthly Planner (v1.2)
- an
- (even )Slicker Rexx Program
-
- by
- Dominic Giampaolo
-
-
- So what does it do?
-
- It allows you to keep track of little notes, those Post-it type
- things that you always lose.... Now you can electronify your messy
- desk and keep things organized (yeah right!). Seriously though, this
- is a calendar program (originally by Mike Meyer) that I enhanced using the
- RexxArpLib to make it more Amiga'tized, and added the capability to keep
- track of notes that you write.
-
- ***AND*** in version 1.2 I have added the capabilities to delete days and
- to also be able to print them out. I figured this would make it
- more usefull, hope I was right.
-
-
- How do I use it?
-
- PREREQUISITES: First, you gotta have ARexx (which if you don't
- have, you should PURCHASE, not pirate). Then you have to have the
- Rexx libraries in place. Which libraries? The Rexxsupport.library,
- rexxarplib.library, and screenshare.library (and of course
- RexxSyslib.library which Arexx needs to run).
-
- Then what?
-
- Start up AREXX, and type:
-
- RX MP
-
- hit the return key, watch your drives grind for a few seconds, and
- viola you are greeted with a wonderful calendar that is set according
- to your current system's date.
-
- Yeah so what?
-
- Jeez, don't be so pushy! Now you can start adding things that
- you want to remind yourself of, such as your wife's birthday or
- whatever.
- You can add things by clicking the edit gadget and then the date
- that you want to make a note for. Doing this will start up your
- editor (the one in your C: directory) with a filename according to the
- date you clicked on. Type in your note, save it, and then the next
- time you click on that date you will be greeted with a listing of that
- note. The listing will use MORE (also in your C: directory) if you
- have it, otherwise it will open up it's own window and display the
- contents of the notes for that day. You can't edit these notes, just
- view them. To edit them (deleting and adding things, etc...) you must
- edit the date, as explained 3 or so sentences ago.
-
- What else?
-
- Well, Mike Meyer's code is what handles the Calendar part, so
- you can thumb through the months (and years) of time, adding or
- viewing notes as you go along (my part!). The BACK UP gadget goes
- back one month, and the NEXT gadget advances one month (no duh). The
- JUMP button will jump to a specified month/year. When you click the
- jump button a requester will appear and you just type in the month you
- want to go to (with an optional year). The format is like AUGUST or
- AUGUST 1999, abbreviations also work (such as AUG). The CLEAR gadget
- will clear any little windows that might happen to be sticking around
- that you don't want. The PRINT gadget will ask you to click on a day
- and then it will print out that day (if there is anything for that day).
- The DELETE gadget will delete the appropriate file from your disk if you
- no longer want to have it on your disk. Saves you the trouble of having
- to do it from outside the program.
-
-
- TECHNICALITIES:
-
- So what else do I need to know about this wonder-program?
-
- What else do you want to know? :) One thing about the notes
- files is that they are named by the date they are for. So that July
- 29, 1989 would be named July.29.1989, this file is placed where you tell it
- to be placed. When you click on a day's gadget, the program looks in the
- current directory, df1:, df1:s/, and finally df0:s/. You can change this
- pretty easily in the program, and you should if needed (like if you have a
- harddrive).
-
- There is a file for each date that you create one for. I chose
- this over having one large file, because it would have required
- searching through some huge file, blah blah blah blah (I didn't want
- to do it that way, it's too long and blecky).
-
- To delete things you don't want anymore, just either erase the
- whole day's file, or edit it and selectively delete the text and
- re-save it again.
-
- I have tried to make this program as crash proof as possible,
- that's why it got rather long. As far as I know, it won't screw up. You
- can take your disks out, change disks, not have an editor, etc..., but you
- shouldn't be able to make it screw up, except for typing in wrong dates,
- not even that sometimes...
-
- Other than that there isn't much else.
-
-
- WHAT DOESN'T IT DO?
-
- It won't change your life. It also doesn't deal with recurring
- events (such as Aunt Martha's B-day, or your bowling league game every
- tuesday night). Stuff like that could be added, but I didn't. Give
- it a try (that's how this program came about). It also won't get you
- a date for friday night, but it will keep track of it if YOU get one.
- :-) Have fun, stay cool, and don't stress out.
-
- Dominic Giampaolo
- July 29, 1989
-
- Send any mail or comments to:
-
- Dominic Giampaolo
- Giampal@auvm.bitnet
-
- or
- 3704 Eastwood Dr.
- Baltimore, Md. 21206
-
- Bye now!
-
-
- P.s. All you jerry-curl suckers
- wearin' high heel boots,
- like ballerina's
- what I mean is your a fruit-loop-troop
- all you wanna-be-wanna-be's
- when will you learn,
- wanna be like ------ gotta wait your turn....
-
- /* know who wrote that ? :^) */
-
-