AllDay is FREEware (but please do read the "Licensing Remarks" section of this brief manual).
AllDay is a tiny program styled after the well-known Macintosh Desk Accessories (DAs).
Its only duty is to build a yearly calendar within a separate window. Once displayed, it is possible to thumb backward or forward through the years or to jump to a certain year via a separate dialog.
A year can be displayed in either horizontal or vertical orientation; i.e., weekdays appear either next to each other or beneath each other. Weekdays are ordered starting with either Sundays or Mondays. And the application is bilingual, running either in German or in English.
All settings are accessible through separate dialogs and will be stored in a preferences file in the System’s "Preferences" folder.
AllDay works without any pre-programmed calendar tables. It builds the chosen yearly overview at the time of clicking the mouse button and "forgets" the current one upon switching to another year.
The current day is marked in a different color in the yearly overview.
Since version Version 3.0 AllDay shows years outside the range of the Mac´s built in clock chip. As well, the program now knows up to 22 public holidays, which can be configured through a dialog in the "Edit" menu. Chosen holidays are marked in a different color in AllDay´s yearly overview. They are shown correctly for years 1600 to 2599.
Version 4.0 for the first time introduces "user events" additional to its holiday feature. They can be used to enter user specific events like local holidays or birthdays.
User events are divided into two types of events: date and week events.
A typical date event would be a birthday, like the 21st. of April. A week event instead occurs each year at the same weekday in a certain month and a certain week, like the third Wednesday in November or the last Monday in May.
User events are marked in a different color in the yearly overview and are configured through a dialog in the "Edit" menu.
In Version 4.0 the preferences menu items in the "Show" menu have been moved into a preferences dialog in the "Edit" menu.
User events and holidays are listed in separate windows that can be displayed independently through the "File" menu. Each list can be scrolled and sized.
Colors of sundays, holidays, user events and today's date are configurable with the color picker through a dialog in the "Edit" menu.
AllDay has been developed as a normal application following Apple's guidelines for desk accessories under System 7. Version 4.0 lets the user choose through the preferences dialog whether or not closing all windows quits the application.
AllDay was developed using Symantec´s Think C Versions 5.0, 5.0.4, and 6.0 and has been successfully tested on an Apple Macintosh LC with 6MB RAM under System 7, and on an Apple Macintosh PowerBook Duo 230 with 8MB RAM under System 7.1.
In addition, Symantec´s Think Reference was used for online documentation while programming.
• System Requirements
This version of AllDay should run on any Macintosh with System 7 or higher. It supports 32-Bit Color QuickDraw.
• Installation
Just copy the Folder "AllDay 4.0" to your hard disk, then double-click the AllDay icon to start the application.
For ready access, it is suggested that AllDay be placed inside the "Apple-Menu"-Folder.
If you have used an earlier version of AllDay, this version will rebuild the "Preferences" file, using default settings from the newer version.
• Commercial Use & Licensing
AllDay is FreeWare, though all commercial use requires a license, which you should obtain via your preferred mail system, viz.:
*Snail-mail:
Ulrich Hilger
Arilléstrasse 5
65824 Schwalbach
Germany
*Electronic mail:
AppleLink HILGER
CompuServe 100116,2751
Internet 100116.2751@COMPUSERVE.COM
By the way, I certainly do appreciate all your comments, recommendations, and suggestions; and please do let me know of any incompatibility you might encounter—this will help me to provide maximum stability in any future version(s) of AllDay.
• Version History
Version 4.0
* Introduces date and week type user events
* Allows to choose a separate color for display of user events in the
yearly overview
* New preferences dialog
* Holidays and user events are displayed in independently scrollable
and sizeable windows
* User can choose whether or not the application quits upon close of
all windows
* Prints user events together with holidays
Version 3.1
* Corrects some typos in the documentation and AllDay´s "About"-Dialog and
in the documentation
* Contains a smaller holiday menu
* Allows printing through the standard print dialog
* Marks today's date
* Allows to change foreground- and background colors of sundays, holidays
and today's date
* Knows four new holidays (now 22)
* Routines that need Color-Quickdraw are called on Quickdraw-Macs only
* Needs only half of the RAM amont needed by version 3.0
Version 3.0:
* Stores window positions in the "Preferences"-file as well
* Can now compute weekdays of years outside the range of the clock chip
* Knows up to 18 different public holidays
* Lists up to 18 holidays in a separate window
* Allows you to configure the holiday list through a separate dialog
* Marks chosen holidays in yearly overview
* Stores holiday settings in the "Preferences"-file
* Holiday functions are now accessible through new menu
* Version 3.0 is now Freeware
Version 2.3
* Corrects a memory management bug
* Stores current settings in a "Prefs" file within the
System´s "Preferences" folder
Version 2.1
* Sundays will be drawn in red on Macs with 32-Bit Color
QuickDraw.
Version 2.0
* Calendar window remembers its position during most recent
session
* New "Change" menu
* Options for browsing and "Change Year" are now contained in the
"Change" menu
* Buttons at the bottom of the screen have been removed
* Choice of horizontal or vertical orientation for weekdays is now
available through "Change" menu
* Calendar table now is completely generated offscreen and then
copied onto the screen, providing faster screen updates
* Menu-choice of Sunday or Monday as the starting day for each week
* Menu-choice of English- or German-language calendar
Version 1.3
* Corrects some major bugs of Version 1.2
Version 1.2
* Initial publication
• Credits & Special Thanks
A huge "Thank you!" to Steve Maller for his help and experience on debugging AllDay version 1.3.
Thanks also to all the people who sent their comments for the sake of enhancing AllDay…and still more thanks to those few honest folks who sent $10 in addition.
