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- Short: Best Date/Time appointment keeper avail.
- Author: ram@encore.com (Richard Ambridge)
- Uploader: ram@encore.com (Richard Ambridge)
- Type: util/cdity
-
- A useful and simple commodity for remembering important dates.
- Features:
- - Fully customisable startup
- - Very easy to install
- - Can be used without Battery backup clock
- - Easy to understand and use straight away
- - Future events pre-warning
- - Amigaguide documents
- - History of past events (history length definable)
- - Different classes of events
- (Once, Persistant,Annual, Weekly, Monthly, Birthday,Relative ...)
- - Full OS 2.0 GadTools interface
- - Its free (no shareware, cardware, beerware)
- - Hotkey user definable
- - Completely hidden when not in use
- - Each message can have a time attached, and an alarm 24hour & AM/PM format
- - Font adaptive
- - Custom sizeable
- - Execute external command on message arrival.
- - Can use on any screen format
- - Requires workbench 2.0+
-
- $HIS
- ;
- ; Version 1.0 - 28th May 1994
- ; Initial prototype. Badly coded and eventually discarded
- ;
- ; Version 1.1 - 10th June 1994
- ; Redesigned project.
- ; Split main window into seperate windows
- ;
- ; Version 1.11- 27th June 1994
- ; - The year number gadget in "Add New Note" always returned 0, see new.c
- ; - Added the Amend function.
- ; - Added comfirm quit from Double run of Commodity
- ;
- ; Version 1.2 - 5th July 1994
- ; - Prenotes can now be added to all types of notes.
- ; - Amend function was re-written making it now code efficient and
- ; also can be activated by double clicking on a note
- ; - Prenotes are now "attached" to the parent note, so when the parent
- ; note is amended/deleted so are the prenotes.
- ; - New note type "Relative" added. (See documents)
- ; - Some memory was not being returned to the system for some "Previous"
- ; notes. Now fixed.
- ; - A previous note is now not created when a prenote expires.
- ; - A space was added in the prenote between the date and the note text!
- ; - A lot of code was re-written to be more efficient and cleaner! If you
- ; could see the source code it is now much clearer, (less headaches for
- ; me)
- ; - Changing the period for the Within list made all deleted messages
- ; reappear. Now fixed.
- ; - The Freeze window until ready part never worked. Strange, it used to.
- ; - Any of the prefs options could be set to a negative number. This used
- ; to cause a lot of problems. Now fixed.
- ; - If the prefs filename was set to blank then the prefs would be loaded
- ; incorrectly the next time, and the data file would go walk about.
- ;
- ; Version 1.3 - 15th July 1994
- ; - Added font adaptability.
- ; - Included a size gadget. (Not as simple as it seems!)
- ; - The window size is now saved with a preference save.
- ; - Added a time feature. Each message can now be time stamped.
- ; - Messages for today can be displayed individually on startup.
- ;
- ; Version 1.31 - 20th July 1994
- ; - Changing the type of the note in Create/Amend used to erase Prenote
- ; value currently stored. Now it doesn't.
- ; - The Create/Amend window has been rearranged.
- ; - Added the execute command option for a message.
- ;
- ; Version 1.32 - 26th July 1994
- ; - Using NTSC Hi-res laced screens with certain system fonts gave
- ; some trouble and Remind couldn't create the gadgets in the window.
- ; This has now been fixed.
- ; - In some resolutions the Create note screen had some gadgets touching.
- ; These have been slightly moved.
- ; - The time format can be selected as 24hour or am/pm
- ; - The messages are now ordered in time of day as well as date.
- ; - Linked with utility.library for slightly smaller and faster code
- ; - External commands now executed with dos.library/Execute() for better
- ; compatability.
- ;
- ;
- ; Version 1.4 - 15th August 1994
- ; - The minimum size of the window has been reduced. So now the
- ; main window can become smaller.
- ; - Yet more problems with Resize and Fonts solved.
- ; - Midnight was being shown as 12:00PM!
- ; - Todays date and time have been added to the main window.
- ; - Added date and time to todays messages.
- ; - Added option to ignore all messages for today on startup.
- ; - Midnight support has now been added. If Remind is running and
- ; midnight occurrs the display is changed and the current database
- ; is saved indicating use of Remind for the next day. The
- ; implementation is a bit rough and improvement suggestions would
- ; be appriciated.
- ; - The timer routines have been rewritten, the old versions have caused
- ; crashing on my system.
- ; - The slider values for the day/month sliders in Add/Amend note now
- ; have the slider values displayed for easy reference.
- ; - Persistant notes can now be "Finished" by shift+double click on the
- ;
- ;
- ; Version 1.41 - 19th September 1994
- ; - The relative week number couldn't be amended.
- ; Now fixed.
- ; - Messages with commands can now disable the window
- ; which opens with the message.
- ; - Save always on exit option added to preferences.
- ;
- ;
- ; Version 1.5B - 21st March 1995
- ; - BETA release
- ; - Remind's screen now pops to front when hot key is pressed.
- ; - Add/Amend window changed to a more compact version.
- ; - Prefs window changed to a more compact version.
- ; - Weekly/Monthly/Yearly View feature added.
- ; - Email address changed to rambridg@encore.com!
- ;
- ;
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