Calendar Marker Version 2.0, Oct 4th, 1995

A utility for the Newton Dates Application

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NOTE!!! ==> $10 Shareware <== NOTE!!

(but free to registered 1.x users - thanks for paying!)



New In Version 2.0:



* Must be installed on internal store (*NOT* on a card) to

  avoid the grip of death.



* Faster operation! The full display now is computed in

  under 2 seconds, less depending on what options you enable. 

  This is due to the use of NTK 1.5 and selective displays.



* User configurable: Prefs app can configure CM to

  display week numbers, meetings,

  repeating meetings, day notes, repeating day notes, and

  either Boxed or Underlined day notes.

  

* Works with older (1.05 and 1.11) Newton software to display

  dates correctly in non-US locals. If the display of days is

  incorrect, select "Weeks start on Monday" in the prefs app.



* Prefs app can be removed from Newton once preference are

  selected.

  

* Only works with current Newtons running OS 1.3x, 1.11, 1.05,

  etc. We'll see what happens when 2.0 comes out!

  

Do you ever wish you could tell when you have meetings

and anniversaries (day notes), just by glancing at the

small calendar displayed in the upper right corner of

the Dates display? You know, just like those $50 pocket

organizers that put boxes around anniversary dates, and

little marks at the top or bottom of a day with a

meeting in the morning or afternoon?



Calendar Marker does just that! Every time you open the

Dates application, it swiftly checks for any and all day

notes and meetings in the current month. It also does

this check when you change or make a new appointment, or

select a new day to view. It then draws a box around any

day with a day note, and places a small line to the left

of any day with a meeting. A line is drawn near the top

of a day with one or more morning meetings, while a line is

drawn near the bottom for one or more afternoon meetings.



You can now see just how over-committed you are in a month!



What about Week numbers? 



Calendar Marker displays those to the left of the month. It

counts the first week in a year with more than 3 days as week

1. If the first week in a year has 3 or fewer days in it,

it is numbered the same a the last week of the previous year.

If the last week in a year has fewer than 4 days in it, it is

numbered 1. Those are the rules.



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About the packages: 



Calendar Marker (CalMarkr.pkg) is an AutoPart, so it does not

show up in your extras drawer. It uses almost no Heap at all

(meaning you won't get "out of memory" messages because of

it!). It's very inexpensive!



Calendar Marker Prefs (CMPrefs.pkg) is a regular application that will show up in your extras

drawer. You use it to enable/disable the various CM options:



* Show Week Numbers: If checked, week numbers are displayed

* Weeks Start on Monday: If checked, draws all marks correctly

	for Dates apps that display the first day of the week as

	Monday (ie, European Dates) - Most times, CM will detect

	this with the current (1.3x) operating system. If it

	doesn't for your Newton, just check this box!

* Show Meetings: Master on/off switch to show repeating and

	non-repeating meetings

	* Non-Repeating: Enable/Display non-repeating meetings

	* Repeating: Enable/Display repeating meetings (slower)

* Show Day Notes: Master on/off switch to show repeating and

	non-repeating Day Notes

	* Non-Repeating: Enable/Display non-repeating Day Notes

	* Repeating: Enable/Display repeating Day Notes (slower)

	* Draw Box: If checked, a box is drawn for Day Notes, 

		otherwise the date is underlined (I like underlined!)



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Installing Calendar Marker: 



If you currently have an old version of CM installed, remove

it before installing this version.



Use your favorite package installer to install CalMarkr.pkg

and CMPrefs.pkg on your Newton. It will work when installed on

a card, but it will cause the "grip of death". I had to make

this change because it would use too much heap otherwise. Once

you have your pref set the way you like them, you can remove

the CMPrefs.pkg package.



Calendar Marker will work with other calendar packages 

(such as Action Names & Agenda) if you install it AFTER 

those packages.



If you delete AN&A, you should reset your Newton so CM can

start working again. If you have AN&A installed on a card, put

CM on the card AFTER AN&A. This is a limitation of the Newton

operating system and an inherent danger in patching existing

applications.





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Paying for Calendar Marker:



Send a Check in US funds for $10 to:



John Schettino 

97 Jewett Street 

Pepperell, MA 01463



Comments, questions, feature requests,

etc.: email js12@gte.com  

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my other projects!

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What's New in 1.2



Week numbers. They're even computed correctly if you're

in Europe. I've also speeded up CM a bit. When you select a

different day in the same month, CM just re-displays the

previously computed marks.



What's New in 1.1 (bugs! gahhh!) :



Corrected a bug that caused problems for people with

Calendar Marker (CM) and Action Names and Agenda (AN&A)

installed.

This is a problem, since both packages try to patch

the same part of the Dates application. While I cannot

fix AN&A, what I can do is make sure that CM will work if

you install it AFTER AN&A. If you delete AN&A, you should

reset your Newton so CM can start working again. If you

have AN&A installed on a card, put CM on the card AFTER

AN&A. This is a limitation of the Newton operating system

and an inherent danger in patching existing applications.



Corrected a bug that prevented Calendar Marker from

correctly calculating the date when the Newton is not

in a US locale (thanks to Nils Segerdahl for reporting

this bug and pointing out the specific problem!). 



Corrected a bug that caused the wrong days to be hilighted

if you happen to not start your months on Sunday (thanks

to Michael Schmidl reporting this bug.) Our friends in

Europe should like this version better!