xcalendar(1) X Version 11(1 October 1991) xcalendar(1)
NAME
xcalendar - calendar with a notebook for X11
SYNTAX
xcalendar [month [year]]
DESCRIPTION
The xcalendar is a simple interactive calendar program with a notebook
capability. It is built on the X Toolkit and the Athena Widgets.
If month and year are not provided on the command line they are assumed
to be current.
INTERACTIONS
Clicking the left mouse button on a day will start a text editor. You
can edit and save a text.This text will be associated with the day. You
can later on read and edit this text when you open the editor for the
same day. The text is saved in a file in the directory ~/Calendar. The
editor lets you also clear an entry associated with a particular day.
You can also scroll through days while in the editor by clicking on the
arrows on either side of the date label. If an already open day is
scrolled to, an appropriate message is displayed and the editor is
brought upin read only mode.
It is also possible to scroll through months in the main window by
clicking on the arrows on either side of the current date label.
You can highlight all entries in a month by invoking the function
ShowEntries. By default this function is called when the left mouse
button is pressed in the title window (where month and a year are
displayed). Pressing again the same button will unhighlight the entries.
MISSING FEATURES
To remove all entries in a particular month you have to use your system's
commands. The naming scheme for the files makes it easy : the command "rm
~/Calendar/xc*sep1988 " on UNIX(TM) will remove all entries from
september 1988. The facility to do that from the xcalendar should be
provided.
One can imagine many other useful features. For example automatic parsing
of the current day entry in search for appointments to trigger alarms
(reminders) at the approriate time. Well, maybe one day...
RESOURCES
The resource data base lets you alter the visual appearance of the
program. You can change fonts, border widths, labels, and other resources
used by widgets. One use of this facility is to change names of week days
and months.
Here are the names of widgets you can use to set various resources:
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XCalendar - class of the application
xcalendar - top level pane
controls - control panel
quitButton - quit button
helpButton - help button
date - date label
calendar - calendar pane
daynumbers - day numbers frame
1-49 - day number buttons
daynames - day names frame
MON,TUE,WED,THU,FRI,SAT,SUN - day name buttons
helpWindow - help window
bcontrols - month buttons frame
prev - previous month button
succ - succeeding month button
cdate - current date widget
dayEditor - editor popup
editorFrame - editor frame
editorTitle - editor title
editor - editor
daybuttons - day buttons frame
prevday - previous day button
succday - succeeding day button
editorControls- control panel
doneButton - done button
saveButton - save button
clearEntry - clear entry button
Application specific resources:
reverseVideoMark - if True the entries are highlighted in reverse
video; default True for black and white,
and False for color displays;
setMarkBackground - if True and reverseVideoMark is False the entries
are highlighted by setting background to
markBackground ;
markBackground - background color for highlighting entries;
setMarkForeground - analogous to setMarkBackground;
markForeground - foreground color for highlighting entries;
setMarkBackground and setMarkForeground can take any
combination of values.
january,february,..,december - these resources can be used for
changing names of months;
firstDay - an integer between 1-7, indicating the day to start a week with,
default: 7 (Sunday);
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markOnStartup - if True mark the entries upon startup,
default: False;
helpFile - full pathname of the xcalendar.hlp file,
default: /usr/lib/X11/xcalendar.hlp;
textBufferSize - maximum size of the text buffer in the day editor,
default: 2048;
DEFAULT RESOURCE DATA BASE:
!
XCalendar*showGrip: False
XCalendar*calendar*internalBorderWidth: 0
XCalendar*input: True
XCalendar*resize: False
XCalendar*resizable: True
XCalendar.title: XCalendar v.3.0
XCalendar.dayEditor.title: Day Editor
XCalendar.helpWindow.title: XCalendar Help
XCalendar*Font: 8x13
XCalendar*helpFile: /usr/local/X11R5/lib/X11/xcalendar/xcalendar.hlp
XCalendar*firstDay: 7
!bitmaps
XCalendar*prev*bitmap: /usr/local/X11R5/lib/X11/xcalendar/larrow.xbm
XCalendar*succ*bitmap: /usr/local/X11R5/lib/X11/xcalendar/rarrow.xbm
XCalendar*prevday*bitmap: /usr/local/X11R5/lib/X11/xcalendar/larrow.xbm
XCalendar*succday*bitmap: /usr/local/X11R5/lib/X11/xcalendar/rarrow.xbm
XCalendar*helpButton*bitmap: /usr/local/X11R5/lib/X11/xcalendar/qmark.xbm
XCalendar*quitButton*bitmap: /usr/local/X11R5/lib/X11/xcalendar/quit.xbm
! colors
! Note: These may cause problems using the -rv option on monochrome displays
XCalendar*Background: lightgray
XCalendar*markBackground: Steel Blue
XCalendar*daynames*Background: lightgray
XCalendar*daynames.SUN*Foreground: Red
XCalendar*daynames.SAT*Foreground: Black
XCalendar*daynumbers*Foreground: Black
XCalendar*daynumbers.1*Foreground: Red
XCalendar*daynumbers.8*Foreground: Red
XCalendar*daynumbers.15*Foreground: Red
XCalendar*daynumbers.22*Foreground: Red
XCalendar*daynumbers.29*Foreground: Red
XCalendar*daynumbers.36*Foreground: Red
XCalendar*helpButton*Background: slategray
XCalendar*helpButton*Foreground: White
XCalendar*quitButton*Background: slategray
XCalendar*quitButton*Foreground: White
XCalendar*editorTitle*Background: lightgray
XCalendar*editorTitle*Foreground: Black
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XCalendar*editorControls*Background: lightgray
XCalendar*editorControls*Command.Background: slategray
XCalendar*editorControls*Command.Foreground: White
XCalendar*setMarkBackground: True
XCalendar*markOnStartup: True
XCalendar.BorderWidth: 2
XCalendar*calendar.borderWidth: 1
XCalendar*borderWidth: 0
XCalendar*date*borderWidth: 0
XCalendar*date*vertDistance: 5
XCalendar*date*font: 8x13bold
XCalendar*daynames*font: 8x13bold
XCalendar*dayEditor*editorTitle*font: 8x13bold
XCalendar*helpWindow*editorTitle*font: 8x13bold
XCalendar*helpButton*vertDistance: 12
XCalendar*quitButton*vertDistance: 12
XCalendar*editorTitle*vertDistance: 5
XCalendar*editorControls*doneButton*label: Done
XCalendar*editorControls*saveButton*label: Save
XCalendar*editorControls*clearEntry*label: Clear Entry
XCalendar*dayEditor*geometry: 300x150
XCalendar*helpWindow*geometry: 600x350
XCalendar*doneButton*Label: done
XCalendar*editorTitle*Label: Help
XCalendar*helpButton*Label: help
XCalendar*quitButton*Label: quit
XCalendar*saveButton*Label: save
XCalendar*bcontrols*borderWidth: 0
XCalendar*prev*highlightThickness: 0
XCalendar*succ*highlightThickness: 0
XCalendar*prevday*highlightThickness: 0
XCalendar*succday*highlightThickness: 0
XCalendar*daybuttons*borderWidth: 0
XCalendar*Scrollbar.borderWidth: 1
XCalendar*editor.scrollVertical: whenNeeded
FILES
$HOME/Calendar/*
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SEE ALSO
xrdb(1)
BUGS
Save button handler in the editor cannot detect when a text is pasted.
Workaround : type something to the editor to activate save button.
AUTHORS
Copyright 1988 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Roman J.
Budzianowski, MIT Project Athena
Copyright 1990 by Purdue University Richard Bingle, Computer Science
Enhancements by Beth Chaney Purdue University Computer Science Department
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