xcalendar(1) USER COMMANDS xcalendar(1) NAME xcalendar - calendar with a notebook for X11 SYNTAX xcalendar [month [year]] DESCRIPTION The _x_c_a_l_e_n_d_a_r is a simple interactive calendar program with a notebook capability. It is build 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. To achieve pleasant visual effect you have to load a resource data base to the server. The default database is provided with this program and is also included in this text. Consult the man page for xrdb(1). 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 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 day, month and a year are displayed). Pressing again the same button will unhighlight the entries. MISSING FEATURES Currently, to view another month you have to start another process and specify the month and year on the command line. You can run several xcalendars at the same time. However, it would be nice to be able to scroll or browse through the calendar. 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, X Version 11 Last change: 3 June 1988 1 xcalendar(1) USER COMMANDS xcalendar(1) and other resources used by widgets. One use of this facil- ity is to change names of week days and months. Here are the names of widgets you can use to set various resources: XCalendar - class of the application xcalendar - top level form controls - control panel quitButton - quit button helpButton - help button date - date label calendar - calendar frame 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 dayEditor - editor popup editorFrame - editor frame editorTitle - editor title editor - editor 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; _s_e_t_M_a_r_k_B_a_c_k_g_r_o_u_n_d and _s_e_t_M_a_r_k_F_o_r_e_g_r_o_u_n_d 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: 1 (Monday); markOnStartup - if True mark the entries upon startup, X Version 11 Last change: 3 June 1988 2 xcalendar(1) USER COMMANDS xcalendar(1) 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*Font: vtsingle XCalendar*Background: wheat XCalendar*BorderWidth: 2 XCalendar*calendar*borderWidth: 0 XCalendar*controls*borderWidth: 0 XCalendar*date*font: 8x13bold XCalendar*date*borderWidth: 0 XCalendar*daynames*font: 8x13bold XCalendar*daynames*Background: PaleGreen XCalendar*daynames.SUN*Foreground: Red XCalendar*daynames.SAT*Foreground: DarkGreen XCalendar*daynumbers.7*Foreground: Red XCalendar*daynumbers.14*Foreground: Red XCalendar*daynumbers.21*Foreground: Red XCalendar*daynumbers.28*Foreground: Red XCalendar*daynumbers.35*Foreground: Red XCalendar*daynumbers.42*Foreground: Red XCalendar*controls*helpButton*Background: DarkGreen XCalendar*controls*helpButton*Foreground: wheat XCalendar*controls*quitButton*Background: DarkGreen XCalendar*controls*quitButton*Foreground: wheat XCalendar*daynumbers*Foreground: DarkGreen XCalendar*editorTitle*Background: PaleGreen XCalendar*editorTitle*Foreground: Red XCalendar*editorControls*Background: PaleGreen XCalendar*editorControls*doneButton*Background: Red XCalendar*editorControls*doneButton*Foreground: wheat XCalendar*editorControls*saveButton*Background: Red XCalendar*editorControls*saveButton*Foreground: wheat XCalendar*editorControls*clearEntry*Background: DarkGreen XCalendar*editorControls*clearEntry*Foreground: wheat XCalendar*dayEditor*geometry: 300x150 XCalendar*dayEditor*editorTitle*font: 8x13bold XCalendar*dayEditor*editorTitle*Foreground: DarkGreen XCalendar*helpWindow*geometry: 600x350 X Version 11 Last change: 3 June 1988 3 xcalendar(1) USER COMMANDS xcalendar(1) XCalendar*helpWindow*editorTitle*font: 8x13bold XCalendar*doneButton*Label: done XCalendar*editorTitle*Label: Help XCalendar*helpButton*Label: help XCalendar*quitButton*Label: quit XCalendar*saveButton*Label: save XCalendar*markBackground: PaleGreen XCalendar*setMarkBackground: True FILES $HOME/Calendar/* SEE ALSO xrdb(1) BUGS Save button handler in the editor cannot detect when a text is pasted. Workaround : type something to the ditor to activate save button. AUTHOR Copyright 1988 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Roman J. Budzianowski, MIT Project Athena X Version 11 Last change: 3 June 1988 4