Simona Planner V7 32bit for Windows 95
written by Carlos Moya



CONTENTS
---Installation and required files
---Overview
---Registration and Support
---Bugs
---Changes since last version


**INSTALLATION AND REQUIRED FILES**

Required files:
VB40032.DLL & associated files - Microsoft Visual Basic runtime library
must be located in the WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory. The library can be
found at the Simona Planner Home Page at
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Union/1904/simon.html

(No other DLL's or VBX's or OCX's required! All elements are handled internally
please see the end of this file for some words on this)

For installation instructions see the _INSTALL.TXT file

UPGRADERS:
DO NOT delete your current version of Simona Planner
before upgrading as this will destroy the registration
information. Simply follow the regular instructions
for installing Simona Planner. Make sure you specify
the same folder that your current version of Simona
Planner is in during Setup.


**OVERVIEW**

Win95/98: Simona Planner is a personal information manager for
college students. The program features a Calendar for entering
appointments and events, a phone book, and provides students
with a way to organize the courses they have taken and the
tests or papers they have written into a concise visual form.
Simona Planner uses a folder/file cabinet metaphor to organize
the data. The program automatically calculates your GPA 
and your accumulated credits. The program features a
hypothetical GPA calculator, where you can input mock grades,
and a progress graph of your GPA semester by semester, as well
as a QuizWizard to test your yourself.


**Registration and Support**

Visit the Simona Planner Home Page on the Word Wide Web at
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Union/1904/simon.html

If you have questions regarding Simona Planner or if you wish to receive an
upgrade, I can be reached at the address listed below. If the first
address (mine) is out of order you may send your message to one
of the others.

be81756@binghamton.edu
         -or-
ndiaz@bucknell.edu
ec7986@cnsvax.albany.edu

If you wish to purchase the fully-working version of Simona Planner send
a check or money order for $25 to:

********************************
*  Carlos Moya                 *
*  RE: Simona Planner          *
*  535 West 51 Street #5G      *
*  New York, NY 10019          *
********************************

See the Order.txt file for more information on how to order Simona Planner-
in Simona Planner click the 'Order...' option in the Help menu.


**Known Bugs**

Sometimes Simona Planner's wallpaper will not repaint properly. This
is especially true if your desktop's wallpaper is a complex 256-color
image. This may be a video card problem or just a problem with the
way VB handles 256-color images. One sure way to fix this problem is
to up your video mode to something higher than 256color mode (like
High Color Mode).

Date and time manipulation is daunting. Although I have tried my best,
I have not *extensively* tested Simona Planner using foreign date and
time formats. Problems may arise if date/time formats specified in
Windows' Control Panel differ from those expected by Simona Planner.
To the best of my knowledge, Simona Planner is y2000 ready.

Some graphical elements may not appear correctly if Windows is running
in Large Font mode.

Although Simona Planner has been tested under Windows NT 4.0, it has
not been *extensively* tested. Minor incompatibilities may exist.


**Changes Since Last Major Version**

See the Simona Planner Home Page at 
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Union/1904/simon.html
for the version history


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All the features in Simona Planner are handled internally without the use of
external custom controls. They are either handled in code that I sweated over
or through calls to Windows' built-in API functions.

Some notable functions accomplished in Simona Planner without the use of OCX's
* System Tray Notification- QuickCalendar plops itself quite nicely on the tray
without any help from an OCX
* Common Dialog Boxes. Windows provides access to these through API's- no OCX
required
* Tooltips- Handled quite nicely in code.
* Calendar Displays- boy I wouldn't mind using a nice OCX for these! if only
they didn't cost a couple of hundred dollars.
* Tabbed Dialogs- a little time consuming to program but handled well. VB should
have these built in anyway.
* IE4/Win98 style toolbar
* and a bunch of other stuff.

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