旼컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴� � � � Windows Reminder � � � 읕컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴� What is REMINDER? Did You ever forget your best friend's birthday? Hopefully this will not happen again with REMINDER. REMINDER reads a text file with your important dates and displays everything that lies within a user selectable range in a window. By default REMINDER will show your dates for the next 10 days. The power of this program is its simplicity. REMINDER is distributed as CardWare. If You like it, send a nice picture postcard. Installation Copy REMINDER.EXE to your Windows directory and install it with program manager. You will also need the VBRUN100.DLL runtime library somewhere on your DOS path. You will find this library on every Win*Net BBS. Copy the REMINDER.DAT to the same directory where REMINDER.EXE is located. I would strongly advise you to put REMINDER.EXE into your RUN= statement. Operation REMINDER has five buttons: 'Thank you' terminates the program. This is the default. 'Change' calls the editor (default: notepad) with your REMINDER.DAT file. 'Rescan' re-reads REMINDER.DAT. 'Options' call the REMINDER's option panel. 'Info' displays information about REMINDER. Please note, that REMINDER.DAT has to be in the current directory, when REMINDER is started. If it cannot find the file, it will display an error message and terminate. Notepad has to be in your path if you want to use it from within REMINDER. Format of REMINDER.DAT Each date you would like to remember has to be on a separate line. The format of this line is year month day text. Leadings spaces are ignored. Example: 91 12 18 Call George to confirm contract 1991 12 20 Check savings account A zero is a wildcard. These will trigger reminders every year or month. 0 12 6 Guess what ! 0 5 10 Volker Weber's birthday. Don't forget to send a card. 0 0 25 Pay next month's rent. Do not insert empty lines or commas within REMINDER.DAT Options This is new to version 1.2. You can set up a range of days and select your favorite (windows) editor. You might as well leave everything at the default. If you have trouble finding the data file with the Change button, you can specify the path to your reminder.dat. The option panel has four input fields: - from day: defaults to -1 (i.e. yesterday) - to day: defaults to 10 - editor: defaults to notepad.exe - reminders: defaults to reminders.dat REMINDER does not perform any error checking. It simply is a 'Garbage in - garbage out' setup. If you specify 'from tomorrow 'til yesterday' that's exactly what you will get: nothing. If REMINDER cannot find the editor you specified, it will display an error message and terminate. Clicking on the reminders input field displays a files select panel, which is pretty much straightforward. The options panel has four buttons: - Cancel: close options panel - Default: set everything back to default - Temporary: close options panel and rescan REMINDER.DAT with the new settings - Permanent: same as 'Temporary'. Write Settings to WIN.INI. REMINDER will read the settings from WIN.INI next time. WIN.INI will contain five new lines after you selected 'permanent' for the first time. They could look like this [Reminder] EditorName=notepad.exe FromDate=-1 ToDate=10 Reminders=d:\reminder\reminder.dat If you painted yourself into a corner with the options panel, press 'Default' and 'Permanent'. If all else fails, remove the lines in the [Reminder] section of WIN.INI. De-Installation instructions I don't think you will ever need it. But, just in case: delete REMINDER.EXE delete REMINDER.DOC deLete REMINDER.DAT remove the five lines from WIN.INI License You may copy or distribute REMINDER as long as you do not charge anything for it - I strongly encourage you to do so. There is one thing I wolud like you to do. If you like this program and continue to use it, please send a postcard to my adress: Volker Weber Kahlertstr. 32 6100 Darmstadt Germany If you like to donate any money, please feel free to do that as well. By sending me your postcard you will implicitly acquire a lifetime license to use this program. This seems a reasonable price to me. I am very much looking forward to receiving cards from all over the world. Thank you. Waranty This program takes up valuable space on your precious harddisk, although not very much. That's all. No other waranties implied or expressed. Revision History 1.5 Fixed a minor bug in the file section routine and the behaviour of the timer. 1.4 Reminder now rereads its datafile when the date changes. If it finds any reminders for the day, it returns its display from iconized to normal view and sounds the speaker. Reminder now auto-iconizes after one minute if did not find any reminders for the day. Changed the main display to list box which enables 100 reminders per day. Reminder now sorts the display. Added day of week to display. Added todays date to display. 1.3 Added option to specify the path to your datafile. 1.2 Added option panel. Set up your favourite editor. Set up date interval. 1.1 Minor Bugfix 1.0 Initial Release Have fun with this little program Volker Weber Darmstadt, November 1991 Moderator WINDOWS.GER 2:243/4.1@FIDONET.ORG