Personal Agenda Version 0.9.9.0, My new agenda/calendar program! :)

[Nintendofreak88]

This is my newest project (and the one I've by far gotten the farthest in!) It is basicly done I'll just be updating here and there in future versions. So anyway you probly wondering what exactly it is. While basicly it's a nice mix of a rich edit and a month calendar display. It allows you to keep track of things you want to do, etc (or you can just use it as a nice rich edit as it has quite a few features. :) ) It saves automaticly when you change the selected date on the calendar (if the rich edit has text in it.) You can use the open command to replace the text in the rich edit with the file you open. Or use the save as command to save the text in the rich edit as a .rtf or .txt file in any location you want. The default directory for saving is the program's directory \agenda\whateverDate.rtf. This can be changed in options. It doesn't have a whole bunch of features and I plan on writing a help file but I wanted to get a release out soon. That's why it isn't 1.0.0.0 yet. :p Anyway, here's a download link: http://bis.midco.net/nintendofreak88/PersonalAgenda.zip Enjoy! Please post questions, comments, suggestions, etc. :)

Oh, also here's a screenshot:
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Or go here: http://bis.midco.net/nintendofreak88/Perso...endaScreen1.png

This post has been edited by Nintendofreak88 on Sep 17 2004, 01:45 PM

[The_Mega_ZZTer]

looks like a good start :)

[Nintendofreak88]

Heh thanks! Actually the program is pretty much done. I do plan on adding some features like find and such, as well as sprucing up that blank spot under the calendar with some other stuff. If you find a bug just tell me and I'll fix it right away (a few people have actually pointed some out to me that i've fixed.)

[Seal]

COOL! Nice program!

[Bearerofthesacredocarina]

for that bottum space, you should be able to upload pics to remind you of stuff!

[bran371]

Yeah this prog would be really useful... I agree that the bottom space should be used for pics. and what program did you use to make this?

[Nintendofreak88]

Hmm, i could try something like that. I was origionally planning to add some quick controls there. That is a good idea though. Maybe one for each day? I used C++ to make this (for real programmers lol! :D ) Thats why the exe is only 81kb (27kb zipped.) :w00t

EDIT: I've found something else I want to add. I want to add the ability to make days in the calendar bold. It's going to be fairly hard but there is a way to do it. I also am thinking about adding an option to change colors in the calendar (that's a lot easier!)

This post has been edited by Nintendofreak88 on Sep 17 2004, 07:24 PM

[WWakerFAN]

for a suggestion, give it the option to be put in the System Tray and popup messages saying that you've got something on depending on what day it is

[Bearerofthesacredocarina]

well, I don't know much about codeing in anything other than basic and gml, but that sounds kinda hard to do...

[Nintendofreak88]

Well, not really... It would have to be in startup. I do have an example on how to put a program in the system tray though and its not that hard really... Maybe about 40 lines of code.

[romis69]

Cool program! I have a suggestion, though. Maybe have little icons like a small heart or cake that the user can put on a date, so that the calendar will show it next to the date. This will be so someone can easily remember holidays, birthdays, anniversaries, etc. much quicker then having to go through each date looking to find out when someone's birthday is.

[Nintendofreak88]

Well, unfortunately windows won't allow me to do that with the calendar itself (I would have to draw on top of it :x ) so blame windows lol! But I am working on the ability to make the day numbers bold so you can do that kind of thing (although it isn't cooperating right now)

[bran371]

I agree that if you want to mark a day as a birthday, party, exam day, etc. you should be able to press a button and the date for that day on the calender is replaced by a picture that represents the event happening that day.

[Nintendofreak88]

I can't put it on the calendar itself because of drawing issues, but the clock is small and I could put one above the clock below teh calendar. Should I allow the user to have any size then it get scaled or just not scale it and if its too big put on scrollbars? Also I can load .bmp and .ico's with windows api but I need to use GDI+ for other formats. So basicly if you guys want multiple image formats I need to include the redistributable version of GDIPlus.dll (1.6MB.) I will probably have it as a seperate download though (if I decide to use it) because all XP users already have it and some people on older os's might (this DLL works on every os though, just don't use it on XP.) I'm sorry I can't put it on the calendar because there's just too many issues with BitBlit'ing over api controls.

This post has been edited by Nintendofreak88 on Sep 21 2004, 06:04 PM

[bran371]

Stop apoligizing (sp?) man! If it can't be done how I said it, then you can do it the next best way! It's okay!