NAME
xcalendar - calendar with a notebook for X11
SYNTAX
xcalendar [month [year]]
DESCRIPTION
xcalendar is a simple interactive calendar program with a notebook capability. It is built on the X Toolkit and the Athena or Motif Widgets (compile time option).
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 specified by the calendarDir resource (default ~/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.
"Holidays" are shown in a text widget near the bottom of the day editor. Holidays are read from a holiday file (see holidayFile below). The format of the file is mm/dd/yyyy holidaytext where the date and text are separated by a tab. Currently there is no wildcarding done.
MISSING FEATURES
One can imagine many useful features. For example automatic parsing of the current day entry in search for appointments to trigger alarms (reminders) at the approriate time. Actually, there is a perl script called xcalendar+ that will do this sort of thing. Maybe one day xcalendar will do it internally.
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:
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 holiday - holiday text 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 monochrome displays
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 in the month label
(date) and for filename determination under
oldStyle (see below);
firstDay - an integer between 1-7, indicating the day to
start a week with, default: 7 (Sunday);
markOnStartup - if True mark the entries upon startup,
default: False;
helpFile - full pathname of the xcalendar.hlp file,
default: /usr/share/xcalendar/xcalendar.hlp;
textBufferSize - maximum size of the text buffer in the day editor,
default: 2048;
calendarDir - path name of directory to use for storing calendar
files instead of keeping them in $HOME/Calendar;
holidayFile - path name of file to use for determining holiday,
default: /usr/share/xcalendar/xcalendar.hol;
oldStyle - uses version 3.0 and prior file naming convention,
(xcDAYmonYEAR), where DAY and YEAR are numeric and
mon is the first three letters of the month,
instead of the "new style" (xcyyyymmdd),
default: True;
markCurrent - if True mark the current day (if visible; useful
on color displays only), default: False;
updateCurrent - number of seconds between attempts to update the
marking of the current day, default: 60;
currentForeground - foreground color for current day highlight;
markHoliday - if True mark holidays (if visible; useful on
color displays only), default: False;
holidayForeground - foreground color for holiday highlight;
monthnames - string of '/' separated month names used for
formatting the date in cdate;
monthnms - string of '/' separated month abbreviations used
for formatting the date in cdate;
daynames - string of '/' separated day names used for
formatting the date in cdate;
daynms - string of '/' separated day abbreviations used
for formatting the date in cdate;
date - format string for date in cdate. The formatting
characters that are understood are:
%W Full weekday name
%w Three-char weekday name
%M Full month name
%m Three-char abbreviation for that month
%d The date (numerical day number of the month)
%Y Full year (4 digits)
%y 2-digit year number
default: "%W, %M %d";
DEFAULT RESOURCE DATA BASE:
! *showGrip: False *calendar*internalBorderWidth: 0 *input: True *resize: False *resizable: True *title: XCalendar v.4.0 *dayEditor.title: Day Editor *helpWindow.title: XCalendar Help *Font: 8x13 *FontList: 8x13 *helpFile: /usr/share/xcalendar/xcalendar.hlp *holidayFile: /usr/share/xcalendar/xcalendar.hol *firstDay: 7 ! bitmaps *prev*bitmap: /usr/share/xcalendar/larrow.xbm *succ*bitmap: /usr/share/xcalendar/rarrow.xbm *prevday*bitmap: /usr/share/xcalendar/larrow.xbm *succday*bitmap: /usr/share/xcalendar/rarrow.xbm *helpButton*bitmap: /usr/share/xcalendar/qmark.xbm *quitButton*bitmap: /usr/share/xcalendar/quit.xbm *prev*labelType: XmPIXMAP *prev*labelPixmap: /usr/share/xcalendar/larrow.xbm *succ*labelType: XmPIXMAP *succ*labelPixmap: /usr/share/xcalendar/rarrow.xbm *prevday*labelType: XmPIXMAP *prevday*labelPixmap: /usr/share/xcalendar/larrow.xbm *succday*labelType: XmPIXMAP *succday*labelPixmap: /usr/share/xcalendar/rarrow.xbm *quitButton*labelType: XmPIXMAP *quitButton*labelPixmap: /usr/share/xcalendar/quit.xbm *helpButton*labelType: XmPIXMAP *helpButton*labelPixmap: /usr/share/xcalendar/qmark.xbm ! colors ! Note: These may cause problems using the -rv option on monochrome displays *Background: lightgray *markBackground: gray *daynames*Background: lightgray *daynames.SUN*Foreground: Red *daynames.SAT*Foreground: Black *daynumbers*Foreground: Black *daynumbers.1*Foreground: Red *daynumbers.8*Foreground: Red *daynumbers.15*Foreground: Red *daynumbers.22*Foreground: Red *daynumbers.29*Foreground: Red *daynumbers.36*Foreground: Red *helpButton*Background: slategray *helpButton*Foreground: White *quitButton*Background: slategray *quitButton*Foreground: White *editorTitle*Background: lightgray *editorTitle*Foreground: Black *editorControls*Background: lightgray *editorControls*Command.Background: slategray *editorControls*Command.Foreground: White *editorControls*XmPushButton.Background: slategray *editorControls*XmPushButton.Foreground: White *setMarkBackground: True *markOnStartup: True *markCurrent: True *currentForeground: Blue *markHoliday: True *holidayForeground: Red *holiday*fontList: 6x13 *BorderWidth: 2 *calendar.borderWidth: 1 *borderWidth: 0 *date*borderWidth: 0 *date*vertDistance: 5 *date*font: 8x13bold *daynames*font: 8x13bold *dayEditor*editorTitle*font: 8x13bold *helpWindow*editorTitle*font: 8x13bold *date*fontList: 8x13bold *daynames*fontList: 8x13bold *dayEditor*editorTitle*fontList: 8x13bold *helpWindow*editorTitle*fontList: 8x13bold *helpButton*vertDistance: 12 *quitButton*vertDistance: 12 *editorTitle*vertDistance: 5 *editorControls*doneButton*label: Done *editorControls*saveButton*label: Save *editorControls*clearEntry*label: Clear Entry *doneButton*labelString: Done *saveButton*labelString: Save *clearEntry*labelString: Clear Entry *helpWindow*editorTitle*label: Help *helpWindow*editorTitle*labelString: Help *helpWindow*rows: 15 *helpWindow*columns: 80 *rows:7 *columns: 30 *dayEditor*Paned*editor.width: 300 *dayEditor*Paned*editor.height: 150 *helpWindow*Paned*editor.width: 600 *helpWindow*Paned*editor.height: 350 *bcontrols*borderWidth: 0 *prev*highlightThickness: 0 *succ*highlightThickness: 0 *prevday*highlightThickness: 0 *succday*highlightThickness: 0 *daybuttons*borderWidth: 0 *Scrollbar.borderWidth: 1 *Text*scrollVertical: whenNeeded *scrollHorizontal: False *helpWindow*scrollHorizontal: True *holiday*cursorPositionVisible: False *holiday*displayCaret: False *helpWindow*cursorPositionVisible: False *helpWindow*displayCaret: False !! Keyboard accelerators for Athena version *Box*doneButton*accelerators: #override \n Meta<Key>q: set() notify() reset() \n *Box*saveButton*accelerators: #override \n Meta<Key>s: set() notify() reset() \n *Box*clearEntry*accelerators: #override \n Meta<Key>c: set() notify() reset() \n *Form*prevday*accelerators: #override \n Meta<Key>p: set() notify() reset() \n *Form*succday*accelerators: #override \n Meta<Key>n: set() notify() reset() \n *Form*prev*accelerators: #override \n <Key>p: set() notify() reset() \n *Form*succ*accelerators: #override \n <Key>n: set() notify() reset() \n *Form*quitButton*accelerators: #override \n <Key>q: set() notify() \n ! Motif text translations to make it work like emacs *XmText.translations: #override\n.in +9 Ctrl <Key>b: backward-character()\nt <Key>b: backward-word(extend)\n()\nta <Key>[: backward-paragraph()\n(extend)\n(extend)\ne()\nta <Key><: beginning-of-file()\n Ctrl <Key>a: beginning-of-line(extend)\n: copy-clipboard()\nift <Key>osfInsert: paste-clipboard()\ne()\nta <Key>>: end-of-file()\n Ctrl <Key>e: end-of-line(extend)\ner()\nt <Key>]: forward-paragraph(extend)\n(extend)\n <Key>f: forward-word()\na <Key>f: forward-word()\n-character()\nl-previous-word()\nta <Key>BackSpace: kill-previous-word()\n() kill-selection()\nrl <Key>k: kill-to-end-of-line()\nete: kill-to-start-of-line()\nta <Key>Delete: kill-to-start-of-line()\nrl <Key>j: newline-and-indent()\n-line()\n: page-left()\n: page-right()\nrl <Key>g: process-cancel()\nrl <Key>osfDown: next-page()\nrl <Key>space: set-anchor()\n
FILES
$HOME/Calendar