Version 0.9
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Rainlendar is a very customizable
calendar that resides on your desktop and shows the days of the current
month. The application is a Litestep plugin, but it can be used without
the Litestep as well. You can use it even with the normal Explorer-shell
if you like.
The calendar can be customized to fit your taste (and theme). You can use different fonts and colors, select the background image or just use copy of the current wallpaper. All customization can be made with a GUI, so no hassle with cryptic configuration-files or registry entries. |
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Installing
for Litestep
To install just copy the Rainlendar.dll and the example folder (Default) to your Litestep directory (e.g. C:\Litestep\). You don't need the Rainlendar.exe if you are using Rainlendar as Litestep plugin. Also do not copy the included lsapi.dll over your original file as Litestep might not work after that (or at least it might become unstable). After copying, open your step.rc and add following lines: LoadModule C:\Litestep\Rainlendar.dll ... and recycle. Set the paths to point where you copied the files. RainlendarPath points to the folder where Rainlendar.ini-file is located. All files in the ini-file are also relative to that folder unless you are using absolute pathnames. Installing for some other shell (like Explorer) Copy all the stuff in the zip-file to some location (e.g. C:\Program files\Rainlendar\) and run Rainlendar.exe. When Rainlendar is ran directly from the exe, it loads the configuration file from a folder called Default. You can also use different folder by giving its name as a command line argument for Rainlendar.exe. Probably the easiest way to to do that is to create a shortcut for the Rainlendar.exe and modify it. Add in the target-file after the Rainlendar.exe the path where the Rainlendar.ini is located (i.e. just the path, not the ini-file!). E.g. "C:\Program files\Rainlendar\Rainlendar.exe" "C:\Program files\Rainlendar\Default\" If you want Rainlendar to start every time Windows starts, move the shortcut to your startup-folder. To do that right-click on the Start-button and select Open. Go to Programs\Startup and move the shortcut of Rainlendar.exe there. Uninstalling To uninstall, just delete all the files you uncompressed from the
zip-file (make sure that Rainlendar isn't running when doing that). If you
copied the shortcut to your startup-folder, delete that also. |
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Configuration of the calendar is done from
a GUI which you open from the popup-menu. The settings
are saved in a Rainlendar.ini-file when you press the OK-button.
All the images can have pink (#FF00FF) as transparency or use real
alpha-map. The items (numbers) in the image can be placed either
horizontally or vertically. The correct placement is determined from the
dimensions of the image (i.e. whichever is bigger: height or width). The
images must be cropped so that they don't hold any extra space and
their width (or height) must be divisional with the number of items in the
image. Only BMP-files are supported for now (PNG might also work on recent
Litestep builds).
Please note that if you disable all items on the calendar the window won't have any size and it will be impossible to quit it. You'll have to kill the process in order to quit the program. Here is some info what everything means: General Position The OnBottom makes the window to stay behind other windows when it's activated with mouse. Normal is a normal Z-positioning of the window and OnTop makes the calendar to stay on top of other windows. If "Movable window" is selected, the calendar can be moved with the mouse. Please note that if the bacgroud has an alpha mask or the desktop is copied behind the calendar, the moving is really slow and can cause problems with some graphics cards. So, I'd suggest to use this feature only with non-alpha backgrounds. The "Hide on mouse over" hides the calendar when the mouse is over the window. The calendar will reappear once the mouse is moved off the window. You can disable this feature temporarily by holding shift, alt of control button down while moving the mouse. Background Start hidden Start weekdays from Monday Disable hotkeys Use window name Poll wallpaper changes Days Enable days Position & Size Align Rasterizer Font Bitmap Don't display event days Don't display today's day Today Enable todays Align Rasterizer Font Bitmap Weekdays Enable weekdays Align Rasterizer Font Bitmap Week Numbers Enable week numbers Align Rasterizer Font Bitmap Months Enable month Position Align Rasterizer Font Bitmap Year Enable year Position Align Rasterizer Font Bitmap Event Days Enable event days Align Rasterizer Font Bitmap Event Server Enable server synconization Ok, now that I've scared away most of the potential users, I can give some details about this feature. Address Port ID Update Request events on startup Sync Now It is also possible that the server locks up sometimes (especially if
you click the Sync Now-button repeatedly). The server will in that state
just inform that it's busy and cannot serve you at the moment. If that
happens you should just wait a while as the server should reset itself in
couple of minutes automatically (if it doesn't restart it and write a
comprehensive bug-report :-). |
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The Rainlendar can be
controlled also with Litestep !Bang-commands. You can also give the !bangs
as command line arguments for Rainlendar.exe. !RainlendarShow !RainlendarHide !RainlendarToggle !RainlendarConfig !RainlendarRefresh !RainlendarQuit !RainlendarShowNext !RainlendarShowPrev !RainlendarShowMonth [Month] [Year] !RainlendarShowCurrent
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This program is free software. Like
Litestep, it is released under GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. Please note that this software is still in beta-state and is most likely to have defects and may not work as it should. Use it at your own risk. The author is not responsible for any damage, direct or indirect, that this software may cause. This product includes software developed by Lee Patterson (http://ssobjects.sourceforge.net/). |
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The latest version will be found from my
homepage at:
You may also send comments and bug-reports to author: Please put the name of the product (i.e. RAINLENDAR) in the subject-field of the mail. It may be useful if you write the version of the product also. If you are reporting a bug, please try to be as exact as possible when describing the symptoms. Also some details of your system (like OS version, Litestep build, and so on) might be helpful.
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2 MAR 2002 (Version 0.9 ß)
15 JAN 2002 (Version 0.8 ß)
26 DEC 2001 (Version 0.7 ß)
3 DEC 2000 (Version 0.6 ß)
2 OCT 2000 (Version 0.5 ß)
4 JULY 2000 (Version 0.4 ß)
13 MAY 2000 (Version 0.3 ß)
6 APRIL 2000 (Version 0.2 ß)
26 MARCH 2000 (Version 0.1 ß)
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