WinCalendarTime 1.0


Not as useful as the Gnome clock applet, but still useful when you are forced to use Windows XP, WinCalendarTime replaces the standard Windows clock with an enhanced one, if you click on it a calendar is displayed.

WinCalendarTime

This new version contains only some bug fixes. I’m using Windows only a few hours per month, so I’m not going to work on new versions, if you want something better just switch to Gnome :)

Update: I was asked how to translate WinCalendarTime in other languages, if you are intersted read this.

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February 26th, 2007
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1
Written by:
Tim
Posted on:
February 26, 2007 at 12:09 pm

Cool, finally no need to mouseover for the date. Thanks! :)

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2
Written by:
S. Kochen
Posted on:
February 26, 2007 at 1:16 pm

Really neat app for those times when I use windows. Many thanks! :)

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3
Written by:
Dan Nicholson
Posted on:
February 26, 2007 at 4:47 pm

I’ve been forced to look at it from the other direction. For my girlfriend, this is the Windows killer app that I haven’t found a GNOME replacement for:

http://www.tinnes.org.uk/desktopcalendar/

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Written by:
bkor
Posted on:
February 26, 2007 at 7:27 pm

Please add the week numbers :-)

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Written by:
David Tenser
Posted on:
February 26, 2007 at 10:35 pm

Thanks, very nice! Would be great it if could still display the tooltip though, for those who don’t know it’s actually clickable.

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Written by:
lemerou
Posted on:
February 27, 2007 at 3:33 pm

You application is a must! really thank you :)

A small bug here, I’m using the Human.msstyle from deviant art and in this theme, the clock font color is black and in your application the default color is white (but a rollover/click on it change the color to black and return to white when the mouse leave the button)

Can you post an updated version with the default color system for the font please.

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Written by:
lemerou
Posted on:
February 27, 2007 at 3:43 pm

I posted two screenshots here of the two states:
http://ftpmerou.free.fr/ubuntu/wincalendartime/

And like bkor said, the week numbers would be a great enhancement.

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Written by:
JrezIN
Posted on:
February 27, 2007 at 10:35 pm

What about a x64 version? =]

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Written by:
barisione
Posted on:
February 28, 2007 at 3:12 pm

@bkor:
Why do you need week numbers? Where should they be, in the calendar or in the button?

@David Tenser:
Probably it will be fixed in 1.1.

@lemerou:
The color is hard-coded for known themes, and “guessed” for unknown themes. The code tries to use white on dark backgrounds and black on dark ones, I don’t know why it’s not working with your theme.

@JrezIN:
I do not have an x64 processor, so I cannot test it.

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Written by:
seamus
Posted on:
February 28, 2007 at 3:23 pm

Can you add “Adjust date/time” in pop-up menu?

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Written by:
lemerou
Posted on:
February 28, 2007 at 7:03 pm

Ok for the color, it is a bug from the theme apparently.

The week numbers are used in a company when you ask for a delivery for the week 12 or 13 for example, it’s simple than said for the week of the 19th of march or 26th of march etc…

They should be on the right of the week like on this screenshot of evolution calendar in gnome:

http://ftpmerou.free.fr/ubuntu/wincalendartime/Capture-Calendrier.png

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Written by:
barisione
Posted on:
February 28, 2007 at 7:28 pm

@lemerou:
I never noticed week numbers in evolution! Adding them to WinCalendarTime is easy, just matter of adding the MCS_WEEKNUMBERS style to the control. It will be added in WinCalendarTime 1.1 with the translations I received.

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Written by:
barisione
Posted on:
February 28, 2007 at 8:02 pm

@seamus:
What do you mean? I’m on Linux so I cannot test it but I’m pretty sure that the menu has an “Adjust Date/Time” item.

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Written by:
David Tenser
Posted on:
February 28, 2007 at 10:36 pm

@seamus:
“Adjust date/time” is already there.

@barisione:
Great to hear that you’re planning to make an update after all! I’ve already recommended this to all of my colleagues.

Comment Number:
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Written by:
barisione
Posted on:
March 1, 2007 at 12:07 pm

@David Tenser:
I will release WinCalendarTime 1.1 because adding the week numbers seems easy and because I received some translations.

Comment Number:
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Written by:
Siradar
Posted on:
March 28, 2007 at 4:13 am

Exactly what I was looking for …… no more no less. Thank you Barisone

Many people, including myself have become a little pananoid about loading software and sourceforge says WinCalendarTime is in Alpha3 …. which is a little daunting for software that works so well.

You may get more downloads if you change this as 1.0 seems like a stable final release to me. Unless alpha3 means something other than what I think.