Re: Today: A Bit of Software Archaeology

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From	Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk>
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Subject	Re: Today: A Bit of Software Archaeology
Date	Sun, 27 Apr 2025 21:09:34 +0100
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On 27 Apr 2025 as I do recall,
          Steve Fryatt  wrote:

[snip]

> See
> 
>   https://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/risc-os/today
> 
> (towards the bottom of the page) for the test release. Feedback, as ever, is
> welcome -- and if time permits, I might even get back to you!
> 

It seems to work.

Having recurring annual events (e.g. Tanzania Union Day on April 27th)
listed with a date of ???? is apparently a deliberate choice, although
it looks like an error to the uninitiated.
However, I'm puzzled that the birth of "Edith Hamilton" (who she?) on
August 12th is also listed as ???? - 'Highlight own data' is selected by
default, so this is presumably a birthday reminder for a former user's
daughter or something like that, as it's not highlighted in red....

I was puzzled that using the Search feature didn't seem to do anything:
it displayed that a certain number of records had been found, but then I
couldn't find the search result!  The manual states that "All references
will then appear in the scan window", but this is not the case; although
I examined its contents quite carefully and even quit and restarted the
program to check, no new lines had appeared in the scan window.

I eventually discovered that the work area of the *search window* had
been increased, and that the search results could be found by resizing
the search window itself to maximum.  Which makes much more sense than
putting them into the scan window showing the events for a specified
*day* as opposed to a specified keyword, but is not immediately
apparent as the window does not change significantly in appearance and
the results are not visible. The application should probably reopen the
window to full size.

Editing typos in the default data (e.g. "Emporer Augustus") seems to
work.   :-)

-- 
Harriet Bazley                     ==  Loyaulte me lie ==

A bachelor is footloose and fiancee free.

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Today: A Bit of Software Archaeology Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2025-04-27 09:36 +0100
  Re: Today: A Bit of Software Archaeology Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-04-27 21:09 +0100
    Re: Today: A Bit of Software Archaeology Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2025-04-27 22:49 +0100
      Re: Today: A Bit of Software Archaeology Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-04-28 00:02 +0100

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