rwdschedule

= rwdschedule - for rwdtinker and RubyWebDialogs

rwdschedule is a simple little database

The GUI interface used is RubyWebDialogs

RubyWebDialogs is a platform independent graphical user interface for Ruby applications. It generates HTML and serves it with an internal HTTP server, so you can use your favorite web browser as the front end for your Ruby application. All this means, that it can be used on almost every platform, like Ruby itself. http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/rubywebdialogs/

== Quick Start Start the program by typing ruby init.rb

Then point your web browser to: http://localhost:7705/

Then enter the event date you want to search for in the browser form and press Search. 200412december1a browser should fill with the event information. To exit, press the x inside the browser window.

== How to Use the Schedule Book (rwdschedule)

There are two ways to add records to schedule book.

== Adding Records

• Use the "Edit Event" tab The first field is the most important. It is the filename that will be created. I use the event date starting with yearmonthday 2005january11

  The following lines for entry are for you to fill in as you want. When you are finished press the Save Changes button

  You use this same screen for editing an already saved event

• Manually add an entry for a event record You can use a text editor to create a record put information on separate lines. You can have as many lines as you want name the file with starting with date and end with .nam 2005january11 6 pm dinner party.nam

  Save your file to the schedules/ subdirectory

== Viewing an schedule book entry:

Go to "View event" tab

   Click on the list events button.
  
   Click on the date you want
   
   Then click the "Open" button
   
   If it finds the record it will open it. It displays the record 
   as text  under the "Open" button.

== Event Utilities

Click on "Event Utilites" tab

You can rename event filenames You can delete events

== Sync for multiple computers

If you are like me, you have more than one system I use rwdTinker at home on my Linux laptop at work I use it on XP on the go I use rwdtinker on my Zaurus PDA So I am adding schedule events on different machines. There is a function to help sync the separate systems

in "Selection Panel" click on "Open Schedule Sync Window"

First you need your ftp details set in the configuration/rwdschedule.cnf file

you can upload your events from your local schedules directory to the ftp site you can download events from the ftp site to your local updates directory you can perform a sync which finds remote events and adds them to your local schedules directory

There is a button to delete the update directory when finished

== Show Month

Click on "Show Month" tab enter Year: 2005 Month: 1 Click on show month

It will display one month

== ics files

  You can create an ics file
  you can view a raw ics file 
  Rename ics File
  Delete ics File
  

== Using over a Network

To serve the application over your local LAN,change the last line in the init.rb file to something like: RwdTinker.file(RWDFile).serve(8080, "-r" ? ".rwduids" : nil) Then you should be able to login at: http://yourhostname:8080

You have to authorize yourself. The .rwuids example is a string with the name of the authorization file, relative to the home directory of the user that started the service. This file has to be in the form of:

user1 = password user2 = pass phrase

Thus the file .rwduids might contain:

erik = secret

== Requirements: RubyWebDialogs - I am using 0.0.11 2004-3-9

Ruby I am using version 1.8.2

I have tested this under Linux-Debian kernel 2.6.9

== PROBLEMS: It is easy to type a date with a space after it. That will have a somewhat invisible space in it.

don't type in the extension .sch

Closing the browser doesn't terminate the application. You have to use the application's close-button And terminating the application doesn't terminate the application when running in network mode. You just log out.

Don't use the back-button of the browser! Strange and unpredictable things may and will happen!

== contacts For more information see: http://rwdapplications.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl

For more information about RubyWebDialogs see: http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/rubywebdialogs/index.html

Steven Gibson [e-mail]

== Changelog Version 1.01 changed schedule configuration screen updated for rwdtinker 1.66 new helpabout new documents list

Version 1.00 fixed sync download added more unit tests

Version 0.99 updated for rwdtinker version 1.64 changed handling of application name returned added jump seletion options added some unit tests

version 0.98 updated for rwdtinker version 1.61 add in test harness

version 0.97 added rconftool use to update configuration files changed applet removal to not use external rm removed version number from directory name

version 0.96 added export ics record added end time for ics create record

version 0.95 added ics file view tab added ics file creation tab ics file rename and deletion tab reorganized schedule edit screen for future isc output corrected typo on menu tab

version 0.94 added RwdSchedule Menu tab for easier navigation wider text boxes for contact information Improvement to context sensitive help updated for rwdtinker 1.51 - finds available port and remote control

version 0.93 added some context sensitive help added edit config file and reload config variables change to tinker context help script updated for rwdtinker 1.47 factored month calendar display - should be more readable fixed l10n calls for calendar for Dutch added archive function for old events

version 0.92 Added delete update files function in sync tab

version 0.91 updated for rwdtinker 1.44 - refactored gui files Changed gui directory names - more like Java package titles

version 0.9 added back window for sync tasks added configuration viewing added ftp file download for sync added ftp file upload for sync add update files and schedule sync compares

version 0.8 updated for rwdtinker 1.42 - semi-live updates

version 0.7 updated for rwdtinker 1.4 addition to documentation

version 0.6 updated for rwdtinker 1.3

version 0.5 added edit commands to change event record Rename event Delete event changed order of event list - descending = oldest at top

version 0.4 added configuration file with location of schedules directory add date selection to view event tab updated to version 1.0 of rwdtinker