Ruby Agenda

Ruby Agenda is written in Ruby with Tk bindings (which are in the default Ruby libraries; Tk is likely to be installed on any UNIX system).

For use on iPAQ/linux/familiar-distro, see my ipkg feed. The agenda will be ported from Ruby/Tk to Ruby-Wise to eliminate the tcl interpreter. At this point in time, it would not gain much speed and would loose functionality, since Ruby-Wise is not finished.

   ruby agenda/tkagenda.rb

Make sure you have a recent version of Ruby, or the Tk-bindings will not work.

Alternatively, when running familiar on iPAQ-linux, install ruby-agenda from my feed and launch it from your menu.

v0.9.2 (stable -- 2002 Aug 13 -- 1557 lines)

• Feature: split database in two for faster browsing through future appointments,
• Fix: edit-flag now marked when only changing existing appointments; caused lost data,
• Fix: sets edit-flag to false after saving.

v0.9 (stable -- 2002 May 25 -- 1482 lines)

• as ipkg for familiar, comes with /usr/lib/menu/ entry,
• Slight speed up of xml-parsing (could do much better, still, but I don't care enough), also shortened the xml-file about 5%,
• Can cancel occurrences (but not list and un-cancel them, yet),
• Moved appt-specific commands from buttons to Popup menu (press and hold appointment in the list),

v0.9-pre1 (unstable -- 2001 Dec 24 -- 1574 lines)

• Popup widget for Day-of-Month and Hour disappears when clicked outside of it (but within Ruby Agenda),
• Added config-file ~/.rbagenda.cfg,
• Can set UseFont in config-file, so all widgets use that font; this allows me to fit the agenda on my iPAQ screen again (Yeah, found a bug in the Ruby/Tk bindings, so this likely does not work for you yet, unless you obtain the ipkgs from my feed for iPAQ/linux),
• Yearly repetition,

v0.8 (stable -- 2001 Dec 22 -- 1499 lines)

• All-Day appt,
• Gives some sort of week view,

v0.8-pre3(stable -- 2001 Nov 8 -- 1284 lines)

• Takes Daylight Saving Time into account,
• Processes deviations properly for DST (you may experience one-hour mistakes for deviations you set in 0.7),
• Repeating pattern for X-daily and X-weekly appts,
• Allows repeating appts to finish repeating,

v0.8-pre2(unstable)

• Slightly improved on DST occurrences and deviations,

v0.8-pre1(unstable)

• First attempt at DST,
• Saves and rereads the database in new format (can still read the 0.7 format), including repetition/deviation restructuring (test.rb rendered useless),

v0.7(stable -- 2001 Sep 9 -- 1196 lines)

• New appt now defaults to date of View (instead of today's date),
• Added Save button while proper auto-saving is not in place,
• Constructs back-up of appointments, mostly to protect me while adding features and making mistakes,
• Deviation from a Repeating appointment (can edit all fields, except repeat-fields; can not cancel, yet),
• Fixed Duration (removed subsecond accuracy),

v0.6

• TkTime widget includes DayOfWeek,
• TkTime maintains internal state (and updates subwidgets accordingly),
• Improved editing of appointments,
• Navigating through Agenda in main window improved by use of TkTime,

v0.5 (first usable version)

• Saves data in XML,
• Supports Repeating appointments (but not monthly, yet), abandoned Single Appointments,
• Supports Location and Description,
• Can Cancel edits and new appts,
• View stays on same day when returning from editing or when deleting,
• Can Delete Single appts,
• Selection of Day of Month like Hour of Day,
• Tests for (a.o.) Repeating appts built,

v0.1

• Supports Time (and Duration) and Subject,
• Can browse, one day per step,
• Can Add and Edit appts,
• Single appointments,

• I fear I need my own Date and Time classes...
• v1.0: List all deviations of a certain appointment, especially the cancellations,
• v1.0: Improve and unify navigation,
• v1.0: Improve Saving of database (auto-save? apmd-dependent?),
• v1.0: add repetition for monthly appts(?) or other reps (every 3rd week of September)?,
• v1.0: Change all-day appt into n-Day duration(?),
• v1.0: provide a way to view some (all) deviations,
• v1.0: implement extra occurences,
• v1.0: Improve handling of those Repeating appts and its Deviations,
• v1.0: Search function,
• v1.0: Improve exchangable of datafile with other programs, if XML,
• v1.0: Implement Alarms (may not work on hibernating hardware :(
• Implement for other toolkit (Tcl/Tk takes 2 MB of my iPAQ flash; Ruby-Wise is the obvious candidate),
• Implement Gant-Chart like overviews (takes lot of screen estate...),
• Hook into rb-pim suite,
• Provide a way to list Easter (and the like) each year,
• ...