TrayDay User Manual
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1. User format characters y M d h H m s or Numbers with no leading zeros for single digit years Months days hours 12 t Hours 24 minutes seconds or A P Regional Settings 2015 MJMSoft Design Limited Further Details 19 yy MM dd hh HH Numbers with leading zeros for single digit years months days hours 12 mm ss or tt Hours 24 minutes seconds or AM PM Regional Settings D As d but adds the ordinals st nd rd or th as appropriate MMM or ddd Three letter abbreviations for the Month or day yyyy MMMM or Full name of the year Month or day dddd year month day Glves year yyyy month MMMM day d weekday dddd or time h mm tt weekday or time with these options case year YEAR is not significant a aa aaa Z Zz Day of year with minimum of 1 2 or 3 digits leading zeros days remaining in zzz w ww or k year with minimum of 1 2 or 3 digits leading zeros week of year with minimum of 1 or 2 digits leading zero or day of week 1 to 7 where 1 is Sunday or Monday as set in Settings Calendar T HE HHH n n Counter with minimum of 1 2 or 3 digits leading zeros set at 0 or n number or n On right click menu click Increment to increment manually or Counter Reset to reset toO orn n etc As etc but increments automatically after copy or insert user date n X or text Gives a new line or tab or enclose text in single quotation marks2. 3 6 Counters See also User Format helper You can include counters in the user format numbers which can be incremented automatically or manually after being inserted or pasted in a document from the left click menu or give a number with a minimum of 1 2 or 3 digits filled to the left with zeros if necessary When a counter is included in the user format it is set to 0 or to a specified number up to 7 digits enclosed in brackets n n or n Also 2 new items appear on the left click menu Increment which manually increases the counter by 1 and Counter Reset which resets the counter to 0 or n By default any counters are also reset at startup and at midnight but by clearing the appropriate check box in the Settings User formats dialog the values will be preserved from one day to another and remembered from one session to another If you change the user format to include a counter and have been using a counter previously you will be asked if you want to reset the counter or retain the previous value The counter function is useful for users who wish to date stamp files or messages For example lt yyMMdd doc gt will give 07012500 doc 07012501 doc 07012502 and so on The counter can be specified in the form n n or n This operates in a similar way except the counter is incremented automatically after each time a user date is copied or inserted the Increment menu ite
3. ST technical support how to get 23 time settings 20 tooltip 13 20 TrayDay calendar 9 distributing 23 how to install 7 overview 5 what s new from 6 1 6 TrayDay icon disappearing 17 shifting to clock 16 styleof 17 Windows Vista 17 Windows XP 17 troubleshooting known limitations 23 typing text 21 U user format characters for 18 counters 19 dialog 14 helper 17 W week numbers calendar 9 ISO Standard 16 week ofyear 13 weekend color 12 welcome box removing 12 What s new from version 7 0 2015 MJMSoft Design Limited
4. Combo boxes The other limitation is sometimes experienced when inserting or pasting the date to combo boxes edit boxes with an arrow at the right which opens a drop down list This is because when the TrayDay icon is clicked the active window changes to TrayDay momentarily and is then returned to the window which had keyboard focus In most cases when focus is returned the caret is also restored to the same point as before and TrayDay assumes it can start inserting or pasting This is not always the case ina combo box and results may be unpredictable unfortunately it is impossible for TrayDay to detect this You can tell if this may happen by positioning the caret where you want text to go changing to another window then changing back again If the caret does not return to the same place TrayDay will not function correctly there You can instead choose Copy from the right click menu select the appropriate date with the left click menu then use Ctrl V to insert it in the box Non standard user interface The above section on Combo boxes may also apply to some programs which have a non standard user interface Again try positioning the caret where you want text to go changing to another window then changing back again If the caret does not return to the same place TrayDay will not function correctly there Screen savers Power Management Some users have reported that if the Shift Icon function is set at every 10 minutes and b
5. Right click menu 2 3 Right click Menu Clicking the TrayDay icon with the right mouse button opens a popup menu showing various options Register opens up the box for registering TrayDay This item disappears once TrayDay is registered Help displays help About opens the About dialog similar to the welcome box which appears when TrayDay starts If you are using TrayDay during the Evaluation period this box also tells you how many days to go Shift Icon shifts the TrayDay icon to next to the clock assuming you have your taskbar at the top or bottom of the screen which may be convenient if you have a number of icons in your tray Note that in Windows XP the icon is shifted away from the clock Settings opens up the Settings dialog for the configurable options Default action opens up a sub menu where you can tick the date format to be used when the TrayDay icon is double clicked with the left mouse button or the default hotkey is pressed this can be short long Or user or you can choose to have a double click hotkey press show or hide the calendar This setting can also be changed in the Settings dialog The following three items determine the action to be carried out when a text item is selected on the left Click menu The currently selected option is marked with a tick Copy the text will be copied to the clipboard Insert the text will be inserted at the caret of your active or foreground window by simulating keyboar
6. the Taskbar and select Properties Under Notification area click Customize Alternatively Right click a blank area of the Notifications Area and select Customize Notifications Select the TrayDay icon then click the down arrow next to it and select Always show Do the same with the TrayDay calendar icon 3 5 User format helper This dialog helps you to define your own date or time format If you are familiar with user format characters then you can enter your format directly into the edit box at the top left Otherwise use the buttons which will automatically add the required format characters A sample will appear on the right as you build up your user format Each format can have up to 255 characters 2015 MJMSoft Design Limited 18 TrayDay Help 3 5 1 Note that for many of the settings there are 2 or 3 columns headed Min digits to show 1 2 3 This refers to the presence of leading zeros For example if the day of the month is 8 and you choose minimum of 1 digit it will appear as 8 If you choose the button in the 2 column it will appear as 08 Similarly a counter starting at 1 will appear as 001 if you select it from the 3 column The user format characters are based on the standard Windows date and time characters see Control Panel Regional Settings but these have been extended in TrayDay to give more options For example w or ww for week of the year a aa or aaa for day of the year z zz or zzz for days rem
7. txt readme information whatsnew txt summary of what s new in the current version uninstall exe uninstall program see below How to Uninstall TrayDay Go to Control Panel Add Remove Programs and select TrayDay or select the Uninstall icon in the TrayDay program group 2015 MJMSoft Design Limited TrayDay User Manual Using TrayDay 9 2 Using TrayDay 2 1 TrayDay Calendar To display the monthly calendar left click the TrayDay icon and select Show Calendar Or go to Settings Options and set the default action on a left double click or a hotkey press to toggle the calendar on or off Alternatively start TrayDay with c in the command line Note that TrayDay remembers the window position and whether the calendar is displayed from one session to the next By default the calendar is shown with weeks starting on a Monday you can change this to Sunday through the Settings Calendar dialog You can also choose to have Saturdays and or Sundays displayed in red Note that the months and day letters eg M T W TF S S will appear correctly in your own language The current day is shown in a different color When the calendar is displayed an extra icon which looks like a small calendar appears in the tray If the calendar has been lost behind other windows click this icon to bring it back to the top It may be useful to have the calendar always on top of other windows To turn this on select Calendar always on top from the
8. 004 are in week 53 2004 Fixed problem where if the counters setting Reset at midnight startup on the Settings User formats tab was not checked user formats disappeared from the left click menu Changed the registration code system for TrayDay in order to better protect the software from piracy or code sharing As version 7 is a free update registered users can email newcode mjmsoft com for a new code Please give as much information about your purchase as possible as we must verify each request Name address and email address from your original purchase would be helpful along with a NetBanx or Paypal reference if known 1 3 Installing TrayDay TrayDay requires Windows XP Vista Windows 7 8 or 10 and needs 2 5MB of space on your hard drive Tray Day is distributed as a zip file Extract the files to a temporary folder and run SetupTD exe Or if you have the self extracting exe version simply run it to install During the install process you can choose to have Tray Day added to your list of programs which start every time Windows starts you can set this later if you want The files which are installed in the Tray Day folder are as follows TrayDay exe main program executable Tray Day hlp help file TrayDay cnt help file contents license txt details of your license agreement ombudsmn txt Association of Shareware Professionals statement pad file xml amp pad file htm information for vendors distributors readme
9. 10 has the following changes Upgrade for compatibility with Windows 10 Version 7 03 has the following changes e Further updates to improve compatibility with Windows Vista Version 7 02 has the following changes Title bar of 3 month calendars may now optionally show the current or center month for example February 2007 Previously it would only show the outer months for example January March 2007 The setting can be changed in Calendar settings Converted the help file to HTML Help format for compatibility with Windows Vista which does not support WinHelp based help files e Some updates made to program and help file to improve compatibility with Windows Vista Version 7 01 has the following changes e Fix of bug where with certain tooltip settings days to or after MyDate would display incorrectly Version 7 00 had the following changes e Added new calendar formats The original pre version 7 calendar is now known as Small and the new formats are Normal Large 3 month horizontal and 3 month vertical Added color scheme features The colors of the following elements of the calendar are fully user configurable background day numbers current day weekend 3 month headers weekday initials and week numbers Additionally you can store a combination of colors as a scheme and retrieve it easily if required The following schemes are preset Aqua Barley Beige Evergreen Neon Salmon Slate Steel and Color safe
10. Color scheme drop down box Or you can choose your own colors for the various elements of the calendar background day numbers current day weekend 3 month headers weekday initials and week numbers select the element to change and click Choose color When you change a color the selected Color scheme shows as blank if you want to save your new scheme click Save as and give it a name You can delete color schemes except Default by clicking Delete Note that the scheme Color safe has been designed to work with displays set to 256 colors or fewer other schemes require a higher color resolution else colors may appear dithered 5 Whether to display in weekend color as in the current color scheme dates on the calendar which are Saturdays or Sundays 6 Option for the 3 month calendars to fade the outer months This fades slightly the text of the outer months allowing the center month which is normally the current month to stand out 7 Choose whether the title bar of 3 month calendars displays the current or center month for example April 2008 or the outer months for example March May 2008 2 4 3 Tooltip Dialog Select the options you want displayed on the Tooltip the message which appears if the mouse cursor is placed over the TrayDay icon 1 Day of week Sunday Monday etc 2 Day of year 1 366 3 Week of year 1 53 The following five if selected will also be shown at the top of the menu which appear
11. TrayDay User Manual 2015 MJMSoft Design Limited TrayDay Date in the Windows tray with pop up calendar by MJMSoft Design Limited MJMSoft Design Limited is a private limited company registered in Scotland No 183702 and having its registered office at 56 Kingsknowe Drive Edinburgh EH14 2JX United Kingdom All rights reserved Products that are referred to in this document may be either trademarks and or registered trademarks of the respective owners The publisher and the author make no claim to these trademarks While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this document the publisher and the author assume no responsibility for errors or omissions or for damages resulting from the use of information contained in this document or from the use of programs and source code that may accompanyit In no event shall the publisher and the author be liable for any loss of profit or any other commercial damage caused or alleged to have been caused directly or indirectly by this document July 2015 in Edinburgh Scotland Contents 3 Table of Contents Part TrayDay First Things 5 1 Introducing TrayDay eec ee a ee nern 5 2 Whats NOV a nn te r ae e a A ea a a ne Mende aa Ea Eaa Ee NN a 6 KESNrTcilnBri y T 7 Part Il Using TrayDay 9 1 TrayDay Calendar 5 uiii inito uere bade leads oet ege osed epe ra eet eere ess 9 2 Left cli
12. TrayDay left click menu or calendar icon right click menu select it again to turn it off Pressing the Fl button on the calendar itself or pressing t when the calendar has keyboard focus has the same effect Note that if the calendar is set to always on top the calendar icon is removed from the tray it is no longer needed to bring the calendar to the top You can have week numbers displayed on the left of the calendar To turn this on select Calendar shows week numbers from the Tray Day left click menu or calendar icon right click menu select it again to turn it off Pressing the button on the calendar itself or pressing w when the calendar has keyboard focus has the same effect Or if your language is French Spanish Italian or Portuguese click amp l or press s for Semaine Semana etc See International Standard for important information on week numbers To move from month to month or year to year refer to the following list Note that the calendar needs to be the active window if the keyboard or IntelliMouse amp wheel is to be used Clicking Kl pressing left cursor key or rolling the IntelliMouse wheel away from you moves back a month Clicking l pressing up cursor key or Page Up or rolling the IntelliMouse wheel away from you with Ctrl key down moves back a year Clicking amp pressing Home key or clicking the IntelliMouse wheel with the mouse pointer over the calendar goes to the current mont
13. aining in the year and k for day of the week If k is used this will show 1 to 7 day 1 is either Sunday or Monday depending on whether you have set the first day of the week to Sunday or Monday in the Calendar dialog The International Standard is day 1 Monday For convenience you can use year month day weekday or time in the user format note that case is not significant Year YEAR etc give the same result as year For example lt weekday day month year gt would give a date like Tuesday 25 January 2005 Or lt month day time gt would give January 25 10 26 AM Note that if time is used it has the format h mm tt that is hours based on the 12 hour clock and with AM or PM as appropriate If the week number is displayed in a user format if there is a short week at the beginning of January it will show as week 52 or 53 of the previous year unless the format also includes the month or day of the month in which case it will display as week 0 of the same year Otherwise there is the potential for displaying the wrong year For example January 1 2005 with the user format yyyy W ww k would display as 2004W536 But the user format MMMM d yyyy W ww k would display the same date as January 1 2005W 00 6 2004 would be too confusing in this instance If there is a short week at the end of December it will show as week 1 of the next year unless the format also includes the month or day of the month in which case it w
14. and 2 on the menu are the pre set short and long date formats on your computer as set up in Control Panel Regional Settings Date Date formats 3 up to 12 can be defined and organized with the help of this dialog If you have a favorite user format store it at the top of the list it will appear on the left click menu as item 3 and you can choose in Settings Options to have it typed in to a document as the default action on left double clicking the TrayDay icon in the tray or pressing the default hotkey Your user formats can include counters ordinals 1st 2nd 3rd etc and other features which extend the standard Windows date and time formats Choosing New or Edit from Settings User format opens the User format helper which helps you define your own formats Up to ten user formats can be defined and you can choose how many of them to display on the left click menu Say you have 5 formats defined and have chosen to have 3 shown on the left click menu All 5 will be shown on this dialog only 3 will be shown on the left click menu the remaining two being unused but still stored On the left click menu formats 1 and 2 will be the pre set short and long dates and items 3 to 5 will be the 3 user formats you have asked to be shown Also on this dialog you can decide whether to reset counters at midnight and startup If this box is not checked counter values are preserved from one session to the next 2015 MJMSoft Des
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16. d input Unless the text includes character s which cannot be typed by a single combination of keystrokes in which case the Paste action will occur Paste the text will be copied to the clipboard and automatically pasted in at the caret of your active or foreground window 2015 MJMSoft Design Limited 12 TrayDay Help 2 4 2 4 1 2 4 2 Exit exits the program Left click menu Settings Dialog This dialog has 4 tabs Options Calendar ToolTip User formats Options Dialog There are seven things which can be changed using the Options dialog The second and third are not available after the end of the 30 day evaluation period 1 Whether TrayDay should run automatically every time Windows starts 2 Whether to display the welcome box when TrayDay is started The box can also be turned off by clicking the check box at the bottom of the welcome box itself 3 When to shift the TrayDay icon 4 Which TrayDay icon style to use 5 Set a hotkey which when pressed will open the left click menu offering keyboard access to TrayDay s menus and dialogs The hotkey can be a combination of the Windows logo key if present Ctrl Alt Shift and a character and must include either Win Ctrl or Alt although note that a number of Windows logo key combinations are reserved for Windows use and you may not be able to set them 6 Set a hotkey which when pressed will initiate the default action as set in 6 below Th
17. e calendar for information on the menu items relating to the calendar Clicking the TrayDay icon with the left mouse button opens a popup menu showing the various date formats ready to insert copy or paste Item 1 is the pre defined Control Panel Regional Settings Date short date and item 2 is long date Items 3 and following show the user formats set in the Settings User formats dialog You can set the maximum number of items to display in the menu in the same dialog box When you select a date either using the mouse or by pressing the underlined number the action 2015 MJMSoft Design Limited Using TrayDay ticked in the right click menu will occur Copy Insert or Paste Note that if you have more than one user format with counters only the first most recent will be displayed on the left click menu only one item may use counters at a time To change to another format with counters move it to the top in the Settings User formats dialog The following two items are only visible if the menu displays a user format that includes counters Counter reset resets the counter to zero or n if specified Increment increases by 1 the value of any counter set with in the user format Counters set with are incremented automatically each time they are used The top menu item is TrayDay right click menu which opens the right click menu A left click on the icon while TrayDay is inserting text will cause it to abort
18. ek of the year to have a minimum of just 1 day then look at December 31 2012 with the format MMMM d yyyy W ww k Shift Icon function Because other applications may add icons to the system tray the TrayDay icon may move further away from the clock assuming that you have your taskbar either at the top or bottom of the screen Select Shift Icon from the right click menu to move the icon to beside the clock Note that in Windows XP the icon is shifted away from the clock 2015 MJMSoft Design Limited Further Details 17 Under Options Shift Icon After Startup you can choose to have TrayDay shift the icon automatically 1 minute or 2 minutes after starting This is particularly useful if TrayDay is in your startup folder with other applications the order in which icons are added to the tray is difficult to determine Choosing this option gets round this by moving the icon to the clock after other applications have loaded Most users should find that 1 minute is enough but those with slower systems and or large startup groups may need to select 2 minutes There is also the option to shift the icon every 10 minutes or every hour times are approximate This helps to ensure that the TrayDay icon is kept next to the clock unless you use Windows XP in which case it is moved to the other end of the notification area Note however that the whole taskbar is redrawn every time the icon is shifted which may be distracting and may sto
19. es the Julian Day number by deducting 2 400 000 5 This means that the day starts at midnight and can be expressed in 5 digits rather than 7 9 Internet Time as defined by Swatch divides the day into 1000 Beats of 1 minute 26 4 seconds with beat 2000 at midnight Central European Wintertime It therefore has no geographical boundaries and assuming your PC clock and Windows Time Zone are correctly set should give the same time wherever you are For more information visit http www swatch com Normally if your Time and Time Zone are correctly set in Windows then the Julian Day numbers and Internet Time display correctly However in certain rare circumstances this may not be the case and you may need to use the Time adjustment dialog to correct this for TrayDay Note that the Julian Day number and Modified Julian Day number when displayed by left clicking a calendar date will differ by 1 from what might be expected For example January 1 2000 will show JD 2451545 and MJD 51544 This is because the Modified Julian Day number shows a date which runs from midnight to midnight while the Julian Day number shows the day which begins at 12noon on that day the next day User Format Dialog TrayDay lets you insert the current date quickly and easily into just about any application just click the date format of your choice on the menu which appears when you left click the TrayDay icon and it will be typed or pasted in Date formats 1
20. for monitors displaying 256 colors or fewer There is a further option for the 3 month calendars to fade the outer months This fades slightly the text of the outer months allowing the center month which is normally the current month to stand out e Extended the MyDate feature to make it possible to change MyDate from the calendar giving a quick way of finding out the difference between two dates Previously this feature could be set in Settings Tooltip the difference between the date set there and the current date could then be viewed on the tooltip which appears when the mouse pointer is held over the date in the tray Also the difference between My Date and a date left clicked on the calendar would appear on the menu In version 7 MyDate can be set directly from the calendar by left clicking a date and selecting Set MyDate to If the current date or a date clicked on the calendar is before MyDate then Days to MyDate appears on the tooltip or calendar menu If the date is after then if in Settings Tooltip Count MyDate as day 0 is set Days after MyDate appears on calendar or menu Or if Count MyDate as day 1 is set Days of MyDate appears A right click menu has been added to the calendar to allow quick access to Calendar settings or to change to a different calendar format The letters s n h vand c can also be pressed when the Calendar is active to change the calendar format or open Calendar set
21. h Clicking 2l pressing down cursor key or Page Down or rolling the IntelliMouse wheel towards you with Ctrl key down moves forward a year Clicking 2 pressing right cursor key or rolling the IntelliMouse wheel towards you moves forwards a month Clicking M pressing w El or s in France etc or selecting menu items as noted above switches 2015 MJMSoft Design Limited 10 TrayDay Help 2 2 week number display on or off Clicking H pressing t or selecting menu items as noted above switches on top on or off For fastest navigation press and hold the up down cursor key or Page Up Down to move quickly through the years Right clicking the calendar brings up a menu from which you can choose different calendar formats small medium or large 3 month horizontal or 3 month vertical You can also select Calendar settings from this menu The options on the right click menu are also available via the keyboard Press s for small calendar except in France etc where s switches week numbers on or off Press n for normal calendar Press for large calendar Press h for 3 month calendar horizontal Press v for 3 month calendar vertical Press c for Calendar settings Press Esc to close the calendar Left clicking a date on the calendar brings up a menu with your various date and user date formats selecting one causes the selected date to be Copied Inserted or Pasted depending on
22. he last week of the previous year and is displayed by TrayDay as week 52 or 53 If the week number is displayed in a user format this short week at the beginning of January will show as week 52 or 53 of the previous year unless the format also includes the month or day of the month in which case it will display as week 0 of the same year Otherwise there is the potential for displaying the wrong year For example January 1 2005 with the user format yyyy W ww k would display as 2004 W53 6 But the user format MMMM d yyyy W ww k would display the same date as January 1 2005 W00 6 2004 would be too confusing in this instance Similarly if January 1 is on a Tuesday Wednesday or Thursday the short week at the end of the previous year is counted as part of the same week and is displayed as week 1 If the week number is displayed in a user format this short week at the end of December will show as week 1 of the next year unless the format also includes the month or day of the month in which case it will display as week 53 of the same year Otherwise there is the potential for displaying the wrong year For example December 31 2007 with the user format yyyy W ww k would display as 2008 W01 1 But the user format MMMM d yyyy W ww k would display the same date as December 31 2007 W53 1 2008 would be too confusing in this instance Occasionally this short week might appear in a user format as week 54 For example try setting first we
23. ign Limited TrayDay User Manual 16 TrayDay Help 3 3 1 3 2 Further Details International Standard TrayDay can display week numbers If relying on them it is important to be aware of the International Standard contained in ISO 8601 1988 It states A week is a seven day period within a calendar year starting on a Monday and identified by its ordinal number within the year the first calendar week of the year is the one that includes the first Thursday of that year In the Gregorian calendar this is equivalent to the week which includes 4 January TrayDay is preset to this standard right click the TrayDay icon and select Settings then click the Calendar tab The ISO standard requires that Monday be set as first day of the week and the setting First week of year should show Week with a minimum of 4 days Week 1 will then always include at least a Thursday Friday Saturday and Sunday IMPORTANT if you have the calendar set to show Sunday as the first day of the week you should change the number below to a 3 Week with a minimum of 3 days If you do NOT do this years which begin on a Thursday will show week numbers incorrectly For example January 5 2004 was by ISO standard in week 2 But if you set weeks to begin on a Sunday and keep the minimum of 4 days setting it will show as week 1 Note that by ISO standard if January 1 is on a Friday Saturday or Sunday this short week is counted as part of t
24. ill display as week 53 of the same year Otherwise there is the potential for displaying the wrong year For example December 31 2007 with the user format yyyy W ww k would display as 2008 W01 1 But the user format MMMM d yyyy W ww k would display the same date as December 31 2007 W53 1 2008 would be too confusing in this instance Occasionally this short week might appear in a user format as week 54 For example try setting first week of the year to have a minimum of just 1 day then look at December 31 2012 with the format MMMM d yyyy W ww K Also note the possibility of text in the user format surrounded by single quotation marks This means for example that you could define a date stamp with your name and date lt Your Name m d yyyy gt To include a single quotation mark in your text enter 2 of them together for example Today s Date gt will give Today s Date Use n or X to give a new line or tab but don t enclose them in single quotes or they will treated as text See also Counters Hint There are two common errors made in defining a user format If a user format does not give the result you expect the first thing to check is that any text is correctly surrounded by single quotation marks otherwise letters such s m h d etc will be interpreted as date or time format characters The second thing to check is for the month an upper case M MM MMM or MMMM is required lower case will give minutes
25. is hotkey bypasses the menu system and lets you initiate the insertion of the date into an application or show or hide the calendar directly 7 The default action occurs when the TrayDay icon is left double clicked or if a default hotkey above is set and pressed You can have the calendar toggle on off or insert the current date in the foreground window Select Short or Long to use the preset Windows date formats Regional Settings or User to use your own format defined in the User formats tab This can also be set from the Right click menu item Default action Calendar Dialog The following options are available through this dialog 1 First day of week Sunday or Monday This option affects the display of the calendar and also influences how the week of the year is determined The week of the year can be displayed as a tooltip or in a user format with ww 2 This option influences how the week of the year is determined Week 1 is the first week Sunday to Saturday or Monday to Sunday as above with the number of days shown or more See ISO Standard for important information on these options as the week numbers on the Tray Day 2015 MJMSoft Design Limited Using TrayDay 13 calendar depend on these two settings above 3 Calendar style which can be small medium large 3 month horizontal or 3 month vertical 4 Choose colors Tray Day has a number of pre defined color schemes which you can choose from the
26. m does not appear For example lt E mail 1 sent d MMM yyyy at HH mm gt will give E mail 1 sent 8 Apr 2008 at 14 26 E mail 2 sent 8 Apr 2008 at 14 43 and so on If your user format specifies both an automatic counter and a manual counter TrayDay will ask if you want the automatic counter to be reset every time the manual counter is incremented by selecting Increment This gives the possibility of using for example lt 1 gt which will automatically give 1 000 1 001 1 002 etc then on selecting Increment 2 000 2 001 2 002 etc 2015 MJMSoft Design Limited TrayDay Help 3 7 3 8 Julian Day Numbers Julian Day numbers were invented by Joseph Justus Scaliger in 1583 As currently defined they give days as integers on a 7980 year cycle with day zero starting at noon GMT 1 1 4712 They are often used by astronomers and chronologists and give an easy way of finding the number of days between two dates For astronomers a day begins at noon and runs until the next noon so that the night time falls conveniently within one day the Julian Day number system therefore shows noon as 0 and midnight as 5 This was not to the liking of all scholars using the Julian Day number system in particular historians For chronologists who start days at midnight the zero point for the Julian Day number system is 00 00 at the start of 1 1 4712 and this is day 0 Since most days
27. m what might be expected For example January 1 2000 will show JD 2451545 and MJD 51544 This is because the Modified Julian Day number shows a date which runs from midnight to midnight while the Julian Day number shows the day which begins at 12noon on that day the next day Time adjustment The Windows operating system keeps track of Coordinated Universal Time UTC or GMT and refers to it as system time as distinct from local time TrayDay uses this time to work out Julian and Modified Julian Day numbers which are based on GMT and to calculate Swatch Internet Time which is based on Central European Wintertime If your time and time zone are set correctly in Windows then these features should display correctly and normally no adjustment is required It has been noted however that in certain rare circumstances UTC GMT may not be correctly given by Windows If this happens and you are satisfied that your time and time zone are set correctly then 2015 MJMSoft Design Limited Further Details 21 change the adjustment in the Time adjustment dialog until UTC GMT displays correctly 3 9 Insert by Typing One of the three possible actions on selecting a left click menu item is Insert If this option is chosen through the right click menu then text is inserted at the caret of your active or foreground window by simulating keyboard input When TrayDay is typing in your date you can abort by left clicking the TrayDay icon Y
28. nu items play sounds display messages and more Schedule an item and you can run programs at set times display reminders or alarms even have an hourly chime Windows automation feature tell KeyText to look out for a certain window dialog and completely automate password entries repetitive dialogs etc KeyText has 5 password levels to protect private information stored 2015 MJMSoft Design Limited Index 25 Index et calendar 9 color schemes 12 first day ofweek 12 calendar dialog 12 colorschemes 12 commandline 9 countdown 13 counters 19 resetting 10 14 D date how to insert 10 day ofyear 13 default action 10 12 ae first day of week 12 first week of year 12 CH Gregorian calendar 9 H hotkeys 12 inserting text 21 installing 7 IntelliMouse 9 International Standard 16 Internet Time 13 ISO Standard 16 2015 MJMSoft Design Limited Julian Day number 13 20 K KeyText 23 known limitations 23 s left click menu 10 limitations 23 menus left click 10 right click 11 MJMSoft Design contacting 23 Modified Julian Day number 13 20 MS DOS windows 23 My Date set on calendar 9 settings 13 N new features 6 0 options dialog 12 overview 5 P pasting text compared with inserting 21 power management 23 TrayDay Help R removing welcome box 12 right click menu 11 SSL screen savers 23 settings dialog 12 shifticon 16 Swatch 13
29. oth TrayDay and calendar icons are displayed their screen savers or energy saving routines do not start It seems that the re drawing of the taskbar caused by shifting the icons generates sufficient activity to keep the computer awake If this affects you either turn off the regular Shift Icon or set it to hourly Windows XP Changes in the Notification area previously called the tray in XP mean some differences in icon behavior in TrayDay Click here for more information Further Information and Technical Support 4 2 Further Information and Support See also known limitations Technical support is available free to unregistered users for a period of 30 days and to registered users for a period of 90 days starting from your first request to MJMSoft Design for technical support For technical support or further information send e mail to support mjmsoft com Alternatively visit the TrayDay home page on the World Wide Web at http www trayday com You will find there the latest version of TrayDay and another tray based program KeyText KeyText stores pieces of text ready to be typed or pasted into any application Autotext in your system 2015 MJMSoft Design Limited a TrayDay Help tray Has hotkey multiple clipboard and random quote features and a miniature keyboard lets you type with your mouse Include in text commands to fill in the date run programs go to an Internet URL click buttons select me
30. ou should avoid any other mouse button or keyboard presses while the date is being inserted Although using Paste is much quicker than Insert there are advantages in the latter The clipboard is not used thus preserving its contents and if your word processor has auto correct or auto format capabilities these will be available For example if your word processor automatically superscripts ordinals such as st nd rd th etc this will only happen if the method chosen is Insert If the date contains a character which cannot by typed by a single combination of keys such as certain symbols or accented characters or characters from double or multiple byte character sets the text will be pasted in rather than inserted The range of keys which can by typed directly varies from country to country Note that if you are using a Japanese or other double multi byte character set text will always be pasted in insert by typing is not available The speed of typing varies according to the speed of your system whether your hard drive is being accessed the complexity of your word processor and other factors You may for example notice a pause after words if your word processor is busy checking whether they need to be auto corrected 2015 MJMSoft Design Limited TrayDay User Manual Technical Support 23 4 Technical Support 4 1 Known limitations MS DOS windows TrayDay does not support inserting or pasting the date to an MS DOS window
31. p your screen saver from activating see known limitations If the calendar icon is displayed it is shifted too and kept next to the TrayDay icon Note that this feature is not available after the 30 day evaluation period but is kept restored when you register TrayDay 3 3 TrayDay icon style You can choose the icon style through the Options dialog The current day s date is shown in each of the four available icons choose the one you like best The button like icon is designed to match the icon of the companion program KeyText note that if this icon is used the calendar icon is increased in size to match 3 4 XP Vista Notification area The part of the taskbar previously known as the tray or system tray is called the Notification area in Windows XP and Vista And new features in Windows help to keep this area less cluttered than in previous versions of Windows There are two side effects of this which affect TrayDay users The first is that the Shift icon feature works differently The TrayDay icon is moved away from the clock rather than towards it Although this diminishes the usefulness of Shift icon at least the icon is moved to a consistent easy to spot location The second is that the TrayDay icon and calendar icon may disappear This is because of the Hide when inactive feature if Windows decides that an icon is inactive it will hide it If TrayDay disappears in this way right click a blank area of
32. rmation and Support sssssnnssnnerneennnnnnnennnenenennnneneennneeneenns 23 Index 25 2015 MJMSoft Design Limited TrayDay User Manual TrayDay First Things 5 1 TrayDay First Things 1 1 Introducing TrayDay cuo TRAY TrayDay 7 for Windows by MJMSoft Design 1996 2015 MJMSoft Design Limited UK Incorporated TrayDay date calendar counter utility TrayDay places an icon showing the date day of the month in the tray The icon resembles a page of a tear off calendar It can also display a handy monthly calendar With TrayDay you can see the date at a glance often quicker and easier than resting your mouse over the clock searching for an Insert Date menu or having to reach for your diary Move the mouse over the icon and the day of the week will appear If you use Windows XP click here for more information on the tray or Notification area Left click the icon and a pop up menu appears showing the date in various formats including up to ten user defined formats Click one and it will automatically be inserted into your application or copied to the clipboard depending on the option checked in the right click menu You can select your favorite date format to be available by double clicking the TrayDay icon or by a hotkey The user formats can include the date time and counters particularly useful for date stamping messages or files TrayDay also has a calendar option which displays a small calendar on
33. s when you left click a date on the TrayDay calendar 4 Days from January 1 2000 inclusive are shown This means for example that January 2 2000 will show 2 second day of the new millenium 5 Days from January 1 2001 inclusive are shown This means for example that January 2 2001 will show 2 6 Days to or from a user specified date If the date is in the future the tooltip or calendar menu will show the number of days to go the day before is 1 If the date is today or in the past the tooltip or calendar menu will show the number of days since the specified date The date itself is counted as day 0 or 1 depending on the radio button selection below the date For example if you wanted to know your age in days you would set the date to your date of birth and the radio button to Day 0 the tooltip or calendar left click menu would show Days after MyDate If you wanted to know which day of the year it is you would set the date to January 1 and the radio button to count that as Day 1 although note option 2 above The tooltip or calendar left click menu would show Days of MyDate 7 Julian Day number not to be confused with the Julian calendar The three decimal places indicate the time of day starting from noon clicking any date on the popup calendar will show the Julian Day 2015 MJMSoft Design Limited m TrayDay Help 2 4 4 number at noon on that day 8 Modified Julian Day number This simplifi
34. the action ticked in the right click menu This gives an easy way of putting any date on the clipboard ready to paste into an application If you have chosen to have Julian Day numbers or a date counter shown on the Tray Day tooltip they will also be shown at the top of this menu for the date clicked Also on the left click menu if you have MyDate turned on in Tooltip settings you will see two additional entries on the calendar left click menu Days to of or after MyDate note that of is displayed when MyDate is in the past but you have chosen in settings to count MyDate as day 1 if MyDate is day 0 then after is displayed And Set MyDate to showing the date which has just been clicked This gives a quick way of changing MyDate and a convenient way of working out the number of days between two dates To close the calendar without exiting from Tray Day click the close button on the title bar press Esc when the calendar is the active window or select Hide calendar from the Tray Day left click menu or calendar right click menu If you are interested or want to experiment the calendar will go back to 1583 the first full year of the Gregorian calendar although not adopted in England and the English colonies of America until 1752 As for the future given that the Gregorian calendar only has one too many days every 3 333 years the TrayDay calendar should be accurate for as far ahead as you will need Left click Menu Se
35. tings e Added new option to user format characters The existing a aa or aaa gives the day of the year with a 2015 MJMSoft Design Limited TrayDay First Things 7 minimum of 1 2 or 3 digits The new option is z zz or zzz which gives the number of days remaining in the year The option to not show the startup box is now available during the evaluation period At the end of the evaluation period the startup box is always shown Fixed date icon for first day of the month in the 3rd set black numbers Day 1 appeared in white Fixed a problem where sometimes on rebooting the TrayDay calendar would not return to its position from the last session A correction has been made to the week number of the last week of the year as displayed on the calendar or in user formats Previously if there was a week after the 52nd week it was always given as week 53 but if the year ends with part of a week then it and the rest of that week in the following year should have the same number If the part of the week in the following year is too short to be considered as week 1 ISO standard 8601 says week 1 should be the week that includes the first Thursday of the year then that whole week is week 53 But if the part of the week in the following year includes a Thursday and is therefore week 1 then the part of the week in the previous year is also week 1 Thus by ISO standard the last 2 days of 2002 are part of week 1 2003 whereas the last 5 days of 2
36. within about 150 years of the present have Julian Day numbers beginning with 24 Julian Day numbers within this 300 odd year period can be abbreviated In 1975 the convention of the modified Julian Day number was adopted Given a Julian Day number JD the modified Julian Day number MJD is defined as MJD JD 2 400 000 5 This has two purposes 1 Days begin at midnight rather than noon 2 For dates in the period from 1859 to about 2130 only five digits need to be used to specify the date rather than seven For further information on the Julian Day number systems an excellent article by Peter Meyer appears on the Internet at http www hermetic ch cal_stud jdn htm In TrayDay you can choose in Settings Tooltip to show the Julian Day number and or the Modified Julian Day number as a Tooltip which appears when you move the mouse slowly over the TrayDay icon in the tray The three decimal places indicate the time of day starting from noon in the case of Julian Days and at midnight in the case of Modified Julian Days If either of these is selected to appear it will also display at the top of the menu which appears when a date on the TrayDay calendar is clicked with the left mouse button In the case of the Julian Day number the number is shown for the day that begins at noon on the calendar date selected Note that the Julian Day number and Modified Julian Day number when displayed by left clicking a calendar date will differ by 1 fro
37. your desktop From TrayDay version 7 0 this calendar can display 1 or 3 months at a time and has color scheme features You can choose to have the calendar on top all the time for quick reference Navigate months and years using the mouse or keyboard or the Microsoft IntelliMouse wheel and type any date in the format of your choice TrayDay can display the week numbers on the calendar these can be set to the ISO standard week 1 is the week that includes the first Thursday of the year or any scheme of your own choosing for example January 1 is always in week 1 TrayDay has Julian Day number features allowing you to quickly find out the Julian Day number corresponding to any calendar date the Internet Time as defined by Swatch can also be shown By placing a shortcut to Tray Day exe in your startup folder you can have the date and calendar always available When a date is being inserted typed into an application you can stop it by clicking the TrayDay icon We recommend that you go to TrayDay Settings and set a hotkey to show hide the calendar You ll be amazed how useful it can be to have the calendar appear or disappear at the tap of a couple of keys What s new from version 7 0 Installing TrayDay Registering TrayDay TrayDay Calendar 2015 MJMSoft Design Limited 6 TrayDay Help 1 2 Left click menu Right click menu Settings dialog User formats Further information and support What s New Version 7
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