Hey everyone! I'm a brand new
member to the list and really enjoy Dave's Quick Search Deskbar. I created this
little .xml file for adding events to the calendar directly from the deskbar.
I've tried to break it and I believe it is in good working condition. Let me
know if (when) you find bugs and I'll fix them.
You can download the .xml file
at: http://mangom2.com/deskbar/addLocalHoliday.xml (it
is also attached).
Place the file in your
'searches' folder. You'll then want to create a blank .xml file named
'localEvents.xml' in the root directory of the deskbar program files folder (the
same directly that has the other holiday .xml files). You can name this whatever
you want so long as you reflect the different name in your preferences
(preferences.js) file. 'localEvents.xml' is the default name in this file, so it
seems to be simple to leave it that.
The format for adding a date
is:
hol
event_name|event_type|event_day|event_month
or
hol
event_name|event_type|event_day|event_month|event_year
The first version is for an
event that occurs yearly. The second will add the event for only the year
specified.
Let me know what you guys
think.
Thanks,
Erik
Telford
Mango
Multimedia
<search function="hol">
<name>Add Local Holiday</name>
<description>
Adds the ability to create local holidays from the Quick Search textfield<br/>
<div class="helpboxDescLabels">Example:</div>
<table class="helpboxDescTable">
<tr><td>hol My Birthday|personal_holidays|13|2></td></tr>
<tr><td>//This example adds a holiday that repeats yearly.</td></tr>
<tr><td>...................................................</td></tr>
<tr><td>hol Jessica's Going Away Party!|personal_appointment|10|4|2004</td></tr>
<tr><td>This example adds a holiday that does not repeat. It will only show for the year specified (2004)</td></tr>
<tr><td>...................................................</td></tr>
<tr><td>Created by Erik Telford, Mango Multimedia (http://www.mangom2.com) [EMAIL PROTECTED]</td></tr>
</table>
</description>
<category>Functions</category>
<script><![CDATA[
function hol(q) {
// initialize all variables
var loaded, historyFileContent, newStuff, replace;
var isLeapYear, eventName, eventType, eventDay, eventMonth, eventYear;
isLeapYear = 1;
// take the new event and create an array with a "|" delimeter
loaded = q.split("|");
// there can only be 4 or 5 args for the holiday
if(loaded.length < 4) {
alert("You must at enter at least an Event Name, Event Type, Event Day, and Event Month.");
return false;
}
if(loaded.length > 5) {
alert("You may only enter at Event Name, Event Type, Event Day, and Event Month.");
return false;
}
// create vars from each part of the loaded array
eventName = loaded[0];
eventType = loaded[1];
eventDay = loaded[2];
eventMonth = loaded[3];
// if the eventYear arg exists, make sure it is 4 digits
if (loaded[4].length < 4) {
alert("You entered an invalid year");
return false;
} else {
eventYear = loaded[4];
}
// the day, month and year (if supplied) have to be numeric
if (isNaN(eventDay) == true) {
alert("The day for this event must be a number.");
return false;
}
if (isNaN(eventMonth) == true) {
alert("The month for this event must be a number.");
return false;
}
if(loaded.length == 5) {
if (isNaN(eventYear) == true) {
alert("The year for this event must be a number.");
return false;
}
}
// make sure the day is greater than 0
if(eventDay < 1) {
alert("You supplied an invalid day");
return false;
}
// check if the year is a leap year
if(eventYear > 0) {
if(((eventYear % 4 == 0) && (eventYear % 100 != 0)) || (eventYear % 400 == 0)) {
isLeapYear = 1;
} else {
isLeapYear = 0;
}
}
// if isLeapYear is true and eventMonth is 2 (February), make sure the eventDay is not > 29
// otherwise, make sure the day in february is not > 28
if(isLeapYear == 1 && eventDay > 29 && eventMonth == 2) {
alert("You supplied an invalid day");
return false;
}
if(isLeapYear == 0 && eventDay > 28 && eventMonth == 2) {
alert("You supplied an invalid day");
return false;
}
// no months have more than 31 days
if(eventDay > 31) {
alert("You supplied an invalid day");
return false;
}
// if the eventDay is > 30, make sure the month supports 31 days
if(eventDay > 30) {
switch(eventMonth) {
case 4: alert("You supplied an invalid day"); return false;
case 6: alert("You supplied an invalid day"); return false;
case 9: alert("You supplied an invalid day"); return false;
case 11: alert("You supplied an invalid day"); return false;
}
}
// the eventMonth must be between 1 & 12 (if you don't want to use the Gregorian calendar, look elsewhere)
if(eventMonth < 1 || eventMonth > 12) {
alert("You supplied an invalid month");
return false;
}
// write the new XML
if(loaded.length == 4) {
newStuff = '<event name="' + eventName + '" type="' + eventType + '">\n' + ' <date day="' + eventDay + '" month="' + eventMonth + '"/>\n</event>\n';
} else {
newStuff = '<event name="' + eventName + '" type="' + eventType + '">\n' + ' <date day="' + eventDay + '" month="' + eventMonth + '" year="' + eventYear + '"/>\n</event>\n';
}
// read the current localevents.xml file
historyFileContent = readFile("localevents.xml");
// replace the top and bottom lines in the current file
replace = new RegExp('<events>\n', 'gi');
historyFileContent = historyFileContent.replace(replace, '');
replace = new RegExp('\n</events>', 'gi');
historyFileContent = historyFileContent.replace(replace, '');
// replace any &'s in the new holiday with &
replace = new RegExp('&', 'gi');
newStuff = newStuff.replace(replace, '\&');
// write the final file back (current file + new content)
historyFileContent += newStuff;
writeFile("localevents.xml", "<events>\n" + historyFileContent + "</events>\n");
}
]]></script>
<copyright>
Copyright (c) 2004 Erik Telford, Mango Multimedia (www.mangom2.com)
Distributed under the terms of the
GNU Public License, Version 2 (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.txt)
</copyright>
</search>
