Help Information for Time and Date widget
Sunday, 21. January 2007, 20:06:50
Help Information for Time and Date widget.
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Contents
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Overview of the functions of the Calendar window
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Quick Start
If you want to set an event, click on the date in the calendar, and then click on New event. Optionally you can just double-click on the date.
Enter all the relevant information in the Event window, then press OK. If you set a reminder for your event, a reminder message will pop up to remind you about the upcoming event.
If you later want to edit your event, just click on the event in the Calendar window, then click Edit event. Optionally you can just double-click on the event.
If you want to delete your event you can do this in the Event window by pressing Remove. Alternatively you can do it in the Calendar window by pressing the Delete key on the keyboard whilst the event is selected.
To choose country, language, skin aso. press Settings in the Calendar window.
Country lets you set which country the calendar displays holidays and observances for.
Language lets you set which language is to be used.
Appearance lets you set which skin is to be used.
Alarm sound lets you set which sound is to be played for reminders. Note that you can click on the icon to the left of the menu to preview the sound.
Date placement lets you set the position of the date that the widget displays in its minimized mode, relative to the windows.
First day of week lets you set if the calendar starts weeks on Sunday (american style) or Monday (european style).
First week of year lets you set the rule that is used to count weeks. Different countries and different organizations use different rules, but often 'First four day week' is used in Europe, and 'First day' in America. A description of the different rules is given below.
Date and time format lets you set what you would like the widget to display in its minimized mode. The widget will substitue f.ex. dddd with the full weekday name and yyyy with the current year represented by all four digits. Descriptions of the different expressions you can input here is found in the scrollable area of the Settings window. Examples of different input values are given below.
Check for updates on startup lets you set whether you want the widget to check for newer versions on startup. -
Upgrading to a newer version
Note that upgrading the widget to a newer version causes all your settings to be reset and all your events to be lost. In order to keep your settings and events, you have to export them from the old version. Then, after you have upgraded, you import them into the new version.
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Date and time format
Note that you are not limited to inputting expressions from the list in Date and time format. You can also insert ordinary words or characters.
However, if you're going to use a character that have a special meaning to the widget - f.ex. w which the widget will substitute with the current week number - you'll have to escape it with \, so that instead of w, you write \w.
Some examples of different values for Date and time format are:- dd/MM/yyyy
- 16/11/2003
- dd.MM.yyyy HH:mm
- 16.11.2003 23:05
- dd-MM-yyyy hh:mm tt
- 16-11-2003 11:05 PM
- dd-MM-yy, \week w
- 16-11-03, week 46
- ddddd of MMMM yyyy
- 16th of November 2003
- dddd, ddddd MMM yy
- Sunday, 16th Nov 03
- ddd, yy/MM/dd, HH:mm, w
- Sun, 03/11/16, 23:05, 46
- ddd, yy/MM/dd, TC
- Sun, 03/11/16, five past eleven
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Importing and exporting
To import or export settings and events, click on Import and export in the Calendar window. The Import and export window will be shown.
- To import old settings and events, choose Import settings and events.
- You have to find the file in which you stored your old settings and events.
Open this file in a text editor (like f.ex. Notepad).
Copy all the text from your text editor to the text input area of the Import and export window.
Press OK.
Note. This will overwrite all your current settings and events. - To export your current settings and events, choose Export settings and events and press OK.
- A new page will open in Opera with your current settings and events.
From the File menu in Opera, choose Save as... (or just press Ctrl+S).
Choose a filename for your file (f.ex. mysettings.txt).
Press Save. - To import settings in iCalendar file format, choose Import iCalendar.
- Open the iCalendar file in a text editor (like f.ex. Notepad).
Copy all the text from your text editor to the text input area of the Import and export window.
If the file is online, you can skip the previous steps, and instead copy the URL into the text input area.
Press OK.
The imported events will be added to your current events.
Note that the iCalendar support is not complete.
It does not support secondly, minutely and hourly repeating events, time zones, reminder time (It detects alarms, but just sets the reminder to a default 1 day before the event), rdate, exrule, exdate and some more.
Still, the iCalendar support is large enough to import a large number of iCalendar files perfectly. - To export your current events in iCalendar file format, choose Export iCalendar and press OK.
- A new page will open in Opera.
From the File menu in Opera, choose Save as... (or just press Ctrl+S).
Change the File type from Text file to All files (*.*).
Choose a filename for your file using .ics as the file extension (f.ex. myicalendar.ics).
Press Save.
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Week numbering rules
First day indicates that the first week of the year starts on the first day of the year and ends before the following designated first day of the week.
First full week indicates that the first week of the year begins on the first occurrence of the designated first day of the week on or after the first day of the year.
First four day week indicates that the first week of the year is the first week with four or more days before the designated first day of the week. This rule complies with ISO 8601. -
Advanced
In the Advanced Settings tab you will find these settings:- reminderDateAndTimeFormat
- Here you can set the date and time format that is used in the Reminder window.
- timeFormat
- Here you can set the time format that is used in the Calendar window.
- defaultReminder
- If checked new events will have '10 minutes' as the default value for the reminder. If unchecked it will have 'No reminder' as the default value.
- defaultSound
- If checked new events will have 'Play alarm sound' as the default value.
- alarmSoundRepeat
- If checked the alarm sound will be repeating.
- alarmSoundRepeatInterval
- Here you can set the number of seconds between each time the alarm sound is played.
- visualAlarm
- If checked a web page will open in the browser to alert you that a reminder is shown.
- useAnimations
- If checked animations will be used.
- restrainPosition
- If checked the widget position will be restrained so it is kept inside the screen space of the primary screen. If you want to move the widget outside this area, you should uncheck this box.
- lockPosition
- If checked, the widget position will be locked. If you want to move the widget, you should uncheck this box.
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Anonymous # 6. September 2009, 05:08
Hi,
thanks a lot for this great widget!
When updating Opera, I forgot to export my events (stupid me).
Is there a possibility to retrieve them?
I saved all "documents and settings" and "local settings" files of my old Opera. Are the events stored in any of these files?
I looked around in the "widgets" folder but can't find anything. I'm a noob though, maybe you can tell me the place?
Greetings,
WL
gdveggie # 5. October 2009, 01:11
Looks like you never got a reply to your question, and although it may be too late to help you, I'll try:
I'm new to this widget myself, and just looking at it for the first time, but it appears that events may be saved in the "widgets.dat" file in the widgets folder of your Opera installation. Check to see if you have an old copy of this file in what you saved from your old Opera. (I'm assuming from the date of your post that you probably upgraded to Opera 10. I have several versions of Opera installed, and my Opera 9.51-9.64 widgets folders are under C:\Documents and Settings\(UserName)\Application Data\Opera\(OperaVersion)\profile\, but my Opera 10 widgets folder is under C:\Documents and Settings\(username)\Local Settings\Application Data\Opera\(OperaVersion)\.
If you do have an old "widgets.dat" file, it may contain data or settings from other widgets as well, and I doubt that it can simply be substituted for the new "widgets.dat" file unless the individual widget subfolders in the widgets folder (named with a 30-digit number in Opera for Windows) match the section id (e.g., <section id="396588813344812170271229762077">) in the new "widgets.dat" file. (They might match, if your Opera 10 upgrade installed (or left) widgets in the same exact location where they were before. If they do match, close Opera, make a backup of the new "widgets.dat" file and then copy the old one into its place and reopen Opera and try the widget. If it doesn't work right, just close Opera and copy the backup of the new "widgets.dat" file back into the folder.)
If you just need a reminder of what events were previously stored you may be able to get sufficient info by opening the old "widgets.dat" file with a text editor and reviewing the relevant lines.
If you want to try to import the previous events, close Opera and make a backup copy of the new "widgets.dat" file then try copying and pasting the relevant lines from the old "widgets.dat" file into the new one, save it, and re-open Opera and try the widget. Again, if it doesn't work, just close Opera and copy the backup of the new "widgets.dat" file back into the folder.
If none of that works and it's still important to try further, try requesting help on the Opera browser forum (or possibly on the Opera Widgets forum).
Good luck!
gdveggie