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From: kinsellaj@ul.ie
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Scheduler applications for Windows 3.0
Message-ID: <6619@ul.ie>
Date: 4 Sep 90 10:11:17 GMT
Organization: University of Limerick, Ireland
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I've been immediately and strongly impressed by SIDEKICK Plus from Borland - in 
particular, the Time Planner utility. For those who don't know, it integrates 
calendar, appointment book and scheduler VERY neatly. It allows me to set up all
my appointments (mainly lectures/seminars occuring at the same place & time each
week) painlessly and have an alarm & popup message appear at the appropriate
time. 

Why am I telling you this? SK+ doesn't work (as a scheduler) under Windows 3. As
a TSR program it gets handled by "MicroSoft's TSR handling utility" (or 
whatever) which seems to prevent the application from issuing an alarm when 
minimised to an icon - or in fact in any situation other than full screen mode - 
which of course defeats the purpose of a popup alarm. 

Do Borland have a version for Windows 3? Is there a Windows application which 
has similar functionality to the SK+ Time Planner? 

I've tried Microsoft Windows Almanac V0.94 (Len Gray - Impact Software) but
despite being a very neat calendar utility it doesn't integrate the daily
scheduler/alarm with the weekly/monthly calendar. In particular there is no way
to set up recurring (daily/weekly/monthly) appointments (WITH ALARMS). The
Asymetrix Toolbook/Daybook supplied with Windows 3 has NO alarm facility. 


I'm even willing to PAY for a suitable scheduler!