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Someone that I spoke to in Warrington last month[1] reminded me about James Miskin's Today, which I appear to have been the last person to have touched back in 2006 or so. It provides a daily listing of events from history,
which can be browsed or searched.

Having established that the source code hadn't made it into any form of
version control, I went on a hunt through backups from old machines, and finally tracked it down amongst the files dumped from the Iyonix. It's now safely under source control (and also at

https://github.com/steve-fryatt/today

), and I've also managed to get it building under the current version of the DDE.

The person who spoke to me at RISC OS North had a feature request, and it
turns out that there was already a bug fix in the code that hadn't been released. Including fixing an unrelated Style Guide issue that came up when
I read the manual, that makes for three new things... The whole build
process is also new, and implementing the feature request resulted in a lot
of refactoring of other code, so for now I've built a test release which I'm hoping that people will try to break in creative ways. Today isn't an application that I've used much, so I probably wouldn't notice if anything stopped working as expected...

See

https://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/risc-os/today

(towards the bottom of the page) for the test release. Feedback, as ever, is welcome -- and if time permits, I might even get back to you!


1. Sorry, but you didn't tell me who you were!
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On 27 Apr 2025 as I do recall,
Steve Fryatt wrote:

[snip]

See

https://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/risc-os/today

(towards the bottom of the page) for the test release. Feedback, as ever, is welcome -- and if time permits, I might even get back to you!

It seems to work.

Having recurring annual events (e.g. Tanzania Union Day on April 27th)
listed with a date of ???? is apparently a deliberate choice, although
it looks like an error to the uninitiated.
However, I'm puzzled that the birth of "Edith Hamilton" (who she?) on
August 12th is also listed as ???? - 'Highlight own data' is selected by default, so this is presumably a birthday reminder for a former user's
daughter or something like that, as it's not highlighted in red....

I was puzzled that using the Search feature didn't seem to do anything:
it displayed that a certain number of records had been found, but then I couldn't find the search result! The manual states that "All references
will then appear in the scan window", but this is not the case; although
I examined its contents quite carefully and even quit and restarted the
program to check, no new lines had appeared in the scan window.

I eventually discovered that the work area of the *search window* had
been increased, and that the search results could be found by resizing
the search window itself to maximum. Which makes much more sense than
putting them into the scan window showing the events for a specified
*day* as opposed to a specified keyword, but is not immediately
apparent as the window does not change significantly in appearance and
the results are not visible. The application should probably reopen the
window to full size.

Editing typos in the default data (e.g. "Emporer Augustus") seems to
work. :-)
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On 27 Apr, Harriet Bazley wrote in message
<674549145c.harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk>:

It seems to work.

That's good to know -- thanks!

:-)

Having recurring annual events (e.g. Tanzania Union Day on April 27th)
listed with a date of ???? is apparently a deliberate choice, although it looks like an error to the uninitiated. However, I'm puzzled that the
birth of "Edith Hamilton" (who she?) on August 12th is also listed as ????
- 'Highlight own data' is selected by default, so this is presumably a birthday reminder for a former user's daughter or something like that, as it's not highlighted in red....

Edith is in the "aug" file, so presumably not user data (that should be in
the "own" file, I think).

I'm guessing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Hamilton -- I suspect that
a lot of the data was culled from the corners of the internet in the 1990s,
and probably has a bias towards the other side of the pond.

I was puzzled that using the Search feature didn't seem to do anything: it displayed that a certain number of records had been found, but then I couldn't find the search result!

That one has already been found...

https://www.riscosopen.org/forum/forums/1/topics/19829

:-)

Editing typos in the default data (e.g. "Emporer Augustus") seems to work. :-)

I'm happy to collate corrections. :-)
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On 27 Apr 2025 as I do recall,
Steve Fryatt wrote:

On 27 Apr, Harriet Bazley wrote in message
<674549145c.harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk>:

It seems to work.

That's good to know -- thanks!

:-)

Having recurring annual events (e.g. Tanzania Union Day on April 27th) listed with a date of ???? is apparently a deliberate choice, although it looks like an error to the uninitiated. However, I'm puzzled that the
birth of "Edith Hamilton" (who she?) on August 12th is also listed as ???? - 'Highlight own data' is selected by default, so this is presumably a birthday reminder for a former user's daughter or something like that, as it's not highlighted in red....

Typo - I meant to write "Presumably *not*" a former user's daughter
since not highlighted!

Edith is in the "aug" file, so presumably not user data (that should be in the "own" file, I think).

I'm guessing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Hamilton -- I suspect that
a lot of the data was culled from the corners of the internet in the 1990s, and probably has a bias towards the other side of the pond.

Searching "Renault" has zero results, which does surprise me; I was
looking for Mary Renault, renowned non-US author of books about Greek
and Roman culture, but would have expected the cars to show up....
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