Hi All,
I know we have a few Mac users here, and I need the assistance of a couple of you who are running Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) - the latest version.
For my trip up to Edinburgh in August, I'm using Apple's iCal application to manage the time of all the reviewers. Now you'd think that Apple would let you export your calendar events to a tabbed text file, so you can manipulate them in other apps (in this case, Excel), but that would appear to be a bridge too far. So I searched high and low for a utility to do it, and it appears - whilst there are plenty of ways to sync with Palm or Outlook - no one has cracked plain old text yet.
So, me being me, I've written an application to do it. What I need is a couple of people to check it works on other machines before I float it off to the world of Freeware, just in case someone else finds it useful.
Download iCal2txt.zip
Min Sys Requirements;
iCal 2 - ie, the one shipped with 10.4. This won't work with iCal 1, which came with previous versions of the system.
To Install;
Unzip & launch!
What It Does;
When you launch the app, you'll get a list of all your calendar events in date order. In the right hand drawer window, you can turn on and off calendar categories. These are loaded automatically from you current iCal files.
The Export Text button opens a dialog box and asks you where you want to save the current list of events.
The Reset Calendars button essentially trashes your preferences. If you delete or add a new calendar in your iCal application, then you'll need to press this button to get iCal2txt to refresh.
About button opens the About sheet
Close/Open Drawer button toggles the calendar list view
What To Test;
All I need to establish is that the application loads the list of your calendars, displays the event list and exports text as expected. I don't need any feature requests, as this has just been written to service my own requirements in Edinburgh, but if it works ok then I'll share it with anyone who wants it.
If you come across any problems, let me know the exact error; your version of iCal & OS X.
Thanks,
Pete
I know we have a few Mac users here, and I need the assistance of a couple of you who are running Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) - the latest version.
For my trip up to Edinburgh in August, I'm using Apple's iCal application to manage the time of all the reviewers. Now you'd think that Apple would let you export your calendar events to a tabbed text file, so you can manipulate them in other apps (in this case, Excel), but that would appear to be a bridge too far. So I searched high and low for a utility to do it, and it appears - whilst there are plenty of ways to sync with Palm or Outlook - no one has cracked plain old text yet.
So, me being me, I've written an application to do it. What I need is a couple of people to check it works on other machines before I float it off to the world of Freeware, just in case someone else finds it useful.
Download iCal2txt.zip
Min Sys Requirements;
iCal 2 - ie, the one shipped with 10.4. This won't work with iCal 1, which came with previous versions of the system.
To Install;
Unzip & launch!
What It Does;
When you launch the app, you'll get a list of all your calendar events in date order. In the right hand drawer window, you can turn on and off calendar categories. These are loaded automatically from you current iCal files.
The Export Text button opens a dialog box and asks you where you want to save the current list of events.
The Reset Calendars button essentially trashes your preferences. If you delete or add a new calendar in your iCal application, then you'll need to press this button to get iCal2txt to refresh.
About button opens the About sheet
Close/Open Drawer button toggles the calendar list view
What To Test;
All I need to establish is that the application loads the list of your calendars, displays the event list and exports text as expected. I don't need any feature requests, as this has just been written to service my own requirements in Edinburgh, but if it works ok then I'll share it with anyone who wants it.
If you come across any problems, let me know the exact error; your version of iCal & OS X.
Thanks,
Pete
