Tips & Solutions

Requesters: There are two ways of getting the requesters to show up on the host application's screen. The safest way is to use the DoShanghai variable. Unfortunately, this doesn't always work on all systems. The alternative is to use the ChangePubScreen variable, also not guaranteed to work.
Setting DoShanghai = 1 instructs ClassAct to open the requester on a particular screen, designates the host-application screen as the current public screen, opens the requester, then resets the public screen to the default. This limits the time during which other windows could inadvertantly be diverted to the application screen.
Setting ChangePubScreen = 1 instructs ClassAct to open the requester on a particular screen, designates the host-application screen as the current public screen, opens the requester, but does not reset the public screen to the default. This maximizes the time during which other windows could inadvertantly be diverted to the application screen, but also hopefully maximizes the possibility of the FWCalendar requestors opening on the host-application screen.
If possible, use DoShanghai; if this doesn't work, use ChangePubScreen. Setting both variables will result in the behavior of ChangePubScreen. If neither of these options work, try a commodity such as MCX and use the FrontPublicScreen function.
DoHide: When using PageStream as the host application, you are much safer using DoHide = 0 in your preferences file rather than DoHide = 1. Although this slows down the rendering, some versions of PageStream have troubles with getting information from hidden pages. Try hiding the page first, but if that doesn't work, leave it visible.
Preference Files: Both FWCalendar and FWCAddEvent use the same preferences file for initializing variables, so you should not change the preferences file between using FWCalendar and FWCAddEvent. See notes on the variable editor for more details.
Shifting Minicals: If the right edge of the calendar is not printing to paper, adjust the Margin.Right setting in the variables to a value larger than 0.5 (the default).
Wrong Colors/Fonts: If things are looking funny on your calendar (the colors are wrong (specifically, if you see a text block way up in the upper left corner in tiny print), the wrong fonts are showing up, or the font sizes are wrong) check the FWCLog.txt file for indications about colors or fonts not being found.
Room at the Top: To create a portrait-oriented calendar that only fills the bottom-half of the page, change the Orientation variable to 'Tall' and modify the Margin.Left, Margin.Top, Margin.Bottom, and Margin.Right variables in the preferences file.