Caskbill
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OK, just for fun, there's a new program available for all you plan-a-holics out there. Not as serious as the DVC-Planner program, nor as complicated as the DVC-Tracker program is becoming, the new DVC-Chart program is more for fun.
It's now available at my download site at:
http://web.nalu.net/~wneth/dvcplanner.htm
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<b>Program Features:</b>
DVC Point charts for any year 2001 through 2054.
Color-coded Disney Seasons to calendar dates for easily determing relative point requirements.
8 different charts, all 7 current DVC resorts (2-charts for BWV)
Holiday dates for any year 2001 through 2054
Some special dates such as Mickey's birthday.
A Personal Family Dates capability where you can add your own special family dates. It will even calculate the N-th occurrence of a date. For example it will give you "Johnny's 7th Birthday" for 2004, and "Johnny's 8th Birthday" in 2005. Put in your own birthday date and set the calendar for 2054.....
An alarm feature that can be set from 1 to 90 days. Let it notify you when that birthday is coming up, or that anniversary, or even more important, when it's time to make that DVC reservation.
Besides daily (Sun-Thu) and weekend days (Fri/Sat) points for each resort, it also totals them by 5-day week, 2-day weekend, and 7-day week. For all of you that like the 5-day week, see at a glance how many points that 5-days will cost you.
Plan way ahead if you want. Want to go for New Year's Eve? Well in 2008 it's on a Wednesday, low points, but in 2010 it's on a Friday night, high points.
During the full 54 years of the calendar, Easter comes earliest in 2008 (Mar 23rd) and latest in 2011 (Apr 24th).
The program does not read a point chart and calendar. Instead it uses several algorithms to calculate and display the DVC charts. Algorithms determine the holiday dates (such as Thanksgiving) for any year, and then other algorithms (that I developed based on Disney's patterns for adjusting point charts around the holidays) actually generate the point charts. That's how it can go all the way to 2054.
<b>System requirements:</b>
1. Requires Microsoft Windows installer 2.0 which is probably already on your computer. If you have an older machine with MS Windows installer 1.0 on it, you can update it at Microsoft's web site. (I give a link in the download page). I'm now using MS Windows installer because it gives you protection that Windows is correctly managing all your program installations.
2. The program is designed for a screen resolution of 1024x768 pixels. If you are using a smaller resolution some of the form will be off your screen and not accessible, but the main calendar is still useable. Unless you have a very old system, you can change your resolution setting and you may want to do this for all your computer needs. (If necessary, the program tells you how)
Sorry but this is Windows PC only. No plans to make one for a Mac. (Too expensive for me, plus I really don't know how
) Maybe you Mac users should come back to the PC. (or you can get Microsoft's Virtual PC program to run PC programs on a Mac).
Have Fun.
Bill
Also if you haven't seen Tagrel's new on-line Point calculator program, be sure to check it out. Don't forget Dave's nice point manager program to keep track of your point usage. And of course the ol' standby DVC-Planner program is still out there for all your DVC planning activities.
(Maybe the 3 of us should get together and design an on-line reservation system...
)
It's now available at my download site at:
http://web.nalu.net/~wneth/dvcplanner.htm
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<b>Program Features:</b>
DVC Point charts for any year 2001 through 2054.
Color-coded Disney Seasons to calendar dates for easily determing relative point requirements.
8 different charts, all 7 current DVC resorts (2-charts for BWV)
Holiday dates for any year 2001 through 2054
Some special dates such as Mickey's birthday.
A Personal Family Dates capability where you can add your own special family dates. It will even calculate the N-th occurrence of a date. For example it will give you "Johnny's 7th Birthday" for 2004, and "Johnny's 8th Birthday" in 2005. Put in your own birthday date and set the calendar for 2054.....
An alarm feature that can be set from 1 to 90 days. Let it notify you when that birthday is coming up, or that anniversary, or even more important, when it's time to make that DVC reservation.
Besides daily (Sun-Thu) and weekend days (Fri/Sat) points for each resort, it also totals them by 5-day week, 2-day weekend, and 7-day week. For all of you that like the 5-day week, see at a glance how many points that 5-days will cost you.
Plan way ahead if you want. Want to go for New Year's Eve? Well in 2008 it's on a Wednesday, low points, but in 2010 it's on a Friday night, high points.
During the full 54 years of the calendar, Easter comes earliest in 2008 (Mar 23rd) and latest in 2011 (Apr 24th).
The program does not read a point chart and calendar. Instead it uses several algorithms to calculate and display the DVC charts. Algorithms determine the holiday dates (such as Thanksgiving) for any year, and then other algorithms (that I developed based on Disney's patterns for adjusting point charts around the holidays) actually generate the point charts. That's how it can go all the way to 2054.
<b>System requirements:</b>
1. Requires Microsoft Windows installer 2.0 which is probably already on your computer. If you have an older machine with MS Windows installer 1.0 on it, you can update it at Microsoft's web site. (I give a link in the download page). I'm now using MS Windows installer because it gives you protection that Windows is correctly managing all your program installations.
2. The program is designed for a screen resolution of 1024x768 pixels. If you are using a smaller resolution some of the form will be off your screen and not accessible, but the main calendar is still useable. Unless you have a very old system, you can change your resolution setting and you may want to do this for all your computer needs. (If necessary, the program tells you how)
Sorry but this is Windows PC only. No plans to make one for a Mac. (Too expensive for me, plus I really don't know how
) Maybe you Mac users should come back to the PC. (or you can get Microsoft's Virtual PC program to run PC programs on a Mac).Have Fun.
Bill
Also if you haven't seen Tagrel's new on-line Point calculator program, be sure to check it out. Don't forget Dave's nice point manager program to keep track of your point usage. And of course the ol' standby DVC-Planner program is still out there for all your DVC planning activities.
(Maybe the 3 of us should get together and design an on-line reservation system...
)
I feel the same way about how so many people post the same questions about Pool hopping or how to rent points or how to borrow point or how busy it in June or Easter ETC, ETC . but I don't fry them about it like you just did! And if you didn't notice, Caskbill did write that for the Mac user you could buy Microsoft's Virtual PC program to run PC programs on a Mac, which you could use to run his program. (He always states on every post about his program).
