About iCal Events

Face the day! Always know what's next on your schedule using iCal Events. iCal Events displays upcoming events from multiple iCal calendars in a beautiful, resizable widget for Dashboard. You can see up to two weeks of upcoming events in the same widget without needing to open iCal. Need more info? Mouse over a calendar color to view the name of the calendar, or mouse over an event's start time to see when the event ends.

What’s New in this Version

— Now Leopard compatible.
— Beautiful new user interface.
— Brand-new tooltips show calendar names and event start/end times.
— Added Vietnamese, Indonesian, Esperanto, and Turkish localizations, and an improved Russian localization.
— Numerous bug fixes.

On Leopard only
— See events instantly after they're added to iCal.
— Dramatically less processor- and memory-intensive.

Acknowledgments

— Thanks to Colin Donihue and Brian Mason for design advice and beta testing.
— Special thanks to Dan Charney for his work on this version of the widget.
— Finally, thanks to the volunteers who translated iCal Events:

Albanian: Denis Shubleka Bosnian: Zina Redzepagic Bulgarian: Ventsislav Zhechev Catalan: Josep Maria Sempere Coll Chinese: Wain Yee Croatian: Mirko Jankov Czech: Lukas Plihal Danish: Johan F. Lehmann Dutch: Wolf Hijlkema Esperanto: Chris Pavlina Finnish: Ilona Fogel French: Jérémie Ecoffey German: Andreas Bachofen Greek: Harilaos Ginis Hawaiian: Kaliko Trapp Hungarian: Balint Hamvas

Indonesian: Ario Bayu Italian: Marco Taiana Japanese: Kenji Watahiki Latvian: Guntis Bukalders Norwegian: Fredrik Halmøy Wisløff Polish: Michal Zadkowski Portuguese: Mirko Jankov Portuguese (Brazilian): Mirko Jankov Russian: Boris Mihajlovic & Brian Mason Serbian: Mirko Jankov Spanish (Mexican): Marcos Kirsch Spanish: Christian Wilke Swedish: Fredrik Wallner Thai: Don Sebb Turkish: Murat Karamehmet Vietnamese: Nga Ly Hien Nguyen

Support

On Tiger, the widget displays “Unable to load calendar events.”

Sorry for the trouble. Please try closing and reopening the widget.

The text displays incorrectly or is overlapping.

Please check your date settings in System Preferences > International > Formats and verify that the time format indeed shows just a time. Also, please check your Helvetica Neue font.

An event set to repeat after n occurrences is not ending properly.

Unfortunately, iCal Events doesn’t correctly handle recurring events set to end after n occurrences. If you click the errant events and delete them in iCal or set them to end on a certain date, they should go away from the widget. This problem is fixed in Leopard.

Clicking a repeating event in the widget highlights the first occurrence, not the clicked occurrence.

Unfortunately this is a limitation of Spotlight, which is what the widget uses to display the given event in iCal. If you open an event via the Spotlight menu, the same thing will happen.

It would be great if the widget had different color schemes.

I agree! I hope I have a chance to add this soon.

The widget is showing the wrong event times.

Please open iCal and look in the upper-right corner of the main calendar window. Check that the time zone settings in iCal are the same as your computer's time zone settings in Settings > Date & Time.

Some events from the Birthdays calendar display multiple times.

This is a known issue. The problem is fixed in Leopard.

Today’s recurring all-day events (including events from the Birthdays calendar) do not display in Leopard.

This is actually a bug in the Apple framework that iCal Events uses to access events in Leopard. I hope this will be fixed in a Mac OS X software update.

Is it possible to have the widget display all of today’s events, even those that have ended?

Yes! There’s a hidden preference:

1. Open /Utilities/Terminal.app.
2. Type defaults write widget-com.benkazez.widget.icalevents showAllCurrentDayEvents -bool YES and press return.
3. Close and re-open the widget.