Ical events on desktop

Is there a way to have daily events in ical appear on the desktop at startup? Kind of like the stickies do, but showing the events in the calendar.

Spaci1982,
Welcome to Apple Discussions.
Is there a way to have daily events in ical appear on the desktop at startup?
Not that I know of, but I use MenuCalendarClock for iCal, which allows you to use the menu bar for quick reference.
;~)

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"... to make syncing work between my Apple devices. I am a savvy computer user and that this boggles me frankly boggles me."
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has anyone used the ical events widget? it makes my computer REALLY hot and i'm wondering if it's just my own isolated case. processor goes to 140 degrees with it on. i checked activity monitor and saw that ical was using 60+% of the processor and was also labeled unresponsive even though it was working fine. so i force quitted, deleted the widget, and my cpu temp drops to 117. anyone else have similar results?

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Message was edited by: Stephen Bunker

Here is some sample code.
-- Code starts here --
property tFile : "HD01:Users:dev_sleidy:Desktop:SatelitePasses.txt" -- Location of Satellite information file.
property tCalendar : "Satellite" -- Name of 'iCal' 'Calendar'.
set tText to paragraphs 5 through -1 of (read file tFile) -- Obtain specific lines (paragraphs) of Satellite information file data.
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tell calendar tCalendar -- Focus within the 'tCalendar' calendar.
repeat with i in tText -- Cycle through the obtain paragraphs of data.
tell i to set {tMonth, tDay, tYear, tTime, uHour, uMinute} to {first text item as number, second text item as number, third text item as number, fourth text item, fifth text item, sixth text item} -- Obtain specific information from within a paragraaph.
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"Fixed"???
I can tell you where they OUGHT to be, but if the problem is that they have been moved, you need to ask your friend.
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Perhaps try:
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When it is finished see if things look OK in iCal. If they do export each of the calendars, copy them to the drop box of your normal account and return to your normal account to import them.
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AK
<pre style="font-family: 'Monaco', 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; overflow:auto; color: #222; background: #DDD; padding: 0.2em; font-size: 10px; width:400px">on run
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close TheFile
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set LCount to 0
set ACount to 0
set RCount to 0
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set SCount to 0
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try
repeat with ThisLine in TheLines
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set LCount to LCount + 1
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set MyEndDate to FixMyDate(item 3 of Details)
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if MyDetached is "1" then set MyTitle to "XX-" & MyTitle
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