Scrolling appointment plug in

[Guest coolandfast]

P.S. awesome home screen photo!

thank you...

i have again produced a picutre after installing version 1.7. this shows the possible appointment types and how they are handled using the xml definition of , .

here is what i'm looking for, exept that multiline display should be possible:

allday event: (birthday evelyne lehner) [remove leading comma]

next appointment: ok

allday event from next day: ok

appointment next day: (21.11.2004, 10:00, Spinning @ Sc..) [change order from time, date to date, time]

btw: if i do not use a comma, there is no space between time and subject...

hope this helps to make the point.

greetings.

v1.7.jpg

[Guest sullivanpt]

I made a small tweak to the plugin to allow the time and date to be located independently. You will have to update your XML files to include another variable if you want to see the date, as below:

WAS: <text><time/></text>




NOW: <text><time/><separator/><date/><text>

Okey doke. I'm sending everyone version 1.9 via e-mail. Please let me know if you don't receive it. (It's also available on Handango).

Thanks for all your help and suggestions. :lol:

It's been a MUCH bigger adventure writing this plug in than I expected.

I have NOT fixed the RJTasks bug yet. :-( Got to have something to keep me busy over the holidays. :roll:

[Guest SO333]

I have lots of space on my homescreen.

Therefore I would like a feature to display 2 or 3 dates at the same time. Is there any chance to implement this?

[Guest sullivanpt]

I have lots of space on my homescreen.

Therefore I would like a feature to display 2 or 3 dates at the same time. Is there any chance to implement this?

Yes, that sounds possible and not too difficult :wink:

It will take me a while to get to this, it is the holiday season and the family is wondering if they're going to have mount our X-mas tree to my keyboard. :lol:

[Guest fozzie]

Would it be possible to allow the user to customise the time & date seperator?

Thanks.

Posted from my SmartPhone!

[Guest sullivanpt]

Would it be possible to allow the user to customise the time & date seperator?

Your referring to the new variable (", ") right? I was hoping nobody was going to ask for this :lol:

If you mean change it everywhere within the plugin so that all separators become ":" for example, this is easy. If you mean change it differently for each instance of the separator (so that the one between time and date becomes "," and the one between date and subject becomes ":") this is harder.

Which implementation do you need?

[Guest fozzie]

I was hoping that the separator variable wouldn't be needed and that any text could then be entered in between the text tags.

e.g.

or perhaps

:

This would allow for ultimate flexibility. Personally, I'm just looking to use a space between the time and date at the moment.

Posted from my SmartPhone!

[Guest sullivanpt]

Ahh, yes it seems the Microsoft XML parser ignores a single space so that comes through as by the time my code gets a hold of it. As you probably noticed, this isn't the case if there's a character between, so : (with a space) comes through the parser correctly as : . So you CAN put any text you want between the two tags, EXCEPT for a space... Anyway, that's all just background noise and doesn't solve your problem. :lol:

I think for your particular case, the simple solution I suggested should work. I'll add it to the to do list :D

[Guest coolandfast]

i installed the latest version 1.9 a few days ago. everything seems to be working fine.

this morning i received a sms and got a error-message saying 'not enough memory to perform this action'. i have not restarted the phone for a few days - maybe the memory leak is still not completely removed?

greetings.

[Guest sullivanpt]

Yes, these are the three bugs I know about in the 1.9 version (These are also listed in the readme file, near the version history).

KNOWN BUGS

- May become sluggish if there are many appointments within the seek range (-7 to + 31 days).

- Slow memory leak (approximately 2 MB per 24 hours, depending on your calendar).

- May lock-up on Orange C500 when recurring appointments are enabled (Please use show-recurring="false" to work-around this issue).

- May lock up if RJTasks plug-in is displayed on the same home-screen on Orange C500.

[Guest coolandfast]

patrick

sorry, i was not reading the readme file... :lol:

anyhow, it has become quite quiet regarding your plugin. i guess, most people are now satisfied....

i just love your plugin!

[Guest sullivanpt]

Thank you for the kind words.

I hope most are satisfied. I am accumulating a list of requested improvements and bug fixes. I have to focus on keeping The family happy through the holidays first though.

:lol:

[Guest aminchew]

I'm seeing diagonal lines when I use this plugin on an Audiovox SMT-5600 running WM2003 SE.

Here's a screen shot:

[Guest fozzie]

So does everyone else when they're using the demo version and haven't yet paid for the full version!

Posted from my SmartPhone!

[Guest spyda]

Hi there. Here is my xml for this program. I don't want to disable this plug-in if there are no current events to display. Can anyone help me?

No upcoming appointments

thanks,

rwp

x8273

[Guest sullivanpt]

If I understand your question correctly the "show-noevent" attribute will give you what you want. Try changing:

<plugin clsid="{1BC4FD2C-5B25-4f34-A4A8-58915667BF3D}" name="appointments" height="38" scroll-timer="20" scroll-speed="0" scroll-days="2" banner="false" launch="calendar.lnk" > 




<label> 


<text lang="0x0409">No upcoming appointments</text> 


</label>

to

<plugin clsid="{1BC4FD2C-5B25-4f34-A4A8-58915667BF3D}" name="appointments" height="38" scroll-timer="20" scroll-speed="0" scroll-days="2" banner="false" launch="calendar.lnk" show-noevent="false">

[Guest spyda]

Thanks for your help. I changed the scrolling-days to 1 and entered the show no-event parameter.

If there are no appointments for the day, I don't want to see anything. Actually, I don't want to see the plugin at all.

With the show no-event parameter set to either true or false, I still get an appointment or notification.

Hope this isn't confusing to you and thanks again.

[Guest sullivanpt]

Spyda,

Okay, I understand the request. Version 1.9 doesn't support that, but I don't think it would be hard to add something that sets the height to 0 for no appointments. I'll put your request on my list of wanted for changes for the next release.

In the meantime, have you tried something like this. It doesn't save screen real estate, but at least it put's an empty message where the "No upcoming appointments" would normally be displayed.

<plugin clsid="{1BC4FD2C-5B25-4f34-A4A8-58915667BF3D}" name="appointments" height="40" scroll-timer="20" scroll-speed="2000" scroll-days="2" launch="calendar.lnk" >


  <label>


 	 <format state="noevent" visible="true" />


 	 <text lang="0x0409"> </text>


  </label>

Thanks for the height idea!

Patrick

[Guest danl]

How about support for showing the day of the week (Mon, Tue, etc.)?

[Guest sullivanpt]

Day of the week seems doable. :-)

[Guest danl]

I have a recurring appointment at 4pm, and a couple of earlier appointments. The plugin orders them wrong--the recurring appointment shows first even though it is not first chronologically? Does that make sense?

BTW, I really like this plugin. Thanks. Well worth $5.

[Guest sullivanpt]

Hi danl,

I haven't experienced that problem before. Post here or PM me a list of the appointment times, type (recurring) and the current time of day when this occurs. I'll try to recreate it here.

Thanks,

Patrick

[Guest fozzie]

Patrick,

A quick update for you; I've just upgraded the ROM on my Orange C500 from 4.1.1.0 to 4.1.1.4 and now your plug-in is working fine with RJtasks. I've no idea whether it was a firmware issue or something else though.

So now I'm just left with the recurring appointments issue.

EDIT: Ooops, I spoke too soon. It is still locking up when RJtasks is used in the homescreen. Sorry :oops:

[Guest sullivanpt]

Thanks for the update and the update to the update fozzie.

I was able to recreate your lock-up once in my debugger, which implies that the problem shouldn't be hardware specific. I posted some related questions on the developer newsgroups but got no answers, so it looks like it's going to be trial and error to figure this one out.

Be patient, I haven't forgotten you. And thanks again for all the great feedback and wonderful new ideas :!: I think version 2.0 will be great :-)

[Guest SO333]

Ahh, yes it seems the Microsoft XML parser ignores a single space so that comes through as

Has anyone tried to use the protected single space symbol? (I haven't the program installed yet, still waiting for the option to display more than one appointment at the same time :))

It's ALT+255 on your numeric keypad.