Money Tracker

[Guest gadgetfbi]

I am terrible with money, so I decided to write an app for my phone based on the theory that if I have to write down everything I spend, then I will spend less!

If anyone is willing to have a play and let me know what they think, or improvements that could be made that would be great.

I only have a c500 so I am not sure what phones it will work on.

Mail me if you have any questions or are after the source (c#).

Cheers,

Rob

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p.s. I have had to upload the exe as I can’t seem to build a cab [‘cabwiz.exe' could not be invoked’] - any ideas? Should just be a matter of copying it to the phone though provided you have the .net cf framework deployed [edit] (and opennetcf)[/edit].

MobileMoney.exe

Edited March 26, 2005 by gadgetfbi

[Guest gpcarreon (MVP)]

I get this error message...

Re CAB file error:

Have you tried OCP Software's WinCE Cab Manager?

moneytracker.BMP

[Guest gadgetfbi]

Lesson here is not to try do something quickly during your lunch break.

The app requires the OpenCFNet framework.

I have bundled it into a cab, but I have no idea if this will deploy the required frameworks or not, and I have no quick way of finding out. Could someone let me know?

Cheers

Rob

Edited March 25, 2005 by gadgetfbi

[Guest Dr_StrangeTrick]

Hi Gadgetfbi, I got the program to run fine.

But when you go to enter a new transaction you start at the bottom of the screen :?: and you have to press the down arrow key to move up the screen:?:

Also at the moment Money Tracker dates all transactions with the current date, but it is not always possible to put your spending in on time, so could we have a date field with the current date as default. That way we could change this if we need to or skip over to the next field if the transaction relates to today.

At the moment there is no provision for editing incorrect entries other than clearing the lot and starting over again.

Lastly on the summary screen the report could do with being tabulated. I.E. all dates start at column 1, then the direction starts at position 8, description starts at 12 etc. At the moment I have lines with direction, descriptions and amounts all mixed up. Also could we have an option to save this as a file please.

But don’t get me wrong I am not knocking you just pointing out a few problems. This is fantastic, keep up the good work.

[Guest gadgetfbi]

Thanks for the comments dr, all valid and I agree with them all. I originally used the ListView but unfortunately [i don’t think] I have any control over the font size used and it all looked a bit too ugly. I like the idea of using line positions instead of tabs. Editing was on the todo list, but saving it to file is a nice idea.

Thanks again,

‘till my next free lunch hour.