Agendus for NON T5 . . . Life Goes ON

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stephsteph

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For those of you WITHOUT a T5, and Agendus working properly, I found this fantastic freeware "Plug-In" for any Palm Desktop up to 4.1.4. It will require Virtual Basic Runtime, which most PCs have - and if not there's a link to get it. Check this out:

http://www.palmgear.com/index.cfm?f...C26-2EB54AA0B3B25CEA&PartnerREF=&prodID=47354

You'll have to install (easy), then go in to Palm desktop and when you hit the "AN" button on the left you'll be prompted to go to the OPTIONS button left bottom corner of Palm Desktop, call up "icons/sounds" and mark "Agendus7 icons sets" and the file you're using for the icons (Icons-Iambic, probably).

BOOM. Icons are on the desktop for those of you not using the Windows "interface."

The app takes up 2MB on the PC, and by clicking on the icons button you can see if you have any icon CORRUPTIONS (mine was entering last icon 3x, til I went into the handheld and MOVED an icon by drag and drop - that fixed it for some reason).

I have my setup for tasks/calendar to "Handheld overwrites;" some of you have set to "synchronize." Obviously if set to the latter, you'll be able to set to dos and calendars, MEETINGS (!!) AND alarms RIGHT ON THE DESKTOP, and choose your icon from the pop up list.

Found this 30 minutes ago from someone who posted "Tips and tricks" on the Iambic forum - have thanked them!

My only reservation: it shows To-Dos, and NO ICONS IN calendar month view. The "AN" Button brings up to dos with icons, but you can't see any meeting icons in the calendar. If this can't be resolved I might delete it since "Month" is my standard overview of what's going on. Also, MakeSpot is not incorporated in the desktop. Are these incorporated in the Agendus WINDOWS Version (again, more money!!) and have the "conflicts" been solved if you use Palm Dsktop and NOT Outlook?

Might be worth just sending Iambic a money order. If all you need is icons for to-dos, this is a handy and clean little "patch."
 
I just installed this app. It makes me glad that I didn't spend money on Agendus Desktop. I explored the program and found that it is possible to link contacts to the To dos and meetings if you click the circular icon next to the user name at the upper right corner of the screen. It is great to have that functionality added to the desktop.
 
Some questions for you I cannot answer:

1. Probably my fault, but couldn't get the icons to appear in MONTH view.

2. Default setting was "AN Action," and though I repeatedly changed to "General" and hit "OK
 
I was able to assign icons to events, but not get them to display. I did notice, however, that there are notes created for the event and it contains link and contact information. The icons appear to only display properly in the To Dos.

It seems when you click on the AN, only the task list shows up on the screen. For creating events, you click on the circle icon next to the user name area at the top right corner of the screen. There is a tab in the pop-up box that says AN Action. That page has options for linking contacts and assigning icons, colors, alarms, etc.

I haven't used the To do list extensively enough to know about setting up the displayed tasks.

On synchronizing, I usually use the default settings. In some ways, there is an advantage of doing this. It will allow data entry on both the PC or the handheld. I haven't had problems of duplicate entries using Palm Desktop. However, Outlook was a different story.

On a side note, I think I have solved the fatal error problem which occurs when alarms for repeating events go off. From what I have found, there was a conflict between the button assignments in Agendus and also the Palm OS Prefs button mappings. The Palm OS button assignments need to be changed manually to Agendus. I did this for the Calendar, Contacts, and To Do buttons. I also made some changes inside of the Agendus preferences. I ticked the box next to where it says "Assign to Agendus". Where it says Press Action, I selected Goto View. I then selected Calendar, Contacts, and To Dos for each of the buttons. I haven't had any fatal errors today after several alarms went off. I reported this finding at Iambic's forum.
 
I found a similar "Agendus button thing" but it was a conflict with TealLaunch; the top left button is now not assigned to ANYTHING in ANY launcher - only Agendus.

I had no idea that could affect fatal alerts/alarms, though!!

Very interesting.

The developer of ANAction emailed me back to say that the "to-do/tasks" list is all there is , and it suits his needs personally so he hasn't worked on other views. Also, there are licensing costs apparently involved in making them show in other views so "it is what it is."

It's still pretty good and nowhere near the 10MB for Agendus Windows. In downloaded a trial of THAT yesterday, installed it, UNINSTALLED it, and there's 2MB gone "somewhere" that can't be recovered. I have a feeling it's a little "invasive" and though I've tried %appdata% in START>RUN, (that found 3 folders), and a search for "all files created on yesterday's date," I'm unable to find the missing 2MB. ANAction was 2MB total!! Much smaller, and does the job for most people -- and it's freeware and doesn't interfere with conduit screen (doesn't add a conduit, just shows your icons).

Thanks for the return info, Buddy./P
 
Paul,

Do you have the Java plugin installed? If you do, you might want to try increasing the Set Maximum Java Thread Stack Size and tick the box next to where it says Use Double Buffering from inside the IBM Java Preferences.

This morning, I lowered the stack size and all of a sudden, all the programs on my T3 started crashing by presenting the same popup error window that Agendus presents when alarms go off. Once I raised the value of the stack size to 16kb, which is higher than the original setting, the programs seemed to go faster, especially Plucker. I loaded a huge ebook and the page lookups were instantaneous! I had never seen the program go this fast before.

This experience tells me that the Java plugin is necessary and the default low stack setting could be responsible for triggering most of the Agendus errors.

Regarding the buttons, I believe by default, Palm OS assigns the alarms to whichever program is assigned to the calendar button.
 
No dwinget, I don't have it installed (you're talking about the java webshpere, 1.5MB thingie, right?)

I looked at it, installed it at one time (it runs in flash, by the way!) but couldn't find any apps to "go with it;" I'd love to see one and have asked on here before about that.

If SuperWaba allows different programs to operate as a result, I might be interested; I've got almost 3MB of flash yet and 95% free of RAM - not like I don't have the room.

The stack boost to 16k+ is interesting . . . I've found the same results using TealMover to boost the default 3300 stack request to 6,000 for CERTAIN apps (you don't want to go nuts) . . . Mobiledb, Agendus are now at 6000; Acid Image is rated higher to begin with, but I boosted that about 15% also.

The result is no more "opening crashes" in AImage, Agendus hasn't crashed once since the corrupt calendar database thing last month, and mobile DB opens up faster and switches categories faster. All three apps are in flash.

I've made a note ot follow your instructions should I load the Java again - and the news regarding plucker is VERY WELCOME since "Sunrise" will soon be releasing .04. They're up to 0.36c right now (as of yesterday), with new versions creeping up to 0.4 about twice a week.

0.4 WILL BE THE LAST VERSION TO SUPPORT PLUCKER. After that, the developer will be releasing his own handheld "reader," and Plucker is out of the loop.

As for the buttons, you're right -- I have Datebook (I still get confused as to which physical button that is - I'm talking about top left - those squiggly designs don't mean much after about 300 TealLaunch mappings!!) set to Agendus, and NO OTHER mappings on a direct "keypress." I do have TealLaunch set to map it to DateDifference if pressed AND HELD, and two other launch commands if TealLaunch is OPENED (press, press & hold) but that doesn't interfere. On regular "press," it opens Agendus and cycles the views. I don't set many alarms within Agendus but haven't had any problems.

I don't use the programmable silkscreen button mappings (tealLaunch allows you to launch DOZENS of appsby a penswipe from one button to another, both directions, with/without TealLuanch open. Combinations are HUGE.

For that reason I might go ahead and map THOSE on the PalmOS to Agendus - as you did - just for "Safety;" at least the (again) top left one (That's datebook, right?!)

Thanks dwinget!
 
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