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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nir36:
hehe. Close on mininize means that it closes when i minimize :)

when i click exit it minimizes.. that's the problem.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] t0k0m0k0:
excellent cal app

almost perfect now to really use it! :D

I have tried all the previous versions, but I always uninstalled thumbcal since the display speed was too slow for an every day use... but now with the speed improvement it is really usable on my 400MHz airis, and I am planning to buy it...

just one thing that miss very strongly: the option to display the place of appointments... (I'm sure it wont be difficult to add)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] pokey:
[FR] Start date as well as Due for Tasks

New release is excellent! One thing I would really like to see, though: Pocket Outlook allows both Start & Due date for tasks, which I use a lot; in ThumbCal only Due date can be entered/changed. What chance this could be added?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] moldowan:
I really like your application and I'm about to buy it.

Unfortunately I have to confirm what nheeka wrote:

This happens when using the Samsung phonepad or the Samsung keypad. I can type numbers and special characters just fine but I cannot switch to letters. Switching to Samsung keyboard works around this issue but this keyboard is less finger friendly in portrait mode.

Does anyone know if that issue already existed in the previous version 1.1.2?

I have seen a similar effect before on my Omnia and it looked like it had something to do with focussing the input box or something like that... :confused:

One thing I'd like to see is the ability to hide the "due" (german: fällig am) info in the tasks list. This Option is available in the standard windows mobile tasks app but I could not find it in ThumbCal.

Another issue is that Winterface starts the Outlook calendar instead of Thumbcal. What is interesting though is that Winterface does start ThumbCal when clicking the pre-defined tasks button.

So I think that is a winterface problem. Maybe someone here has a workaround?

EDIT:

Is there a way to have the week view as the default view when ThumbCal is started?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] edl:
Congratulations

Hello sli,

just want to say, for me your app is perfect now.

Speed is incredible and great for daily use now.

For me now it´s perfect...

PS: Also would be nice to know, how to start ThumCal ind weekly view..
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] vbier:
Week view

@edl & @moldowan

You have to provide the -vw command line argument to start in week view.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nheeka:
samsung phonepad

there was no problem with omnia's samsung phonepad in a previous version...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] moldowan:
Thank you for that hint! But it won't help me much...

Because I cannot specify program parameters in Winterface I need an option within ThumbCal to make this permanent.

Any chance this will be included in an upcoming release?

PS: It's clearly the fault of Winterface and not ThumbCal's fault, but...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bbju:
Yes, I had the same problem using the latest version. When I exit, it minimized (so no way to really exit it). Then, I went to the settings and checked "Close on Minimize" (I thought I checked that with my previous version, it's unchecked when I installed the new version) and exit now becomes real exit. You can try. I don't know. I may be a bug for some as some want to both minimize and exit. For me, it doesn't matter as I just want to exit when I minimize or exit it :-D.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] s.l.i:
Hmm, ok I will add an extra registry value in the type of "ReallyCloseOnExit" ... :o

I decided to minimize it also on menu->exit because the normal users ( not geeks like most of us here at xda-dev ) should let it run in background ever to not see the loading splash screen so often...;)

The Omnia SIP problem is solved :D . May be wrong but I put the blame on Samsung's Keypad/Phonepad.

I will release an update not later than tomorrow.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ruclip:
Hi,

Your Thumbcall is pefect for me. Thanks a lot!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] moldowan:
Great! Just purchased a licence! :D

btw:

I tried the -vw parameter...but it does not seem to work?!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bbju:
sli,

maybe I am asking too much. Yes, I am asking too much as I am already very happy with the program. Any chance it can support Chinese? The native calendar program can display Chinese but Thumbcal can't. I didn't mean to translate the thumbcal into Chinese (my diamond has an English ROM and I do prefer English) but I just want it to be able to display chinese just in case there's some Chinese there.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] xxza:
does it support VGA?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] s.l.i:
For the week view:

- just take a look at the shortcut in "windows\start menu\programs\thumbcal\day view.lnk". it is a text file. You will need to replace the -vd with -vw and it should work.

Chinese should be possible. Did you try it? I attach here the traditional and the simplyfied chinese lang files from version 0.5. They are'nt up to date but you should be able to see if they work.

Yes it supports all screen resolutions: QVGA, QVGA Square, WQVGA, VGA , VGA Square, WVGA
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] efjay:
Is there any way to view the day view apart from when starting the program? It seems like I can only access the day view if there are appointments on that day or when I run it from the program folder. Basically I would like the day view to be selectable like the week and month views. Is that possible? Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] moldowan:
Ahhh...I see. Only -vw is not enough, more parameters need to be given. Now it works - thank you!

But doesn't that depend on the skin? As far as I can see there is only one skin that I can use on my Omnia (WQVGA), right?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] s.l.i:
You could also use the plainblack or the thumbcal black skin.

The only really resolution depending thing is the month view background image in the skins.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] s.l.i:
At the moment you can only launch TC initially in day view with the Day View shortcut in start menu/programs/thumbcal

@all Omnia users: The fixed version (1.2.1) is online at thumbapps.com!

EDIT: and if you want to really close the process, insert a string value "QuitProcessOnClose" into HKCU/Software/ThumbApps/ThumbCal and set it to 1
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] -Arturo-:
Hi guys I need your help here. Could you tell me how long does it taketo start Thumbcal on your machines. It takes about 6 seconds on my Tytn II. I find the app a bit too slow on startup especially in comparison to previous version. So tell me how long does it take to start thumbcal so I can compare it to my ppc and try to figure out whether it is device or maybe configuration dependent. Cheers.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] moldowan:
Just installed it; Phonepad/Keypad issue is gone! :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] t0k0m0k0:
first start is a bit long for me (airis 400MHz), maybe more than 6 seconds, but if you use your calendar every day you should keep it reduced in background (put it in exception list for closing for example), and then you wont have naymore loading delay...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nir36:
takes about 4 on my polaris.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] s.l.i:
On my Omnia also about 4 seconds. But it depends on how many appointments are stored in the pim database.

For a test I created 1000 random appointments on a LG KS20, all within 2007/2008/2009 and then it took about 20 seconds. But once the application ran, it was very fast to move to the next/prev month.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ajbopp:
LOL! I guess I really like it! I just mistakenly bought it a second time! DOH! :p
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] s.l.i:
:D no problem, I can charge it back. But for this, let's get less public and mail me per PM or with my contact form on thumbapps.com
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nir36:
lol 20 secs for 1000 apps is NOTHING.

considering most people have much less than that the average loading time seems fine.

don't worry about it :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] -Arturo-:
Thanks for your replies guys. I guess that my 6 seconds starting time is in norm. Looks like I'll have to live with Thumbcal being open all the time:)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] moldowan:
I have some more suggestions for improving the tasks view:

implement filtering by category or what would be even better: implement a kind of 2-level tree view with expandable and collapsible cataegories which contain the actual tasks, example:

home (this is a category which expands/collapes the contained tasks when tapped)

└ laundry

└ dishes

ThumbCal

└ implement this

└ implement that

...

enable creation of tasks without a deadline/due (I often use a task as some kind of general todo item without a deadline and without a reminder)

implement a sorting function:

- sort by priority​

- sort by name​

- sort by "due"/deadline​

- sort by reminer date and time​

option to hide the "due" info (already suggested before but for the sake of completeness :D)

What do you think about that? Most of the features are already present in Pocket Outlook!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Anders_H:
Thanks

Great calendar, thank you so much for this.

Payed for a license and it's definitely worth it.

Now I'm just waiting for the languagefiles to be converted to version 1.2.1
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ronenpg:
Hebrew Translation for ThumbApp Version 1.2.x !

Hey!

Looking for Hebrew Translation? here is the link for download the Hebrew Patch: http://www.slight.co.il/HTC/?id=17

Enjoy :-)

:D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] evilc:
I am finding that when running in VGA, in landscape orientation, the scrolling is very slow. I see tearing on the image when it scrolls.

Does anyone else see this? Is there likely to be a fix
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] s.l.i:
I've released another update (1.2.2) .

It fixes a problem in handling with recurring appointments.

Recurring appointments were not loaded properly on creation and modification.

The landscape thing: I am trying to get it smoother. The landscape orientation makes trouble on nearly all devices but I don't know why yet.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] peterbonge:
Please don't understand me wrong. I really like TC. But I'm wondering why still nobody has criticized that the program eats about 8 MB of RAM. This is far too much to let the program always be running in the background.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] -Arturo-:
Maybe because it doesn't...:) I've just checked on two different task managers and they both show 2,1 MB. Maybe you have a lot of appointments or something like that?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] peterbonge:
No, I just have a few appts and tasks. I'm guessing you have a QVGA device. That would explain the difference.

For comparison: iContact needs less than 4 MB RAM here.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] s.l.i:
:o I took a quick look into and would say, the next update will be released very very soon... :o

EDIT: attached is a new version with less mem hunger...

peterbonge, could you please check the mem with this version?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nir36:
this is obviously proportional then

i have lots of appointments and tasks and it takes about 1MB..

and iContact takes 350KB and i have 180 contacts (with about 80 pics)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] s.l.i:
The most memory is needed by the graphics.

On a VGA device theoretical 4x more than on a QVGA device.

Another factor is, does the skin use images or not.

I believe, the appointments are the lowest part.

^

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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] -Arturo-:
Yes you're right I do own a qvga device and I just checked and Icontact takes about 350kb on my phone. Well I've got to say that the difference is quite significant, looks like there are a few shortcomings with using VGA device unless you have 512MB of ram:)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] peterbonge:
6.4 MB RAM. And it seems that it loads a little bit faster now.

Just a general information: It's not always a good idea to use a task manager to measure the RAM comsumption. It's better to have a look at the free RAM before and after starting the test program. Example with iContact (on my Touch Pro):

- The task manager shows about 850 KB RAM.

- Looking at the free RAM before and after results in about 3.5 MB RAM.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] gchildz:
how to disable the little green popups when opening thumbcall?

older version dont have that but new one seems to take about 3 second before loading.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] snachez:
Thanks for the rapid updates s.l.i.

My complaint of taking too long to load on my TyTnII is now cut in less than half. very happy, prost !
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] moldowan:
This is how I understood it as a user (maybe s.l.i. himself will comment on this):

The reason for the delay at startup is not that green splash screen! It's that caching mechanism that has been implemented to improve the general working speed.

That splash screen only shows you the progress of filling the cache with the data from the pim database. So it shouldn't be any faster without that little screen.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nir36:
sli! 1.2.4 load in 3 seconds!

it's crazy.. so much faster than the previous one.

thanks! :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bluemetalaxe:
LOading is fast as usual because this is a application that should run in background like pocketcm.

i update to newest version and my RAM usage went down from 2.1 MB to 1.3 MB

thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bonsaiboyz:
scrolling on the Week View seems to have slowed down to a crawl again with the latest version
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] moldowan:
I have to confirm that! With 1.2.1 it already wasn't very quick but now it is very "laggy".
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] fanwater:
Any option to enable sound in ThumbCal?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] s.l.i:
Uff, this is not my week...

I will care about.

What exactly do you mean with sound? Sound for reminders or something else?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bbju:
Yes, I also confirm that. It was fast in the previous (1.1.x?) version. Now, it's like crawling. One time finger scroll can't pass a week (just 2 to 3 days in a week). Strangely, it scrolls very fast in the settings though.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] snachez:
We really appreciate all your efforts buddy, even if we come across as annoying. Thanks again, any link I can send you a small donation for some headache medicine, rather than buying another licence ? :D:D do you have a paypal acct ?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] iTouch24:
what is this green background on the splash screen for thumbcal.. cant we make it more of a default neutral color.. black and white... haha ... diamond colorssssss...

i use the tasks shortcut in my start menu that came with this app... i press tasks and it takes me to my list of tasks....

hit new.. task

i place in the subject

then it automatically has todays date for due date.. i can go in there and edit the date for when it is due ....

now the reminder date still has todays date... shouldnt the reminder date automatically get updated as well to the due date?... now i have to set the date twice... in 2 different fields

can we set the time for tasks in an option to be a default time.. like every new task we create is created with a reminder time of 10am for example... then we can adjust if need be.... i usually set tasks ... like a todo list for the day ... so starting at ten is fine.. then i can just snooze... at night i create tasks for the next day... and then i have to adjust all the times and reminders manaully

i just feel there are many steps in creating a task...

my thoughts.. when u create a task with a due date.. the reminder date should automatically be set to the due date and the reminder field should just be a time ... or have an option to edit date or time.. not that i have to go through the date everytime as well if i just want to change the time...

think about placing tasks when u are at a light in a car... needs to be fast and convenient....

thumbcal has saved my WM experience... coming from a palm with a program called 2day i was used to real fast appointment/task entry then i came to windows and was like.. what are they nuts... so your program def saved me from going back to palm

thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] alind:
Good program, thanks a lot
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Gramon:
I just updated to the latest version and love the changes to it. As others have mentioned the scrolling is a bit slow but I don't mind that so much. I belive the previous version I was using was 1.1.x and if you scrolled too fast you could easily pass 6 weeks.

While I would like to scroll a full week, I don't mind the slower scroll.

I love the other additions (time graph on week & month view, etc)

Thanks for your hard work on this.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] fanwater:
Not the sound for reminders/appointements. It's already there. I mean enabling of sound effects like clicking, menu popup, scrolling, and prompts those kind of events
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] rachbu:
This program is great! I love that the latest version automatically launches from the Manila 2d today plug-in 'calendar' link.

thanks so much for the rapid updates too! great work!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] iggy:
s.L.i. feature request, when creating a reccurring a appointment, please ad the ability to choose the number of weeks the appt. is recurring (i.e. I am working the next 4 Sundays but to create a recurring appt. for Sunday it is created for every sunday from now then I have to delete it after the 4th sunday in order to remove it from my calendar.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] baj_oz:
excellent app, $h1T$ all over wm6 cal.!... keep those updates coming
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] MACkjam:
I've tried it and looks very nice, but not very practical. It doesn't have a search function and does not support categories. It's a very watered down Calendar app with eye-candy effects but that's it. I give it a 4/10. It would get a much higher rating if it included some more advanced features.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] moldowan:
It does not have a search function, that's true!

But it does support categories! Unfortunately you can only use them for filtering in the calendar views, not in the tasks view. :(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] MACkjam:
Yes, I saw that, but what I meant is that when you create a new appointment, you cannot select a category for the appointment. Yes, and also Tasks view not supported for categories. I will stay with PI v8.5, still unbeatable.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] moldowan:
I can select a category for tasks and appointments! Just tap this small "opened folder" icon which is on line 7 for appointments and on line 4 for tasks.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] MACkjam:
Well spotted old chap!!! That's great, now if it could only do a date & text search, it would be almost perfect.

BTW, I see you have the Omnia. What's it like? I rather like the looks of it and the specs. The only things putting me off is no silo for the stylus,not VGA, and no hardware keyboard, other than that, it looks like an awesome device.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] iTouch24:
FR: Set to Call

This program is mostly on phones and we already have the options for tasks and appointments.... how about the option to set a reminder to call someone...

u select new,,, then it opens up contacts program... u select persons name and number and date and time to call them... when the alarm goes off.. the number is in a hyperlink and u just tap to call...

what do u think .....​
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] syrguy1969:
I second MACkjam's request for info!!! :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] s.l.i:
Update! Version 1.2.5

- faster week view scrolling when background image present

- ThumbCal stores locations that were added and offers them in a list for faster input

- simple templates for appointment/task subjects that will be offered in a list for faster input

(a template supports one placeholder for the text selection; e.g.: "Wash [...] car" -> the "[...]" becomes selected

and can be overwritten quickly)

- category filter now also works in the tasks list

The template file for subjects is TCSubjects.txt and is a unicode file (UCS2 litte endian). The file can be found in the ThumbCal install dir.

The search option is definitely on my todo list.

The following things too:

- tasks without a start/due date, start date for tasks

- fixes on reminder (as mentioned by iTouch24)

- more options for recurring appointments

- colors for categories

- birthdays from the contacts db

iTouch24's idea of the call reminder sounds great as well...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nir36:
sli. the thing with the locations saving is really really good.

thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jasthom69:
s.l.i this is app is excellent and really well presented

colors for categories - cant wait for this, something like google calendars where we can select the colour would be great

filter - any chance of being able to select multiple categories?

Keep up the good work

MFG

Jason
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] custardo01:
Many thanks for the new version. I love having Thumbcal back as the default calendar on my new Touch HD without having to spend time looking at all the hacks available. Great!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Smille123:
A very big thankyou for the new template-function! Thumbcal gets better and better!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] moldowan:
Great! Keep them coming! The best spend 9 Euros in a looong time. :D

Works like a charm now!

Nice!

BUT: There are too many steps to apply tasks filtering in my opinion:

Back -> Menu -> Filtering -> Select your filter -> Ok -> Menu -> Tasks

It would be MUCH more user friendly when there would be a filtering button or whatever right in the tasks view! Then it would be like:

Filtering -> Select your filter -> Ok

Or maybe you take my "2 level tree view" suggestion into account! ;)

I will have a look at the other new features too...they sound great!

Please also add an option to hide this time display from the tasks view. So you can see more tasks!

@MACkjam and syrguy1969

Regarding the omnia (which is really off-topic by the way :rolleyes:):

Overall I am satisfied with my omnia. It's my first pocket pc and did not really try other ppc.

There are still issues that need to be fixed but ROM updates are constantly coming in and there is also an ambitious community at http://i900.modaco.com

And some issues are hardware related and thus cannot be fixed but for me these are minor problems. Read some reviews and you will get a first impression...and visit some forums as well!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bbju:
Thanks sli. Week view scrolls much faster now. Really appreciated your effort and really love the program :-).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] t0k0m0k0:
completed tasks not hiddend

concerning the task list I was surprised to see that all tasks were displayed, even the already done ones... an option to hide the completed ones miss, dont you think so? it should certainly lighten the memory use (and i have a huge history of completed tasks that I do not want to erase and loose... but that I dont want to see everyday neither)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] apprentice:
please please don't forget you promised to sort out the behaviour where start menu shortcuts are created every time the program runs. thanks in advance :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] s.l.i:
This is fixed since 1.2.0.

The shortcuts will only be created on installation and will be deleted on uninstall.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] capo56:
Is there any possibility how to see all attendees in appointment detail?

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] s.l.i:
At the moment unfortunately not...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bonsaiboyz:
Any ETA on the colour categories as this would just make the app perfect (for me at least)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] PauloJ5:
SLI, I am liking the new versions a lot.

Is it possible to enable editing of notes by clicking on them ? I find notes very useful for detailed schedules.