yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] eyecrispy:
great updates!

here are a few suggestions/observations:

1. response to gesturing going month to month and year to year is really slow. it takes several seconds on my niki. i almost feel like it's not doing anything and then all of a sudden, the new month slides into view.

2. in day view, when you touch a specific appt, can it open up to details instead of bringing up the menu? one thing i rely on my calendar for is time and location of my appointments. i'm finding that if the title of an appt is too long, the time block will not show. in addition, it would be nice to see the location from the day view without having to open it in outlook.

3. in day view, the back button to go back to the month view can sometimes be slow to respond.

4. in day view, the word "everyday" should be one word, not two.

thanks for a wonderful app!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] slimshadee:
This would be great if I could read the text under the menu items, but I can't. Which item in the list is "settings" (# from the top of the list) and which is "fontfamily" in the settings menu? If someone can post screen shots I can muddle through this and get it changed. Thanks.

EDIT: Fixed. I was able to "guess" the correct settings. Changing the font to Tahoma corrected the problem. THANKS!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] devanl:
Just upgraded to 0.5.1 today and I noticed that if the appointment description takes up more then two lines I can't see the time that the appointment is scheduled for (the next appointment is drawn over it). Also I noticed that maybe my "day" view is different than your screen shot since the appointment time is below the description, rather than to the left.

Still love the program, just wish I could see what time I'm supposed to be where :)

Thanks,

Devan
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] MaxMotus:
Upgraded and works fine so far, think i prefer the slightly slower sliding, but still good. Also downloaded the iphone skin but can't seem to get it to show up as an option. Is it more of a rename / replace consept?

MM
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] M.A.S.:
Put all the files with other files in \...\ThumbApps\ThumbCal (without "iphone" folder)

Got it?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] slimshadee:
I am using the iPhone theme, and noticed that some of the color options are excluded because this theme was created for an earlier version.

I have toyed around a bit with adding the "new version" items in the iPhone theme, but am having difficulty getting the color quite right for the botton menu button, gradient, etc. Has anyone updated the iPhone theme to include the added ini entries for 0.51?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] rgomesf:
Portuguese 0.5.1 language.

:)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kmbuell74:
Description for the skin.ini

Hi,

FIRSTABLE: GREAT APP !!!

Is there any detailed description for each row in the skin.ini. What entry changes what exactly? Which element changes in which row the color?

Welcher Eintrag bewirkt was genau ?

THX
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] morin:
Japanese LangFile

Hi. Good Job!

I use G900 Japanese Ver(X01T).

I make Japanese LangFile.:)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mindo:
Vista Green Theme

Here is a really quick theme I put together today that I thought I would share. It uses Vista's Leaf Wallpaper and only changes background and text color. button and title bar colors remain black.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sxl:
thumbcal

hey guys, i updated the iphone skin i put together a while ago...enjoy :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] M.A.S.:
Very nice...Thanks a lot!!

;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] die_Melle:
Thank you s.l.i. for the great Calendar! :)

And thanks sxl, for upgrading the skin :)

Melle.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] pi3ch:
Farsi (Persian) Language for 0.5.x

Hey man you did good improvement!

it is very fast and more stable and handy now!

Here is update version of Farsi (Persian) Language for ThumbCal 0.5.x
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hadd:
cool Calendar I would like to say in reply to an earlier post that the ability to go forward a year is really helpful to me and something I have used a few times already. cheers
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] deedee:
Would also be equally cool to swipe down from a day view and go forwards on week.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] miata:
it is almost replacing my ms calendar ... great software indeed !!

but there are still some where i think improvement can be made ..

i) both appointment and tasks input field only accept about 25 character max. need to re edit in outlook if want to enter more info

ii) delete of appointment/task should come with a confirmation page :), i'm trying to be carefull now but with all the swipping action on the screen accident happens haha

apart from that, i don't see a need to use the MS calendar anymore :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] satfly:
Very nice app, thank you very much!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Kholargol:
Thank you, thank you, thank you ! I search for a such app for weeks ! Simple, logical and efficiency !

I only downloaded it yesterday. I will use a few days again in order to give you constructive review and enhancement advices.

Keep the good work..
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] KukurikU:
glad to see that yr project is still developing. hope that all members here REALLY appreciate it and donate.

i have a prob i didn't have in yr first or second ver.

the phrase are started from the end. example:

"meeting with george" appears as "george with meeting"...lol

i know i am using hebrew (right to left writing) but if i remember well i didn't have this prob in the first ver.....help, please!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] JamesAllen:
Just Color Picker

For those of you who like to modify the skin colors, there is a freeware application called Just Color Picker that can be found at www.annystudio.com. This application allows you to move a crosshair (cursor) over a color that you like and get the RGB, HEX, HTML and other values for that color, as well as contrasting colors and similar colors. I use this to modify my ThumbCal skins to customize the colors.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] rwertz14:
I unzipped file and put it in the thumbcal folder, and when I go to settings and select skins, it is not an option. What do I need to do to get the iphone skin to work on ThumbCal???

renamed file skin.iphone and it worked.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] s.l.i:
rename it to skin.iphone.ini
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] s.l.i:
Hi, I will investigate this (funny) problem and will find a workaroun, I promise. You're the first and one of 7 donators so far, therefore you are one of the V.I.P users. I will hurry up to fix it, be patient. :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bluemetalaxe:
my new iconsset ist out:

http://www.ppc-welt.info/community/showthread.php?t=128348
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] TorxT3D:
okay! heres my iphone theme, enjoy! it looks better on the phone trust me, between the screen capture and photobucket compression, doesnt do it any justice. Im still trying to figure out how to alleviate the terrible "gradient steps" in png images. Is there a way to adjust the color of the divider at the bottom?? Is there a way to disable the day text ( Mon, Tues, Wed) at the top??

I got some more tweaking of the colors to do, to completely refine it, but im worn out right now
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jac:
Thanks TorxT3D for the Skin....

Here is your skin in CAB format
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Sushikidd:
well guys i have tried this many times now over and over with all kinds of different settings, and it is still annoyingly slowwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. there just doesnt seem to be any way around it.

if im wrong, please tell me (but dont tell me stuff that was suggested already, ive tried all of it)

im sad to say but this is just useless and even frustrating this way. it was a great idea but who has time to wait for 5 seconds before a slide even shows a reaction, besides the finger swipes for basic functions (switching day months/years/exiting day view) are just not comfortable or convenient. a nice novelty yes, but practical no. and other must haves are still missing (rotating days, opening on day view, replacing / linked through from the standard app on today screen). hopefully these will be implemented soon though because there seems to be much interest in them.

s.l.i. sorry man i dont mean to be overly critical and i truly appreciate all your work on this but for now i am giving up on this.. i do hope you will come up with a faster and more handy (less finger swipes for everyday features) and a little more customiseable (not abt marginally different skins, but abt what view to choose for example. skins is something to be developed after the app works 100% in every other way IMO) thumbcal..

again, i do truly appreciate your effort, creativity, talent and generosity. youre a credit to the forum and i hope you will keep developing this well intented app. at this point on balance it just still isnt more convenient than the standard PO app..
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] eyecrispy:
I'm with Sushikidd on the slow response times for the gesturing. It always appears that it's not working and then BAM the screen reacts. If it's more responsive, it would be my everyday calendar for sure.

I personally like the gesturing. Just the very slow response times that I don't like. But do keep in mind that it's a beta so i'm holding out hope that it'll be addressed in a future release.

Anyone else feel that it's way too slow?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mindo:
Oddly, I haven't had any problems with the gesturing response speed at all in recent versions (and I keep a bunch of appointments and tasks!) I did tweak with the config.ini file quite a bit, though, and have a fairly new/fast device. I'm also in the habit of deleting old tasks and appointments.

I currently use Thumbcal as my (almost) everyday calendar. The only time I ever have to go back to Spb Diary is when I need to reschedule a task for a later date, because editing the start date of a task is a feature that hasn't been implemented yet in Thumcal.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Sushikidd:
hi Mindo, can you please post your config file configuration?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mindo:
ini file

Here ya go Sushikidd. :)

[config]
fontfamily=Tahoma
formSlideSpeed=0.4
useWindowsTaskBar=1
showWeekNumber=0
language=lang.en.txt
animationSpeed=30
skin=skin.thumbcalblack.ini
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Hugo381:
I love it. Super fast on my TOUCH.

1 question, how do I make it completely black like on the pictures for the program on this forum thread? I like the plain all black background with out the program name on the righ hand corner. Nothing against the name or the program itself ofcourse, just for the looks. Its much smoother looking with out it. Beside, theres and ABOUT section to see the name.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Sushikidd:
Mindo: thanks mate :)

s.l.i.: ok i have to sincerely apologize for being sliiiightly too critical a few posts back..

i have upgraded to the latest version now and with Mindo's config settings on my touch cruise it does show visible progress :D

you have tackled quite a few user requests in this version already.

i like the new menu and back/new buttons a lot, as well as the day scrolling. thats a great improvement to me. the buttons respond very fast.. NICE! :)

it made me regain my confidence in this app :)

the month slide (and day scrolling) could still be quite a bit faster though, but i can see it is getting better now, there is clearly a progress..

what remains (for me and as i understand it for others too) besides the slide speed improvement is a today plugin/ PO calendar today plugin linkthrough option, and opening the app in today view option.. when those are tackled this app is close to perfection IMO.

so, apologies and kudos for you mate..keep up the great progress!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Kasush:
Assuming you no longer have need to use the original calendar application do the following:

Using your favorite registry editor change the following key:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Shell\Rai\:MSCALENDAR

Replace :the value :MSPOUTLOOK calendar with "\Program Files\ThumbApps\ThumbCal\ThumCal.exe" This changes the default calendar program from M$ calendar to ThumbCal. Assuming your today application simply calls the default calendar and not a hardcoded one this will do what you want.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] JamesAllen:
Experiences

This app has replaced my main calendar (MS) in most ways. I have an HTC Hermes (AT&T 8525) and have not had the gesture response problems reported by others. I would agree that making this a Today Plugin and providing a day view would make this a complete replacement and my main calendar.

I will be donating shortly.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Sushikidd:
and what would happen with the pocketoutlook calendar then...?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Sushikidd:
a little bug report:

all day appointments can not have their start date edited. it doesnt respond. normal appointments seem to be able to be edited without a problem.

when i went to PO calendar through Thumbcal to change a reoccuring appointment, all kinds of things went wrong.. it kinda seemed to mess with PO calendar which refused to properly edit the reoccuring appointment..

it took some poking around to get PO calendar to do it right again after that..
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] eyecrispy:
I've updated my config with the same speed settings as yours and it's still really slow. For example, gesturing from month to month still takes 5 seconds!

I'm using a Niki, which has a 400 mhz processor and running a WM6.1 ROM.

Anyone else still seeing this?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Hugo381:
Nevermind, i figured it out, just opened the image files from the Program folder and blacked it out with Photo Shop and saved it back into the same directory. Its just the background so its simple fix.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Matthy_47:
yes - it.s the same on my ETEN X500...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] efsane:
Again hello.

Mr. s.l.i , 0.5.1 version very successful.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kwickone:
Hey s.l.i,

I just stumbled across ThumbCal...not sure how I missed it. Very cool app. Thanks for the hard work!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Dr J:
excellent app, keep up the good work.

i have the tiniest of annoyances though...

is it possible to change the colour of the "Su" Sunday from red to something else?

maybe i missed it, i dunno... ?:confused:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] LeoArg:
:)Thank you! Excelent
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] daze81:
i'm searching for this too. is there any hidden color parameter? :confused:

thanks...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] monyozt:
good app mate :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] brunoisa10:
Have a look at the file : skin.thumbcalblack.ini

you can change colors , background.... but not for sunday I've not found it

Duplicating this file you can change themes of thumbcal using the button : Menu

very good application
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] daze81:
thanks, but i've allready made my own skin. but i'm searching for this parameter to complete it. ;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nir36:
this app is absoloutely magnificant.. and everything works great.. but when i click a day i see the objects' description (i use hebrew) all scrambled. any idea why?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] s.l.i:
Hi, and sorry for my late answer to all the questions that piled up.

The sunday color isn't customizable at the moment. I will change this with next release. So don't waste your time with it. ;-)

@nir36:

What font family do you use? (menu->settings->font family or config.ini->fontfamily)

Kukuriku also mentioned troubles with hebrew language. But he has another prob: If he puts in a subject like "meeting with george", in detail view he gets "george with meeting". Do you have the same problems?

Could you make a screen shot of your scrambled screen?

The speed problems:

I think, ThumbCal's month view scrolling becomes very sluggish if you have very many appointments/tasks in your calendar. I know, I have to optimize a lot and I will do some post processing in the next release to work around this behavior.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nir36:
Well, i tried both Courier New and Tahoma (which are the only ones.. but both support hebrew) and they still look like...

as you can see, it only writes scrambled in the appointment itself. in the title it shows hebrew right. also, if you edit the appointment you can see hebrew as it should be. only in the Day screen...

also, i was wondering if there is either or a way, or if not.. i'd like to recommand if possible to have an option to switch the Calendar bar in the today screen to load Thumbcal instead of the default one. thank you Sven. :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] MDANavymom:
Nice application. I have been using this since the first Alpha...and you have done good work. I have this working and it is pretty zippy, not showing any lags as of right now. Can't wait to see where you take this. So to help I have made a donation, have always found that good program are worth supporting.

Keep up the good work.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mr.incredible:
Great App!

Great app so far. I love the simplicity of the add an appointment option. One thing I would like to see, and have been dreaming of for a long time would be a "Now" button in the appointment times field. I like using the calendar as a stop/start for service calls. And, not really a big deal for me, but I would like a notes edit somewhere not buried or having to go to Outlook. Thanks for the great work so far. I will even be adding to the coffee fund. :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] s.l.i:
@MDANavymom: You are a great mom! Thanks for the noble pocket-money! :)

It is another kick-in-the-a** for me to further develop this app.

Unfortunately the next update will not become ready before next weekend. I'm very busy at the moment and this weekend I'm going to hungary.

Be patient. I think, next weekend could be an "update weekend"...

With next update the hebrew lang/font probs should be solved too.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nir36:
That is WONDERFUL sli.. thank you very much.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] lopez1_de:
What a great calender app!!

Thank you for sharing!

I wish that all WM apps working like this one or S2U or PocketCM. And I wish they all uses the same button/slider classes with the same look and feel. :rolleyes:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] caretaker22:
Hi,

By any chance can you make your app work with the today screen... i want to use it with UL... Thanks for your rocking app and your hard work!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Sushikidd:
hi s.l.i., you may be right; as you may remember im one of the people with sluggish month scrolling, and i do have quite a few tasks and a lot of calendar appointments.. on average at least 2 or 3 every day but usually a bit more. the cause of the sluggishness could just be the load time of these as the next month view loads all the appointments behind the dates...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] flyingmachine:
Note attachment?

hi,

I found your application very very cool, but i don't use it for the moment, because there are 3 things missing for me:(... but as soon as they appear i will be yours:)

1/ Would you think it will be possible to add "details" of an appointement by tapping on it. Like a note attached to the appointement. You can write in this note, like: where your appointement is (adress, door code....), who you are meeting, things to bring for exple...

2/ It will be great if we can assign category to appointement.And then

3/ personalize the color of your appointement with the category of your meeting ( office= blue; rest= green, holiday= red....) and in a month view have the "appointement triangle" colored in the same way. Also you can add an icon to your meeting...

It will make thumbcal perfect for me..

Have a good trip in Hungary

Forgive me for asking such things....

Thanks for your job!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] korbi:
This is almost my complete wishlist. I have only one addional feature request:

It would be perfect if we could have a "week-view".

This and categories --> Perfect!

But anyway: Thanks for Your great app!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sbp:
Hi I think I have found a bug.

The red square around "today" doesn't move/follow the present day. For me if I started Thumcal on the 14 of april the red square stays around the 14 of april even the next day (15 of april).

If I press "Today" Thumcal correctly goes to the 15 of april, but the red square still is around the 14 of april.

I have to kill Thumcal and restart before the red square is located correctly.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] lukasl:
Bug / Feature ?

Hi S.L.I,

I've been following this app since inception and now, it's become a nice app with great potential. It has replaced the std Calender on my HTC Touch Dual as of a few days ago. I hope this app will continue its philosophy of simplicity and not become bloated with too many features. I have a few comments:

a) The start date of an appointment cannot be changed once the appointment is saved. I consider this a bug. The start time can. Both the end date and time are also changeable.

b) The font size in the detail screen is quite small in my HTC Touch Dual (screen size is 2.8"). Not sure if others have this issue. The text become quite difficult to read. Is it possible to make the font size editable, or provide another choice of a larger font size?

c) In general, when displaying both appointments and tasks, appointments should be displayed first followed by tasks (apts are supposed to have higher priorities). In the detail screen, this is reversed.

d) In the detail screen, would be nice to have a separator line between the appointments section and the task section. That way, once can easily see the two different section, making it easy to scan the items.

e) When a task on day N is not completed, and it is now day (N+1), the task should automatically roll over into day (N+1). Currently, it does not. That is, on any particular day, all previous days' tasks which haven't been completed should appear in today's view.

Appointments do not roll over as they have a definite date/time.

(c), (d) are simple to implement. (a), (b) & (e) will take more time.

Much thanks for a nice app.

- another SE
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] miljbee:
Hello,

I am discovering this app, and i found it awesome !

I am a heavy cal/tasks user, and from now i was using Pocket Informant.

PI is great because it can do all the tings you could think about except being usable with the thumb.

So I Keep PI for the power it offers, but i will heavily use ThumCal to quickly enter some new appt/tasks, it is far more efficient than PI.

- I ran ThumCal on an Axim X51v (a vga device), the biggest problem for me is response time. It's really slow. It can take up to 5s so display next month ...

Perhap's it's because the appts/tasks are all read before something start to happen on the screen. If this is the case, perhaps you could "preload" calendar entries in background for next/prev month/day.

- Changing year with up/down doesn't interest me, I don't find it usefull.

- A Week view would be great !

Concerning these requests, I don't agree ! Keep your app as simple as possible to enable us to store apps/tasks at the speed of the light with our big thumbs !

The feature requested by flying machine are available in many other apps that can be used together with ThumbCal.

Keep up the good work man, you have a potentially best seller in your hands ... I would surely paid for it when perfs problems will be solved