Re: mCalendar
 

Khertan,

Could you check if the command is OK? It is not working for me.

Thanks.

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First of all let me say mCalendar is awesome! Good work Khertan. I was skimming through this thread and I didn't see anybody mention that mCalendar cannot view the details of an event such as location or description. This is a very important limitation, especially when you cannot just put all the details in the event box because it will be too long and run off the screen.

Has anybody used mgcal? It is a home applet only, but can view the event and location details. I think mCalendar has a better home app presentation, but if mgcal can do it then it certainly is possible.

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I just upgraded to the latest version from the repositories (0.4.0) and haven't used mcalendar before. I installed it originally awhile back but never got around to fiddling with it. Anyway, I put in my google account info to sync, and no matter what it keeps telling me incorrect username or password. I know the login details are fine because I double checked and signed out in my desktop browser and signed back in with the exact same credentials being used on the n810. I even tried signing out on my desktop first, but still no success. I also tried the link mentioned earlier in this thread about unlocking the account where you have to answer a captcha and that didn't work either.

Any ideas?

Also, one little nitpick: in Help->About, "Licence" should be "License."

Keep up the great work! :)

Re: mCalendar
 

i believe your configuration file is messed up

license is proper american english

licence is proper elsewhere in the world

Re: mCalendar
 

I tried renaming my mcalendar.db file so it would create a new configuration database, but the problem still exists.

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Works for me :rolleyes:
You sure you left a space " " between the "mcalendar" and the "-s" ?
the synchronize option is engaged when you type either:
"mcalendar -s" or
"mcalendar - s"

but not when you type: "mcalendar-s" ! :)

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Whenever I try it, it brings up mcalendar but it won't sync.

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Exactly. The same happens to me.

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Ok I finally found out why it kept telling me incorrect username/password... I had zero free space left on my rootfs. This would also be why I was recently experiencing strange behavior in some other applications :p

Keep up the good work! :cool:

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yep, that condition can induce the strangest of errors...

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Hum sorry for the -s option, it could work but not everytime.

In any case, this is fixed in the current dev version of mCalendar, which will be available the 18 September ...

mscdex: i'm happy that you have found the problem ... maybe i could do check some verifications in mCalendar, at least when saving prefs, or events (I use an sqlite database).

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Yeah it was strange... when I was having problems with the various apps I ran the other night, the OS or nothing notified me that I had 0 bytes left on rootfs. Not even any "No space left on device" kind of messages when running apps from xterm and the like. I guess I just assumed the OS would have reported such an error because it seems running any kind of app would make some sort of changes on the rootfs.

Maybe there should be an OS feature where an indicator message pops up in the upper-right corner that notifies you when the rootfs is getting low on space. That way it would help remove the job of individual developers to clue the user in as to why random errors may be occurring.

Anyway, now that I can sync with the google calendar, this will come in very handy for keeping tabs on course assignments and projects due throughout the quarter :cool: Thanks again!

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there is a home applet that shows space available on internal and cards. home free space or something like that.

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HomeDiskFree

an other one Khertan's Product :)

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Well I found a new error >.>. Must've happened because I walked away from the access point while it was updating (it looked stuck at 60%).

{'status': 400, 'body': '[Line 2, Column 2062, element ns1:extendedProprety] exactly one of g:extendedProperty/ @value, XML is required.','reason':'Bad Request'}

Re: mCalendar
 

I've just entered a new issue in the bug tracker:
Repeating events in mCalendar don't show up in the Home Calendar applet. If you turn repeating on and off for the same event, it will only show in the Home Calendar applet when repeating is off.

Re: mCalendar
 

hmm. what version(s) of the apps are you running?

I could have sworn that Home Calendar on my N800 displayed "payday" last Friday. ...and it definitely displayed "VACATION" over the span of my vacation days. (that's two different repeating event types, and both worked okay here....)

Re: mCalendar
 

hey i just loaded an image from a friends n800, and i have his mcalendar, how do i delete his calendar? i don't want to put in my sync info in fear his crap will get put in my google calendar. thanks.

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I'm curious, what method did you use to flash your friend's image to your n8x0?

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bobloadmire, I whould suggest that you flash your tablet with a clean image and install what you need from maemo.org site. The thing will probably just give you trouble.

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Khertan --

I just discovered, as I was adding an event to mCalendar on my tablet, a small bug...

If the description text contains an ampersand (&), then the displayed item (after being saved/applied) shows as blank. I had added my friends' wedding date as "Kent & Sharon's Wedding", and it was blank. I replaced the '&' with 'and', and the item then displayed as usual/expected.

I suspect that some special characters may need to be 'escaped'... but I haven't done any extensive testing to see if others besides the ampersand are affected.

Edit: I just tried to file this bug in the bug tracker, but cannot seem to get to it at this time. I don't know if that's an issue with my internet connection (from work), or whether there's a problem with the bug tracker itself...

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I have perhaps a dum question but. Does mCalender alarm when the time comes for an event?

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I've been receiving alarms, but I don't want to. Anyway to turn alarms off totally?

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edit your calender and you can turn it off

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You mean my google calendar? Or mcal? Where's the global setting to turn all alarms off on mcal?

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ok guys i used nero back it up to load up the image to the SD card and boot from the internal card. So about deleting the mCalendar info?

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You have to delete /home/user/.mPIM directory.

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I just got the same error in 0.4.0. What I did was delete a sync'ed event from my desktop in my browser, then went to my tablet and changed the start and end dates and times for the same event and then tried to sync again. That's when I got the error. Now no matter what I do, I get this large message box containing what appears to be the contents of a 404 error page from google.

It seems like mcalendar is assuming that the sync'ed event still exists on the google calendar account and is just trying to update it (with the new dates/times)? I'm not 100% certain though.

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ok guys, how do i tell it to stop using military time, and use a standard 12hour am/pm cycle? thanks.

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bobloadmire, the easiest way is to move to europe.. Sweden perhaps! :) Nobody here use the am/pm thing.

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maybe except in the UK, but then...

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It's not military time, it's 24 hour time.. the military doesn't know anything about it, they just pretend to. I mean, 'At four-teen hundred hours'? They don't, unlike most folks, seem to be aware of the fact that minutes are counted 0 to 59 (there are sixty of them, not a hundred..). Normal folks just say 'fourteen' or 'fourteen oh oh' or 'null null' or something.

:)

Re: mCalendar
 

Sweet, love the new updates! Graphics are looking good. Awesome feature "No Alarm on Google Popup Reminder"

Thanks!

Dijdit

Re: mCalendar
 

Where is the updated mCalendar?

EDIT: It is in Extras-Devel.

Re: mCalendar
 

I updated from Extras-Devel this afternoon.

homecalendar app still shows events, but none show up in mCalendar now. "Synchro" runs without error, yet still no events show anywhere in the calendar. The homecalendar widget doesn't think my calendar is blank, so let's not tell it, eh? :)

Re: mCalendar
 

Briand,

You have to delete /home/user/.mPIM directory and then configure mCalendar again. This way when you sync the database will populate just fine.

Re: mCalendar
 

Beautiful, indeed.

Thanks, Kerthan.


One thing that I find is that recurring events don't show in weekly and monthly views.

Re: mCalendar
 

ouch. okay. will do.

If there were changes in the database structure, the install script should have converted existing data during the upgrade. ...or, since in this case, the data is on Google calendar already, it should toss the data and read/rewrite the config file as necessary for the new version. ...mind you, that's just my opinion. :) ...and, yes, I realize I downloaded it from the -devel repo. ;)

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Hmm. I'm not getting that problem... my problem is that in the weekly and monthly views, my "every other Friday" event (payday) is shown every other day (now, it'd be great if that were the case, and I'd get paid every other day... but, sadly, that is not the case!)

So, I gather there is some problem in the week view and month view, displaying repeating events properly. In the day view, the events appear on the proper days as I scroll through the calendar.

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Just updated. All my calendar info is gone and google sync gets stuck at 60% (sitting for 10 minutes and not moving).

So I backed-up .mPIM (renamed it) and restarted mcalender, re-entered my google info and same thing, always stuck at 60%.

Any suggestions?


***UPDATE***

-So after 30 minutes I got errors about items such as St. Patrick's Day -"global name 'e' is not defined'

-Any repeated item from my google calendar shows up every 2nd day.

-All my google calendars were downloaded, including ones I share with others, which I would rather not see.

-It appears that the 'forward' button usually needs to be clicked 2-3 times to activate

-and with the many, many, many repeated entries takes about 1 minute to load up a new month to view.