My Google Calendar (mgCal) developement
 

This is a great N8xx app!

I use the Nokia Sans Cn Bold 20 font.

Here is a link to the latest version:

http://maemo.org/packages/package_in...l/mgcal/0.1-6/

Here is a screenshot from my N800:

Attachment 15613

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Can it be ported?

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Should this be called a "Forum marketing effort"?

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It gets lonely when I am the only poster!

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I must have missed this. I've installed this but come across a few issues straightaway

1) it has crashed my desktop three times in five minutes. Only other stuff on my Desktop are Internet radio, clock (the std one), personal launcher, and Omweather. It is every time it syncs, either automatically or manually. I am also running the Diablo5 theme and telescope.

2) the applet needs to be resizeable - as it takes up far far too much room on my Desktop.

3) I would like the applet to have a transperant background like Omweather or personal launcher for example.

the killer features for me would be the ability to have alarms, and most importantly have dialogs to permit adding/removing and editing of calendar entries.

This could be great, and I have wanted something like this for a long time, as all of the other calendars are too clunky for me.

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I totally agree, with just a few new features, this could be a must have app. I wish one of the Diablo developers would contact this developer and finish this off.

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hey guys, the applet *is* resizeable. This is my first time using it, and unfortunately, I can't get it to sync with my Google calendar. I have my correct credentials in the settings, but the No Data Available message remains.

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Make sure that in "mgCal Settings" you do not type the "@google.com" for your email address.

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good tip. I had been trying it both ways, but still nothing appears. Weird.

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ok, it worked this morning... i suspect it has to do with it's auto-capitalizing the first letter of the password. Very cool, but unfortunately, it only shows the primary calendar and excludes any events in shared calendars that you have access to.

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hmm, been having another go with this, as it would be cool, but on my 810, it just crashes the desktop hard as soon as I select it. On my 800, I can enter the details but it either does not sync or then crashes hard.

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The only time that it crashes for me is when I do a manual update before I connect to the WiFi connection.

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Must be something to do with my Google calendar. My N800 is pretty stock apart from the CSSU. My 810 does have telescope, and the Diablo5 them, and I thought it may have been one of them.

I have tried it as the only applet on the 800, in case of conflict.

It's a real shame, as this could be a very useful addition

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Still waiting to hear from the developer concerning any future updates.

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Developers: See post #1 for link to source code. This app needs to be finished by at least having an auto update feature.

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I uploaded a version with implemented autoupdate function.
Please test and give feedback. I can not test this
as I have only an N900 and no N8X0.


nicolai

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Nicolai: I am using version 0.1-4. In "mgCal Settings" there is an "auto refresh period (hours)" in which I have entered 24.
It has never updated on its own. There is not even an update when your first power-up your N800.

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I know, I looked at the code for version 0.1-4. Only the "auto refresh"
option was in the settings dialog, the auto update function was not
implemented.
I implemented this and uploaded a new version:
http://maemo.org/packages/package_in...l/mgcal/0.1-5/

I just can not test this, as I do not own a N8X0 device.

nicolai

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Is this to get google calendar synced with the built-in calendar? I'm just this minute literally syncing N900 with Google Calendar and that with Thunderbird/lightning, with GC being the middle-man. If this is what i think it is and can be ported to the N900 i'd test it

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Thanks for the link, I will install and test!

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No.

It just downloads Google-Calendar entries and shows them in
a desktop widget.

Nicolai

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Nicolai: I just installed latest version and set the auto refresh time to 1 hour. It should update at 7:52am (my time). Let's see if it works.

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Nicolai: After 1 hour there was not a auto update. I am assuming that it would also update the displayed updated time. Also, once the update is working, it would be nice if the displayed update date/time was changed to realtime date/time and in yellow text instead of that faded yellow which looks more like a gold color (see screen shot in post #1)..

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Are you sure you are using the right version?
I am not that familiar with python home applets, do you
have to restart the device after installation?

Btw I already changed the "update date/time" with the current date/time,
a clock, which should update every minute.

Nicolai

This is how it should look like
(screenshot from withhin scratchbox)

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Wow, and wow! I did need to reboot my N800 and it works great, just like your screen shot!

Can you now slightly increase font size of Date/Time and make it bright yellow or bright green. Also, even though my google calendar has 12 hour time, the app shows 24 hour time. Can that be selectable?

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Sure!

Do you think someone (if there are other users of this app) will
miss the "updated ..." text in the titlebar. Maybe we should include
another text (next to the clock) like " updated xxx min. ago".

Any suggestions?

nicolai

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Nicolai: I don't think we need to have the update time at all.

A slight improvement (besides font size and color) would be the Date/Time as follows:

11 Nov 2010 09:52am

Note that there is no dot after the 11 and text is centered in the window. It would help to display am/pm for 12 hour format.

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new version 0.1-6

- timeformat 12/24 hours is now configurable
- titlebar color changed to yellow

As the (overall-)font size is configurable already, I think you want
a differen (smaller) size for the titlebar?

Nicolai

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Wonderful! I just installed the latest version. See screenshot below:

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Nicolai: Thank you for the work that you put into this very valuable applet. I can not think of any more improvements. The bright yellow Date and Time is very easy to see.