Notices

I've been trying mCalendar over the past few days, and updated to 0.5.4.1 this morning.

I've unchecked all the options on the "Google Prefs" page, i.e.:
_ No alarm on google popup reminder
_ Use google colors
_ Auto sync
and entered my google username / password.

The "Google Calendar" page lists my gmail ID and has the Sync and Default boxes active.

(How do the settings on the "Google Prefs" and "Google Calendar" pages interact - I don't understand the distinction?)

Launching mCalendar from the desktop causes it to crash after a few minutes, whether sync-ing or not.

However I have much more success launching it from an SSH terminal. I ssh into my internet tablet (as root), do an 'su - user' to become the normal non-root user, and then run:

mcalendar.launch

After this I can select "Launch Google Sync" (from the GUI menu). Trace messages appear on the terminal. There seem to be a lot of error messages listed and unexpected responses from the Google server, but the sync carries on. I have a very large Google calendar (several thousand entries, inherited from Outlook and many of them dating back to by days of using Agenda on my Psion Series 3!) - and the sync has never yet run to completion. My latest attempt started at about 10:30 this morning, and has nw been running for over 3 hours. mCalendar is slowly populating itself!

I have good hopes for mCalendar - it looks very promising and will suit my calendaring use very well. This is:
o Appointments / birthdays / etc maintained using a mixture of Outlook on my laptop and the Calendar app in my Nokia E71 - the Nokia tools sync these two very well;
o Outlook contents are pushed to Google Calendar every few hours by Google Calendar Sync;
o mCalendar can then sync with Google Calendar;
(I'm basically maintaining a read-only view of my appointments on Google Calendar and mCalendar)

Simon.

Updated to 5.5.2 using the app manager. I have not been able to synch and it crashes a great deal. I uninstalled it and went back to the 4.5 build on Khertan.net. The app then crashed before fully loading...during the mcalendar loading message. Rebooting helped.

hmm, homecalendar is showing a manually entered appointment as being one hour off...

Hello, I am using mCalendar (extra devel) on my N810 since a long time. Very useful and great software, thanks for that Khertan!

However, I have the last version of extra devel, mCalendar works well, but cannot display homecalendar, it cannot be launched. How I can see some traces (for mCalendar, I launch it from terminal but I do not know how to get trace for the applet)?

Thanks.

Ok, with the last version in devel (1.0.0-3), home calendar has started correctly...
Do not know what is the difference that cause this behaviour

I just started using mCalendar today and I have to say I am very impressed.

Khertan, congratulations! You did an excellent job in creating the first calendar app really worthy of a Nokia Tablet. It is actually quite superior to the GPE Calendar and Todos, which combined with GPE Summary have been two of the most important app in my tablet.

The user interface is great and the home applets are amazing and highly customizable which is something I am VERY grateful for. Not many developers pay attention to all the details you have included in your apps.

Actually I am a couple of bugfixes away of switching completely to your apps, however there are some problems I would like to mention, although I'm pretty sure it's not the first time they have been indicated in this thread.

I am running version 5.5 on a N800 with Diablo (5.2008.43-7). Homecalendar applet is version 1.0.0-1

The most serious: mCalendar crashes VERY often. I have not been able to run it for more than 5 minutes at the most. Even if I'm offline, not syncing, just idle, it simply crashes.

Another curious thing is that the Home applet shows all my events 6 hours in the future (!!) I thought I had some problem in my tablet setup but everything was just fine.

Some events are shown in a different day (i.e. an event on thursday is shown on friday) in the day/week/ month view, although if you edit the event it shows the correct information.

Events that span several days or weeks only appear once in the week/month view. Particularly in the weekly view, only the starting day is shown during all the weeks the event lasts (i.e if an event last for 3 weeks, say on Week 15, starting on a saturday, seeing weeks 16 and 17 will only show the event on saturdays with the starting date of week 15). In the monthly view only the start date is shown.

There are some other problems regarding syncing with multiple Google calendars. Right now you can only sync with your default calendar, but I would not consider this problem a showstopper right now.

I loved the app and respectfully submit this comments as a way to make a great app better and more usable. I am really looking forward to use it as my standard calendar app, but for the time being unfortunately it is not stable enough.

Hope you can read this.

Regards

Angel B
Mexico City

seems there is a post install script issue with the 0.5.7-2 package.

TSO:

Thanks for the comment.

Would there be a way to work around this? maybe installing a new version? Or just to exercise the virtue of patience and wait until it is fixed?

Regards

Angelb

my guess is to just wait it out...

0.5.7-4 produce this error: