List News

# News
Monday, July 3rd, 2000
List 0.99 More bug fixes. PalmOS3.5 seemed to introduce a new crash for List, now fixed with version 0.99. The latest debug ROMs turned up a few minor problems as well, so those have been fixed. List works on all versions of PalmOS from 1.0 to 3.5. A small change to the downloads. The listlite.zip is now just the english version of List. If you are looking for the French, German, Japanese, Russian, Danish, or Spanish versions of List please download listintl.zip. The main reason for the split is to reduce the bandwidth the List site is generating, often when an update is made the site gets a bandwidth jam for a few days. A Spanish translation is now available thanks to Rivero Alberto. Thanks also go to Laurent Poujoulat for convincing me to make the changes to List to improve the international language support. Other features include an improved algorithm for the quick find text, and the 12 database limit is gone (except for PalmOS1.0). Kirk Conyers has an update to the list2wrd.zip utility. Jano van Hemert has taken the perl scripts and made a website that will create a list database from your bookmarks, check it out: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~jvhemert/scripts/palm-bookmarks/. Darren Dunham author of the perl scripts has his own website up now: http://home.pacbell.net/dunhamd/. Carolyn Scheppner has created a modified version of List 0.97 called PlayList, you can check it out on her website: http://www.chesco.com/~carolyn [Please note: anyone wanting to re-distribute a modified version of List needs to get my permission to do so, thanks]. It seems that MemoWare has started hosting List databases, so I would like to ask anyone that has created a List database they want to share to upload them to MemoWare.
Friday, Febrary 25th, 2000
List 0.98 A few minor bug fixes in both List and the companion program listdb.exe. I've also finally tackled the note editing problem people have had with large notes. Now when you are editing a record with a large note a new "Note" button appears that allows you to go to a full screen editing mode for the note field. Two new translations: Russian, and Danish. Thanks to Valery Sukhanov and Henrik Clausen. If you are interested in helping to create a translation for List please contact me. Please also let me know if there are errors in the translation, or improvements to the translations that exist. a Kirk Conyers kirkconyers@excite.com built a List to Word conversion tool in Perl. list2wrd.zip This is a good example of how you can quite easily extend List (and its companion tools) into an integrated custom solution. Using the Perl script you can make a very pretty "print out" of your List databases. A few people have emailed me with problems with List -- they have failed to read the readme.txt file and have mistakenly installed ALL of the .prc files. You only need to install ONE of the .prc files. The other .prc files are the different translations of List.
Monday, January 10th, 2000
Updated PC companion programs. What an interesting month it has been. After being very careful to weed out the bugs that plagued List 0.96, I introduced a version of listdb.exe that didn't work at all! To top it all off, not only did I lose some of the website changes (the August 19th news update), I also managed to exceed the bandwidth my ISP allows for a single month.. Olaf Martens martens@manhattan.lt has put together a WListDB update, you can get it here. He is also working on a complete re-write to help make it more user-friendly, so please email him with any suggestions you might have. Both the listfull and listlite downloads have been updated. Visit the download page to get the latest version. Hopefully all the little things have been cleared up now and I can get back to adding a few more features to List. If you are interested in knowing what's in store, check out the readme.txt in listlite.zip. Thanks to all of you that have contributed in some way to making List what it is today.
Monday, December 13th, 1999
List 0.97 Version 0.97 - Beaming support, fix for "quick find" crash, multi-language support. List still works on all versions of PalmOS. The website still needs a lot of work. Hopefuly over the Christmas holidays I'll have some free time to work on it. The translations for List were done by: French - Laurent Poujoulat lpoujoulat@attglobal.net German - Jens Albrecht Japanese - Yutakano yutakano@tim.hi-ho.ne.jp The beaming support was completed while I was down in Phoenix with the help of my good friend Andrew Cornwall -- he was brave (or is it foolish?) enough to run experimental List code on his PalmV while testing beaming with me. Many thanks to all of the helpful (and patient) users who emailed me bug reports, your feedback has helped make List a better program.
Thursday, August 19th, 1999
Quick update It seems the new version of List has been well received on the most part. Some people have reported crash bugs, but they are all associated with "Hacks" that are installed. If you are using EVplugbase or Hackmaster and experience crashes with List, try disabling any of the "Hacks" installed. This will likely stop the crashes. If you discover a "Hack" that is List unfriendly, let me know and I'll see what I can do. Darren Dunham add@netcom.com has sent an update to the perl scripts available for download here perl.zip. Mark Bailey http://www.physik.co.uk/ has developed a List database that people in the medical field (doctors) might find useful. Visit his website and check it out. Michele http://www.math.uconn.edu/~akasha/ww/pilot/wwfc.html has contributed some List databases that Weight Watchers members will find useful, please visit her site.
Wednesday, August 11th, 1999
List 0.96 Version 0.96 - New features, minor bug fixes, and performance optimizations. List still works on all versions of PalmOS. The website really needs an overhaul, the doc is slowly falling out of date, and with the new features the UI has changed slightly so all new screenshots need to be created. Things might seem a little chaotic for a while around here. I'll try to update it soon. There has been a lot of community support for List: Eric Backus http://www.wolfenet.com/~ericjb has created and shared via his website a number of useful List databases as well as making some improvements to the listdb conversion program. He has also created a RedHat RPM package for listdb to help out Linux users. Gustaf Naeser http://www.docs.uu.se/~gaffe/tmp/palm/ has created a Perl script that will convert .csv files to List databases, this allows users who do not have access to a Windows or Linux machine to create List databases on their desktops. There is Perl support for both Macs, and Unix. Darren Dunham add@netcom.com has created a set of Perl scripts too, they are available here: perl.zip Please contact him with any bug reports/problems/suggestions. Olaf Martens martens@manhattan.lt created a Windows 95/98/NT companion program for List that does the same work as listdb.exe but adds a user friendly interface. WListDB.zip Thanks!
Wednesday, July 28th, 1999
WListDB: A Windows Utility for List Thanks to Olaf Martens martens@manhattan.lt a Windows (95/98/NT) utility for creating and editing List databases is now availble. You can download it here: WListDB.zip. Please send bug reports, comments, suggestions to Olaf martens@manhattan.lt I would like to thank you all for making List much more successful than I ever imagined it could have been. There is an updated version of List in the works, stay tuned.. and yes, I will also be trying to refresh the website at the same time.

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