Old List News

# Old News
Monday, November 2, 1998
Oops! Version 0.95 -- Bugfix for PalmOS1.0 Extensive testing on PalmPilot Professional and PalmIII, and I let one slip in on my beloved Pilot1000! On Pilot1000 and Pilot5000 platforms you get a Fatal Error when trying to edit a new entry. This of course has been fixed in this new version. There is a beta Macintosh version of listdb being developed by Yutakano, visit his website: http://www.tim.hi-ho.ne.jp/yutakano for the latest. Some updates to the website, a new Features section, check it out. There are now sample List databases you can download from the Download page.
Saturday, October 3, 1998
Version 0.94 - bug fixes & new feature Thanks to the 3com for their "gremlins" in the PalmOS emulator, it has been very helpful for testing and finding bugs in List. I have run hours and hours of testing on both the 2.0 and 3.0 debug ROMs. This has uncovered a few bugs (that are fixed in this release). A bug that was causing crashes on PalmIII devices when installing List databases, found and fixed. The note field limitation has finally been fixed, you should be able to easily enter more than 15 lines of information into the Note field, in fact the limit is 4k worth of text. A new feature has been added: in the main view you can now enter a character using graffiti and if this letter matches the first letter in one of the items in the current category this record is scrolled to the top of the screen and the entry is highlighted. List is compatible with ALL versions of PalmOS. False positive virus alert BOCLIENT_TROJAN from PC-Cillin from TrendMicro. There have been a few reports that this particular virus software is flagging the List program as having a virus. I have double checked and do not believe this to be true. To be safe, I suggest you all check for yourselves. However, I believe that the PC-Cillin virus software is wrong for this particular virus alert.
Wednesday, September 2, 1998
Update 0.93a -- listdb.exe bug fix A few people have been having trouble extracting .pdb files using listdb.exe. Some of these problems are due to a bug (now fixed) when the database has more than 127 records in it. Please give the new version (0.93a) a try. There is also a known limitation on the amount of text that you can enter in the note field when using the Pilot to enter the data. The maximum size of the note field is 4096 bytes, and this is supported by the listdb.exe program. However, due to some limitation in the PalmOS, text entry is limited to the equivalent of about 14 lines. I am working on a solution to this problem, but it doesn't look like it will easy. If anyone has a better understanding of PalmOS and entering text, I would appreciate any helpful hints. Until I figure out a solution, if you require large note fields you can edit them as .csv files and use listdb.exe to convert them to .pdb files. Also some minor updates to the web pages here, a little better documentation and the .jpg files were replaced with .gif files for faster load times.
Monday, August 10, 1998
Version 0.93 This release addresses a few bugs, the most notable being the "find" bug on PalmIII units that caused a FATAL EXCEPTION in some cases. I have only been able to test this under the debug ROM from 3com as I do not have direct access to a PalmIII device (yet). The listdb.exe program has also been updated with some minor bug fixes as well. I have also provided a BETA version of the listdb.exe program for Linux.
Friday April 24, 1998
New Version 0.92 This version of List is NOT COMPATIBLE with the previous version. You must delete the List application and all databases from your Pilot (use the built-in Memory application). Also remember to delete any list databases that exist in your Backup directory, otherwise when you HotSync the Backup conduit will re-install them. To convert an old format database to the new format use the listdb.exe program: Example: listdb -x mylist.pdb mylist.csv listdb -c mylist.pdb mylist.csv Then install the resulting mylist.pdb file. In view mode you can now use the hardware page up/down keys to move between records in the current category. This is the same type of behaviour as MemoPad.
Thursday April 23, 1998
PC support application "listdb.exe" bug fixes: Anyone who tried out the listdb.exe program quickly noticed that it was not a "quality" program. I apologize to all those of you who spent time scratching your heads trying to figure out what you had done wrong. I've traded some more sleep time in order to take another pass over the code (hey who needs more than 4 hours sleep?). I believe the problem has been solved -- I now have a mini test suite for the listdb.exe program (included in the full source download). There were no changes made to the pilot application (list.prc), so if you don't care about the PC application then you do not need to get this update. Visit the download page to get the update (either listlite.zip or listfull.zip).
Tuesday April 21, 1998
Update: Email address fixed! My email address (link) on the web pages was wrong. It was pointing at roo@magma.com which is very bogus. The correct email address is: roo@magma.ca. Thanks to everyone who has show interest in List, I'm #3 on PilotGear HQ! Cool. I guess I'm going to start getting some feedback/bug reports now that you can actually email me :)
Sunday April 19, 1998
Initial Release Over a year in the making, list -- a simple database, has its first public release.