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General questions about DateLens:
- What is DateLens?
DateLens is a calendar program for Pocket PC that is an
alternative to the calendar program built in to those devices.
It is designed to be easy to navigate with the goal of better
supporting planning and analysis tasks where you often have to
look at large stretches of time and go back and forth between
different days.
- How is it different than other products?
DateLens is novel in the following ways:
- It uses animated fisheye views to show details in context. When you tap on a
day, it smoothly gets bigger, and the other days get smaller in the periphery. In this way,
you can always see where you are, and it is easy to navigate to other days.
- It gives users extensive control over how screen space is used. By clicking on the
checkboxes in the periphery of the display, you can make individual months larger or smaller.
Similarly, you can focus on weekdays or on weekends - all without losing context.
- What if I want to use the built-in calendar sometimes?
DateLens loads and stores all appointments using the
standard Pocket PC calendar database. This means that
you can go back and forth between DateLens and the Microsoft
calendar program (or any other one) with no risk of losing
data. When you synchronize your Pocket PC with your
desktop using Microsoft ActiveSync, all of your DateLens
appointments will be synchronized with Outlook just as if
you had used the built-in calendar program. In fact,
DateLens even knows when the calendar database program is
changed by another program, so if you sync while DateLens is
running, or modify the calendar using the built-in calendar
program, DateLens will immediately be updated to reflect the
changes.
Questions about using DateLens:
- Why does the body of my appointment sometimes get
duplicated?
This is a result of a known bug in the Microsoft calendar
database that DateLens uses. Fortunately, this problem
only shows up in unusual circumstances, so you probably won't
run into it. Specifically, if you change body of a
recurring appointment in DateLens on the Pocket PC, and then
synchronize with Outlook using ActiveSync, and then modify the
appointment, and then synchronize again - then the body of the
appointment on the Pocket PC will be duplicated.
- Why does DateLens sometimes exit so I have to restart it?
Pocket PC automatically manages which programs are running.
If you start to run out of memory, then some programs will be
automatically exited and have to be restarted. No data
will be lost, but in this case, you do have to wait a few
seconds while DateLens restarts.
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