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Windows Issues / Arrgh--i Forgot To Pack The Cd

« on: April 09, 2006, 07:44:31 am »

THanks for the reply--but I discovered that I did pack the CD. Installed everything and it worked the first time. I couldn't believe it! I remember spending hours and hours the first time trying to get Intellisync to work.

I have a C860 and left my installation CD in Japan. The links for the English version in the Download area here are broken. Where can I find a copy of the installation CD? I used the Japanese version to set up Intellisync, I guess, the first time. I don't recall how I managed to get everything to work. Any help would be appreciated.
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I have the drivers in a .zip file, it's about 173 KB. Will that help?
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Windows Issues / Arrgh--i Forgot To Pack The Cd

« on: April 08, 2006, 05:04:13 pm »

I have a C860 and left my installation CD in Japan. The links for the English version in the Download area here are broken. Where can I find a copy of the installation CD? I used the Japanese version to set up Intellisync, I guess, the first time. I don't recall how I managed to get everything to work. Any help would be appreciated.

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User Request for Applications / Foot-operated Zaurus Counter

« on: December 11, 2005, 05:38:10 am »

Yes-- All I want are buttons in the screen that I can tap with my toe. You can see what I mean here: http://www.palmsource.com/interests/knitting/. Scroll down to the Countable program. I am tempted to buy an old Palm just to have this program, but I love my Z.

I have an 860 with the original Sharp rom and semi-English menus.

Thanks for the snippet, but I have no idea what to do with it to make it into a real program.

I think people are confused about what you want to do. Do you mean you want the buttons on the screen so you can tap them with your toe with the Zaurus on the floor? Seems hard to believe but nothing else seems to make sense with your posts. Some of the previous replies were wandering if you had some pedal gadget that you wanted to interface with the Zaurus. By the way, which Zaurus? Which ROM? I'd suggest you look into Python, and you can Kopsis's Python setup for the Zaurus (search the forums or look in the Python section).

I'll add below some code I found on the web that implements two buttons, one up one down.
All you need to do is repeat three times, maybe.

Felipe

Example qupdown.py, module Y206 (Python)
Altering a label as a result of button presses - Python Qt

Code: [Select]

import sys
from qt import *

class MainWindow(QMainWindow):
    val = 17
    def __init__(self, *args):
        apply(QMainWindow.__init__, (self, ) + args)

        self.vlayout = QHBoxLayout(self, 10, 5)

        self.labelValue = QLabel(str(MainWin


dow.val), self)
        self.down = QPushButton("Lower", self)
        self.up = QPushButton("Higher", self)

        self.vlayout.addWidget(self.down)
        self.vlayout.addWidget(self.labelValue)
        self.vlayout.addWidget(self.up)

        self.connect(self.down, SIGNAL("clicked()"), self.reduce)
        self.connect(self.up, SIGNAL("clicked()"), self.increase)  
        
    def reduce(self):
        MainWindow.val -= 1
        self.setval()

    def increase(self):
        MainWindow.val += 1
        self.setval()

    def setval(self):
        self.labelValue.setText(str(MainWindow.val))

def main(args):
    app=QApplication(args)
    win=MainWindow()
    win.show()
    app.connect(app, SIGNAL("lastWindowClosed()")
                , app
                , SLOT("quit()")
                )
    app.exec_loop()

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User Request for Applications / Foot-operated Zaurus Counter

« on: December 10, 2005, 11:21:58 am »

Well, I took a look at some Zaurus development tools, and I can't get a clue. Is is possible to develop something on the PC and then having a kindhearted person convert it to whatever is needed on the Z? All I want is a simple counter....like six little buttons that go up, down, and reset. It would seem that for the Z, you have to hand-code the buttons--good grief! I haven't done that since 1970. Can you point me to the simplest way to proceed? I can get all the textbooks, as I am a compositor for a computer book company.

The bluetooth needles are a great idea! Too bad the Z doesn't have bluetooth either. sigh.

I don't want to write one but I was going to tell you how easy it would be to interface the switch hardware with the Zaurus - I imagine there are a couple of possibilities for it: serial, usb, parallel, or some other digital input via a custom card.

If you've already written something in VBA it's not going to be all that difficult to write something for the Zaurus (different languages etc., but not that hard to learn).


Si
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User Request for Applications / Foot-operated Zaurus Counter

« on: December 09, 2005, 05:23:00 am »

It's a toenail interface.  

There are actually a lot of knitters out there who want something like this. It's saleable! Especially if you include a simple routine for calculating even increases and decreases. I can work that out for you in, say Basic or, ah, Fortran code.

And if you coded it in a language that can be ported to to Win CE, you really would have a good product for sale. Simple, but we all want one!

What kind of interface do you have on your toe-switch?

Si
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User Request for Applications / Foot-operated Zaurus Counter

« on: December 08, 2005, 11:11:49 am »

I need a simple counter program. The idea would be to have three rows of up/down counters with an up and down button for each row, plus a reset to zero button.

I, um, want to use it to count rows and increases/decreases when knitting and I don't want to stop and hit the space bar with my hand. I want to do it with my toe.

This seems like it would be really simple. I did something similar in VBA, but I am helpless in the face of Linux. Anybody out there to help me?

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General Discussion / Hancom Sheet Flavors

« on: December 25, 2004, 09:37:20 am »

I see on my C860 that I am running Hancom Sheet 1.0. But the 5500 ROM version that you can download is version 1.5. Is this actually a newer  version? What would happen if I installed 1.5 on my C860?
And why on earch can't Hancom Sheet calculate the days between dates? Talk about a feeble spreadsheet program. It seems to be able to convert a date to a number, but not the other way around.

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Off Topic forum / Any Female Zaurus User?

« on: December 25, 2004, 08:52:28 am »

Yes indeedy. The Zaurus is female too, you know. Just look at her.

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Cxx0 General discussions / Japanese dates

« on: October 16, 2004, 08:18:45 am »

Is there some way to change the Japanese date formet to English format? I have an 860 with the Sharp ROM. I've converted the menus to English by hiding .qm files, but can't figure out how to change the date format. Thanks.

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General Discussion / IR receive from Outlook XP

« on: September 24, 2004, 05:54:51 pm »

I can beam an appointment from the Zarus to my desktop Outlook XP and I can beam an appointment from Outlook XP to the Zaurus. However, when I try to add the appointment to the Zaurus Calendar, I get a Calendar Full error message in the Receive File app. The calendar isn't full and the file was actually beamed to the tmp folder, so all the physical connections are working. What am I doing wrong?

I have a new 860 with the original Japanese ROM and applications.

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Software / Help making a real ipk

« on: September 13, 2004, 03:47:54 pm »

Search how? QTree doesn't have a search mode as far as I can tell, and there's no other file manager that I can find with this feature.

I bought my Z in Akihabara and just converted the menus to English. I live in Japan half the year and need all the Japanese dictionaries and input features.

As for why I purchased it--my Toshiba 850 pda died and the choices in Akihabara were Clie or Zaurus. I adore the Z--it's much much better than the Toshiba in every way and can't understand why it never caught on. The translator software is absolutely amazing and I've never seen anything like it, even on the standalone dictionaries handhelds. We use it mostly to read ebooks on the train. Fabulous display.

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Software / Help making a real ipk

« on: September 12, 2004, 04:31:16 pm »

There'd no console app in my Settings tab--I hunted around and couldn't find any such program. I suspected it was similar to a DOS box. Any recommendations  on an external program to use instead?

Hey, I not only knew that MS-DOS was  a clone of  QDOS, I met Tim Patterson in his humble office and talked to him about it. I used to be the techncal  editor of the PC Tech  Journal and I wrote a monthly column for Creative Computing...guess I am really dating myself.

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Software / Help making a real ipk

« on: September 12, 2004, 03:05:39 am »

Thank you, Miami Bob--it works perfectly. I am ashamed that my eyeballs roll up into my head what when confronted with the idea of a terminal program. I can't even find one on my Z, And to think that I still have copies of MS DOS 1.0, in which I used to be a wizard. I bow to your greater wisdom in the Linux arena. Please nobody yell at me for being a dunce.  I can't find the console either...

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Software / Help making a real ipk

« on: September 11, 2004, 07:45:14 am »

I am running the original ROM on the 860, whatever it may be called. I tried renaming the file with an ipk extension, but the Add/Remove Proigram utility didn:t recognize it as an ipk package. I untarred the file and got the three files that are supposed to be in an ipk file, but I couldn't make an ipk file out of the three files. So I turn to the experts.

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Software / Help making a real ipk

« on: September 10, 2004, 07:12:23 pm »

I downloaded a program called Timetable from this link:

http://www.killefiz.de/zaurus/showdetail.php?app=1429

But it seems to be some strange file type that won't install on the Z.

Can someone convert it for me to a real ipk? I don't know anything about Linux.

Thanks!

The file is attached.