Problem With Opie Addressbook Under Cacko

[DaveAnderson]

I installed the Opie PIM apps directly from the Cacko feed.  This problem may be the same for all apps, but I've only confirmed with addressbook.  After install, there is a Contacts app in the Applications tab.  Starting that starts the Cacko-included address book instead.  It seems they both use an executable with the same name: addressbook

I can start opie app from command prompt, but cannot get it to work from a tab.  I tried renaming the opie addressbook exec file to oaddressbook - that allows me to launcg from tab, but it comes up in portrait mode and I cannot change it.

Thoughts?

[stupkid]

I'll look into this.  Thanks for the report Dave.

[maslovsky]

I think that's because you still have Sharp addressbook fastloaded. Restarting Qtopia should fix it.

[DaveAnderson]

I think that's because you still have Sharp addressbook fastloaded. Restarting Qtopia should fix it.
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How does one restart Qtopia?  I've restarted the Z and that hasn't helped.

[stupkid]

You can restart Qtopia by clicking on Settings/Shutdown.  Then click on the "Restart Qtopia button".

You might have better luck with the Cacko-lite ROM since it does not have the Sharp PIMs installed.

[petya]

I use the cacko lite rom, and when i start the addressbook, it switches to qvga mode, the tap and hold, and uncheck the magnify doesn't work, it cannot be unchecked, if i start it from command line, ti works well. I am using the opie-addressbook, and this is on c-760.

[DaveAnderson]

I use the cacko lite rom, and when i start the addressbook, it switches to qvga mode, the tap and hold, and uncheck the magnify doesn't work, it cannot be unchecked, if i start it from command line, ti works well. I am using the opie-addressbook, and this is on c-760.
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I assume the same is happening for me.  What is qvga mode?  When I start it the screen turns a grayish color and then it starts up in portrait mode.  And yeah, command prompt is fine.  Weird.

[petya]

Problem solved, the addressbook was fastloaded, so there was a running addressbook process, so it didn't allow me to changed it. Solution: from terminel you can kill the addressbook (killall -9 addressbook), than uncheck run in magnified mode, than start addressbook. This solves the multisync problem to, like stupkid said in the other topic. I worte a shell script, for backing up the pim's xmls, kill the pims (than the xmls screwed up), restore the xml from the backup, than start pims. I put an icon for it on the pim tab.

[DaveAnderson]

Problem solved, the addressbook was fastloaded, so there was a running addressbook process, so it didn't allow me to changed it. Solution: from terminel you can kill the addressbook (killall -9 addressbook), than uncheck run in magnified mode, than start addressbook. This solves the multisync problem to, like stupkid said in the other topic. I worte a shell script, for backing up the pim's xmls, kill the pims (than the xmls screwed up), restore the xml from the backup, than start pims. I put an icon for it on the pim tab.
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Why the script though?  Once you uncheck magnified, isn't it fixed?  Why the need to backup, kill, restore, start?

Also, what are you syncing from?  Evolution 1.x or 2?

[petya]

Like stupkid said before in the other topic, the opie pims work this way:
when they are fastloaded (i think this is extremely useful, they can be compared to palm pims), they run all the time. When you start for example addressbook, it read addressbook.xml, and works with it, when you stop it, it writes back it's data to the xml.

When you sync: evolution overwrites the xml of the opie pims, but when they are fastloaded, the xmls not re-readed. So, you must kill and start your pim,i have a killpim.sh like this:

mv addressbook.xml addressbook.xml.temp
killall -9 addressbook
mv addressbook.xml.temp addressbook.xml
(the same for the other 2 apps)

so you have the synced xml, when next time you start the addressbook. This works fine for me. I use 0.83 multisync and 1.4.6 evolution on a gentoo box (it works with evo2 too, but i don't like it, so i masked it tou in portage).

This "refresh method" could be better, if i could write in, to fastload the pim app again (next time you start pim app, you should wait longer, but only the first time)

So, anybody knows how to fastload from a bash script?

I saw mutt on the feed, great e-mail program, if someone would add fetchmail, procmail, and ssmtp, than you can sync your mail too with evolution with a simple bash script. You can do it now, but you cannot send or recevie them, just read them on te road.