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2 ComingNext for Symbian Phones
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4 This widget was originally created by Dr. Cochambre and is now developed and
5 maintained by Michael Prager <X_X_L@gmx.net>. It displays the next 12 upcoming
6 events on your S60 5th Edition phone's home screen. It consists of tree
7 separate widgets, displaying 4 events each.
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9 For more info or to report bugs, please refer to
10 http://sourceforge.net/projects/comingnext
11 and
12 http://www.symbian-freak.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=38045
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14 You can change the appearance (background color, font color, font size etc.)
15 and settings from within the widget now. To make the widget background
16 transparent, follow these steps:
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18 1. install "ComingNext Skin Fetcher" on your phone
19 2. start it on your phone and click on "Generate". It will ask you for the
20 positions of the ComingNext widgets on the homescreen.
21 3. In the ComingNext widget, enable the "use background image" option and set
22 "background image location" to "external"
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25 Supported Devices:
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27 This widget should be compatible with any Symbian S60 5th and
28 Symbian^3 Edition phone. The homescreen mini view however will only be
29 available on devices which support homescreen widgets.
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31 ComingNext has been tested on the following devices:
32 Nokia N97, N97 mini, C6, C7, N8
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34 The fullscreen version of this widget also works on the following devices:
35 Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, 5530 XpressMusic, 5230, 5250, 5228, 5230 Nuron,
36 5235 Ovi Music Unlimited, X6
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38
39 Known limitations:
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41 - ToDos might show up although they have been marked "done". This is a bug in
42 Nokia's WRT library: entry.Status sometimes is undefined.
43 - real transparent background: I haven't found a way todo this yet. All the
44 widgets that have transparent background are no WRT widgets. Nokia?
45 - There is no automatic detection if you're in a timezone that uses daylight
46 saving time (DST). By default, the widget assumes that you're in a timezone
47 that has a 1h DST. If this is not the case, please change the
48 "enable Daylight Saving" setting within the widget.
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51 License:
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53 This software is open source and licensed under the GPLv3. See License.txt
54 for details.
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56
57 Changelog:
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59 1.0 (2009-08-25) by cochambre
60 - initial release by cochambre
61 1.01 (2009-08-25) by cochambre
62 - fix some language localizations
63 1.02 (2009-08-27) by cochambre
64 - jquery library removed (ram footprint reduction, about 1 mb now)
65 - displaying ToDos from current day
66 - calendar is loaded up to 2 months ahead of current day (ram footprint
67 reduction)
68 - calendar app launches and closes much faster
69 - more explicit error messages (post them here if you get one)
70 1.10 (2009-08-27) by Michael Prager
71 - Only 4 lines per widget, also use the bigger default font and a bigger
72 font size
73 - added icons to easier distinguish between todos, meetings, birthdays etc
74 - removed the big icon and the today's date info as this info is already
75 present on the homescreen
76 - format months as numbers instead of text to give more room for the actual
77 event text
78 - display location if set in meetings
79 - only update once per hour. But at the same time, react instantly on any
80 calendar changes made by the user. This is done using a callback. Should
81 save a lot of battery
82 - display all todos from within the last year, if they are not marked as
83 "done". The original version will only display todos that have a
84 termination time in the future.
85 1.11 (2009-08-27) by Michael Prager
86 - added fix suggested by yves: use InstanceStartTime instead of StartTime
87 if available
88 - use a <table> to align columns instead of loose <div> boxes
89 - output line number in case of an error. This should help debugging
90 problems
91 internals for developers:
92 - added changelog to keep track of changes more easily
93 - added switch (var panelNum) so the same code can be used for both,
94 "ComingNext" and "ComingNextB" widgets
95 1.12 (2009-08-28) by Michael Prager
96 - support for all date formats (YYYY-MM-DD, DD-MM-YYYY, MM-DD-YYYY)
97 - format dates and times as 01.01 instead of 1.1
98 - output more details to error log if JavaScript logging is enabled in web
99 browser
100 - added variable to enable/disable ToDos in the event list
101 - added variable to define the number months to include in the event list
102 1.13 (2009-08-28) by Michael Prager
103 - support for ToDos without dates
104 - support for events without summary
105 - fixed date format parsing for MM-DD-YYYY (finally ;-))
106 - fixed months beeing off by 1
107 1.14 (2009-08-28) by Michael Prager
108 - support for fake transparent backgrounds.
109 1.15 (2009-08-30) by Michael Prager
110 - added separate Readme.txt
111 - use the date format defined by the system (e.g. "31.12" or "12.31")
112 - show a colored "Today" for the current day instead of full date
113 - added options for showTodayAsText, todayText, dateSeparator and
114 weekDayLength. These options can be found at the begin of index.html
115 - added CSS classes for weekday, date, time and description so you can
116 customize everything very easily. Moved these CSS definitions to the
117 begin of index.html so they are easy to spot.
118 - fixed table alignment for very long event descriptions
119 - comingNext is now licensed under the GPLv3
120 1.16 (2009-08-31) by Michael Prager
121 - applied patch by pcmoore: Fixed a bug where all times are reported as
122 "AM" regardless of the actual event time
123 - applied patch by pcmoore: new option to define which calendar app to
124 start when clicking the widget (calendarApp). By default this is the
125 buildin calendar, but you can run Epocware Handy Calendar or any other
126 app.
127 - 5 new options: showNowAsText, nowText, dateFormat, updateDataInterval
128 and calendarApp
129 - events that last for multiple days will now properly show "Today"
130 - if an event is currently taking place, display "Now" instead of the
131 event staring time. This behaviour can be disabled with the
132 showNowAsText option. You can change the color of the "Now" text by
133 changing the .now CSS class
134 - users can now configure the update interval. The default setting is now
135 5 minutes. This should not use too much battery, but at the same time
136 keep the "Now" text up-to-date
137 - added option to force a specific date format. dateFormat='auto'
138 (default) will use your phone's setting, 'DDMM' will display day first,
139 'MMDD' will display month first.
140 1.17 (2009-09-02) by Michael Prager
141 - fixed anniversaries for today not showing
142 - new option "eventsPerWidget": with this you can define the number of
143 events that will be shown for each widget.
144 - added new CSS class "icon": change this to modify the icon size (very
145 useful if you want to change the number of events)
146 1.18 (2009-09-04) by Michael Prager
147 - fixed ToDos being shown although includeTodos=false was set
148 - fixed ToDos being shown twice
149 - show text "No further events within 2 months" if there are no events
150 in the list. This behaviour and the text can be changed in the settings
151 1.19 (2009-09-04) by Michael Prager
152 - refixed problems that 1.18 should have solved (todos not showing, entries
153 showing twice)
154 1.20 (2009-09-05) by Michael Prager
155 - new project website at http://sourceforge.net/projects/comingnext
156 - fixed memos/anniversaries showing although they have already passed
157 - don't display weekday if date is 'Today'
158 - changed default 'Now' color to #ff00ff to make it different from the
159 'Today' color
160 - patch by pcmoore:
161 - Fix problem with appointments starting at 12p where they
162 would display as starting 12h later (midnight the following day)
163 - Add a new feature to only display the time for events happening today
164 and only the date for events beyond today (showCombinedDateTime)
165 - Add a new feature to disable showing the location of appointments
166 (showLocation)
167 1.21 (2009-10-13) by Michael Prager
168 - support daylight saving time (DST). This is based on the modifications
169 from Manfred Hanselmann (thanks for that!)
170 - added option "enableDaylightSaving" to disable DST. In case you are in a
171 timezone that has no DST, you should use this option
172 - some code cleanup (by Paul Moore)
173 - fixed alignment when calendar entries have very long description
174 1.22 (2009-12-07) by Michael Prager
175 - show "Tomorrow" instead of date if "showTodayAsText" is enabled
176 1.23 (2009-12-18) by Michael Prager
177 - added fullscreen mode (can list 30 events)
178 - added settings menu. Need to modify the widget manually anymore.
179 - fixed table cell alignment in cases where the event summary was very long
180 - fixed display of "tomorrow" text if CombinedDateTime is enabled
181 1.24 (2010-01-01) by Michael Prager
182 - localization support added by Christophe Milsent
183 - added french translation by Christophe Milsent
184 - added german translation
185 - new option "hide Widget On Calendar Open". When enabled, this will close
186 the fullscreen widget when opening the calendar app
187 - code cleanup and size reduction
188 - update interval to detect screen rotation increased from 3 to 1 secs
189 - open calendar app when clicking anywhere in fullscreen view
190 1.25 (2010-02-21) by Michael Prager
191 - fixed reoccurring events not beeing shown
192 - added "check for updates" feature
193 - added "ComingNext Skin Fetcher v1.1" tool
194 - support for external background images (useful in combination with the
195 new skin fetcher tool). With this, you won't need to modify the widget
196 anymore to use a custom background image
197 - added portuguese-brazilian translation by Flavio Nathan
198 1.26 (2010-03-18) by Michael Prager
199 - fixed second panel showing the same events as the first panel
200 - mark overdue ToDo events (this feature can be disabled in the settings)
201 - support for 3 panels
202 - automatically change text size to fit the requested number of events. You
203 can now easily change the number of events per widget for example to 3, 5
204 or 6 by simply changing the 'Events Per Widget' setting.
205 - includes Skin Fetcher 1.2 which now also supports 3 panels
206 1.27 (2010-03-21) by Michael Prager
207 - fixed ToDo events without due date to cause error
208 1.28 (2010-10-11) by Michael Prager
209 - compatible with N8 and any other device with multi-calendar support
210 - added persistent settings. Settings will no longer be lost when updating
211 the widget. Also, all widgets now use the same settings, you no longer have
212 to modify the settings in each widget individually.
213 - added russian translation (thanks to tokeda)
214 - updated portuguese-brazilian (thanks to Flavio Nathan)
215 - new app icon
216 - updated "ComingNext Skin Fetcher" tool to version v1.3 (supports all 6
217 panel positions)
218 1.29 (2010-10-13) by Michael Prager
219 - fixed events showing as "undefined" on Symbian^3
220 - startup performance improvements
221 - stylish default background image
222 - first release available on Ovi Store
223 1.30 (2010-11-28) by Michael Prager
224 - fixed an issue with daylight saving time not being used properly resulting
225 in events around time shifts to be off by one day or hour
226 - added option to change daylight saving offset (for time zones which have
227 more than a +1h time shift)
228 - fixed changes to calendars not being shown if affected calendar is not
229 default calendar
230 - added color indicator to show to which calendar an event belongs to (can be
231 disabled in settings)
232 - added option to exclude specific calendars from the list