Registered: Sep 2000
Location: Orange County, CA
Posts: 64

Am I missing something or does the flashing light alarm only work with Datebook +?

It wish it would be a system level setting that would work with all the alarms - so you could choose it at the Preferences screen for the Palm OS, then any application, like Datebk 4 for instance, could use them too.

Hopefully I'm missing something...wishing I could use the flashing alarm instead of sound more often.

Registered: Oct 2000
Location: London
Posts: 81

only seen in datebook so far! And you cant even have it alarm and flash at the same time! Crazy huh!?

Registered: Sep 2000
Location: Orange County, CA
Posts: 64

I suppose it has something to do with the Palm OS not already supporting it at that level. I'd really like to have flashing alarms (it would be REALLY cool if you could set it by time - blink from this time to that time, on this day of the week, and beep at other times, and beeping and flashing both might be cool too).

As much as I'd like that, I'm not going to downgrade from Datebk 4 to Datebook + just to get a flashing alarm.

Hopefully Datebk 4 will get updated to help us out there.

Registered: Apr 2001
Location:
Posts: 10

Silent Alarms

I wrote Pimlico Software and asked them how to use DateBk4 and silent alarms. They said that there is a good reason that current shareware and Palm software doesn't support silent alarms. According to them...

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"Silent alarms are a new feature which will appear with V-4.0 of the Palm OS. No Palm OS V-4.0 devices have been shipped yet and Palm has not released the final version of the technical documentation to developers yet on how that feature is to be supported.

Handspring jumped the gun and added that feature to their own custom version of the 3.5 Palm OS.

That's why there is no support at this time. When OS 4.0 is released, I will release a maintenance upgrade for DateBk4 which adds support for that feature.

In the meantime, you can achieve the identical result by downloading a MIDI sound database that includes a silent alarm (some of the MIDI database have a "null" sound) and then assign that "silent" alarm sound to the event as a custom alarm sound."

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- Dave

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Registered: Sep 2000
Location: Orange County, CA
Posts: 64

where do I get my hands on one of those MIDI databases? and is one better than others?