Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Spokane, WA, USA
Posts: 114

Someone please tell me that I'm just missing a simple Preference option that enables Beaming in Datebook+!?

I refuse to believe that Handspring was _that_ stupid to NOT include beaming in an "Enhanced" system-included Datebook program (although it's becoming easier to believe with the increasing number of significant resets I've had to do with my VDeluxe in the past 24 hours).

Say it isn't so (but don't lie)!

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Chazzz Fishburn
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Registered: Oct 1999
Location: West Hollywood, CA 90069, USA
Posts: 126

It does seem like an oversight. The good news is that since "Date Book" uses the same database, you can simply beam from there.

Dave

Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Spokane, WA, USA
Posts: 114

Yeah, duh... Nothing personal... BUT I quite literally HATE having to switch apps to beam information. I don't keep DateBk3 and Datebook on the same screen with Launch'Em or in the same category in the System launcher. I don't think I should have to.

But Mr. Dewar won't add Beaming to his DateBk3, so I had hoped that the "ADVANCED" Datebook+ would support beaming. If Handspring was going to include it in their system, the least they could've done was ADD BEAMING to a system-inclusive App. Period.

I beam stuff to and get stuffed beamed from my coworkers very regularly. And it's a total nuisance have everyone exit DateBk3 so we can beam (if the receiver is in DateBk3 when info is beamed, the info is apparently lost).

Essentially the DateBook+ isn't any good to me without beaming. I don't care about Floating appointments or Journal entries.

I don't understand why developers of major applications wouldn't include beaming regardless of whether or not another application can beam its data. Do it as a courtesy, for crying out loud.

I applaud Armando at Thinking Bytes (ThinkDB), Cutting Edge Software (QuickSheet 4.1), and Synergy Solutions (Launch'Em) for including Beam capability to their apps. I applaud Mr. Dewar for creating a better Datebook app that's more versatile, but wish that either he or Handspring would do us the courtesy of adding Beaming to an external Datebook app.

[This message has been edited by Chazzz (edited 11-24-1999).]