“At 11:11 in the Rhineland carnival opened on beat with Pdassi prices.”

“11 most popular Palm OS programs are only today (11.11.08) clock from 11:11 to midnight for 11.11 euro.”

Pdassi.de (Germany) has some great deals going today, including Bonsai 4 Palm DESKTOP edition. So if you can deal in Euros, check it out.

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Pdassi.com is also currently spotlighting our Comet app on their site.

“Natara Comet for Treo smartphones is just the thing your Palm OS powered smartphone needs. It replaces the device’s weak proprietary telephone logger with a super-charged muscle car to evaluate and…” more

A new Bonsai Desktop v4.2.8 beta has been released. More details including the download link can be found in the forum.

Changes in this beta update include:

• Changed the handling of the OK button (on touchscreen devices) to close the outline being edited rather than exiting the Bonsai app.
• Resolved Next Action display issue where the view would be drawn without the item text.
• Fixed crash that would occur when inserting new items at the bottom of an outline. This was generally reported when creating a new outline where hitting enter after entering two outline items would crash Bonsai.
• Updated code to flush pending edits before opening the Item Details form.
• Improved the indent/outdent tab key handling so the edit focus will not be lost.
• Fixed insert child command so it properly inserts a child if the current item has no parent.
• The registration number will now be remembered when installing a newer Bonsai version.

We posted a new screencast which covers some of the basics of the lists (grids) that we use in Comet and DayNotez desktop applications. We cover basic grouping, sorting, and adding/removing columns. The lists in some of our desktop products make for some powerful customization. We hope to have more coverage of this in the future to cover items such as filtering also. The screencast is applicable for both DayNotez and Comet since they utilize versions of the same listing control.

Mr Murphy as been hard at work and has posted a new beta build of Bonsai for Windows Mobile version 4.2.8. The build number is 2889.

New to this build:

• Added support for the "Details" menu in the outline manager. From the details form, you can move the location of an outline as well as view and in some cases set attributes of the outline.
• Added the "New Outline Options" dialog to the outline manager.
• Added the "Outline Categories" menu to the outline manager
• Added the View/Show menu to outline manager. This allows the user to filter the displayed outlines by category.
• Added the View/Sort menu to outline manager. Touchscreen devices could sort the outline manager by clicking on the column header but this menu gives the non-touchscreen users the ability to sort the list.
• Added the "Categories" menu to the outline editor
• Changed the highlight color of the outline manager grid to use the configured active cell color configured in the global options.
• Updated the code to have the enter key follow the global setting of "Enter key splits item text into two".
• Fixed the keyword configuration so changes to a keyword’s category setting will be properly saved.
• Resolved issue with the proper placement of the new child or sibling item when the current item has children. (Yes, I know that inserting a child will actually insert a sibling if the current item has no parent; to be fixed in next build.)

For those of you with it already installed on a device, you can use the “Menu/Check for Updates” to download the update directly to your device. Others can find the download link and build history in the user forums.

A new Bonsai Desktop v4.2.8 beta has been released. More details including the download link can be found in the forum.

Changes in this beta update include:

• The "Edit/Insert File Link" menu now allows multiple file links to be inserted.
• Corrected Bonsai U3 USB support of the template print menu. Previously, Bonsai was unable to locate the OXT files in the installation folder on the U3 USB device.

Just a quick note to let you know we’ve set up a Natara twitter account. I’m sure there are many of our blog readers who are also twitter users. We’ll post product announcements there along with more detailed descriptions here. We may also post the occasional hint, tip, or discount code We just created it a day or so ago, so not much is there yet, but we’ll try pump stuff out as we go.

Follow us on Twitter!

(Although not necessarily always “Natara” related or even interesting, I’ve got a personal twitter account also HERE.)

I have posted a new beta build of Bonsai for Windows Mobile version 4.2.8. The build number is 2874.

New in this build:

• Resolved issue where no item became selected if an action caused the selected item to be hidden due to the current filter. A typical case would be for a ToDo list where a filter is used for hiding the "completed" items. Whenever checking off an item the list would no longer have a selected item.
• Fixed problems with the scroll bar where it was not sizing properly when collapsing and expanding parents and when switching filters.
• Updated the code to display simple items as a dash rather than a checkbox which should only be used for ToDo items.
• Changed code so the expand/collapse handle would not be drawn when using a flat filter.
• Relocated the folder where log files are saved. Previously, the log file was saved in the "My Documents" folder and could cause continuous execution of the sync if the "Files" service was enabled.
• Optimized load time of outlines. Found one particular routine that was causing a significant delay during the initial loading of the outline. In the case of this 4000+ item outline, the load time was reduced by more than 50 percent. Additional performance tuning is still needed for these large outline files.

For those of you with it already installed on a device, you can use the “Menu/Check for Updates” to download the update directly to your device. Others can find the download link in the user forums.

Richard has update the beta build of the Windows Mobile Bonsai to v4.2.8 build 2863.

New in this build:

• Global Settings (configured from the Menu/Options/Global Settings menu) are now loaded at startup and saved when modified. There is still some more work to be done to finish this feature, but most settings are now working. In particular, you can select the font/size to be used to display all outlines.
• Fixed problem preventing a new outline to be created; an issue introduced in the previous build.

For those of you with it already installed on a device, you can use the “Menu/Check for Updates” to download the update directly to your device. Others can find the download link in the user forums.

I’ve had this setting around in my project folder for quite some time, and I’m not sure why I never publicly posted it.

What it does, simply, is reset most of the settings that are saved by DayNotez Desktop back to their original defaults. Stuff like window position, toolbar positions and visibility, filter settings, custom view columns and groups, etc. It’s a handy tool if you find that you’ve somehow “lost” one of your toolbars or have managed to create a custom filter setting that is causing issues. Some people “claim” that they have missing or deleted entries when really they are just hidden due to a setting. It might also be helpful for users who at one time had multiple monitors set up with DayNotez on the second monitor and now find that DayNotez starts up “off screen” with a single monitor.

What doesn’t get “reset”. Good question. Mainly the user specific settings (like the list of users that DayNotez Desktop knows about) and registration codes that are already entered. Also any setting that is normally saved in the DayNotez data base itself such as category colors, etc. (Older releases of DayNotez Desktop used to keep color settings in the registry itself instead of with the data. If you are still using one of those OLD releases of DayNotez, yes, this tool will wipe out your color prefs also…)

Keep in mind there is no “undo” once you hit that “Clear Settings” button. Nothing should get “cleaned” that isn’t easily redone via the preferences and a bit of window resizing and column setup.

If you need the tool, you can download it from HERE.

I hope to also get a chance to put together a database tool sometime. The intention is to allow you to move your data file, add and remove users, and possibly combine/import databases. That tool is a bit more work, but something I think more people may find useful. Since the work was about 90% complete on this tool, I went ahead and polished it off. Use responsibly

–bry

For those of you not following in the forums, Richard has posted 2 Bonsai betas in the last week.

Bonsai Windows Mobile 4.2.8 build 2854

• Added the Outline Options configuration (Menu/Options/Outline Options menu)
• Fixed incompatibility with CalliGrapher (fixed in build 2820)
• Fixed several minor bugs including incorrect interpretation of outline colorization settings.

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Bonsai Palm Desktop Edition 4.2.8 build 2856

• Desktop: Optimized syncing a large outline. Large outlines that were deeply nested might see significantly longer than normal sync times (in one particular case, a 40x reduction in sync time was seen).
• Palm: Fixed case where the current note changes could be lost if the user attempted to use the global find tool while in the note edit screen. The fix is to disable the find tool so the user is not allowed to exit the edit screen until committing the change.

Links for download can be found in their perspective forum threads.