Interesting Bug In Palm Desktop

Archived from groups: comp.sys.palmtops.pilot (More info?)

The bug seems to still exist. I have a T3 and Palm Desktop 4.1.2.

When I followed your procedure the desktop crashed when I tried to scroll
back to 1970. When I fired up the desktop after the crash the Find did not
show the event as being in the calendar. When I synch'd with my T3 I get
nothing in 1969.

Curious

Cheers
TC

"Jim M M" <Pete_McCool@REMOVE_FOR_SPAM_Yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:LsWdnYzxXIxZiUzd4p2dnA@vel.net...
> This has existed since Palm Desktop 3.0. I have made Palm aware of it
> through each version.
>
> Launch Palm Desktop (any version) and go to Calendar and choose the Month
> tab so you can see the whole month.
>
> Press the "t" key (this works on most other keys too).
>
> A New Event dialog box appear with the "t" in the event box. Now cancel
the
> event.
>
> Do a find "CTRL F" for the "t". Notice the year (1969). Now try clicking
on
> "Go To", nothing happens. Try going to the year directly but Palm Desktop
> will not show anything prior to 1970.
>
> The only way that I have found to remove this accidental entry is to go to
> the year in the PDA itself and delete the event and resync.
>
> When I first complained about this to Palm they told that the next version
> of Palm Desktop would be a rewrite from the ground up. Why would they
> rewrite it with the same bug?!. Me thinks they are copying old code.
>
> I can thank Intuits Quicken for this discovery. In Quickens calendar view
> pressing "t" takes you to the current date. Years ago while in Palm
Desktops
> calendar view I automatically pressed the "t" thinking it would take me to
> the current date. After canceling the event, I synced my Palm and an error
> appeared indicating that it found entries that where to old. It does not
do
> that anymore, at least on my T3 but it still records an event.
>
>
> Has Anyone Noticed This Strange Behavior?
> Jim
>
>

Archived from groups: comp.sys.palmtops.pilot (More info?)

Perhaps Palm Desktop has Windows bug desease. Thank God for Linux and
JPilot.

On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 20:49:19 -0700, Jim M M
<Pete_McCool@REMOVE_FOR_SPAM_Yahoo.com> wrote:

> This has existed since Palm Desktop 3.0. I have made Palm aware of it
> through each version.
>
> Launch Palm Desktop (any version) and go to Calendar and choose the Month
> tab so you can see the whole month.
>
> Press the "t" key (this works on most other keys too).
>
> A New Event dialog box appear with the "t" in the event box. Now cancel
> the
> event.
>
> Do a find "CTRL F" for the "t". Notice the year (1969). Now try clicking
> on
> "Go To", nothing happens. Try going to the year directly but Palm Desktop
> will not show anything prior to 1970.
>
> The only way that I have found to remove this accidental entry is to go
> to
> the year in the PDA itself and delete the event and resync.
>
> When I first complained about this to Palm they told that the next
> version
> of Palm Desktop would be a rewrite from the ground up. Why would they
> rewrite it with the same bug?!. Me thinks they are copying old code.
>
> I can thank Intuits Quicken for this discovery. In Quickens calendar view
> pressing "t" takes you to the current date. Years ago while in Palm
> Desktops
> calendar view I automatically pressed the "t" thinking it would take me
> to
> the current date. After canceling the event, I synced my Palm and an
> error
> appeared indicating that it found entries that where to old. It does not
> do
> that anymore, at least on my T3 but it still records an event.
>
>
> Has Anyone Noticed This Strange Behavior?
> Jim
>
>



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