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HappyDays FAQ

Can I set up not only birthday but also event or anniversary?

Sure. Read the manual.

I encountered the error message such as "The address record for .. contains an invalid ...". What can I do?

There are two possibilities to display this error message.

How can I get the Datebook notify to display age instead of birth year?

If you want to display the age of the person, you must notify the date into datebook with 'repeat for' 1. If 'repeat for' is more than 2 or -1, recurring event(only one record) is created in datebook. Then you will see the same age every year. So I changed the age into year in this case.

Can I set up event that happens the first Monday of the month of September every year?

Not yet. It will be supported in the next release. But I don't know when it will be released. :-)

I want to translate HappyDays into my favorite language. What should I do?

To translate HappyDays in your favorite language, you need to download the latest HappyDays source file from Download page.
Copy english.msg to translate.msg and edit translate.msg file. Translate the right part(i.e. the phases after '=') into your favorite language.

If you are working on it, please let me know to prevent the duplicate work.

Could you tell me why there is a number in the note section of all HappyDays datebook entries?

In HappyDays, user can select either 'keep' or 'modify' of record during notification. A number in the note section is used for determining whether two records are the same or not.

In previous version of HappyDays, I used 'string compare' algorithm to decide that. Since HappyDays 1.2 version, user can select the favorite notification format among several candidate. It becomes hard and time-consuming to decide it. So I use hash(well-known as good functionality) algorithm to map address book's user name into one long integer. With it, HappyDays can easily determine whether several records belongs to the same address book.

Can you add data directly into HappyDays? The only way i see to have data inputed is through the address book?

There is no ways to add data directly in HappyDays. For the time being, there is no plan to add such a feature. I have thought that the current input method has some advantages over directly input method.

  1. We could use Palm Desktop to add a lot of data for using HappyDays. That is, there is no need to have another conduit program.
  2. It is easy to keep the integrity of data.
  3. Program size. :-)


This page was updated on, Fri Nov 3 14:31:55 2000