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- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 09:52:07 EST
- From: Jerry Bryan <BRYAN@wvnvm.wvnet.edu>
- Message-ID: <92350.095207BRYAN@wvnvm.wvnet.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Re: alarm applet don't work, why?
- References: <92344.231403RROXBY@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
- <djg2.724261120@crux1.cit.cornell.edu>
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- In article <djg2.724261120@crux1.cit.cornell.edu>, djg2@crux3.cit.cornell.edu
- (David J. Greenberger) says:
- >
- >Robert Roxby <RROXBY@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> writes:
- >
- >>I cant get this dumb alarm applet to work right. when I try
- >>entering events using the daily planner, they dont get posted
- >>to the alarm clock and there is no alarm, then. anybody
- >>know why?
- >
- >First, in the daily planner, make sure you save your work. Then, in the alarm
- >app, go into the Customize menu and set the master planner file to the one you
- >used in the daily planner. Then the alarms should work.
- >
- >Make sure you don't close (i.e., end) the alarm program if you want alarms to
- >go off. To get it "out of the way," click on the minimize or hide button (top
- >of screen, second button from the right). Alarms will still go off, then.
-
- As a editorial comment in passing, I think that all the calendaring
- applets work great, but in some sense they are overdesigned -- they are
- just not simple enough. You have to go into them and tell them which
- files to use, for example. The reason is good -- you can maintain multiple
- sets of calendars -- a home calendar, a work calendar, your secretary's
- calendar. Yet I believe that the applets could have been made a little
- simpler to use without losing functionality.
-
- To me, the calendaring applets have the look and feel of something with
- high function that was well designed by a large group, and the design was
- complete before any coding was done -- typical high quality, professional
- programming. Typical IBM.
-
- However, I can't help but feel that they would have been much better if
- they really hadn't even been designed at all, if instead one sharp person
- had gone away into a corner and just played around a little bit until
- it was done. It would have been simpler, and it would have worked just
- as well or better.
-