[Palm WebOS] Quick Event - fast calender entry adder

Hi fellows,

Since its a bit tiresome to add entries to the calendar and I decided to speed up it a bit. This is a similar concept as the quick add function on Google Calendar. This means that you can type a phrase like this "Lunch 11am-12:15pm next wednesday at Hotel Astoria" and it generates a suitable entry for you.

From v.0.2.1, there is a manual with examples included in the application.

Examples:
* Meeting 12-115p 8/11 at Bill's office
* Theatre 19-23 jun 12 @ Sidney Opera house
* Phone interview 10-11:25
* Soccer practice 6pm- next f
* John's birthday ad- nov 12

And here is the link: http://www.precentral.net/homebrew-apps/quick-event

From v.0.2.1 the license has been changed to CC-No Derivatives.

Shout if something is not working as expected!

Donations: Some users requested the possibility to donate so I've set up a PayPal account. Feel free to donate if you like but there are no obligations.





Bonus feature:
I did a small hack where I hijacked the webadress field of universal search. This means that you can just start type you events without starting the application first. The patch is attached. (you can still type webadresses, this is just an extension). As always, do this on your own risk and take backups. NOTE: This patch is not yet verified with WebOS 1.2


Apply patch:
Since there is some confusion about how you apply the patch, here's a short summary (the way I do it anyway, there are probably other ways as well):

1) Use caution. Since this is messing with your system files you should have some clue what you are doing, there is always the chance that something goes wrong and that your system won't start etc. Don't blame me if it don't. Here is a page describing how to recover if something goes bad (you might lose some data though): How To Recover - WebOS Internals

2) You'll need command line access to your phone (Portal:Accessing Linux - WebOS Internals)

3) If you haven't used Linux before, please read something like this: Basic Linux Use - WebOS Internals

4) Setup optware (Next steps - WebOS Internals)

5) Install the patch utility ("ipkg-opt update", "ipkg-opt install patch")

6) Take a backup of /usr/lib/luna/system/luna-applauncher/app/controllers/global-search-assistant.js

7) Apply patch: "patch -p0 < /var/usr/palm/applications/com.palm.net.heden.webos.quickevent/scripts/global-search-assistant.js.diff" (I don't know how well the patch works if you already have other patches to the file such as extra search addons)

8) Reboot.

[9) If something don't work. Restore the backup and reboot.


Revision history:
v.0.1.0:
- First public release

v.0.1.1:
- Default duration time (1 hour for now, to be configurable in the future)
- a/p can be used instead of am/pm
- @ can be used for locations
- times are printed nicer
- dates can be typed either "Jun 18" or "6/18"
- fewer characters needed for (some) of the months and weekdays (for example "October 12" can be shortened to "o 12", "next Friday" to "next f")

v.0.1.2:
- Added reminder (15min, to be configurable in future releases)

v.0.2.0:
- notification when submitting an event :-)
- possibility to set default reminder and duration
- possibility to store your entries in whatever calendar you want on your phone!!!
- Note: you need to remove the old version before installing this one. Remember to move any calendar entries you want to keep to another calendar before!

v.0.2.1:
- support for all day events
- more reminder options, including none at all
- possible to edit the event after creation
- replaced the "Quick Event" header with todays date
- added some help text and examples
- changed the display date format

i take no credit for this app and the original can be found here:

Code

http://forums.precentral.net/showthread.php?p=1822838#post1822838

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