Norman Ramsey wrote: > > I would like to be able to sort my ToDo list alphabetically. I am currently > > not using due dates or priorities, though I am using categories. > > > > I know that pilot-link has the ability to read the todo database and leave > > it in a text file. I even have an app that sorts that text database into > > a form that I want. > > > > However, I have no way at this time to get the new format back into the > > palm. Even after deleting manually all entries in the Todo database, > > using the pilot-link install option does not result in the entries being > > present in the new order. > > > > There was, a long time ago, a ToDo conduit that was written by one of the > > people on this list. It supported the ability to sort the database. Howeve > r, > > it quit working properly some time ago and email to the author asking for > > some guidance didn't result in responses. > > > > Has anyone a way of achieving this sort of thing? > > I might, if prodded, be willing to update my pdb packing/unpacking > program to rebuild the todo database. (It currently supports pdb -> > ascii but not the reverse.) The catch is that the ascii it works with > is a lua program. This makes the data easy to manipulate but you have > to learn lua. > > If you like, surf over to http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~nr/pilot, get > the pdb tool, and tell me if you can work with the ascii it produces. > If so, I can probably be persuaded to write the inverse function if > you'll test it. > > Norman > _______________________________________________ > Pilot-unix mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://hcirisc.cs.binghamton.edu/mailman/listinfo/pilot-unix You could also try using the new Java interface. It can access both DBs on the Palm and files on the host. You need a Java Runtime which supports JNI (andthing from 1.1 up, including 1.2 and 1.3) and I would ask for you to watch the console quite carefully as I have not tested the writing portion as much as I have the reading.
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