Life Balance/DayNotez users

Hello there Wook,

Thanks for asking. The "when" question... (*Sigh* I will try again)... I know that you are asking a simple straightforward, well intentioned question. It just has a way too complicated answer... especially right now.

I know that there are other people wondering the same thing.

The SHORT answer:

I don't know. We push forward. When we've got it, we post. However, that sounds like I'm being flip, and I'm not. It's just in the nature of how we need to work at this point.

The Background:

As has been mentioned elsewhere, my aunt was sick and she needed us. Answers to all the "when" questions were turned upside down by cancer. Her care was the top priority. I have no regrets about that choice. I have a lot of faith in our customers to understand that family had to come first.

Now, we just have to take everything one step at a time as we regroup and push these builds along to you.

The Process:

We are steady and determined about the builds. Development builds happen every week, sometimes several times per week. It's a continuous process. Many of these get posted to our beta team. We try not to post more than one build per week to the betas because they are all volunteers, and they get overwhelmed if we post too often. Sometimes the betas will bring up issues that take more than a week to resolve, so we'll post to them when we have a significant improvement, or something specific that we want feedback on. There is a lot of back and forth with the betas. When to post is always a judgement call. Once the nature of the incoming beta reports changes on the Llama Release Scale from *Gasp* to really kind of *Nit Picky*, we'll be able to tell that one of those builds is worthy and we take the steps necessary to make it available to you. :-)

We have another beta build posting to the beta team today that we've put a lot of work into in the last few weeks. We'll see what kind of feedback we get on that.

The posting process itself generally does not take long. Usually, we can run with it once we feel like we've got the build!

About DayNotez:

Specific to DayNotez... Unfortunately, we spoke too soon on having a fix for the DayNotez support. The betas reported back to us that the problem was not completely fixed, although we had definitely improved things for the DayNotez folks on our beta team.

In addition to the changes that we made earlier which do work if you are just running the Palm app, we also need to make the corresponding set of changes in the conduit. Unfortunately, the DayNotez routines are not designed to be called from a conduit. They are only designed to be called from a Palm app.

To do the right thing, we have to add some bridge code to our conduit, to call our Palm app to call the DayNotez routine to make the changes in their database that need to happen at sync time. It's a little... more involved than we expected it to be.

I hope that clarifies the situation for you. (I wish it were clearer for us!)

Anyway, thank you all for supporting us through thick and thin.

Best wishes,

--Catherine--*

Catherine E. White
President
www.llamagraphics.com
Creators of Life Balance software
for Palm OS, Macintosh and Windows.