ParkingBuddy v1.4 Release Version (April 22, 2000). PROGRAM DESCRIPTION : - RELEASE VERSION v1.4 - You must use PocketC v3.61 or later, shareware or freeware version (Runtime version). This program will calculate your Parking Bill. Every Parking Location have different payment method. You can change parking rate parameter for each Parking Location. Up to 24 different Parking Location can be created. You can rename the Parking Location. Tap Parking Location to select Parking Location. To do changes on parking rate parameter, you must unlock the lock first. Currency (up to max 3 characters) can be made different for each Parking Location, incase you must Park in another country that use different currency :). Tap on any underlined text to changes parking rate parameter. The preferences for payment methods : - Prepaid ... hour(s)/minute(s) $... Afterthat, @ ... hour(s)/minute(s) $... (you pay when you enter parking area, and add the rest when you exit parking area). - Pay for first ... hour(s)/minute(s) $... Afterthat, @ ... hour(s)/minute(s) $... If under ... hour(s)/minute(s) $... (you pay all parking bill when you exit parking area). - Hours based payment. 00 - .. $... .. - .. $... .. - 24 $... (you pay all parking bill when you exit parking area, up to 12 items of hours based configuration can be made). You can enter price for Ticket lost too. Tap on happy face to change it to unhappy face, and you have a little remainder about the situation of the Parking Location. For example, is the Guardman friendly, or the Parking Location is not too secure? Look at the little face, happy face will remain you that the Guardman is nice and friendly :). Push PAGE DOWN twice to start counting the Parking Time. You can fill the Parking note to remain you about your parking car location. There is a clock at upper right screen. So you can see the time without quit ParkingBuddy. Clock and Parking Time or Parking Bill will refresh everytime you turn ON your PalmPilot, or tap the screen. It will also automatically refresh every 15 seconds. Sometimes you only have a time to start ParkingBuddy when your car is already park on Parking Lot. The Parking Bill start counting when you pass park gate. So there will be a time different. You can adjust your Park ENTER time by tap on ENTER time. Every tap will decrease 3 minutes to ENTER time. You can see the Time Left before the Parking Bill increase (the Bar at upper the Parking Bill). This Time Left Bar is usefull to let you prevent you pay only for 3-5 minutes. SAVE YOUR MONEY....... :) The sound will remind you the time left. 1 beep will remind you about 30 minutes left, 2 beeps will remind you 20 minutes left, and 3 beeps remind you there is only 10 minutes left. There are window remainder you about how many minutes left before you must some money. Tap on MENU to set preferences or view about window. ParkingBuddy is made for comfortable, so you can use 1 hand while driving to start count your Parking Time. Of course, if the ParkingBuddy is already run on your PalmPilot, or when the car speed is not 100km/hour :). With a litle time to learn, you will be familiar with ParkingBuddy :). *** PLEASE BE INFORMED *** I DO NOT TAKE ANY RESPONSIBILITY IF YOUR CAR HIT SOMETHING WHEN USING PARKINGBUDDY. USE IT ON YOUR OWN RISK !!! WHAT YOU NEED TO RUN ParkingBuddy : - At least PocketC v3.61 or PocketC RunTime v3.61 from Orbworks, http://www.orbworks.com - Palm devices or compatible with at least PalmOS v3.0. Owner of palmOS v2.0 can try to run ParkingBuddy, but no waranty can run well. HISTORY : - v1.4 April 22, 2000. - Add hours based payment. - v1.27 April 13, 2000. - Add info window for time left before add some money. - Fix some minor parking calculation. - Screen interface changes for easier to use. - Automatically refresh screen every 15 seconds. - You can set to have sound or not in preferences. - v1.2 April 8, 2000. - Single .prc file, but still need PocketC. - Fix divide by zero error (I hope). - v1.0 July 10, 1998. - Add sound to remind you the time left. - Add an icon to launch ParkingBuddy directly from application screen. - v1.0b2 April 17, 1998. - Add decrease 3 minutes to adjust ENTER time. - Add time left bar. - v1.0b1 April 7, 1998. Launch ParkingBuddy on Internet. FUTURE ENHANCEMENT : * Depends on what I need on ParkingBuddy and what your requests on ParkingBuddy. SHAREWARE INFO : ParkingBuddy is a SHAREWARE USD8 program. If you like it and usefull for you, please register it at http://www2.viaweb.com/pilotgearsw/diansuharto.html When you register, don't forget to give your pilot HotSync name (remember, Hotsync name is Case Sensitive, "Dian" and "dian" are different). After register, within 48hours you will receive Registration Code that only can be used on your Pilot with your given HotSync name. Without registration code, you still can use ParkingBuddy, there are no missing features, only nag screen to register when you start the program ;). After register, do not delete PocketC databases "PWDart5". If you do delete it, you must entering your Registration Code again. For all Pilot Software Development, we can do some exchange if you want. Do contact me. If you need further information, or you have a comments, or feature requests, or just to say 'Hello :)', do not hesitate to drop me an E-mail. Best regards, Dian Suharto. E-mail : arto88@dnet.net.id HomePage : http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/9176 ICQ : 4207289 Thanks for everyone who help me, but special thanks for : - Jeremy Dewey, for PocketC, so I can write program on and for Pilot. - Yayan, for everything :).