Pimlical WIDGET Version History Details

This section below is for Users who want to know every single issue and fix that have been applied in all prior interim releases. It is always a good idea to read the latest release notes on the version you are now installing and any prior versions you may have skipped over when upgrading.

Fixes and New Features in V-3.7.06 - Remember to uninstall Widget first if you have a problem installing

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• Fixes an issue on some phones where the date line was not using the longest possible date format after the widget had been force-stopped or terminated by the OS.

Fixes and New Features in V-3.7.05 - Immediately replaced with V-3.7.06.

Fixes and New Features in V-3.7.04 - Remember to uninstall Widget first if you have a problem installing

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• Removes diagnostic code inadvertently left in V-3.7.03 that was generating unneeded error files.

Fixes and New Features in V-3.7.03

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• Fixes a compatibility issue between P/A and the Widget with respect to the management of font sizes in quick entry templates. Under some conditions, the widget was resetting the logical fontsize of a template causing the custom font-size to get lost (only relevant if quick entry templates used custom font settings).
• Fixes a relatively obscure issue with the spurious display of a category icon on an item in a category that had no icon assigned.
• Goes back to the OS 7.x Libraries to sidestep the new (and ludicrous) limitation in the OS 8 libraries that prevent the Widget from refreshing properly.
  

Fixes and New Features in V-3.7.02

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• Updated to also generate V-1 Authentication Signature for installation on old Android Devices.

Fixes and New Features in V-3.7.01

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• Automatically scales the event/category icons in the display to match the selected TypeSize in preferences.
• Automatically adjusts the date format to use the longest date format that still fits within the available space based upon selected font size and width.
• Provides two sizes for the Time Field (for a larger time field when a large font is selected).
• NOTE: the above changes may mean you have to adjust the physical layout (lines, fontsizes) that you were previously using in your preference settings).
  

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• Updated for OS 8.1 libraries (i.e. new Permissions handling, etc.).
• Updated documentation for new features.
  

Fixes and New Features in V-3.5.20 - Remember to uninstall Widget first if you have a problem installing

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• For the preference WidgetUsesEventCategoryColors, fixes issue of not properly using background color in some cases. Also now applies the same logic to the category color (so if there is no event color and foreground category color is pure White or Pure Black, it will use the category background color).

Fixes and New Features in V-3.5.19 - Remember to uninstall Widget first if you have a problem installing

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• For the preference WidgetUsesEventCategoryColors, the Widget will now try and use the background color ALSO if the foreground color is pure White (so if the foreground is either pure white or pure black, it will try and use the background color).

Fixes and New Features in V-3.5.18 - Remember to uninstall Widget first if you have a problem installing

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•  Adds new preference: WidgetUsesEventCategoryColors which can be set in the initial configuration dialog. Default is false, but when set to True, Widget will try and use the foreground color of the event (unless default of black, in which case it will use the background color if not default White), and if there is no event color, will try and use the associated category's foreground color.

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Fixes and New Features in V-3.5.17 - Remember to uninstall Widget first if you have a problem installing

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• Fixes a relatively new issue where the next alarm field might not correctly display the next upcoming alarm.

Fixes and New Features in V-3.5.16 - Remember to uninstall Widget first if you have a problem installing

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• Incorporates what may be a potential workaround for the unexpected preference reset issue which appeared on some phones when upgraded to OS7 (and might also be occurring on some phones with earlier versions of the OS).

Fixes and New Features in V-3.5.13/14/15 -  Interim releases for testing.

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• Fixes an issue in the diagnostic testing of the reset problem in the Widget...
• Fixes a spurious syntax error in the ShadedDates preference when a date specification in YYYYMMDD format had a month of 12.

Fixes and New Features in V-3.5.12 - Remember to uninstall Widget first if you have a problem installing

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• The next alarm display which shows the very next alarm now caters to the FloatDays Action Tag on floating events (previously, the next alarm might such an event on a day that would in fact actually be skipped by the time that float caught up to that date). Note that there are other vanishingly small end-conditions that are not really feasible to manage for this list (example: you have a repeat filter which changes category selections or invokes a custom preference file, and the category that an item is in is now affected by the preference NoAlarmsOnTheseCategories or by the preference: IgnoreAlarmsOnHiddenItems (!).

Fixes and New Features in V-3.5.11 - Remember to uninstall Widget first if you have a problem installing

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• Updated to be compatible with V-3.5.19 of P/A which fixed the issue of the mishandling of preferences AutoSyncAction and MemoStartupView.

Fixes and New Features in V-3.5.10 - Remember to uninstall Widget first if you have a problem installing

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• Now supports the feature in Pimlical/Android to manage the advanced repeat specification for repeats like Black Friday or the US Election Day (repeat monthly/yearly by Date with both a day of the month and a day of the week after that day on which it repeats).
• Fixes an issue of the Widget not properly identifying itself in some of the system logs.
• Removed the launch failure detection logic because it appears it may not be compatible with Android OS 7 (might be some obscure bug in OS7 or some incompatible update to the way that services are handled).

Fixes and New Features in V-3.5.08/9 - Remember to uninstall Widget first if you have a problem installing

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• Removes some code that duplicates Pimlical/Android vis-a-vis managing the floating advance (in theory it should not cause any interference, but neither is that code necessary). Also now logs alarm information as Pimlical/Widget rather than Pimlical/Android (only if EnableDebugLog preference is set).

Fixes and New Features in V-3.5.07 - Remember to uninstall Widget first if you have a problem installing

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• Implements the preference HideAlarmsMoreThanXDaysOut to suppress the display of alarms that are far out in the future. Note that you can always attach a custom preference file to the Widget filter if you want to have a custom value here that differs from the value that is used in Pimlical/Android to limit the upcoming alarm list display.
• Updated for compatibility with V-3.5.14 of Pimlical/Android.

Fixes and New Features in V-3.5.06 - Remember to uninstall Widget first if you have a problem installing

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• Fixes a potential conflict between Pimlical/Android and the widget with respect to managing temporary files..

Fixes and New Features in V-3.5.05 - Remember to uninstall Widget first if you have a problem installing

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• Fixes a spurious error message that can be triggered in Pimlical/Android due to an old preference name (SortByCompanyNameIfBlank - which was changed to SortByCompanyNameIfNameBlank) saved internally in the widget preferences.
• Updated for compatibility with V-3.5.11 of P/A (avoids generating spurious error file over differences in Preferences).

Fixes and New Features in V-3.5.03/4 - Interim Releases

Fixes and New Features in V-3.5.02 - Remember to uninstall Widget first if you have a problem installing

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• Updated for compatibility with P/A, V-3.5.4

Fixes and New Features in V-3.5.01 - Remember to uninstall Widget first if you have a problem installing

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• Updated for compatibility with P/A, V-3.5.1

Fixes and New Features in V-3.4.17 - Remember to uninstall Widget first if you have a problem installing

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• Updated for compatibility with P/A, also identifies when widget is logging items to the debug log (also removes inexact alarm attribute for refresh - due to Android OS issues).
• Removes P/A code that was rewriting the calendar database and advancing floating events as that could under some rare conditions interfere with P/A (and was redundant anyway as P/A manages those functions).
  

Fixes and New Features in V-3.4.16 - Remember to uninstall Widget first if you have a problem installing

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• Now includes a check for corrupt entries in the local 'dribble' file database (previously, only the main database was being checked) - in particular, a corrupt date entry could cause Pimlical to fail to startup).
• Includes check for Exceptions to Repeat events read from Google calendar to ensure they are valid calendar records (some corrupt records in the Google calendar database would end up tripping prior versions of P/A).

Fixes and New Features in V-3.4.15 - Remember to uninstall Widget first if you have a problem installing

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• Updated for code compatibility with P/A and eliminates a spurious error message about a missing Item in Preferences.
• Includes an obscure fix covering recurrence rules in iCalendar format that have been created by some calendar applications with respect to yearly and monthly repeats by Day (and which could potentially cause a read fault on the calendar).

Fixes and New Features in V-3.4.14 - Remember to uninstall Widget first if you have a problem installing

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• Updated for code compatibility with P/A (although this should not affect the operation of the widget).

Fixes and New Features in V-3.4.13 - Remember to uninstall Widget first if you have a problem installing

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• Updated for code compatibility with P/A (although this should not affect the operation of the widget).

Fixes and New Features in V-3.4.12 - Remember to uninstall Widget first if you have a problem installing

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• Fixes an obscure issue in reading repeat specifications from an Android calendar item when there are multiple exception dates (but only on certain devices).

Fixes and New Features in V-3.4.11 - Remember to uninstall Widget first if you have a problem installing

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• Fixes issue of program still using PimlicalDBs.dat file on new install (rather than new SystemPreference.dat file). 
• Fixes NullPointerError that can occur under some relatively rare conditions when writing SystemPreferences.dat file.
• Fixes an obscure read error on the local calendar (related to timezone setting).
• Fixes issue of not properly recovering after the removal of null entries in the calendar database (prior versions ignored this issue, but 3.4.8 removes them - but not in the best way - this release leaves the null entries and puts a default message into the description field - that way the program also recovers properly.
• Fixes issue of losing the checkmark on monthly repeats of appointment types only in a filter.

Fixes and New Features in V-3.4.10 - Remember to uninstall Widget first if you have a problem installing

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• Incorporates some new fixes from P/A for reading/writing calendars efficiently and catering to the 'rename' problem.

Fixes and New Features in V-3.4.09 - Remember to uninstall Widget first if you have a problem installing

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• Significantly speeds up widget refresh by rewriting all the prior java-based routines to read and write the PimlicalDBs.dat database with optimized, custom routines (the PimlicalDBs.dat file can still be read, but it is now written and re-read as SystemPreferences.dat). This makes a big difference for users with a lot of custom templates and filters.

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Fixes and New Features in V-3.4.08 - Remember to uninstall Widget first if you have a problem installing

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• Now avoids NullPointerException error if filter used by widget has a repeat specification and a null start date (which is meaningless, but could result from a user error in editing the filter in prior versions of P/A).

Fixes and New Features in V-3.4.07 - Remember to uninstall Widget first if you have a problem installing

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• Fixes a spurious verifyFieldDescriptor() error message that was caused by a now-deprecated field in the calendar database.

Fixes and New Features in V-3.4.06 - Remember to uninstall Widget first if you have a problem installing

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• Fixed a compilation problem in 3.4.05.
  

Fixes and New Features in V-3.4.05 - Remember to uninstall Widget first if you have a problem installing

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• Now allows future date range to be unlimited - previously, it was subject to an obscure and unintended limitation (even though it was pretty large). 
• Fixes issue that if there are not enough items to fill the widget display, the very last item would not display under some circumstances.
  

Fixes and New Features in V-3.4.04 - Remember to uninstall Widget first if you have a problem installing

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• When creating the Widget filter, the date rule is now set to Fixed rather than Relative to Today - this was more a cosmetic issue, but could confuse the user trying to change the number of days for the widget in Pimlical/Android as the end date could not be changed until the date rule was changed to Fixed.
• Incorporates several minor, internal changes to shared files with Pimlical/Android.
  

Fixes and New Features in V-3.4.03 - Remember to uninstall Widget first if you have a problem installing

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• Fixes transition issue from old to new calendar database file format that could potentially cause a corrupt calendar database.

Fixes and New Features in V-3.4.02 - Internal release

Fixes and New Features in V-3.4.01 - Remember to uninstall Widget first if you have a problem installing

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• Updated for new file format - also fixes a problem with version number not getting properly updated internally which caused a problem when reading the calendar file updated by Pimlical/Android V-3.4.01.
• Updates preferences to avoid some spurious error files being created in the Pimlical folder.
  

Fixes and New Features in V-3.3.04 - Remember to uninstall Widget first if you have a problem installing

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• Fixes an issue in the preference file that was causing a spurious error file to be created.

Fixes and New Features in V-3.3.03. - Remember to uninstall Widget first if you have a problem installing

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• Optimizes the resolution of alarms for events in an Android calendar immediately after refreshing the database so as to avoid what could be a significant pause in the program if there were a large number of past events with alarms set (which obviously could not be potential candidates for an upcoming alarm as Android calendar events do not support Pimlical's post-start-time event alarms).

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• Fixes the internal, default values for some preferences (StringList) where the format had not been updated for changes made recently in P/A (this could result in spurious error messages such as Corrupt Prefs Cache, Object is wrong Type...) when preferences were reset.

• The feature in 3.3.01 of using generic font sizes has now been deferred to V-3.4 (because it introduces a new field in the database that can cause forwards-compatibility issues when syncing, using Widget, etc., so it has been deferred until 3.4 which resolves the forwards-compatibility issue).

Fixes and New Features in V-3.3.01. - Remember to uninstall Widget first if you have a problem installing

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• This release has the first phase of the implementation of database forwards-compatibility for events, templates and filters. The second phase of this implementation will occur in a future 3.4.x release. With this change, it will be possible for an older version of Pimlical to read calendars, templates and filters from a newer version of Pimlical even if that newer version has a new file format with new features (currently such a case would typically cause Pimlical to crash). While Pimlical has always had perfect backwards compatibility, providing for forwards compatibility is obviously more challenging. The change is being done in two phases to alleviate the forwards-compatibility problem of implementing this feature (!). I.e. if this change were done in one phase, then if a user had Pimlical updated on Android automatically before they had a chance to realize they needed to update the desktop to be compatible, they would end up with an incompatible database and a crash. So phase 1 implements the feature of reading this new forwards-compatible database format, but the writing of this format won't occur until V-3.4.x. So by the time V-3.4.x is released, hopefully everyone will have this version which is already set up to read this new database format.
• Minor bug-reporting changes made to improve information recorded in error files.
  

Fixes and New Features in V-1.01.43 - Remember to uninstall Widget first if you have a problem installing

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• Avoids generating a displayable error message for some changes to preference settings which are not relevant to the Widget anyway (but an error file is still generated).

Fixes and New Features in V-1.01.42 - Remember to uninstall Widget first if you have a problem installing

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• Ensures that an error file always gets written when there is an error condition that was previously only trying to display a dialog.

Fixes and New Features in V-1.01.41 - Remember to uninstall Widget first if you have a problem installing

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• When rebuilding category tables and processing category names, Pimlical now ensures that any spurious leading and trailing spaces are removed - under some conditions, some users were getting what appeared to be duplicate category names because of those spurious spaces
• If an error occurred while reading the calendar, or performing some other activity in the background, the original error message was getting overwritten and lost - this release corrects that issue.

Fixes and New Features in V-1.01.40 - Remember to uninstall Widget first if you have a problem installing

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• Updates the routine to find the next alarm to incorporate support for post-event start time alarms as well as fix a case where preset alarms on daily events could possibly get overlooked.

Fixes and New Features in V-1.01.39 - Remember to uninstall Widget first if you have a problem installing

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• If you assign a custom preference file to the widget filter, the widget will then obey these preference settings: IncludeNote, IncludeLocation and IncludeCategory (so you can add that information to the text line displayed in the widget).

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• Now uses a separate AuditTrail file from P/A to avoid confusion as to which program is logging events.
• Includes some fixes from P/A to address possible failure to re-read entire calendar file after low memory conditions have been present.
  

Fixes and New Features in V-1.01.38 - Remember to uninstall Widget first if you have a problem installing

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• Ensures the last update date/time for the widget obeys the preference: UseWhitetextInWidget.
• Fixes issue of not displaying all the days of a spanned, repeat event, when the first day of the repeat instance is not included in the current view.
• Includes some fixes from P/A to address possible problems with renaming files.
  

Fixes and New Features in V-1.01.37 - Remember to uninstall Widget first if you have a problem installing

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• Adds new preference: HideAllWidgetButtons, which if set to True, will hide all the top row buttons. To reconfigure the widget, you would need to remove it and re-install. Default value is False.

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• Fixes conflict with Pimlical/Android whereby the refresh of the widget was resetting the currently active filter in P/A under some circumstances.

Fixes and New Features in V-1.01.35 - Remember to uninstall Widget first if you have a problem installing

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• Includes more comprehensive error messages for problems with preferences.
• Includes logic to skip a refresh while Pimlical/Android is actively running (which might lead to a conflict that could cause issues with saving/updating the calendar).
• After powerup, the widget is now refreshed more quickly.
• Now includes week number in date line if preference DisplayWeekNumbers is set to true.
  

Fixes and New Features in V-1.01.34 - Interim Release

Fixes and New Features in V-1.01.33 - Remember to uninstall Widget first if you have a problem installing

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• Updated for new Preference handling. Note: if you had set up a custom preference file for your widget filter, and the widget will not install without an error, delete the file: Widget.dat.
• Fixes issue on very first startup of causing a benign NullPointerException when there is no Widget filter present.
• Matches preferences to P/A V-2.3.55 (needed to avoid unnecessary Floating Advances).
  

Fixes and New Features in V-1.01.32 - Interim Release

Fixes and New Features in V-1.01.31 - Remember to uninstall Widget first if you have a problem installing

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• Fixes issue of Widget not obeying the preferences HideFloatIcon and HideStatusIcon in the preference file (if you just want to hide these icons in the widget, but not P/A, use a custom Preference file for the Widget Filter).
• Includes the Birthday/Anniversary indicators for events that are marked as birthdays or anniversaries.
  

Fixes and New Features in V-1.01.30 - Remember to uninstall Widget first if you have a problem installing

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• Fixes issue of the [+] button causing an Exception Error when Pimlical/Android was not installed - now properly launches native Android Calendar application to create a new event.

Fixes and New Features in V-1.01.29 - Remember to uninstall Widget first if you have a problem installing

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• Works around Android bug on some devices whereby the buttons were not displaying the images properly or not even displaying them at all.

Fixes and New Features in V-1.01.28 - Remember to uninstall Widget first if you have a problem installing

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• Fixes issues with launching Pimlical whereby Pimlical would unexpectedly exit after going into Filters, select Calendars/Categories, or View/Edit contacts/memos.

Fixes and New Features in V-1.01.27 - Remember to uninstall Widget first if you have a problem installing

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• Fixes issues with launching contacts and memos (for contacts, prior release was inadvertently creating local contacts database if none existed, for memos, the memos button did not function if there was no local contacts database).
• Fixes new error with button to create new Appts.
  

Fixes and New Features in V-1.01.26 - Remember to uninstall Widget first if you have a problem

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•  Includes optional button to create a new item from the Template list.

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• Fixes some issues of installing widget on a device that does not have Pimlical/Android (under some conditions, it would complain that Pimlical was missing, rather than launch native calendar application).
• Handles end condition where there is not even a single event to display in the widget, by displaying message that there are no events to display.
  

Fixes and New Features in V-1.01.25 - Remember to uninstall Widget first if you have a problem

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• Includes fix for interference of widget with selection of default filter in Pimlical/Android on some devices.
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Fixes and New Features in V-1.01.21-35 - Interim Releases...

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• The Widget filter start/end dates are now respected and can force a different date range extending from Today (i.e. you can edit the filter and set a start date and end date 90 days apart if you want to cover events from today to 90 days out). When you first install this release over an older release, you might see it just default to one day. If so, either edit the Widget filter to set your desired date range, or delete it to set the default of 31 days.

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• Includes better recognition of widget size change on some Samsung devices that have proprietary 'TouchWiz' interface.
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Fixes and New Features in V-1.01.20 - Remember to uninstall Widget first

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• If there is no explicitly assigned icon to an event, widget will now see if any category assigned to the event has an icon associated with it and if so, will display that icon (previously icons from categories were not displayed).
• Includes two new icons for floating events and tasks to signal that they have a due date and they are either due today or past-due (circle and square box have a blue exclamation mark in the center). The simple circle and square box now indicate that the item has a due date that is in the future. This helps quickly identify floats/tasks that need to be addressed in today's schedule.
• When the number of text rows is set to Auto and the widget is resized, it now immediately redraws itself with a best guess at the number of rows to display.

Fixes/Changes in this Release:

• Untimed items (if enabled for display in Widget filter) are now left-justified so more text can be displayed.
• If there is no future appointment to list the time to (after Appt icon), then it is now initialized to being blank (previously, although unlikely, it would continue to show the last item that DID have a future time
• Documentation has been updated for new functionality.
• Fixes issue of not properly recording/reading preferences from a custom preference file if user chose to have the Widget filter have a custom preference file (previously, settings were written to the default filter).
  

Fixes and New Features in V-1.01.19 - Remember to uninstall Widget first

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• Fixes issue of not displaying the red X for an appointment that has been canceled.
• Fixes issue of getting an unexpected Invalid App Widget ID(?) error when trying to invoke the settings dialog after device has been rebooted after widget has been installed.
  
• Fixes an issue of possibly resetting the default filter in Pimlical/Android while Pimlical was running if widget triggered a refresh.
• Replace Cancel button in Settings Dialog with Reset button (to reset settings back to original configuration) as canceling out of the dialog previously resulted in the widget no longer refreshing properly.
• Incorporates an alternate method of launching the native contacts app (when Pimlical contacts are not present) which may work around an issue on some Android devices that were not working with prior releases of the widget.
• In the Float/Task filter sections, the filter for the Due date has been changed from Today and Other to Now and Future. what this means is that Now covers floats that are due today AND which are past-due, while Future only filters for floats/tasks with a due date in the future (it's pretty obvious that this is how it should have always worked).

Fixes and New Features in V-1.01.18

New Features in this Release:

• Now displays both a system icon (float/task/completed/canceled etc.) as well as one icon associated with the event itself.

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• Avoids generating a date line on the very last line of the current display.
• Widget Icon has been updated for the Refresh Button.
• Several internal changes were made which might have potentially been interfering with P/A's alarm system.
• If preference UseShortDescriptions is true and the item for the next alarm has a short description, the short description will be used instead of the main description.
  

Fixes and New Features in V-1.01.17

New Features in this Release:

• The entire widget is now "clickable" in order to launch calendar app. There's an intentional dead zone (the top date row) to avoid a misplaced tap launching calendar when user was trying to hit one of the buttons.
• The Pimlical logo at top left now invokes the Settings dialog (so you don't have to remove/re-install to change settings).
  
• Widget now launches native Android contacts app if there is no Pimlical Local Contacts folder.
• Widget now launches native Android calendar to view calendar or create a new event if there is no Pimlical Local Calendar folder.
  

Fixes/Changes in this Release:

• Fixes issue of alarm line on widget not obeying the preference: HideAlarmsMoreThanXDaysOut.
• Date lines now start in left margin to make them more visible.
• Fixes an issue of the widget refresh forcing a floating advance on a subsequent launch of Pimlical/Android (note: requires P/A V-2.3.27 to also fix this issue).
• Calculation of number of text rows when set to Auto now works better with Samsung devices (that have some proprietary code in the Android OS handling widget resize) although there may still be benefit in setting the precise number of  rows to use.
  

Fixes and New Features in V-1.01.16

New Features in this Release:

• Widget is now resizable both horizontally and vertically. However, the number of rows may still need to be preset to take maximum advantage of available space as the automatic calculation for the number of rows to display is not likely to optimized for all Android devices. The maximum number of rows that can be displayed in the calendar widget is 20. After resizing, the widget will adjust the number of rows on the next refresh, if the configuration setting for the number of text rows was set to Auto.
• A new Info button in the Settings dialog now links to a web page with information about the widget.
  

Fixes/Changes in this Release:

• Fixes issue of private events being masked even when the widget filter is set to SHOW Private events.
• When # of rows is set to Auto, widget now uses better algorithm to guess at optimum number of rows.
  
• Fixes problem of leaving old events displayed when switching filter preferences that result in not enough events being selected to fill up all the rows in the filter.
• Ensures that the background service is terminated when the widget is removed from the display.

Fixes and New Features in V-1.01.15

New Features in this Release:

• Includes the Text Rows preference in configuration dialog, so number of text rows can be easily set without having to edit preferences in P/A (just remove widget from screen and drag back onto screen to re-display configuration dialog).
• Adds Refresh button (two circular green arrows) to force an immediate refresh of widget contents.
  
• If an item has an explicit icon that now overrides a system icon for float or task (previously, system icon was overriding explicitly assigned icon).
• When created Widget Filter, completed, canceled and deferred items are now excluded by default.
  

Fixes/Changes in this Release:

• Now triggers the initial refresh of widget after installation a lot quicker.
• Fixes some selection issues in widget filter (such as displaying untimed events on the  current day, even when future events setting is true, applying appt settings to floats and tasks when they didn't have separate settings, etc.).

Fixes and New Features in V-1.01.12

New Features in this Release:

• Increases number of rows in widget to 10 to accomodate custom launchers that can resize the widget (the Widget itself is set for 3x2 cells and is not marked as resizable for standard Android launchers).

Fixes/Changes in this Release:

• Removes the dummy events that were in the widget, reduces width of widget configuration dialog.
• Fixes an obscure issue with filters related to some attributes that apply to appts, tasks and floats separately, such as timed/untimed settings - if you change the Appt setting and do not have the checkboxes checked to indicate that floats and/or tasks have separate settings, the setting was only being applied to Appts and not to floats or tasks (in other words, if floats are being treated the same as appts, then the test for floats should always parallel and follow those set for appts).

Fixes and New Features in V-1.01.11

New Features in this Release:

• Adds bold font for description of any items that had a custom font attached to the item.

Fixes/Changes in this Release:

Fixes and New Features in V-1.01.10

New Features in this Release:

Fixes/Changes in this Release:

• Fixes problem in Android of top row buttons becoming non-functional after many hours/days have passed