on 18/12/02 23:18, Jim Hart at jhart_at_bates.edu wrote:
>
> Now that Meeting Maker no longer supports syncing the Newton, does
> anyone know anything about the Newton export format? They've had it for
> a long time and it's still included in the latest version, even on Mac
> OS X. But queries to the company have yielded no information. I'd like
> to be able to import the file to my 2000, but I don't know what software
> and format to use. If it helps, here's what the exported file looks like.
>
> FORMAT-VERSION 1 {
> DATABASE "Calendar" {
> ADD {
> viewStationery: 'meeting,
> mtgText: "WebCT Discussion @ bi room",
> mtgStartDate: 52050840,
> mtgAlarm: 52050810,
> notesdata: [ {
> viewStationery: 'para,
> viewFont: 12290,
> viewBounds: { left: 1, top: 1, right: 300, bottom: 300 },
> text: "Talk about faculty WebCT needs for Winter.\n\nShare
> strategies and ideas that were useful last semester.\n\nDemonstrate new
> features of WebCT.\n\nQ & A."
> } ],
> mtgDuration: 60
> }
> ADD {
> viewStationery: 'meeting,
> mtgText: "Dept. lunch",
> mtgStartDate: 52050930,
> mtgAlarm: 52050900,
> mtgDuration: 90
> }
> }
> }.
>
Looks like they were exporting the data exactly as they are stored on the
Newton. I would think that it would be possible to write an application that
could understand that format, but that would require time. Maybe John
Anderson will have more to say, since he wrote NewtSync...
-Laurent.
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