PhoneSearch

Most of the screenshots are reduced to b/w images to save bandwidth.

	Did you ever tried to find a phone number in your Address App ? I have writen down the number in a grouping, so that they are easier to rember e.g. 0179 - 12 11 87 70. If you use the global find you have to remeber the exact writing including spaces and other characters like / or -. PhoneSearch will do that for you.
This Palm Application searches in the Contacts (AddressDB.pdb) for the given phone number. It searchs within all five phone fields, regardless what type (private, office, mail other etc.). The Application is integrated in the global find.
	As long as no search string is entered, the list is empty.
	You can select via the popup trigger which field should match the string you entered. The name of the labels are localized to your PalmOS version. The screenshot is created with a german version of PalmOS.
	If searching for a phone number the application removes all charakters that are no numbers and changes alphabetic characters by the appropiate vannity value (A, B and C becomes a 2, D, E and F becomes a 3 and so on...). So if you search for the number above you have to enter simply 17912118770. While you are typing the list is refreshed.
	If you select a record from the list, this panel will advance. You can see the details of the Address. Hitting the Edit button, the build-in Address Application is called. To get back to the PhoneSearch Application you have to use the launcher (it is a one-way).
	This is how it looks like, if you hit the Edit button. The selected record in PhoneSearch will be shown up in the Address Application. You do not have to search again.
	Available menues.
	On the Preferences Panel you can choose, if PhoneSearch will respond to the Global find of the build in Find function of PalmOS™ or not. If you like to remember PhoneSearch the last selected Category check the appropiate checkbox. PhoneSearch can use the last Category from the Address App if wanted and available.
	The about panel

Don't forget to backup your data before using it.
Before using that piece of software make a complete backup of you device (and make sure that the restore will work !). I prefer pilot-xfer or SmartBackup for that job.
Altough i am quite carefull, there might be a bug.

Tested on Palm OS 3.5 through 5.x. Color Devices are supported..

This Software is Nag Free Shareware. You have to buy a License to use it. If you register you will recieve the latest version with the latest enhancements as soon as it is available via eMail. The latest version is not available via download.

A Licence can be bought from www.Palmgear.com (direct buy link).

Refer to the Document for the Lisence Agreement.

Any distribution of that Software via CD-ROM, Internet or other media without the permission of the author is not allowed.

These applications are distributed as archives files. To extract the original files from an archive, you can use WinZip (.zip) for Windows or StuffIt Expander (.sit) for Macs.

Have a look at that documentation if you don not know how to install the Application. on your PalmOS enabled device.

Any comments are appreciated.

Kind regards

Juergen Schwister

wish list

• speed up the search since version 1.2
• support for pageup/down
• display a progress bar during search since v1.3
• Preferences panel for:
  which fields are included in the search

Known bugs

• -none- (so report some, if you find them. Thanks to all who already did it)

History

• YYYY-MM-DD vX.XX

• 2004-11-25 v1.7
  • enhancement Lookup in field Custom1 to custom4 is now available
  • fixed high-res icons cleaned up

• 2003-10-04 v1.6
  • enhancement Lookup in City, Land and Zip Code is now possible
  • fixed list is cleared if the search type is changed

• 2003-10-04 v1.6
  • enhancement Lookup in City, Land and Zip Code is now possible
  • fixed list is cleared if the search type is changed

• 2003-xx-xx v1.5c
  • fixed small launcher color icon is now transparent

• 2003-03-30 v1.5b
  • enhancement Focus is set to the lookup string field
  • enhancement Lookup in the Note is now possible
  • enhancement jump to the Address App via the Edit button from the view panel
  • fixed Error in Palm Simulator

• 2003-03-01 v1.5a
  • enhancement for the fields firstname, lastname and address can be now searched too.

• created vid
  • enhancement About panel

• 2003-01-11 v1.4b
  • fixed Error "addrList.c Line 654 Error during resize MatchString" should have gone.

• 2003-01-11 v1.4a
  • fixed a Address entry without name, firstname and company caused a Fatal Alert that could only resolved by a hard reset.

• 2003-01-06 v1.4
  • enhancement It is visible on the launcher in the category jSwi
  • enhancement Now you can search by First Name too.

• 2002-08-28 v1.3
  • enhancement Prefences Panel
  • changed ShortCut for Preferences is R and no longer P (used for Paste).
  • enhancement if no matching record was found, the last character of the search string is removed (like in the address App).
  • enhancement during search a icon is shown up to indecate, that the application is working.
  • enhancement enhanced internal checks for errors (hope you won't see).
    TableCheckError

• 2002-08-08 v1.2
  • enhancement searching is much faster, especialy coming back from "View" panel to the "List" panel

• 2002-08-06 v1.1a
  • fixed page up/down disabeld, because not working properly (caused fatal exeption under certain cases)

• 2002-08-05 v1.1
  • fixed The font used for the list is taken from the Address Application.
  • fixed Preferences of the Address Application are no longer corrupted.
  • enhancement Added launcher icons

• 2002-08-04 v1.0
  • Initial release