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Jun 11th, 2009, 5:42 am
HandyShopper v3.1 (Freeware)
Requirements: PocketPC 2003(SE), WM5, WM6
Overview: HandyShopper is a tool for managing your shopping lists. It helps you build a shopping database that remembers everything you've purchased before.
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It helps you build a shopping database that remembers everything you've purchased before, so that you can find them in your "All" list (master list) and mark them as needed so they appear in your "Need" list. When you go shopping, you check off items from your list as you put them in your cart, then after you pay for them you use the "Checkout" command to move the checked-off items back to the "All" list (items that aren't checked off yet stay in the "Need" list). Even though HandyShopper is designed for shopping lists, you can use it for other kinds of lists, too.

Features:
• Create as many databases as you wish (shopping lists or other lists).
• Mark items in your database (list) as Needed, and once you finish shopping, the items are remembered so you can quickly reuse them later.
• You can keep track of how many of each item you need, what the price is, the aisle where the item is located, whether the item is taxable, and more.
• Tap an item and hold the stylus down for half a second to pop up a context menu with some common actions.
• A special one-handed mode lets you mark off items with one hand, without having to pull out the stylus.
• The Total command adds up the total amount for the items you have marked as Needed, and the total amount of the items you've put in your cart.
• Notes can be attached to items.
• Each database can be sorted by any of the fields (up to 3 fields at a time).
• Keep track of up to 100 stores per database, and which items are available at which stores.
• Stores that have needed items show up in bold in the Stores dropdown list.
• Organize items in up to 100 categories per database.
• The column widths in the list view can be resized by dragging the column header divider bars.
• Optionally keep track of prices and aisles for an item on a per-store basis.
• Copy an item to another database, including which stores the item is available at.

More Info:
Code: Select allhttp://chrisant.home.comcast.net/~chrisant/hs3/hs3.htm

Download Instructions:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=92DNETNF

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Jun 11th, 2009, 5:42 am
Jun 11th, 2009, 8:56 am
Nice Release. +5 WRZ$ Freeware Reward. Category: Office/Productivity.
Jun 11th, 2009, 8:56 am

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Jun 12th, 2009, 8:33 am
BE CAREFUL WITH THIS VERSION

I have been a long time user of this program and found after I updated the program then changed the options to my liking I found that when I closed the program it corrupted the database (I am glad I had a backup) and would not open again, so I installed the original version with no problems.

Make sure you backup your database before installing this version

My devise is HTC Diamond2
Jun 12th, 2009, 8:33 am
Jun 13th, 2009, 12:04 pm
I've also had database issues with this version - upon adding a new item to any database, then saving the item & quitting the application it reports a "Unknown Database Problem" and no matter how many times you re-try, the only option is to lose your editing changes and quit out without any saving.

I've not lost a database - so far - but don't want to take that risk. To today (13th July, 2009) there's no discussion about these problems on the Handyshopper user forums, but it definately exists. Am moving back to the older version in the meantime for safety and would advise others to do the same.

I'm using a WM6.1 standard ROM Palm Treo Pro.

Adam.
Jun 13th, 2009, 12:04 pm
Jun 13th, 2009, 12:35 pm
Update from my last post

Due to problems on my devise I had to hard reset the OS and then after installing HandyShopper 3.1 I found the program to run ok.
Jun 13th, 2009, 12:35 pm
Jun 23rd, 2009, 10:14 am
Hi everyone,

FYI - there *is* an officially recognised bug with this version, where saving the database by closing the application instead of saving from the menu - /then/ closing, can cause database corruption and ruin all your hard work. Will be fixed in a later version. See e-mail below between myself and the author of HandyShopper... so in the meantime, please be careful with this version!

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Re: Bug with 3.1 build 5407 on Windows Mobile 6.1

--- "adamchap" wrote:
> 1. If I go into my "shopping" database, and choose
> an item, increase the quantitiy (i.e. I want 3 onions)

It's a known issue, it was fixed last week, and the fix will be in the next
update. It doesn't matter kind of change you make, though:

> - when I try to exit Handy Shopper, it throws up the
> error "Cannot write to the database, unspecified error"
> with the options of retry or cancel. Retry just
> produces the same error again and again, while cancel
> doesn't save any of my changes, making Handy Shopper
> useless.

You are using a utility that makes the [X] close instead of minimize, and you're
exiting by tapping the [X]. A recent change inadvertantly made HS vulnerable to
an issue there. What's happening is that the [X] utility program tells HS to
exit, so HS starts saving the database. But while HS is saving the database,
the [X] utility program tells HS to exit *again*. The second save fails because
the first save is already in progress. HS asks if you want to retry the failed
save. Choosing Cancel breaks out of the madness, and allows the first save to
finish. But the dueling seems to cause the first save to not work properly,
either.


> 2. Sometimes if I cancel the error as above, the
> quantity information is saved into the database (if
> re-open handyshopper and look for the edit I just
> tried to make).

Because of what I explained above.


> However, the item is marked as checked off and doesn't
> show in the "needed" view. At the same time as this
> occurs, the aisle information in the top right dropdown
> is stripped out of the entire database, so I end up with
> all my shops in the top left dropdown working fine - but
> with "Unfiled" shops showing 65536 items in brackets next
> to it - yet the Unfiled category contains no items when
> looking in the "All" view at it!

The top right dropdown lists Categories, not Aisles. Maybe you've set up your
Categories to use names of Aisles?

Anyway, I'm not surprised that failed saves fail to save the data correctly.
Failure tends to... well, fail.


> Most odd, reverting back to 3.08 for the meantime. Has
> anyone else experienced this or has any ideas on how to
> fix?

Until the fix is available, use the Tools|Save or Menu|Tools|Save command to
explicitly save the database before closing HS. Or don't close with the [X].
Jun 23rd, 2009, 10:14 am