Google Calendar

I have a feeling that the answer to this is just going to be “not possible”, but, as part of the New User experience, I’ll ask the question anyway :)

I currently use Google Calendar to try to keep at least some form of track of my shambles of a life. And it works. Even my wife can tell what I have planned, which is a good thing. Most of the time.

On RISC OS, I’d like to use !Organiser, as I’ve played with it, like the interface, and could quite happily work with it. But, it doesn’t talk to Google Calendar. It does, however, import iCal, which kind of gives me a route into my calendar. However, NetSurf, of course, won’t work with Google Calendar to enable me to export my calendar in the first place. Catch-22, I think.

Does anyone know if it’s possible to access Google Calendars from RISC OS at all? If so, how? I’ll happily add a section to the New User wiki page if I can work out how to do this, as I think it’ll be useful for others.

Ta,

Sorry, I’m not Google-friendly ;-) and so I don’t know if it works. Any Problems I not have with the slow RISC OS firefox . Maybe it solves also your problem.
Set alignment exceptions off.

Wow, you’re really not joking when you say that Firefox is slow! It does run though, so maybe I’ll experiment with it later to see if I can get to my calendar file. Thanks for the information.

Wow, you’re really not joking when you say that Firefox is slow! It does run though, so maybe I’ll experiment with it later to see if I can get to my calendar file.

Some of these apps have a tendency to use numerous temporary files, which on a slow file system is a bit of a pain.

Have a poke around in the settings and see if you can point the temporary file area at a RAM filing system (something variable size like Memphis3 would probably be best)

Thats right. It is a little bit faster from the HD as from a Stick, SD. If you use the RAMDisk you must resave this and copy back before next start if you not lost your settings.
My hope/dream for 2013 (good point for the wish list) is a RISC OS port from the very fast and stable OMAP3-Pandora-Angstrom/Slackware-Firefox.

Memphis3? Where can I get that from now? The link from www.riscos.info is dead, and the only other link I can find points to v3.02, on MediaFire which you can’t download from using NetSurf. Any clues anyone?

mmm, having played with Firefox a while, I can’t export my calendar anyway, which makes this a bit of a moot point :) I’ll carry on playing with it to see if it’s an improvement over NetSurf. One thing strikes me as odd though – for some reason it keeps it’s cache in !Boot.Choices.Mozilla.blah rather than Scrap.ScrapDirs.ScrapDir.blah which is where I’d expect it.

http://web.archive.org/web/20090212125321/http://www.richardspencer.freeuk.com/memphis3/

Any downloads/exports are only possible if you use the [shift] + click option. Hold [shift] and click export / download. This forcing the download and prevents open the file (I hope this are the right words ;-)). I hope that helps.

Thats right. It is a little bit faster from the HD as from a Stick, SD. If you use the RAMDisk you must resave this and copy back before next start if you not lost your settings.

That was why I pointed at Memphis – because it also has that option to save the content of the variable size RAM filing system to disc before shutdown… :-)

It speeds up NetSurf too.

I know but I remember Memphis works not with all Programms…
To change firefox was easy, I mean. It use a temp directory and the place is easy to change.

Well that’s the first time I’ve seen Firefox running on my PandaBoard ES – cheers Raik!

Can’t work out how to point it to !Memphis though…

…and it dies horribly just as you get to your news feed on facebook :-(

Which is a shame as when I joined facebook in 2007 I was still in Iyonixtime and using firefox for it!

One thought that did occur to me though is that Firefox is using tinct and it is known to have issues with the latest hardware.

Netsurf also use tinct. Maybe a new version is aviable. I have installed tinct from the latest Netsurfbuild . I have no problems but I need firefox only to configure my router and for setting the vodafone-websession with my UMTS Stick… not often, mostly I use webconnect.

Cool, thanks all. I now have Memphis3 installed, and it’s making everything faster except Firefox :-/

The reason for this is that Firefox stores it’s cache in !Boot.Choices. as mentioned earlier. And nowhere in either the preferences, or about:config, or about:cache can I find out how to change this! So while Memphis has an easy option to set itself as the scrap directory, Firefox cheerfully ignores this anyway. The good news is that NetSurf is now a lot faster, so I’ll just persevere with that, and give up on the whole idea of using Google Calendar from RISC OS until I learn how to use the API myself.

Going back to the New User experience, this has so far, been sub-optimal… Use a browser which is end of life four years ago, try to find some obscure RAM disk program which is only available from an archive somewhere as none of the URLs that point to it are valid any more, then work with absolutely no documentation whatsoever to guess how to get it running. If it wasn’t for people patiently answering my stupid questions I’d have been stuck a long long time ago. So thanks all :) I’ll update the wiki page with what I’ve found so far, hopefully it’ll help someone else.

Ta,

Of course, that’s to say I would do if trying to edit the wiki in NetSurf didn’t end up crashing with an internal error, losing all the work, and locking the page.

I give up – again, the same error, the same work lost. I don’t know if it’s relevant, but every time I go into that page, I get a message saying “Welcome, Marko Oette…” :) It doesn’t matter if I log out, log in, close NetSurf, log back in again, every time I am greeted as Marko!

So, the wiki will remain unmodified for now, as I just can’t get the damn thing to work. Sorry. I may try later from another computer, but it seems a bit odd having to use a non RISC OS machine to edit a page that is designed to help people who want to use RISC OS.

I give up – again, the same error, the same work lost. I don’t know if it’s relevant, but every time I go into that page, I get a message saying “Welcome, Marko Oette…” :) It doesn’t matter if I log out, log in, close NetSurf, log back in again, every time I am greeted as Marko!

I saw that one yesterday, viewing from a PeeCee at work, and then again from a PeeCee laptop at home.
I wonder if the file has a lock. let’s see if opening and then saving unchanged alters the page header or bombs out…

Hmmm, I deleted one blank line in the edit window and re-saved just in case it decided no alterations meant don’t bother saving.

Anyway the Marko header item doesn’t seem to be there anymore…

mmm… I still get the same “internal error” when trying to save the page, and a footnote to say that “AnonymousCoward” has been editing the page for n minutes. I am no longer greeted as Marko though!

Question: (And sorry, I know this is dragging this thread totally off-topic now) Has anyone ever used NetSurf to edit wiki pages? If so, did you need to do anything particular to get it to work? I’m starting to think that we either need a warning at the top of that page not to use NetSurf, or instructions of how to do so.

(I did say that I was good at breaking things…)

Ta,

Question: (And sorry, I know this is dragging this thread totally off-topic now) Has anyone ever used NetSurf to edit wiki pages? If so, did you need to do anything particular to get it to work? I’m starting to think that we either need a warning at the top of that page not to use NetSurf, or instructions of how to do so.

I think it is to do with the spam protection that the wiki uses. It needs javascript for it to work. NetSurf doesn’t yet have the required level of javascript to be able to edit wiki pages.

The last firefox config I do is two years ago. I’m sure I move the Choices an other to the RamDisc. I can check my settings on the xM on monday. On the Pandore I don’t have firefox. Maybe I install this in the evening and try.
I mean I have changed a path inside !firefox (via SHIFT + doubleclick) but I’m not sure.

I think I have found how to make !Firefox use !Scrap – which means if you’ve got !Scrap in RAMdisc then it runs faster.

There’s a file called profiles/ini in !Boot.Choices.Mozilla.Firefox

If you look at it in a text editor you’ll see a line saying “IsRelative=1” and underneath it a path.

Change the line to “IsRelative=0”, save the profiles/ini file and reboot (not strictly necessary I know but worth doing).

Now when you run !Firefox if you keep an eye on the inside of your !Scrap directory on the RAMdisc you’ll start to see files starting with pipe appearing and nothing in the !Boot.Choices.Mozilla.Firefox folder (I deleted out the folder that Firefox created on first run in here just to check)

It is faster.

One final tweak is to copy the !Firefox application into your RAMdisc before you run it – just in case it is still accessing stuff inside it.

Typing this using !Firefox as described above.

As I read this, I remember. Sorry, I’m not the youngest ;-)
What I wrote… easy ;-)

Now when you run !Firefox if you keep an eye on the inside of your !Scrap directory on the RAMdisc you’ll start to see files starting with pipe appearing and nothing in the !Boot.Choices.Mozilla.Firefox folder

Thank you for the info’ & Raik for the pointer (I don’t think a search would have got me here without that ;-) )

Having tried the change to “IsRelative=0”, Firefox crashes before it even starts, displaying briefly some white text on a black background. So, I reverted to “IsRelative=1”, & placed FireFox into the Memphis ram disc. Trying to run Firefox from there resulted in a message window that a fatal occurred.

I have “Reporter” running & that expanded on the error (Unable to find template file) and must quit immediately))

I’ll try some more tests as clearly, although slow, Firefox enables a lot more progress which Netsurf doesn’t allow.