tkRolo: Addressbook app for the iPaq

tkrolo is an address book program. Although address book programs abound, this one was designed with certain features in mind: It is cross-platform, and will run on any system where tcl/Tk can be installed. This way, it may be used on iPaq handheld systems as well as desktop un*x, Windows, or Macintosh systems. The user interface has been optimized to work well on handheld devices. The data is stored in a tab-delimited, flat file so that it may be manipulated by many tools. It can easily be imported and exported between various other programs. The data can be shared with a mail application, for instance. The author shares the data between a Palm Pilot, iPaq running Familiar linux, a laptop running Debian linux, and a desktop system running Windows 2000.

Entries may be viewed by category, and sorted by name or company. A search facility is provided which searches all fields. The search function is case-sensitive, but since most searches will be for names (that start with a capital), a failed search will result in a second search. This will be performed after dropping the first letter of the search pattern. Hence, a search for capella will succeed if someone named Capella is in the database, but actually matches apella.

On un*x and Macintosh, requires a tcl/tk installation. A compiled binary is provided for Windows. The only other file required is a tab-delimited, flat text file for data. This will be created by the program, or another file may be specified on the command line during invocation. The default location is:

• tkrolo - just the app
• tkrolo - Windoze version
• the manual page
• tkrolo_1.0_all.ipk
• tkrolo_1.0_all.ipk.asc

More iPAQ stuff here

Enjoy!
...dave