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• aSundial is the state-of-the-art analog clock on your handheld.
• Supports standard (160x160) and Hi-Res (320x320) displays.
• Supports 4-bit(16) gray levels and 16-bit(65536) color displays.
• Shows the current time and date in big font and big analog clock.
• Tightly work with aClock to show you the selected world time, world city name and country name.
• Handy calendar.
• Shows week of year on calendar.
• Shows day of year and week of year.
• Enables you to customize the display colors.
• Enables you to always turn on the screen when aSundial is running.
• Support Palm 5-way navigator.
• Supports the memory expansion (SD) card. You can store the aSundial main program on the expansion card for saving the main memory.
• aSundial is a plug-in tool of aClock. You can directly invoke this application from aClock.
• Last but not least, color is also supported by aSundial.

• OS v3.5.x (Palm Vx, m10X)
• OS v4.x (Palm m500, m505, m515)
• OS v5.x or later
• Supports standard (160x160) and Hi-Res (320x320) displays
• Supports 4-bit gray levels and 16-bit color displays.

aSundial

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aClock is our product. It built-in 1110 world cities and 203 countries. It can show 12 cities date/time at a time. aClock also provides the "page" function to enable you to set up to 23 favorite cities in two pages. DST is supported and all settings, including the city name, GMT and DST, are customizable. BTW, aClock provides an unique function to allow you to chang the date/time at different time zone and without affect the Palm's system time. To get the free trial version or more information regarding aClock, please visit http://www.a0soft.com.

aSundial is a plug-in tool of aClock. Before using aSundial, you have to install aClock into your Palm. To get the information about aClock, please visit http://www.a0soft.com. Once you have installed aClock, you can then invoke aSundial from the aClock main window as shown below. You can tap the return icon or the Return to aClock menu item for returning back to aClock.

If aSundial main program is stored on the memory expansion card (SD card), aClock will import this program into the main memory if you invoke aSundial from aClock. This copied main program won't be deleted from the main memory until it returns back to aClock.

aSundial provides you three modes to show the analog clock. You can tap these buttons that locate on the top-right corner of aSundial main window for switching modes.

[1] mode

This mode shows the home city time and date in both big analog clock and big font. aSundial gets the home city information from aClock. So, if you want to change the home city, please return to aClock to do that.

You can tap the time area to change the time format between 12-hour and 24-hour. By default, aSundial gets your favorite time format from the system preference settings.

To tap the date area, aSundial cycles the information of "current date", "current day of year" and "current week of year".

To tap the city name area, aSundial cycles the information of "city name" and "country name".

[3] mode

This mode not only shows the home city time but also shows two world cities time. The two world cities information are got from aClock's top two world cities. So, if you want to change the display world cities, please return to aClock to do that.

As [1] mode, you can tap the date, time and city name area to change the display format.

[C] mode

In this mode, an additional calendar shows on the main window for you to browse.

As [1] mode, you can tap the date, time and city name area to change the display format.

aSundial also supports "week starts Monday" setting. aSundial gets this information from the system preference settings.

aSundial also enables you to show the week number on the calendar if you turn on the option of "show week for calendar" from the Preferences form.

• In [C] mode,
  • [Left]: to show the previous month.
  • [Right]: to show the next month.
• In all modes,
  • hold [Select]: to close aSundial and then return to the Application Launcher.

aSundial provides various options for you to customize the default behavior of this program.

If you are upgrading aSundial, please note that you should also upgrade aClock to 4.0 or later.

1. Start the Palm Install Tool application in your Palm directory or folder.
2. Choose the correct User Name.
3. Choose the proper aSundial main program (aSundialxxx.prc) file that accompanies the downloaded ZIP file.
4. HotSync.

aSundial is ready to go. Tap on the Applications button on your PalmPilot and then tap on the icon to invoke aClock. Then, you can invoke aSundial by tapping the tool icon of aClock.

For some Palm types, you may also need to use the "Soft Reset" function to reset your Palm after HotSync has completed to make sure the installed program works.

aSundial.prc: aSundial main program file. The background and clock face of this file is 16 gray levels. It supports the Palm that screen size is 160x160 and it has 16 gray levels. If your Palm's screen size is 160x160 and it's not color enabled (e.g. Vx, m10x, m500, Zire), please install this file.
aSundial-16bit.prc: aSundial main program file. The background and clock face of this file is 65536 colors. It supports the Palm that screen size is 160x160 and it has 65536 or above colors. If your Palm's screen size is 160x160 and it's color enabled (e.g. m505, m515, m130), please install this file.
aSundial-16bit-320.prc: aSundial main program file. The background and clock face of this file is 65536 colors. It supports the Palm that screen size is 320x320 and it has 65536 or above colors. If your Palm's screen size is 320x320 and it's color enabled (e.g. Tungsten T/W/C, Zire 71, PEG-NX60/70V), please install this file.

The following table shows the details.

device main program	Vx, m10x, m500, Zire Screen size: 160x160 Display: Monochrome	m505, m515, m130 Screen size: 160x160 Display: 65536 colors	Tungsten T/W/C, Zire 71 Screen size: 320x320 Display: 65536 colors
aSundial.prc	Yes (best)	Yes	Yes
aSundial-16bit.prc	no	Yes (best)	Yes
aSundial-16bit-320.prc	no	no	Yes (best)

aSundial is a plug-in tool of aClock. To use it, you have first to install aClock. To get the information regarding aClock, please visit http://www.a0soft.com.

How to install aSundial on the memory expansion card

If your device has a memory expansion card (Palm, Sony, Handspring), you can install the aSundial main program there for saving the main memory. Once you have installed aSundial into the main memory, you can then use a file management tool like FileZ (http://www.nosleep.net) to move the aSundialxxx.prc file from the main memory into /PALM/Programs/A0Soft directory.

If you find that you no longer need aSundial (or are trying to conserve memory), removing it from your Palm is quite simple. From the Applications launcher :

1. Tap the Menu icon
2. Go to the App menu and choose Delete
3. Select the aSundial and tap 'Delete...'
4. At this point you will be asked to confirm your request
5. To do so, tap 'Yes'. To return to the application launcher tap 'Done' and confirm that the aClock application no longer appears.

• 2.2 - released on Aug. 22, 2005 Download
  • enabled Treo 600/650 users to use the 5-way keys to navigate the menu.
  • supported PalmOne 5-way keys (Tungsten/Zire/Treo).
  • remembered all settings of screen [1], [3], and [C].
• 2.1 - released on Dec. 15, 2004
  • support variaous week numbering rules. E.g. starts on Jan 1, first Thursday, and first full week.
  • up to date city/country database.
• 2.0 - released on Dec. 1, 2003
  • support if week starts Monday.
  • show week on calendar.
  • up to date city/country database.
  • support OS v3.2 or later.
  • fixed show incorrect week number error.
• 1.2 - released on Oct. 1, 2003
  • enhanced background bitmap.
• 1.1 - released on Aug. 1, 2003
  • support Palm Tungsten 5-way navigator.
• 1.0 - released on July 1, 2003
  • new release.