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From: BEIKS support
strVerify: -BEIKS
Date: 14 Jan 2006
The program was not *DESIGNED* to shut at the end of 2005.
The program was designed to work on Palm OS 3.0 with 2MB of RAM and 4 MHz processor. This *did* affect its ability to continue past certain date.
For several years it had a number of free upgrades, just like most of the BEIKS applications. Now, after a few years, which is a LOT in the mobile business (can you compare today's 400 MHz / 4GB Palm with the 4 MHz / 2 MB Palm from only five years ago?), it did need to be updated accodingly, but as explained earlier we can not afford to do that for free, not for a $15 application, not in a business which requires at least several thousand dollars a year in new hardware alone.
Yes, the design was poor, though: it should have allowed users to pick the start and end date of the period the program would be handling painlessly. We are sorry and we do apologize for that. People who had originally creatde and implemented that design are long ago gone from BEIKS.
Now, to finally answer your question, there is no hard coded date limit in the program anymore. However, there is still one hard-coded limit that we do not feel quite comfortable with, and this is the "time frame" in which the program operates. Right now, Woman Calendar for handhelds will only let you see data for four years prior to the current calendar year and one year ahead. Come 2007, you'll see from 2003 to 2008, in 2008 you'll see from 2004 to 2009 etc.
We want to eliminate this boundary as well and we will likely do so in the next release.
Whether we will create a dedicatd release for this purpose alone we can not say at this time. Chances are we may not.