We have a fresh new build (RC2) of Journal Bar for Symbian UIQ3 OS!

Journal Bar for Symbian UIQ3 Release Candidate 2 can be downloaded here. Let us know what you think.

We are happy to announce that beta testing for Journal Bar Symbian has finally started. We had to postpone the initial deadline because of dramatic design changes in the code that were necessary to provide first class architecture of the design and robust and small footprint code. Please accept our apologies for the delay. We at Wizcode hope you won’t be disappointed by our decision.
Beta testing of Journal Bar Symbian will commence in several stages. First we would like to start testing of our current code for Symbian UIQ 2. After we gather the initial feedback and stabilize the code completely we will release the UIQ 3 version. If everything goes as planned this should happen in about a week.

You are encouraged to download the current alpha version of Journal Bar Symbian for UIQ 2 here.

Please note that this is a release for UIQ 2 devices only. It won’t run in UIQ 3 or S60 devices. We will provide separate builds for other Symbian versions shortly.

Below is a description of the current state of this build and a list of the currently known issues:

Working modules:

1)  Weather
2)  Stocks
3)  News -> old Look & feel (to be changed for the next version)
4)  Auto-update for Weather and Stocks (disabled for the New module= in this version)

Work in progress:

1)  News – change the design
2)  Links
3)  General look & feel – redesign of the top screen to place a progress bar (80% done)

Known bugs:

1)  Wrong GMT offset for some cities (research in progress)
2)  Slow load time
3)  When cradle connection is missing - uses the GPRS connection (if set to not ask for network activity) without any warnings

Do not hesitate to send all negative feedback and comments.

Thank you for helping us test this product!

Yours,
Symbian development team @ Wizcode

The alpha version of Journal Bar Symbian for UIQ 3 here.

Please note that this is a release for UIQ 3 devices only. It won’t run in UIQ 2 or S60 devices. Information on the alpha version for UIQ 2 devices can be found in this thread.

Below is the list of currently known issues:

- Radar feature in Weather view is not implemented yet.
- Infrared feature in Weather view is not implemented yet.
- Progress Dialog while updating data from the server is not implemented
yet.
- USA city list is currently disabled. The old version with Zip Code is
left instead.
- At the moment there is no way to show HTML content into JBar30 view so
the Web browser is opened instead.
- General Settings dialog need to be redone in UIQ3 dialog style.
- Weather settings dialogs (Settings and Locations) need to be redone in
UIQ3 dialog style.
- Link view - icons for the special links need to be added.
- Some special links don’t work.

Do not hesitate to send all negative feedback and comments.

Thank you for helping us test this product!

Yours,
Symbian development team @ Wizcode

Please note that this is a release for UIQ 3 devices only. It won’t run in UIQ 2 or S60 devices.

Any feedback on this beta release is highly appreciated. Thanks!

Changes from the previous (alpha) versions include:

* Weather module: US cities entry of form “city, state” format
* Weather module: List of common US cities
* Common: Clear cache bug fixed