[pilot-db-list] editing records

[Thomas M. <pil...@s2...>]

Hello,

I have been using pilot-db since version 0.3.1 to store magazine 
arcticles, notes about pilot software etc. After an initial 
disappointment because of missing filtering and floating point 
fields, I found that it is actually quite good (I still miss these 
though).

When version 0.3.2 came out I immediately installed it and was 
pleased to find the new note field.

Unfortunately there was one "improvement" that I don't like at all: 
The new modify button you have to press before you can edit an 
existing record. It is a nuissance. Wouldn't it be possible to have 
a function instead that asks me when I exit, whether I want to lose 
the changes?

But the reason why I am actually writing this post is that I lost 
data several times because I accidentally switched to another 
program while still entering data into a record. Most other palm 
pilot programs store the current edits and when I come back I find 
exactly the same state as I left. Would it be possible to implement 
this feature?

And one last thing: I have used HandBase for a while and had a 
database containing the train schedules for two stations (Bonn and 
Koblenz) as taken from www.bahn.de. It was very convenient to have 
this since I could just filter on the destination I wanted to 
travel to (on two fields, the destination and the via field) and 
then search for the time I wanted to go. If you ever come around 
implementing filtering I will probably adapt the Perl script I used 
to create the schedules and make it publicly available.

MfG :-)
Thomas