_Update: iCalFix 0.6 released_
After a long delay, iCalFix 0.5 is ready, and it’s a Universal Binary!
So what else is new?
No more SIMBL.
iCalFix is now an InputManager all of its own, saving you the hassle of having to get another package. That means you should uninstall your previous version of iCalFix.There’s a preference pane.
No more editing of obscure plist files in strange directories - just go to preferences, and set your preferences for the default alarm. Yes, there’s no icon yet. On the other hand, you don’t want to see /my/ drawing skills, and a professional icon designer is out of the question for now. (You could always donate….)Last Alarm settings no longer retained.
iCalFix will now always use the preferences as specified in the preferences pane.The announcement list is finally in place
Send mail to icalfix-announce-subscribe with the subject line ’subscribe’, and you’ll get informed whenever there are major developments and new versions of iCalFix.
Now that I’ve finally got a decently-powered Mac (Go MacBook!), there’ll definitely be lots more to come. Feedback, feature requests and comments are welcome at rob.blum@gmail.com.
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Related:
The Making of iCalFix - a look behind the scenes
Making a better iCal - the original release.
Tags: iCalFix, iCal, productivity, OSX, plugin
Great app.
This fixes the most annoying missing feature in iCal. In fact, I am utterly amazed that Apple has not put this feature in.
But thanks for writing this app. It’s wonderful.
Thanks! For those of you who can’t remember, to install the older versions remove it from ~/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins
I don’t seem to have an input manager folder… The shortcut doesn’t work and spotlight finds no such folder… Am i missing it?
Ah. My bad. Apple doesn’t create that folder by default, so you need to do it by hand - installer is scheduled for 0.6.
Simply go to /Library (or the Library folder in your home directory) and create a folder called InputManagers in there. That’s all you need to do.
The integrated birthday calender which displays all birthdays from the address book comes without any reminder. Do you think you could add these as well with iCalFix ?
The birthday calendar thing is definitely on the feature list. I’m making no promises when it hits, but it is fairly high on said list.
I followed the instructions to a tee, and I still have no ical fix preference pane in my ical preferences.
Nevermind . . . apparently I didn’t follow the instructions to a tee. I just dragged the ical fix bundle and not the entire file to my inputmanagers folder. Oopsie!
One note: your readme says “/Libraries” when it is “/Library”
And is the folder InputManger or InputManagers ?
Again, your readme says “InputManager” but your comment above says “InputManagers”
Otherwise, this seems like an essential piece of software.
Hi Andy!
Thanks, and duly noted. Will be fixed in next version. And it’s
I love your plugin! It really makes my life easier. But when I install it and open any application, a dialog box pops out:
“It seems like you accidentally copied iCalFix into SIMBL support folder. Please remove it and re-install. iCalFix will still continue to run, but this might cause problems in future versions”
I have no idea what SIMBL support folder means. I did install iCalfix in the right place (/Library/InputManagers).
Can you help me to remove this annoying dialog box?
Hey can you do the same for tasks tooo or is that too much.. or when i at least drag a task too the calendar and it turns it to an appointment..it creates the alarm
Using the kgtd system.. i usually drag from tasks from the task list to the calendar… to make me commit to doing it.. and I forgot to say.. THANKS!!!
I was hoping it would provide the same functionality as the regular iCal alarm, in that it could do a variety of things, such as run an external script. I’d like to be able to call Growl for example.
But this will fit the bill for now! Thanks!
There will be more alarm functionality, and there will be Growl support built in.
I haven’t figured out if I still can afford doing that for free, though…
pH3lixM@N:
I had the same problem. For me, the dialog went away when I put the folder in ~/Library/InputManagers
Note the difference - this is in my home directory in /Users
I just downloaded Icalfix to give it a try. The installation instructions say to put the icalfix folder in inputmanagers folder. However it does not say what to do with the Inputmanager folder that comes along with the download.
The InputManager folder was meant as a shortcut, but that didn’t really work out. (Its not installed by default under OSX). So you’re safe to ignore it.
I’m having the same issue with the error popup:
“It seems like you accidentally copied iCalFix into SIMBL support folder. Please remove it and re-install. iCalFix will still continue to run, but this might cause problems in future versions”
I’ve even tried teno’s suggestion of moving the iCalFix folder to the ~/Library/InputManagers folder, but it doesn’t help at all. I get the same error dialog box regardless of where iCalFix is installed.
Please help!
It seems to be a problem with the load order of input managers. It’ll be fixed in the next version of iCalFix. In the meantime, this usually gets resolved by prepending a space to the iCalFix folder name - i.e. ” iCalFix” instead of “iCalFix”.
Administrator:
Adding a space before the folder name “iCalFix” DOES fix the issue. But, I really want to know why this trick works.
It’s a load order issue. If there’s a SIMBL installation that’s named differently, it’s loaded before iCalFix and causes it to choke. (My bad there, will be fixed next release). Renaming iCalFix moves it ahead in the load order.
This is great.
It works when I setup a meeting, Is it possible to have the same default when I accept a meeting?
Nice fix! I like the preferences option as well. Now if only iCal would let me decide the REMIND ME IN times. 2 hours, 1 day are just not working for me… What if I usually want to be reminded in 6 hours or 12 hours?
I´ve create the folder
USER/Library/InputManagers/ and drag the icalfix.bundle, but i don´t see any change in my ical.
What´s wrong?
Thanks
Fantasic!
Would it be possible to add Alarm functionality to “Todo” item. This is a sorely lacking feature in iCal.
Any chance of tweaking iCalFix to allow the ‘email’ action so I can use the Growl hack (http://subtlegradient.com/articles/2006/07/21/growl-notifications-for-ical-how-to)?
There are 2 features I’d like added both mentioned before:
1) the default alarm to apply to To Do’s as well as Events 2) the ability to set the alarm as an emailto as opposed to an iCal popup
Then I think it would be just about perfect!
So, I have tried several locations and nothing works… I appareantly am creating the InputManagers folder in the wrong place. I have been trying to put it in the Library folder under My Home folder - no go, it doesn’t load into iCal.
I am fairly certain that I am adding the proper folder to the InputManagers folder, as there is really only one folder that I can move - once I open the .dmg.
Does anyone have any advice on how to get this to work properly?
-Al-
How about this feature:
Adding an Alarm to Events in the Birthday Calendar.
I had to create the /Library/InputManagers folder, but after I did that, and dragged the iCalFix folder from the DMG to there, it worked like a charm. It would be nice to have an icon for the iCalFix button in the iCal preferences dialog.
Hard to believe that Apple didn’t include this feature. Thank you for making it!
Great! Thanks! But like many others, I would much prefer the email alarm to the message alarm. Is this in the works by chance?
I want to know if alarms can be disabled on published ical. When other colleagues are subscribed they are seeing my alarms. Can I set this so only alarms are seen by me - they aren’t published?
Never mind. Problem solved.
David
Robert I have a little problem… I read the instructions and it said i have to put icalfix into inputmanager folder but i can find it, I look in library as you said in the instructions but nothing. Did I have to create it or install something else? Help me….CD
After updating to 10.4.9 icalfix complains that ical is an incorrect version…
I was directed here by a juicy tip on the mac rumors forums. I have created the inputmanagers folder in my ibrary, and dragged the bundle over. From there, nothing works. I am not seeing any installation instructions on this site, and have gotten this far only by reading the above replies. Am I missing something??
Veronica.
Hey.. did you create it in your USERS folder, as its supposed to go there..
(as in your Library folder in your user area!)
Great little fix - thanks, Robert! Would it be possible to allow iCalFix prefs to see (and allow choice of) user-added sounds for alarms - I tend to use bespoke sounds for alarms to ensure I hear and respond! Thanks …
Huw: Hm. That’s strange - iCalFix should collect all the sounds you have
in your sound library. Where do you store your alarms?
Would it be possible for icalfix to auto-alarm calenders that were imported, rather then created manually?
My goal here is to have alarms automatically added to baseball schedules from icalshare.com. Thanks!
Just to add to the party. I’d also love if your plugin could activate an applescript as well as growl. In fact, using iCal isn’t worth it for me unless this is possible, and automatic. So thanks a ton for your continued development!
Oh, and though KGTD would say to drag the todo into the calendar as an event, I’d really like reminders in my todos as well.
I can’t believe Apple didn’t build this in to start with. Thankfully there are people like you who know what the heck you’re doing.
This is a wonderful fix for a specific problem. I know I’m not the only one to ask but it would be great if you could also add flexibility to the options for snooze, including the abiity to set the snooze interval manually. This is something Apple should have added to begin with. Thank you!
I seem to be running into a common problem. I have tried installing the bundle in both /Library/InputManagers as well as /Library/InputMangers (which I had to create) with no result from either. Can anyone help me out.
Thanks
OK. It pays to reaad the directions carefully!! Be sure that you copy the iCalFix directory into InputMangers, not just the bundle!
Cheers
Thank you so much. How often i create an appointment and forget the fxxxxx alarm Thanks from Dortmund, Germany
Thanks alot for this fix. I just blew a meeting and couldn’t believe there’s no way to set a preference for Ical and the alarm. I have used a ton of calendars and they all were able to default to using an alarm. Glaring oversight, but now I am much safer from my spotty memory.
I’ve been loving iCal Fix since I got it a few months back. Unfortunately, it says it’s not compatible with the updated iCal (2.0.5) that came with the 10.4.9 update. My guess is that it will probably work, but you were just being careful, so that you have a chance to test it before giving your blessing. Please, oh, please, DO test it. I’ll go crazy having to set my calendar alarms by hand after becoming accustomed to iCal Fix doing it automagically.
Please, Please make it work with 2.0.5
Love iCalFix. A feature request, how about: auto-adding alarms for subscribed calendar events? I subscribe to calendars published from gmail calendars which don’t have any alarms. The events are “read only” and I can’t add alarms at all. More (related) wants: — per-subscribed-calendar auto-add alarms. (e.g. 10 minutes before for Office Meeting calendar, 90 minutes before for Other-Side-Of-Town Club calendar.) –option for two alarms to be auto-added to all events (Or to only the events per specific calendar, although even simply” all subscribed-calendar events” would help). Why two alarms? One alarm to help prepare for an announced event (e.g. 6 hours before), the second to make sure your remember to attend it (e.g. 10 minutes before)
Thanks for iCalFix … and more encouragement for a 10.4.9 iCalFix fix!
Thanks for spending the time providing this. Can’t quite believe that Apple left it out. You will probably be getting loads of requests from people like me who have upgraded to OSX 10.4.9. Is there any chance of a fix?
Thanks again