Patch Calendar Notification Repeat

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Introduction

The following assumes that you have experience applying modifications.

This modification will cause the Calendar reminder notifications to be repeated every 2 minutes until they are either dismissed or snoozed.

Editing Process

Edit

/usr/palm/applications/com.palm.app.calendar/app/controllers/app-assistant.js

Find

handleLaunch: function

Within this function find

else if (launchParams.alarmclose){
	this.closeReminder(launchParams.alarmclose);
}

Add the following immediatley after the above code

else if (launchParams.playalarmsound){
	this.playAlarmSound();
}

Find the following funcition

closeReminder: function

After this function add the following function

playAlarmSound: function() {
	if (this.openReminderAlert) {
		this.openReminderAlert.playAlarmSound();
		this.openReminderAlert = null;
	}
},

Edit

/usr/palm/applications/com.palm.app.calendar/app/controllers/reminder-assistant.js

Find

cleanup: function

Add the following line to the end of this function

//remove the Notification repeat task
this.removePlayAlarmSoundTask();

Find

updateMostRecentReminder: function

Add the follwoing lines to the end of this function

//setup the notification repeat task
this.schedulePlayAlarmSoundTask();

Find

autoCloseAlert: Function

Add the following function after it

playAlarmSound: function() {
	//temporarily set the snooze to 0 will immediately re-trigger allert to get our attention.
	this.dismissed = false;
	this.DEFAULT_SNOOZE = 0;
	this.closeAlert();
},

Find

removeAutoCloseTask: function

Add the following two functions after it

schedulePlayAlarmSoundTask: function() {
	//retrigger reminder every two minutes until we acknowledge it.
	//change the value in addMinutes to a value other than 2 if you prefer a different time span for the notification repeat.
	//ultimatly it would be best to add this to the preferences page.
	var playSoundTime = new Date().addMinutes(2);
	this.controller.serviceRequest('palm://com.palm.taskScheduler', {
		method: 'updateTask',
		parameters: {uri: 'palm://com.palm.applicationManager/open',
		arguments: {'id': 'com.palm.app.calendar',
				'params': {'playalarmsound': 'true'}},
		key: 'calendar-playalarmsound',
		start: {date: playSoundTime.toUTCString()}}
		});
},
	
removePlayAlarmSoundTask: function() {
	this.controller.serviceRequest('palm://com.palm.taskScheduler', {
		method: 'removeTask',
		parameters: {key: 'calendar-playalarmsound'}
		});
},