After knowing the geographic position (longitude and latitude) and the timezone (difference tothe GMT Standard Time) the program calculates the direction of the sun anddisplays a yellow circle (sun symbol) on the display.Installation:

Install the Qibla.prc on your Palm. Maybe you also need the OrbformsDesigner Runtime (OrbFormsRT.prc) and/or the Mathlib Library (MathLib.prc>) that areboth included in this package.

This application is freeware
This software was developed with OrbForms Designer,the greatest Palm development environment I have ever seen.

Qibla Compass itself is Freeware. I have developed it, because I am writing a (german) book on this development tool (OrbForms Designer) and did some 'training' ;-)

If you want to support our efforts to produce valuable freeware, please make a donation. Please refer to documentation in download file for details.

Please send suggestions on further enhancements or new development ideas to qibla@ive-software.com.

Feel free to distribute the Qibla Compass wherever you want, but please let me know the URL.

For putting it on CDs or DVDs please definitly ASK me.

Please see documentation in download file for more information.

How to use this app
This program is a compass for Palm handhelds that shows you the direction to Makkah.

Choose the city by taping the name in the upper right corner and selecting it from the dialog.
If you actually have a daylight saving time, check the checkbox.

Hold your Palm horizontal and rotate it until the sun symbol points to the direction of the sun.
Your compass is now aligned and the (blue) arrow points towards Makkah.

Important information
Because in the meantime many (many, many, many ;-) people have asked me what the meaning of thetime in the upper right corner of the Qibla Compass is, I would like to explain this in generalform and so understandable as I am capable of it:

The time which is valid in your time zone is actually valid only at a certain longitude. If you live in Germany -like I do - you have MET (GMT+ 1 h). With respect to the sun, however, this is only right when you live on the15th degree (longitude) east. If you live in Austin, Texas GMT - 6 h is only the correct time when you liveon the 90th degree west .

At 12:00 (noon) the sun stands exactly vertically on this exact longitude which belongs to your time zone.If you, like me, live in Munich (Bavaria) which is on the 11th degree east, the sun stands vertically only a little later. It must overcome 4 longitude degrees (from 15 to 11) , which lasts a 4/15 hour (= 16 minutes - the sun makes 360 degrees per day therefore 15 degrees per hour).

So in the Qibla Compass the upper right time is, the REAL for YOUR place. If it is 12:00 there, the sun stands vertically above you.

I hope the explanation is so far plausible. Since my mother tongue isn't English, I liked to ask all who can explain it ina more clear way to send me the explanation and I will forward/post it.

The Qibla Compass is freeware, so I unfortunately cannot do intensive support. Hope you understand that.

Yours sincerely from Bavaria
Ingo Boehme