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 SunComp.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.

Sun 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 ;-)

Feel free to distribute it 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:
- 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.

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

Yours sincerely from Bavaria
Ingo Boehme

Update Description:
Version 1.7:

• The user interface is multi lingual. For now it supports english and german. If you would like to see this application in your own language, please contact us with an email to cre@ive-software.com.
• Installation on expansion cards. Only Mathlib.prc has to be in RAM.
• Especially for photographer: If you want to know about the lighting conditions for another time, just set the sun compass clock temporarly to another time and you know the position of the sun for every hour a day everywhere on earth
• The information screen that appeared in former versions may now be suppressed by registering the software online (its free!). You get your personal code immediately after registering via email.