| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 76.1 | HIGH: Postpone deletes other items | LARVAE::THAYER::Susi | Fear of the nat | Wed Oct 28 1992 10:35 | 11 |
| It's very nice but...
Postponing items mysteriously causes a random number of items
for today's date to be completely deleted. I noticed it when
I postponed 2 items using the button bar - it postponed them
but also deleted all items scheduled for today. I've tested
it using the Item|Delete option on single items and it still
does it.
Didn't want to do anything today anyway,
S
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| 76.2 | | SAC::EDMUNDS | Frog, earwig, earwig | Wed Oct 28 1992 12:51 | 6 |
| Oooh, thanks Susi (that explains what happened when you first used this
version, right?).
I'll look at it asap.
K.
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| 76.3 | LOW: startup | LARVAE::THAYER_S | A deer and a bat | Wed Oct 28 1992 14:11 | 5 |
| Putting the new TDL in the startup group stops Dr Watson from starting.
I accept (and even suspect!) that this may be me, but it didn't happen
with the old TDL.
S
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| 76.4 | HIGH: Deleted item re-appears! | LARVAE::THAYER_S | A deer and a bat | Wed Oct 28 1992 14:15 | 8 |
| I deleted an item from TDL earlier today. (It was one I meant to
delete, rather than one that got deleted when I postponed another).
This deleted item has just re-appeared on my list. Will monitor.
Good thing I wanted to do that item again...!
S
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| 76.5 | General protection fault | LARVAE::THAYER_S | A deer and a bat | Wed Oct 28 1992 14:58 | 12 |
| I was reading README.WRI just now (to see if it mentioned anything
about DRWATSON.EXE). I left my desk with the file still displayed in
write, when I came back I found:
Application Error
TDL caused a General Protection Fault in
Module SYSTEM.DRV at 0001:0239
All dead, had to reboot.
Not happy, ma ow, S
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| 76.6 | | SAC::EDMUNDS | Who's a furry mouse curser, then? | Thu Nov 12 1992 17:43 | 84 |
| New version available, not exhaustively tested yet but being so as I
type. Mark, mail me if you want it (LB and ST have it).
A summary of the new version - what's in it, and what isn't.
In
~~
- Address/phonebook functionality
- The ability to associate an address/phonebook entry with a todo item.
Clicking on the 'phone icon on the item line displays the entry
- If display is items "up to today", this is automatically updated when
the day changes
- Postpone items longer than a week and insert items to be done later
than a week's time now displays a calendar to select the date from
- The Windows notepad can be fired up from a button. If an item is
selected, the note is associated with that item. Clicking on the
notepad icon on the item line displays the note
- The spelling of "scheduled" is corrected in the history window (a
tricky bug, that one)
- The percentage of the available database used is displayed in the top
right corner (as mentioned elsewhere, this database size restriction
disappears in Visual Basic V2: when I have it, you will)
- There is a status line at the bottom of the screen. At the moment it
tells you what each button on the button bar does. Suggestions for
further uses wlecomed
- Colours can now be customized (to a degree: is a greater degree
needed?)
- There is now a "customize" button (with a cute Snoopy icon)
- Some menu changes
- Overdue items now have date displayed in a different colour
- Each priority of items can be displayed in a different colour
- Printer errors don't crash TDL
- Save as... doesn't crash TDL if drive isn't ready
- Bug that caused databases to be saved with superfluous information
fixed (this caused the infamous "null alarms" problem)
- All user-defined options now saved in a TDL.INI file in the WINDOWS
directory (note: existing options need to be re-defined, but I figured
this was not a major problem)
Outstanding - high priority
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-Implement File|Open (partially done - well, completely done, but is
doesn't work)
- Re-instate alarms
- Option to keep notes attached to items when those items are deleted
Outstanding - not high priority
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Cope with window resizing
- When preferences change, only update those that have changed
(currently all are re-saved)
- Implement "statistics" button
- Improve icons (ideas welcomed)
- Provide option to chose what application is used to make notes
(currently Notepad, would like to include Word for Windows, ideas for
others/feedback?)
- Provide an "install" program
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| 76.7 | Feedback | SAC::EDMUNDS | Who's a furry mouse curser, then? | Thu Nov 12 1992 17:43 | 25 |
| There are a few areas where I *need* feeback (it's welcomed in all
areas, but there are some I specifically would like it). These are as
follows (feedback by mail/notes/pigeon is OK):
- What would the reaction be if I made Excel (and specifically Excel
Q+E, part of standard Excel) a pre-requisite for TDL? This is the most
important part of feedback as it determines whether or not I use an
Excel database in future versions. NOTE: I intend to maintain backward
compatibility from now on...and the path to hell is paved with good
intentions...)
- Address/phonebook usability - I don't think it's ideal, but how can
it improve?
- The calendar display for "insert item" and "postpone" is slow to
appear. Is this a problem?
- Is more colour customisation needed?
- Icons on button bar ain't good - eg, "edit" is crap. I don't need you
to design the icon, but tell me a) which ones are bad and b) what do
you envisage as the better solution?
- Notes with items - do you need other applications other than Notepad
(eg, Word?)
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| 76.8 | | SAC::EDMUNDS | Who's a furry mouse curser, then? | Fri Nov 13 1992 10:20 | 20 |
| YANV (yet another new version). X.113. Minor bug fixes only:
o Editing an item could leave the original version on the screen as
well as the new version (although only the new one was written to
disk). Fixed.
o If the phonebook was iconised, and then the phone button pressed,
nothing happened. Now the phonebook is de-iconised.
o When using the phonebook search and "no (more) entries found" is
returned, the search string is now selected (meaning you can type
in a new search string without having to manually delete the old
one)
o In a few places in the code, today's date was interpreted as
"up until now" rather than "anytime today". I don't know of
anywhere where this bug was visible to the user, but it's fixed
anyway.
Keith
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| 76.9 | | SAC::EDMUNDS | Who's a furry mouse curser, then? | Mon Nov 16 1992 09:17 | 27 |
| Good news and bad news. The good news is that X.114 is ready, and has
the features listed below. The bad news is that I left it at home, so
it won't be available until tomorrow!
o Window resizing supported
o Dimensions of main window saved between sessions
o File|Open implemented
o Internal check on reading datafile improved
o "Show tomorrows items" now on "Dates" menu
o Some button bar icon improvements
o Option to keep notes attached to items when deleting items
o Application used for notes is customisable (Notepad, Word for
Windows or Write)
o Display Closed items fixed (no, I didn't realize it was broken
either)
o "Show items entered today" fixed (ditto)
o Closed items weren't always removed from screen - fixed
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| 76.10 | | PLAYER::BROWNL | Really? Well there's a thing... | Tue Dec 15 1992 09:32 | 7 |
| Keith,
As far as Excel is concerned, I'd advise against it, or at least
suggest a parallel path of development/separate product. Tying the
thing to Excel will limit your target audience somewhat.
Laurie.
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| 76.11 | | SAC::KAEPC::Keith | Lapping | Tue Dec 15 1992 10:16 | 4 |
| I think I've dropped that idea for now...but thanks for the reply. That was the
conclusion I came to too.
K.
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