ToDoList 5.8.7 - A simple but effective way to keep on top of your tasks

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• Latest Executable + Plugins (5.8.7) - 801 KB (Includes help file and sample stylesheets)    
• Application Source (5.8.7) - 1.62 MB (Includes all plugins - compiles under VC6/VS200x)
• Web Update Wizard - 122 KB (generously provided by PowerProgrammer)
• Calendar Plugin for ToDoList by d3m0n [^].  
• Gantt Viewer for ToDoList [^] 

Latest Update (5.8 Feature Release)

I've been handling a lot of personal problems since November 2008 so this version is not as chock-full of new features as previous versions. The two big items are task reminders and FTP support (via the File menu).

Other smaller features include:

• Task icons (Edit > Other Task Attributes > Set Task Icon) 
• Time component added to Start dates
• Restored preference to control refiltering when editing (mainly to fix a specific bug)
• Numbered bullets added to Rich Edit comments 
• Simple theming (4 sample themes included in the Resources folder)
• Separate preference for hiding Start time
• Added preference to control maximum width of columns 

Related Links

After finally compiling a FAQ of the most relevant questions asked about ToDoList I've moved all resources related to ToDoList to a new page on my website.

Introduction

You know how it is - you start work on one project and halfway through, you find one or two side-projects crop up that have to be solved before you can continue on the original project.

This is one such project with the added twist that it too started its life as a side-project. Here's what happened:

<Cue wavy screen effect>

I can only imagine that the planets must have been in (mis-)alignment or something, because at one point a few months ago, I was suddenly fielding emails on four or five separate articles I had previously submitted to CodeProject, some asking for features and others for bug fixes.

Foolishly or otherwise, I largely agreed with all the points raised, and subsequently found myself with fourteen or fifteen separate issues to resolve.

The situation was also made worse because I was trying to use CodeProject to keep track of all the things I had agreed to do, meaning that I had to continuously trawl the comments section of each article to remind myself of what I was supposed to be working on.

It even got to the stage where I was worrying that I'd fail to deliver on something - silly I know, but there you are!

Keeping a list on paper was a definite step in the right direction, but since I do all my coding on the same machine, it seemed somewhat inelegant, and anyway, we all know what happens to crucial bits of paper left lying around on desks and such.

The next step was to hunt around on the web for a tool to meet the following requirements:

• Simple interface
• Support for hierarchical data
• Numbered items/subitems
• Open file format
• Freeware

Simple, huh! not!

I will admit that I did not spend weeks searching, but I am still surprised at the general lack of software matching my needs.

On reflection, I think that the reason may be simple: people are so used to commercial software being 'feature-rich' that when they come to design software themselves, they (not unreasonably) think they too need to cram as much in as possible, often leading to software where a lot of essential functionality is hidden away in the menu bar.

So, surprise, surprise, I decided to write something myself.

However, it's fair to say that I did not originally intend to post it on CodeProject and am only really doing so because I had a heap of fun solving some very interesting problems and these are what I think make it worth it.

Using the Software

There's really very little I need to say here since every feature/function is explicitly visible in the interface.

Nevertheless, the following list of basic capabilities and omissions may go someway to answering any questions that arise:

• Files are stored in XML format with .xml file extension.
• Trying to load a non-tasklist file will generally fail (unless you read the code to see how to circumvent it).
• The number of items/subitems is limited only by memory (although performance may be the deciding factor before you exhaust memory).
• Marking a parent item as 'done' will also gray-out child items, but they are not disabled or automatically marked as 'done'.
• An ellipsis (...) indicates that an item has sub-items.
• All items can be expanded or collapsed (by double-clicking).
• Top-level items and sub-items are created using different toolbar buttons.
• There are task-specific context-menus.
• The previously open tasklists are re-opened on startup.
• The tasklist is automatically saved when closing the software or minimizing it to the system tray.
• The priority of a task is shown as a grayscale box to the left of the item.

Points of Interest

Here's where we come to the side-projects I was talking about, the first two of which I intend to work up into follow-up articles.

They are:

1. The 'ordered' tree control, which incorporates a non-client gutter for displaying the item numbers.

   The idea stemmed from research I did into alternative designs for a tree-list control, which did not solve it by creating a hybrid control incorporating a tree and a list.

   The hybrid control seems such an obvious solution that I suspect few people have stopped to question it, but it has still always struck me as looking far too much like hard work to be truly elegant ('square pegs' and 'round holes' spring to mind).

   One possible idea is to implement the 'list' portion entirely in the non-client area of the tree. I.e., shift the right hand client edge to the left and then render the list portion in the resulting non-client area.

   Whilst I've yet to get round to building a proof of concept, it was nevertheless this ongoing mental debate which prompted me to try to solve the requirement for numbered items and subitems by rendering the item/subitem numbers in the non-client area.

   Without going into too much detail (as this will subsequently be an article of its own), this is how I got it to work:

   • Handle TVM_INSERTITEM and TVM_DELETEITEM to know exactly when items are added and removed.
   • In these handlers recalculate the width of the gutter required to display the widest 'dotted' item/subitem number. (Note: this is not necessarily simply the deepest subitem.)
   • If the required gutter width changes, call SetWindowPos(NULL, 0, 0, 0, 0, SWP_FRAMECHANGED | SWP_NOMOVE | SWP_NOSIZE | SWP_NOZORDER) to force Windows to recalculate the non-client area of the control.
   • Handle WM_NCCALCSIZE when it does, and offset the left border by the required gutter width.
   • Handle WM_NCPAINT for painting the numbers.

   This is necessarily an over-simplification, but it captures the essence of the solution, and all that essentially remains is lots of fiddling about to ensure the non-client area gets redrawn at the the right times to stay synchronized with the client area.

2. Embedding .RC control definition data directly in a .cpp file to break the dependency on binary resources (a.k.a. 'Runtime Dialogs').

   This is an idea that has been floating about for quite some time and which has only recently gelled into a workable solution.

   The problem, put simply, is that if you want to take advantage of the resource editor in Visual Studio (and who doesn't), then you very quickly find yourself stuck with having to load dialog templates from resources compiled into the binary file.

   This further means that if you want to make use of a dialog across multiple projects, then either you need to copy and paste the dialog template between project .RC files, or you need to build the dialog into a DLL from which it can be accessed.

   'Runtime Dialogs' (a snappy title I coined myself) is a solution that neatly sidesteps both the nuisance of copying dialog resources between resource files and the extra work (and maintenance) involved in packaging dialogs in DLLs.

   And it works like this:

   • First, you design your dialog template in the resource editor, create a CDialog derived class using class wizard, and wire up all the controls just as you normally would.
   • Next, you #include "runtimedlg.h" and change all instances of CDialog to CRuntimeDlg.
   • Then, you cut and paste the control definition section from the appropriate section in the .RC file and embed it directly in the dialog's .cpp file as a static string (with a bit of tweaking to handle double quotes and such like).
   • Finally, in the constructor of your dialog, you simply call CRuntimeDlg::AddRCControls(...) passing the control definitions as a string.
   • And CRuntimeDlg takes care of the rest including, if required, auto-sizing the dialog to suit the control layout.

   I'm certainly not suggesting that this is a 'win-win' solution for all situations but it certainly has merits in its closer coupling of dialog template to dialog code which makes sharing dialogs across multiple projects a breeze.

   P.S.: In case it's not clear here, I used CRuntimeDlg to create CToDoCtrl which encapsulates the ordered tree together with the priority, date and comments controls as a single simple-to-instantiate control.

   I'm also proposing to use them in the .NET port of my ProjectZip add-in for VC6.

3. Embedding the XML file in a web page.

   This is possibly the most satisfying aspect of the whole project because it was completely unexpected.

   What I mean is that, until recently, my knowledge of DOM and XMLDOM was virtually non-existent, as it's only since I've become more interested in the presentation of AbstractSpoon that I've been forced to get to grips with the various implementations of DOM and XMLDOM out there.

   I'm pleased to say that the code on my site works under IE 6.0, Netscape 7.1, and Mozilla, although custom code was required to achieve this.

Generic MFC Classes that may prove Useful to You

The following table lists a wide range of utility classes written for this project. They can all be included in any MFC project provided you include any class dependencies too. Feel free to ask any questions relating to these specific classes and how to use them.

Class Name	Description	Class Dependencies (apart from MFC)
CAboutDlg	Customizable "About" dialog not requiring a dialog resource. Supports html encoded text	CRuntimeDlg, CRCCtrlParser
CAutoComboBox	Adds only unique items to the drop list and shuffles the list so that the last added item is at the top	CHoldRedraw
CAutoFlag	Encapsulates the setting and unsetting of a boolean variable thru the lifetime of the class instance
CBrowserDlg	Hosts an instance of Internat Explorer in a simple dialog	CRuntimeDlg
CCheckComboBox	Adds checkboxes to a combobox	CAutoComboBox, CSubclasser
CColorButton	Non-ownerdraw button that displays the selected colour on the button face and displays the colour dialog when clicked	CEnColorDialog
CColorComboBox	Owner-draw combobox for displaying and selecting user defined colours
CDateHelperer	Encapsulation of various rountines for calculating date spans and for formatting
CDeferWndMove	Encapsulation of the Win32 API
CDialogHelper	Re-implementation of the CDialog DDX/DDV rountines to avoid the MFC error messages when the user clears a number edit (for instance)
CDlgUnits	Encapsulates the MapDialogRect Win32 API
CDockManager	Class for managing the docking of one popup window to another.	*CSubclassWnd, CHoldRedraw, CAutoFlag
CDriveInfo	Encapsulates various rountines for querying about drives, files and disk space
CEnBitmap	Adds support to CBitmap for loading non-bmp files and resources.
CEnBitmapEx, CColorReplacer, CImageBlurrer, CImageColorizer, CImageContraster, CImageEmbosser, CImageFlipper, CImageGrayer, CImageLightener, CImageNegator, CImageResizer, CImageRotator, CImageSharpener, CImageShearer, CImageSysColorMapper, CImageTinter	Adds image manipulation functionality to CEnBitmap	CEnBitmap
CEnColorDialog	Adds saving and restoring of custom colours to CColorDialog
CEnCommandLineInfo	Adds functions for extracting and querying commandline switches
CEnEdit	Adds user-defined button capabilities to CEdit	CMaskEdit, CThemed, CDlgUnits
CEnHeaderCtrl	Adds some extended functionality to the standard header control
CEnListCtrl	Adds some extended functionality to the standard list control
CEnString	Adds functionality to make string formatting easier and to allow output to a device context
CEnToolBar	Adds support for using alternative resource or file images
CFileEdit	Adds buttons for browsing and displaying the file represented by the text in the edit control. Also shows the file's small icon.	CEnEdit, CFolderDialog, CMaskEdit, CDlgUnits, CThemed, CSysImageList
FileMisc	A namespace providing lots of file related functionality
CFileRegister	Helper class for generating the registry calls necessary to register a file type (eg. tdl)
CFolderDialog (c) Arman Hakobyan	Wrapper for ::SHBrowseForFolder
CGroupLine/CGroupLineManager	Hooks a static control and draws a horizontal line after the text	*CSubclassWnd
CHoldRedraw	Encapsulates WM_SETREDRAW
CHotKeyCtrlEx	Fixes a number of behavioural problems including the handling of certain keypresses
CHotTracker	Tracks the cursor movement over user-defined windows and posts event messages as necessary	*CSubclassWnd,
CInputListCtrl	Extended list control which provides cell by cell input functionality	CEnListCtrl
CLightBox/LightBoxMgr	Provides a Web 2.0 style overlay when a modal window is shown over the top of another	*CSubclassWnd
CLimitSingleInstance	Provides simple method to detect if another instance of an app is running
CMaskEdit	Adds simple character masking to CEdit
CMenuEx	Extends the CMenu class to provide support for drawing MDI buttons
CMenuIconMgr	Draws toolbar images alongside the associated menu item	*CSubclassWnd
CMonthComboBox	Fills a combobox with the locale-appropriate month strings
CMouseWheelMgr	Redirects mouse wheel rotations to the window beneath the cursor	CHookMgr
CNcGutter	Allows the UI of standard windows controls to be extended by supporting any number of columns to be added to the non-client area of the window. Favours tabular controls like lists, trees, etc	*CSubclassWnd, CHoldRedraw, CThemed, CDlgUnits
COrderedTreeCtrl	CTreeCtrl implementation of CNcGutter displaying a single column showing the hierarchical position of each tree item in '1.2.3.4' notation.	CHoldRedraw, CThemed
COSVersion	Wrapper around ::GetVersionEx
CPasswordDialog	Very simple password dialog not requiring a dialog resource	CRuntimeDlg, CRCCtrlParser
CProgressDlg	Simple dialog for displaying task progress not requiring a dialog resource	CRuntimeDlg
CPropertyPageHost	Simpler replacement for CPropertySheet allowing easier creation as a child window
CRCCtrlParser	Used by CRuntimeDlg for parsing dialog resource-like text
CRemoteFile/CRemoteFileDialog	Wrappers for browsing and downloading remote files	CInternetSession, CRuntimeDlg
CRuntimeDlg	Adds support to CDialog for building dialogs at runtime ie. dialogs do not require a dialog resource	CRCCtrlParser
CShortcutManager	Class for handling application keyboard shortcuts.	*CSubclassWnd, CWinClasses
CSpellCheckDlg	Spellcheck dialog not requiring a dialog resource, which interfaces with ISpellCheck (interface to Open Office dictionaries)	CRuntimeDlg, CRCCtrlParser, ISpellCheck
CSysImageList	Encapsulates the Windows system image list (file/folder images)
CTabbedComboBox	Extends a combobox to display its data with tabs correctly expanded
CTabCtrlEx	Adds post rendering callback for the tabs without using owner-draw
CThemed	Encapsulates themed (XP) and non-themed (the rest) drawing of windows controls
CTimeEdit	Adds a button for specifying time units and provided routines for converting time to and from different time units	CEnEdit, CMaskEdit, CThemed, CDlgUnits
CToolbarHelper	Adds support for dialog toolbar tooltips, multiline tooltips and dropbuttons with menus	*CSubclassWnd, CEnBitmap, CEnBitmapEx
CTrayIcon	Encapsulates the Shell_NotifyIcon Win32 API. Also provides balloon tips and animation	*CSubclassWnd
CTreeCtrlHelper	Adds functionality to the standard tree control
CUrlRichEditCtrl	Adds support for recognizing urls, clicking them and setting custom url callbacks
CWinClasses	Encapsulates the ::GetClassName Win32 functions
CWndPrompt/CWndPromptMgr	Draws prompt strings in edit/combo/listctrl/treectrl/etc when they don't have the focus	*CSubclassWnd
CXmlFile, CXmlItem	Non-Unicode class for reading and writing xml files
CXmlFileEx	Adds encryption capabilities to CXmlFile	CXmlFile, IEncryption

* CSubclassWnd was originally written by Paul DiLascia for MSJ magazine. The version I use has been heavily extended to suit my specific needs. The classes that depend on it here need this extended version.

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License.

Further Work

Whilst this tool was originally intended for my personal use only, it is now a 'community' project, so if you find it useful and want to make suggestions for enhancements or bug fixes, then post below.

History   

• 5.8.7 (04 July 2009)   
• Fixed version number
• Fixed crash when undoing the last created task in listview (again)
• Fixed time tracking turning off whenever the tasklist was saved
• 5.8.6 (02 July 2009)  
• Fixed RTF numbered lists so that they start with 1.
• Fixed FTP bug where .tdl files were not being displayed
• Fixed crash when undoing the last created task in listview
• Fixed crash when selecting a Find result for a tasklist that had been closed
• Fixed listview not updating when a task is split
• Fixed Start Date column not resizing when the time is modified
• Fixed problem manually typing Due Time when filtering on due tasks and auto-refiltering
• 5.8.5 (29 June 2009) 
• Fixed bug where auto-refiltering was incorrectly setting due dates on unselected tasks
• 5.8.4 (27 June 2009) 
• Reminders are ignored for completed tasks
• 5.8.3 (24 June 2009) 
• Various theming tweaks
• Fixed bug with negative costs
• Fixed bug when cycling backup files 
• Fixed bug exporting tasks with no priority to csv
• 5.8.2 (22 June 2009) 
• Various theming fixes
• 5.8.1 (21 June 2009)
• Fixed tab theming bug
• Renamed theme files
• 5.8 Feature Release (20 June 2009)
• Task reminders
• FTP support for remote tasklists (via File menu)
• Task icons (Edit > Other Task Attributes > Set Task Icon) 
• Time component added to Start dates
• Restored preference to control refiltering when editing (mainly to fix a specific bug)
• Numbered bullets added to Rich Edit comments 
• Simple theming (4 sample themes included in the Resources folder)
• Separate preference for hiding Start time
• Added preference to control maximum width of columns  
• 5.7.5 (04 Apr 2009)
• Fixed redraw bug when a non-active tasklist is automatically reloaded
• 5.7.4 (02 Apr 2009) 
• Fixed duplicate task bug when exporting
• Fixed version number
• 5.7.3 (28 Mar 2009) 
• Added support for negative costs
• Fixed crash when checking out a tasklist in list view   
• 5.7.2 (27 Feb 2009) 
• Fixed Comments getting lost after toggling format
• Quick Find now starts searching from currently selected item
• Fixed bug in handling of keyboard accelerators
• Due task notification window is now modeless
• 5.7.1 (24 Feb 2009) 
• Fixed resource leak
• Fixed erroneous due task tagging
• Fixed Quick Find
• Disabled shadow effect with dialogs for Remote Desktop
• Fixed undo bug
• Fixed cost display bug 
• 5.7 Feature Release (21 Feb 2009) 
• New ToDoList Icon
• Tree filtering restored
• Compressed rich text comments
• Outlook task importer
• Support for FreeMind 0.9.
• Start-date advances the same amount that due date does when a recurring task is completed.
• Quick Find
• Fixed GanttProject exporter 
• Fixed copying of tasks so that interdependencies get updated correctly.
• New filter bar options checkbox droplist
• Added 'version' field to filter bar and dialog
• New 'Startup' wizard for first time users   
• Negative costs are now allowed
• More distinctive time-tracking tray icon   
• Various menu tweaks, including moving 'Delete' menu into 'Edit' menu, renaming 'Send To' to 'Email Tasks', moving 'Spellcheck Active Tasklist' to 'Edit' menu, clarifying 'Import/Export Preferences'.
• Add logging capability to assist with bug fixing. Use the -l switch to enable logging.
• Fixed due date filter bug with recurring tasks 
• Fix for task-scrolling bug 
• Fix for task-move causing scroll reset 
• Fixed relative path bug when double-clicking file references in the task tree
• fixed creation date for new tasks
• fixed various keyboard shortcut conflicts 
• Fixed duplicate tasks being pasted
• 5.6.6 (25 Sep 2008)
• Fixed RTF2HTML conversion bug
• Fixed bug causing completed tasks to be marked as overdue
• Fixed bug causing comments changes to be lost when switching from tree to list view
• 5.6.5 (02 Sep 2008)
• Fixed rare crash when closing ToDoList before it has finished initializing itself
• Removed blank lines between tasks in csv export
• Fixed task ordering bug when pasting copied tasks as text
• Fixed todolist hanging when HTML exporting tasklists with images
• 5.6.4 (21 Aug 2008)
• Remove changes made in 5.6.3 - Other more significant changes need to be made before this will work correctly.
• 5.6.3 (17 Aug 2008)
• Filtering and Find Tasks now takes user attribute calculation preferences into account
• 5.6.2 (15 Aug 2008)
• Fixed bug exporting selected tasks from task tree
• Fixed list view auto-resort bug
• 5.6.1 (11 Aug 2008)
• Restored tree sorting
• 5.6 Feature Release (09 Aug 2008)
• List view added for filtering and sorting
• Improved performance when scrolling using the cursor keys
• Improved performance when editing comments containing images
• Items removed from the default droplist preferences are now also removed from the droplists in the main interface
• Preference added for users of 3rd part source control to aid in merging differences
• Time formatting changed so that 8 hours (or whatever you day length is) will appear as '1d' instead of '1d0h'. Likewise, 5 days will appear as '1w' not '1w0d'
• 5.5.7 (14 Jun 2008)
• Fixed crash when performing finds with '%'
• Fixed multibyte language cut/paste bug
• Prevent Windows beeping when cancelling a Find Tasks edit
• Fixed Find dialog clipping bug with Chinese input
• Hide/restore calendars when minimizing to the system tray
• Fixed occasional filter merge bug
• 5.5.6 (30 May 2008)
• Rolls back a change in 5.5.5 that prevents some encrypted tasklists being opened
• 5.5.5 (29 May 2008)
• Fixed bug where leading comments whitespace was being removed
• Fixed bug where the richedit comments scrollbar would appear disabled
• 5.5.4 (22 May 2008)
• Minor tweaks to source code to compile on VS2005
• 5.5.4 (19 May 2008)
• Fixed crash in 'File | Send To...'
• Fixed minor incompatibility with FolderView [^]
• Auto-complete rule edit when saving a search
• 5.5.3 (15 May 2008)
• Fixed crash when completing tasks with filtered out dependencies.
• Changes to default categories, etc are now reflected immediately in the filter bar
• Fixed broken comments spell-checking
• Fixed recurring tasks incorrectly acquiring a due task time
• Fixed various minor UI issues with auto-droplists (category, status, etc)
• 5.5.2 (09 May 2008)
• Find Tasks dialog displays completed task results using user preferences
• Fixed bug in text 'equals' rule in Find dialog
• Fixed About box for Asian users (and other minor font changes)
• 5.5.1 (02 May 2008)
• Fixed various font droplists issues
• Removed cancelled new task from undo history
• Fixed flicker when selecting task in calendar plugin
• 5.5 Feature Release (30 Apr 2008)
  • New Find Tasks dialog
  • Due Time field
  • Task colouring extends to attribute columns
  • Better control of what attributes get exported/printed/etc
  • Multiple task dependencies (delimited by your regional list delimiter)
  • Various minor UI 'improvements'
  • Undo/redo now concatenates edits of same type (within 5 second window)
  • Fixed multi-selected task display bug
  • Fixed filter bug
  • Fixed iCal exporter bugs
  • Fixed recurring task bug when completing via date or percent fields
• 1.1-5.4 (removed by .dan.g.)
• 1.0 (4 Nov 2003)
  • Initial release.

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Dont use ToDoList too much vojta.rylko 32mins ago  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9-kM-guQtk Are you using ToDo list for everything? I'm! Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Checking off completed tasks [modified] Notetaker 17hrs 12mins ago  Is there a way to make a completed task stay in its place after checking it off and have it sorted below the uncompleted tasks manually later, or to make the tastlist stay put while allowing the checked-off task to be sorted? I have a rather long tasklist, and every time I check off a completed task, the task pane is scrolled to the bottom of the list with the checked-off item, and I need to find my way back up to where I was. I tried unchecking the "Always sort completed tasks below other tasks" in the Preferences, but that didn't have any effect on the auto-scrolling. Please advise what else may be done to change this behavior. Thank you! modified on Friday, July 3, 2009 8:44 PM Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Printing: custom task attributes Notetaker 17hrs 33mins ago  For printing my tasklist, I selected the stylesheet "ToDoListTableStylesheet_v1.xsl", and these custom task attributes: Comments, Due Date, Priority, Start Date, Status, Time Estimate, and Time Spent. In the print preview, only 3 of the 7 selected columns (Comments, Due Date, and Priority) showed up; also, 3 unselected attributes (%, To, Category) showed up uninvited. Is there a way to use this particular stylesheet so that all of, and none but, your selected columns are printed? Thanks for your help. Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Feature request: highlighting selection fields for due date and due time? Notetaker 20hrs 19mins ago  It would be really helpful to have the "Due Date" and "Due Time" selection fields highlighted in some way--perhaps by putting a red frame around them?--to make them stand out and visually distinguished from the "Start Date" and "Start Time" fields, for I find that I often click the wrong date-selection field when entering tasks quickly. Many thanks! Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Help File Notetaker 20hrs 32mins ago  Is there a way to wrap text to window for the comments in the help file so you don't need to scroll horizontally in the comment fields to read them? Thanks. Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Re: Help File .dan.g. 12hrs 43mins ago  I'll look into it. .dan.g. AbstractSpoon Software abstractspoon2_at_optusnet_dot_com_dot_au Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink The "find tasks" doesn't work caterpilla 21:35 2 Jul '09   Thank you Dan. I am a newbie of todolist. When I use "find tasks" and give some rules to do search, the results are zero. I have try several rules to test,but the results are always zero. Why? My English is poor. Could you know what I mean? Thank you for reply. Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Re: The "find tasks" doesn't work .dan.g. 22:02 2 Jul '09   It's possible that I broke it in the recent release, I'll test it and get back to you. [update] I just downloaded the latest build and tested it and it worked okay for me. I had a simple tasklist with some tasks all called 'Task' and I set up a simple search 'Title or Comments includes task' and it correctly found all the tasks. Are you using the toolbar button to run the search? [/update] .dan.g. AbstractSpoon Software abstractspoon2_at_optusnet_dot_com_dot_au Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Re: The "find tasks" doesn't work caterpilla 22:07 2 Jul '09   Thank you. My os is winxp sp3 simplified Chinese. Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Time Spent Gunner 11:46 2 Jul '09   Hi Dan, There seems to be a problem with the time spent and the timer. The timer seem to be turning off at random and the "Time Spent" in the column display does not match the field section at the bottom of the window. Craig Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Re: Time Spent .dan.g. 15:31 2 Jul '09   Gunner wrote: "Time Spent" in the column display does not match the field section at the bottom of the window Can you send me a screenshot of this please. .dan.g. AbstractSpoon Software abstractspoon2_at_optusnet_dot_com_dot_au Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Re: Time Spent SimonCropper 21:32 2 Jul '09   Hi Dan, I am having the same problem as Craig. I click on the record time and once I minimize ToDoList the icon in the tray changes to the normal icon. That is, it appears that ToDoList stops tracking time. If get back into ToDoList I find that the timer in the timer column is gone but the Time Spent edit box is still greyed out. If I click on clock next to the greyed out editbox it updates the time but stays grey. If I click the clock again the dialog box becomes active again. Other peculiar behaviour. If I start the timer using the clock button next to the editbox, the edit box goes grey but the clock icon in the column does not appear. If I click the clock button again the editbox becomes active but the clock icon appears in the timing column in the highlighted task, and stays there until I click on the icon in the column. This happens regardless of whether I am using an established or new task list. Simon Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Re: Time Spent .dan.g. 22:19 2 Jul '09   I know what I've done. Before ToDoList saves a tasklist it ensures that all editing is complete by calling a function Flush(). Unwittingly I recently added a call to end time tracking in that function because I was trying to fix another bug where the time tracking was causing edits during the shutdown process. Instead I should have (and will) call EndTimeTracking() explicitly during the shutdown process. I should have it fixed over the weekend. .dan.g. AbstractSpoon Software abstractspoon2_at_optusnet_dot_com_dot_au Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Re: Time Spent drosen 12hrs 13mins ago  Thank you for fixing this, I was just about to report this bug and happily noticed the update. Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink TDL 5.8.6 Release error??? vovchik23 3:47 2 Jul '09   Dan, Is there version 5.8.5 under the upload link still? Look through About Dialogue, please. It's written there that this is version 5.8.5. But exe-file was modified on 2-nd of July. It's strange a bit. And the bug with undo on the List view tab is present too. Best regards. Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink 2.00/5 (1 vote) Re: TDL 5.8.6 Release error??? .dan.g. 15:30 2 Jul '09   It is 5.8.6 but I forgot to update the version number both in the About box and the file version. vovchik23 wrote: And the bug with undo on the List view tab is present too. I fixed it and then broke it again when I fixed another issue. I'm clearly not myself at the moment but I'll get it fixed as soon as I can. .dan.g. AbstractSpoon Software abstractspoon2_at_optusnet_dot_com_dot_au Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Due task notification vojta.rylko 2:36 2 Jul '09   Hi, when I start Todolist, and 'Due task notification' appear with tasks, it's litlebit boring to find in my large lists this notified tasks. I think that in "(ID: 1471) Order Goban" ID should be clicable - you just click and it focus you on that task. (sorry for english) Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Re: Due task notification .dan.g. 15:31 2 Jul '09   I agree that this would be a nice feature. .dan.g. AbstractSpoon Software abstractspoon2_at_optusnet_dot_com_dot_au Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Need small change in view of tasklist Void Z7 21:51 30 Jun '09   5.8.5 If disable (Tools>Preferences>TaskList Attributes>Show comments after a task`s title) and task comments filled then task title have symbol: [...] How can disable appearance of this symbol? Sorry for my English. Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink suggest an extra column for icons Alexxcode 23:36 30 Jun '09   I would like to suggest an extra column for icons which should indicate various task properties like comments, Categories, overdue, dependency etc. Icons are so much easier to gather compared to the large propertiesfield under the list and can provide information in a minimum of space. For Categories as for the taskicon left from the taskname the user should be able to choose freely among the icons. (Of course for same category always the same icon!) I have tons of icons. Any chance to integrate them into ToDoList (add them to the original ones)? Thank you Alex Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Re: suggest an extra column for icons .dan.g. 1:38 1 Jul '09   I have been considering moving the task icons to a separate column so that people can turn them off if they want. Alexxcode wrote: Any chance to integrate them into ToDoList The problem with this is that it doesn't work for shared tasklists. .dan.g. AbstractSpoon Software abstractspoon2_at_optusnet_dot_com_dot_au Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Re: suggest an extra column for icons [modified] Alexxcode 2:16 1 Jul '09   I like the taskicon at the moment very much for highlighting the task. I also think the reserved space for this taskicon makes perfect sense. The list looks nice and clean and such tasks with icons stand out. For indicating various taskproperties i would prefer an extra column which can show up to 4 or more icons. Maybe like this: Icon / Indicates: Notepad / Commentfield is not blank (don´t like the (...) too much). Earth / Weblink in Commentfield. paperclip / Filelink in Commentfield. exclamation mark / overdue task. Various icons / assignable to various categories. Various icons / assignable to certain strings in tasknames. Various icons / assignable to other task properties if certain definable criterias are reached. .dan.g. wrote: The problem with this is that it doesn't work for shared tasklists. Well, at the momemt i don´t share my list but isn´t it possible to define a folder where ToDoList looks for its .ico files and the .tdl file knows that link. (May sound naive, sorry.) Alex modified on Wednesday, July 1, 2009 11:47 AM Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Re: suggest an extra column for icons Juan Carlos San Roman 3:46 2 Jul '09   I think it would be an excellent idea "to have an extra column for icons". Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Re: Need small change in view of tasklist .dan.g. 1:36 1 Jul '09   What is your problem with this symbol? It simply indicates which tasks have comments. .dan.g. AbstractSpoon Software abstractspoon2_at_optusnet_dot_com_dot_au Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Re: Need small change in view of tasklist Void Z7 2:29 1 Jul '09   No problem with this symbol. I only wish that appearance this symbol in tasks have been optional. Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink

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