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Thx, I'll give it my consideration.
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Todolist is a very good piece of software. Codeproject is also a good site with much info & discussions. There is a concern that many types of websites, such as Codeproject, are being put on "the back burner" or going extinct due to the internet being taken over by government intrusion, corporate monopolies, and catering to many bimbo like surfers that don't care what corporate America does with the internet as long as it is all made into bimbo like interests (e.g. reruns of the Jerry Springer show while great programs are being gobbled up in pay for it interests and intelligent sites going by the way side). As always must make this comment (this comment is like that book 1984 or movie Clockwork Orange but in reverse from users to the powers that be!). Login, although intrusive, was ok in that only an email address required. But "the secret web" is becoming all too apparent as information and other items is becoming scant, which much of the blame must be due to New Millennium Act which, like drugs and other maladies used by organizations to snoop into peoples lives (on a dictatorship level!), is being used to squash and silence the common person while ignoring the possibility that the people in these organizations will be held accountable some day (by the people upstairs!). Also organizations seem to be making many things a "pay for everything type world" which is great if you are one of the lucky ones but what about the majority of people that are lowly saps hanging on the fickle finger of fate? Maybe I should have put this under rants, but this same sentiment should be echoed by as many as possible, unless of course they are stupid: welcome to the human race!
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Our team at work has been using this tool for some years, it's very useful. I have a question concerning the codification of "custom comments" fields in the xml file.
I've successfully DEcoded custom comment fields in the xml file, now I've problems with the codification.
I know that the used codification is (after a base 64 encode) a zlib compression, could you please explain the exactly compression process?
Thanks in advance.
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Hi 12005151
All I've done is write a thin wrapper around Zlib so the best thing I can do is refer you to the relevant source code:
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.\RTFContentControl.cpp : ConvertToHtml()<br />
.\3rdParty\Compression.cpp : Compress()<br />
.\3rdParty\Zlib\Compress.c : compress()<br />
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Here's my use case.
When you receive dozens of mails a day sometimes happens to slip over something, till someone calls you or sends you a reminder asking 'what about that request of a week ago?'.
So while i create the task today, indeed to correctly prioritize the tasks on the arrival order, the "Creation Date" should be that of the first request.
Right now there is no way to alter it.
If you consider "dangerous" to allow editing the "Creation Date", an alternative could be to allow to set it at task creation time, instead of always taking the current time stamp.
Thanks,
Gabriele
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Hi Gabriele
You can achieve this entirely with a user-defined-tool:
1. Tools > Preferences > User Defined Tools
2. Click New Tool (give it a name)
3. Path: ToDoList.exe (no need to browse)
4. Arguments: -nt "$(usertext, var_text1, "Task Name", "")" -md $(userdate, var_date1, "Creation Date", 0)
5. Click Test Tool (to verify)
6. Click OK
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Thank you so much, it works!
Used Defined Tools, you opened me a whole new world...
Gabriele
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I'm glad!
I've been thinking of including some pre-defined tools as a better way of 'visibilising' this feature.
If you have any suggestions, or tools of your own that you develop, please let me know.
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This is pure gold. I need to learn about UDTs now!!
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A) I logged into the Google Group earlier and posted about this bug, but my post seems to have vanished. Is that group moderated, or is there some other reason a post from someone who hasn't posted in that group before would have been delayed or rejected?
B) The bug itself:
Note...I went to all the trouble to write the below up and then found a very strange option checked by default: "Keep a task's time estimate synchronized with its start and due dates (and vice versa)." I would highly recommend setting this option off by default. For most usage scenarios I can imagine, due date and time estimate have no relationship to one another of this sort. The fact that a task would take 1 day (time estimate) does not mean it needs to be completed in one day (due date). (Moreover, this automatic relationship doesn't seem to respect the "One Day equals (x) hours" setting, but uses a straight 24-hour day...or maybe 25, based on my testing.) I would say this is simply going to be confusing to most users, because it is treating something labeled "due date" as "estimated completion date," which is not the same thing; it disallows entering actual expected amount of working time on a task; and it makes the side-by-side "time estimate" and "time spent" fields refer to completely different things (the former to how long the task will be open; the latter to how much time was actually booked on the task).
Anyway, glad I found the option, so I no longer believe this is a bug, but I would strongly recommend this option be turned off by default in new installations.
Version: latest according to in-application updater this morning (1/18/2017).
OS: Windows 10 Pro.
Problem description: Time Estimate and Due Date fields cannot be modified independently of each other.
Steps to reproduce:
1) Start a freshly downloaded copy of TDL, accepting all default settings and choosing to show the sample task list.
2) Choose any task, and put any value in the Time Estimate field.
Expected behavior: Time Estimate has a new value, and nothing else changes.
Actual behavior: Time Estimate has a new value, and Due Date becomes checked and set to a value which appears to be the result of adding the Time Estimate value to the Start Date. This happens regardless of whether a value was in the Due Date field already; it overwrites any existing value in that field.
3) Choose any task, and put any value in the Due Date field.
Expected behavior: Due Date has a new value, and nothing else changes.
Actual behavior: Due Date has a new value, and Time Estimate is set to a value which appears to be the result of subtracting Start Date from Due Date This happens regardless of whether a value was in the Time Estimate field already; it overwrites any existing value in that field.
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Yes it is moderated, and I accepted and answered your post earlier today[^].
Just for completeness here's what I said:
.dan.g. wrote: This is the consequence of a preference whose behaviour has been modified: Tasks > Attribute Calculations > Keep a task's time estimates synchronised with its start and due dates (and vice versa).
Turn this off to get your expected behaviour.
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Downloaded and started user testing Version 7.1, Windows 10, Lenovo Z70. Things when along great until I hit Undo then all the tasks disappeared, Same when exiting and reopening Adjusting preferences. Discovered tasks not gone but the filter settings had changed or did something so the filter did not show tasks.
Once all filters were reset to the top selection in the drop down list they reappeared. I think the Due by Date filter was the culprit. Somehow default to due by end of the month when closing and opening or making other setting adjustment. I had not got to the point of assigning any due dates but was just making an initial task list and organizing sub-tasks. Could be default filter settings left from install process?
Probably just a feature to give Newbies excitement.
Wiki Info does not describe the purpose or function of "Path" column in list view as a task attribute item, although it is probably related to sub tasks. Might be somewhere else in the Wiki.
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Apologies, that definitely sounds weird 
At the risk of giving you more work to do:
1. Where did you unzip to?
2. Can you reproduce this by performing the same install to a 'sibling' folder?
3. Where does the 'About ToDoList' dialog say that the preferences are stored?
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Dear Dan,
Great work in 7.1, absolutely loving it.
Shift+Insert KB shortcut is not working while context menu (Paste > No formatting) does work.
Warm Regards,
Manoj
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Hi Manoj
I can't seem to reproduce this at present.
Can you confirm that the focus is on the comments field when you use the shortcut?
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Hi Dan,
Yes focus is on comments field. Text is pasted in comment, but is formatted.
I tried deleting my todolist.ini file also but that doesn't help.
Warm Regards,
Manoj
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Can you right-click on ToDoList.exe in Windows Explorer and tell me what version of 7.1 you have (Properties > Details)?
And also what Windows version you are running?
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I'm having the same problem. I have version 7.1.0.5 of ToDoList and am running Windows 7 Enterprise SP1.
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Where is the content that you are pasting coming from?
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.dan.g. wrote: Where is the content that you are pasting coming from?
From Outlook, Office, Firefox, and Chrome.
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This is crazy, I still can't reproduce it!
Any chance you can you could record me a brief video using Resources\Tasklists\Introduction.tdl?
ps. What version of Office are you using?
modified 19-Jan-17 19:58pm.
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I've never recorded a video from my computer. Any recommendations on programs I can use to do so?
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Maybe easier to use TDL's (Windows') built-in functionality: Help > Record Bug Report.
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