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[Windows Mobile Software Development] Quark987:
Due date edited -> reminder date reset

Hi,

I have another request: When the due (or start) date are changed, the reminder date should be changed accordingly. Eg: It makes little sence to have the reminder go off tomorrow for a task that is pushed from tomorrow to the day after tomorrow (if you catch my drift :)).

/Lars
[Windows Mobile Software Development] ecmaba64:
that's a nice idea. There is a due date, but no due time. Therefore, the app will need to make an arbitrary decision over the default time that the reminder will be scheduled for.

Does 09:30 sound OK? :)
[Windows Mobile Software Development] Tatsch:
Hi, great tool!. Is it so difficult to integrate some language files?
[Windows Mobile Software Development] ecmaba64:
As I mentioned on the first post, multilanguage might never happen.

Adding language files is not difficult, it is just tedious, boring and very very time consuming.Furthermore, at this stage it would be impractical, since I still keep making major changes between releases.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] SharpSA:
Good app, nice work! :)

Is it possible to display due date the begin of row and setting row height?
[Windows Mobile Software Development] Tatsch:
It's not necessary that you are the one who worka on languages. If there were variables and language files, everyone could edit a file for the own language and share it.

And your tool would become more popular.

If you would have to care for just only one language file (english), this won't be a problem IMHO. ;)
[Windows Mobile Software Development] tombbb:
just installed it on my diamond (vga), it worked ^_^
[Windows Mobile Software Development] ecmaba64:
Haven't tried it on a VGA device myself! Does everything look OK on all screens? Are you using Manila 2.5 or 2.1? thanks in advance :D
[Windows Mobile Software Development] kravguy:
Bug

Running latest version on TD2

Edited an existing task

Select category and create a new one

Go back into the same task and select a different category

2 things happened:

First, the task was duplicated.

Second, on exit, an unexpected error has occurred:

ObjectDisposedException at

Microsoft.AGL.Common.MISC.HandleAr(PAL_ERROR ar) at

System.Windows.Forms.Control.Dispose(Boolean disposing) at

System.ComponentModel.Component.Dispose() at

MichyPrima.ManilaDotNetSDK.ManilaNewTextBox.Dispose(Boolean disposing) at

System.ComponentModel.Component.Finalize()

Running LEO I Rom with sense 2.5 and windows 6.5
[Windows Mobile Software Development] kravguy:
FR

Ok, first off, I really like the interface. I came from an app called Nested Tasks which allowed creating tasks as children of other tasks. For example, I had a task Christmas Shopping and then under that, I had each person's as a task. This allowed me to not have the shopping task completed until each person was completed under it. I was wondering... anyway possible to implement such a thing?

Second, need the ability to copy existing tasks and definately delete them (since the built in windows tasks interface allows delete, I don't see why having that ability would pose any problem)

Again, I think you're on the right track. Maybe one day we'll have an easy way to plug in things like this as extra tabs in manila. Until then, I've assigned the app to my left softkey and it works good.

Oh, one more quick request. Show the due date in the list.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] kravguy:
Date format

Any reason why the date format when editing shows as DD/MM/YYYY instead of my settings of MM/DD/YYYY?
[Windows Mobile Software Development] ecmaba64:
yep, it is hardcoded to EU-format for the type being. I will correct this at some point
[Windows Mobile Software Development] ecmaba64:
thanks will look into that. sadly the problem lies on issues with the automatic keyboard pop-up. A quick fix would be to disable auto-pop up, but I would like to find a more permanent solution. I hope that I will have found a solution by the time 0.6 is out.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] ecmaba64:
I am only going to say this for the time being: ;)

these two issues have been discussed before. you will find the answer earlier in the thread.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] Quark987:
Actually 08:00 is the standard MS has normally used :)

/Lars
[Windows Mobile Software Development] ecmaba64:
really? :) 08:00 it is then!

btw, you may have noticed that so far I had a pretty immediate release cycle. I am considering switching to a dual-release approach, with a stable and unstable (but newer) version being available.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] ecmaba64:
on second thoughts 08:00 might be toooo early for some people. perhaps I could add an options in the settings. however, the sdk I am using does not have a finger-friendly scrolling button control... perhaps I should bite the bullet and make my own...
[Windows Mobile Software Development] Nighthawk:
Yes, very much.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] ecmaba64:
okie then ;)
[Windows Mobile Software Development] HansZimmer:
Nice tool !!

just two things:

First please add "Group by priority", more important hings on the top.

Second : It use more than 10 Mbyte Ram on my device !!!! why ? It is funny, my task manager tells me that it use more ram than my open Opera AND my HTC photo album together !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hans
[Windows Mobile Software Development] bL1X:
That would be awesome! Can't believe we can't select our own date format preference.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] ecmaba64:
I was planning to do group by priority, but for some reason I forgot it from the list :)

pTasks is written using compact framework. unfortunately this means that there will be a large overhead. once all functionality has been included I will do my best to optimise memory usage, but the reductions will not be dramatic.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] jmparis:
sync issues by taks created with pTask

I've tried the 0.5f release and created some test tasks.

1. I've created one 'test' task; but two was indeed created :confused:

2. Then, suddenly, the sync with my PCs (7, x64) went bad. Nearly completly stuck.

Solution (after searching for 2 days):

1. I've uninstalled pTask, but nothing.

2. I've deleted all tasks created thru pTask, then sync come back to normal situation, immediatly :rolleyes:

Maybe, the format is not 100% complient with Outlook 2007 ?
[Windows Mobile Software Development] Tatsch:
Maybe try this one:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=591794

There will be a version 1.2 soon, maybe today with multilang support.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] ecmaba64:
I know of the problem with the dual tasks. I currently don't know what is causing it, but I am trying to get in the bottom of this :).

this is weird. pTask is just an interface to outlook task management, and directly deals with outlook tasks. perhaps something else was causing it? could you tell me exactly what parameters you put on the tasks?
[Windows Mobile Software Development] ecmaba64:
choice is a great thing :) since the aim is to provide a decent interface to tasks, something that does not seem to be a priority for HTC nor microsoft, with more people trying, the biggest the chance is that someone is going to come up with something great :D

what is funny is that no-one seemed to care until very recently!
[Windows Mobile Software Development] Tatsch:
Of course, recently there are some new guys who want to care about tasks:

Remember, once upon a time there was/is OtO, the One Touch Organizer - see attachments (dev. stopped). :)

edit: And don't forget SpoonDo ;)

But I would be fine with somebody like you, who provides a small good app (multilang ;);)).
[Windows Mobile Software Development] ecmaba64:
this does look nice, I have actually never encountered it before. :) I'll see whether I can incorporate a few concepts. With regards to multilang, it looks like a lot of you are asking for it. Therefore I may eventually add it, but I WILL need the assistance of the community.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] mistm:
you may use my spreadsheet on google for your application as well: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AorLlWSPFpisdE9yTjJyUUxpVU96SGxaLU8zM181eFE&hl=cs
[Windows Mobile Software Development] ecmaba64:
hey, it's nice to see you here :) I liked your approach in collecting input for the translation... I was intending to ask your permission to use the same approach :D unfortunately it looks like I will need to do it mostly from scratch (when the time comes) as the words used are quite different!

(guys, this means that I decided to include multilang. in version 1.0 though ;) )
[Windows Mobile Software Development] [★]:
Hey Im a bit of a noob here so bear with me, I have my HD2 in the house, but am not aloud to use it till xmas :D so until then Im asking questions on things Ive seen in pics/videos.

Do you know the windows mobile display, when your out of htc sense, like in the file explorer (this picture top left) is this program changing the apperance of that? or something completely different, infact in writing this I can assume that its definately not related :D but oh well.. I guess im using this thread to ask the question, is there a way to change the appearance of the thing im talking about to something more attractive???
[Windows Mobile Software Development] mistm:
You could add new rows and ask people to fill them. I dont have time for developing because of school stuff :-/
[Windows Mobile Software Development] tombbb:
good to see you guys work on task app which htc didnt do.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] Tatsch:
Fine. :):)

Sorry, I don't know how to programming, but I would go a different way and repeat my suggestion:

Target for you is to develop a multilang tool without too much work for you.

If you collect translations through such a spreadsheet, you will have following disadvantages:

- You will have work again to integrate new languages.

- At further development you will have to wait until translation is done

- You have the responibility for the translations.

Different way to do:

1. In your program you deal with variables of the needed expressions

2. The variables will be replaced with expressions in a language file (.txt). Care about charsets.

3. You only have to care about ONE language, the english language file, which is the example for others.

If it's done, the people in the community can create additional language files, which can be chosen in program options. They can put it in their program folder and upload it here.

Advantages:

- You don't have the work with the translations.

- At further development you just have to update the english language file, that's it.

- Responsibility of translation is given to community

The mentioned OTO uses a similar way.

Example: Here is a better example to understand. Download and install the demo of GeKoNewCal. It's not written for tasks, but for new appointments - but look at the files in the program folder. You will find language text files in subfolder, very easy to edit for everyone.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] ecmaba64:
perhaps.. perhaps... perhaps...

I am not sure how I am going to do it yet, but I am not going to do until I can do it right.

Anyway, the "task list" designer is now pretty much ready, and I am in the process of adding options for everything. as preferences can be saved to an xml file, people could share these files as themes. :)
[Windows Mobile Software Development] ecmaba64:
new version is out :) enjoy!
[Windows Mobile Software Development] trondkk:
Great App this!

Really useful when using tasks as much as I do.

Installed v0.6 and it worked fine.

I then made some changes to the settings. The last change was to not show start dates.

Now I only get an error when starting the app saying there has ben an unexpected error in ToDoItems.exe (NullReferenceException). When aknowledging this error it is immediately followed by another error in ToDoItems.exe (ObjectDisposedException).

The app does not open anymore :-(

Have tried to soft reset device and to uninstall/reinstall app without any luck.

I hope there is a solution to this!!
[Windows Mobile Software Development] ecmaba64:
To all: Does anybody else have this problem?

To trondkk:

It does sound like a corrupt settings file. Reinstallling the app rarely resolves anything, as settings.xml may remain in the folder. If you go to Program Files\pTasks and delete it file, there is a very high chance that the problem will be resolved.

BUT, before you do that, I would appreciate your assistance in determining exact cause of this error. (i cannot reproduce it in my own machine) I have sent you an pm with some instructions :)
[Windows Mobile Software Development] ecmaba64:
Minor update is out :)

v 0.601 includes a small utility that allows you to reset your settings file, just in case you have problems.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] ecmaba64:
thanks to the assistance of trondkk, the aforementioned bug has now been resolved. v 0.602 is out :)
[Windows Mobile Software Development] NetRipper:
Hi pangel83,

I'm loving the app so far. It's an awesome replacement for the non-touch friendly tasks app of windows mobile itself.

I'm thinking of writing a little app that synchronizes windows mobile tasks with todoist.com. I'd be using categories for projects defined in todoist.

Because of this I'd like to request two additional features:

- Could you make it so that you can select a category via the menu, and that you then only see tasks that have the same category?

- When selected, and you "quick add" a task, could you make it so that this task automatically has this category assigned to it?

Let me know what you think.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] ecmaba64:
A filter would indeed be a nice addition. I could also filter by due dates as well.

In what language are you going to develop your sync thingy? (c#/vb? :D) we could work in making pTasks work nicely with it. (sync now option etc).
[Windows Mobile Software Development] NetRipper:
I'll be making it in c#. My intention is to have a pretty generic interface so that other sites like RememberTheMilk could also be supported if someone implements the interface for it. Integration would be nice of course :)

I'll let you know when I got something. :)
[Windows Mobile Software Development] ecmaba64:
cool. I see that todoist has nested categories. this could be translated to an outlook category string of "Category1>Sub category1".

people have requested nested tasks before, so perhaps pTasks could have functionality to properly handle such category types.

On the next versions I am going to add task sub-items, so that pTasks could function as a shopping list manager. These will not be fully-fledged tasks, but would rather be specially formatted lines saved in task bodies.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] Tatsch:
BTW: Another new (commercial!) fingerfriendly task application to compare with:

http://www.ipsmobile.com/Task-1001-Increase-Your-Productivity.html
[Windows Mobile Software Development] ecmaba64:
£6 ??????????????
[Windows Mobile Software Development] Tatsch:
Yes, I mentioned "commercial!" in my post. But interesting to watch the video and to compare with ;).
[Windows Mobile Software Development] ecmaba64:
...personally... I prefer mine :) (surprise surprise).
[Windows Mobile Software Development] Tatsch:
Of Course :). But look around and see what happens in the world ;).

BTW: GekoTask will be released end of this week.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] phs_htc:
Great app!

Thx for your work!

Small: scrolling is slow, also priority off. Looking forward to enhancements!
[Windows Mobile Software Development] ecmaba64:
hello :) how many tasks do you have? what device?

I keep making optimisations, but I am pretty much reaching the limits of MichyPrima's SDK that I am using.... To extract more speed I am afraid that I am going to need an alternative list control....
[Windows Mobile Software Development] ecmaba64:
New version out :)
[Windows Mobile Software Development] ecmaba64:
Ok, so I decided to take the plunge and work on translations, but I will need help from the users. I will announce what the plan is going to be quite soon! :)
[Windows Mobile Software Development] Tatsch:
Can you see us? ;)
[Windows Mobile Software Development] ecmaba64:
The best part is that it will not slow down pTasks developement at all :)

It sort-off works already. I have added some code that can scan when pTasks is run for any text (GUI only) that is going to be presented to the user. It then looks on a textfile called, let's say, translation.Greek.txt for a translated version. If it finds something, the english text is replaced. if the text is not found, a new entry is added to another file, called translation.Greek.Pending.txt.

It is envisaged that keen volunteers will look at the "pending" text, and add a translated version to the main text file.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] Flar:
Moved post from Leo dev forum to WinMo software dev forum by request of OP
[Windows Mobile Software Development] ecmaba64:
Many thanks to the Mod :)

Anyway, christmas special :) Multilanguage is here. BUT I need your help! (Instructions on how to contribute can be found in the first post!)
[Windows Mobile Software Development] barbapappa_86:
Swe lang added. :)
[Windows Mobile Software Development] Tatsch:
@pangel83: Thank you :)

This is a general problem for all applications, not to be solved by an author of a standalone app ;).

--------------------------------------------

German translation done :)
[Windows Mobile Software Development] ecmaba64:
many thanks guys, I will wait just in case someone translates something else and will include them in 0.651 tomorrow :)
[Windows Mobile Software Development] geralt974:
Thanks for this application.

French translation added.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] Tatsch:
Hi, tried v0.650 on Topaz Touch Diamond 2 - Original HTC ROM WM 6.5 Sense 2.1

Translatoin doesn't work. I can choose a language (German, Italian) and it's checked. After restart of the application all words remain in english.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] ecmaba64:
hmmm... that's strange. Can you try with the new version that I just released? :D
[Windows Mobile Software Development] Tatsch:
No change with 0.651. I can choose every language, checkbox is checked. After restart all remains in english, options remember my language setting an show the chosen language.

Besides there is no way to choose a time with fingers. Maybe an issue with Sense 2.1?

--------------------------------

German translation updated.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] ecmaba64:
have you tried to reset the settings?

Does anybody else have this problem? It works fine with me :(
[Windows Mobile Software Development] ecmaba64:
yep Sense 2.1 lacks the fancy window thingy.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] Maroon:
Filter on Categories

Firstly, thanks for a great Task-application!

I know this has been mentioned before, but mentioning it again will hopefully put this request on your todo-list? ;-)

For me personally I really miss the possibility to filter on Category. It would be nice if pTasks remember last category used when it starts.

Marry Xmas to you all!
[Windows Mobile Software Development] Tatsch:
Yes, reset the settings. Resetting worked fine. But afterwards the same issue. No translation are displayed although the language seems to be set correctly. :(
[Windows Mobile Software Development] ecmaba64:
hmmm... can you zip the contents of the entire pTasks folder and attach them to a post please? (don't worry no information on the actual tasks is stored there)
[Windows Mobile Software Development] ecmaba64:
what kind of rom are you using btw? is it a non-english one?
[Windows Mobile Software Development] Tatsch:
Done.

Yes, I use a german ROM (Original HTC).

BTW: Maybe use radio buttons instead of checkboxes for switching languages. At this time it is possible to uncheck all languages.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] ecmaba64:
hhmmmmmm... is it correct that you are missing a languages folder? language files should be in there in this version (you can unzip the attachment in the pTasks folder.) that should fix it!
[Windows Mobile Software Development] stegg:
italian language: done :)
[Windows Mobile Software Development] ecmaba64:
thanks! you can use the updater to get it in your device :)
[Windows Mobile Software Development] Tatsch:
Thx. :) Now it works. I had to edit the translation again, after reading in context.

Issues:

- "Appearance" as header is not translated

- "Are you sure you want to save changes?" is too long (in english). Replace with "Save Changes"?

- Bug: Editing an existing task duplicates the entry.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] Tatsch:
More:

- "Remove importance colours" is missing in translation sheet

- "Colours" is missing there, too.

- "No Category" in main screen is not translated

- "Due" in main screen (for every task) is not translated)

BTW: Updater works fine ;).
[Windows Mobile Software Development] ecmaba64:
I am quite proud of the concept:) Is it perhaps the first fully integrated translation wiki?
[Windows Mobile Software Development] Tatsch:
In fact, I've never seen this before. :)
[Windows Mobile Software Development] Maroon:
Norwegian updated

OK, Norwegian is now updated.

Worked fine with Norwegian ROM and the new 0.651. Really cool way of translation! :-)

Here are something that isn't in the language spread sheet:

- (No Category) - for tasks that doesn't have any category

- value - below Appearance, General, Item height

- Colors - below Appearance

- Urgent Items

- Non-urgent Items

- Show (will decrease performance)

- Remove importance colours - under Other

Can I now have filter on categories? :)
[Windows Mobile Software Development] Tatsch:
And how to delete a task?
[Windows Mobile Software Development] ecmaba64:
you can't. I didn't want to risk data loss, so I haven't added this yet....
[Windows Mobile Software Development] ecmaba64:
you will, you will it will be on 0.660
[Windows Mobile Software Development] ecmaba64:
a new pTasks is out. more thorough translation, which includes a lot of the recommendations.

a few more items are available for translation...
[Windows Mobile Software Development] Maroon:
Thank you, thank you, thank you! :)
[Windows Mobile Software Development] Maroon:
Wow, thanks! Norwegian updated. These still missing:

- "Value:" height of item

- "Edit Item" when you, well, edit an task item

Some other, non-translation things:

- When you add a reminder, the time should be placed to the right side of the date, which is the norm in western culture, not on the left.

- On the configuration screens I see you use the On/Off button when it's more natural to use radio buttons. The On/Off button signals to the user that this option is not related to any other options, it's just On or Off. But for example under Sorting, you can't sort by both "alphabethic" and "start date".

Continue the good work!
[Windows Mobile Software Development] Maroon:
Bug: Duplication of tasks

I've just noticed a bug:

When I open a task and just press OK, the task is duplicated. If I change category, only the duplication gets the new category.

I guess you don't update the task item. Just save a new one...?
[Windows Mobile Software Development] Maroon:
BUG: ObjectDisposedException

If I do the following:

-Open a task

- Change/set category

- Press OK

- Press OK

- Answer Yes to Save changes (oh btw, this needs translation)

- Choose Menu and Exit

... I allways get this error:

pTasks.EXE ObjectDisposedException

in Microsoft.AGL.Common.MISC.HandleAr(PAL_ERROR ar)

in System.Windows.Forms.Control.Dispose(Boolean disposing)

in System.ComponentModel.Component.Dispose()

in MichyPrima.ManilaDotNetSDK.ManilaNewTextBox.Dispose(Boolean disposing)

in System.ComponentModel.Component.Finalize()

I guess there is something in the category selection form (?).
[Windows Mobile Software Development] Tatsch:
I encountered the same bug - some posts above. So this is a confirmation, thx ;)