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Montgomery_Minds:
If you do work on Instant Boss, i will add my vote to the following features:

If you're in the middle of (10+2)*5 or whatever numbers you choose, and...something happens.  Phone call, interruption, whatever.  Currently your choices are:

1. leave Instant Boss running.  it will expire the current work (or break) and just wait for your to return.  Not too bad.  As long as your "10" (work time) is not too high, it's not that inaccurate when counting up your work.

2. but if you want to tell Instant Boss you're "off the clock", your only option is "Reset".  This has the desired effect of interrupting the timing, but also has the effect of resetting the numbers back to 10+2 * 5.  I think we should be able to separate these functions.  Maybe a "Suspend" button.  Or a "Skip the rest" or something which would abort the current timing sequence, but leave your numbers you typed in.

Now, again, this is minor.  cuz it's only 3 numbers and you can just type them again.

[Huh.  i just realized that hitting 'Reset' and leaving that window up, not clicking either button, then when you're ready clicking 'No' is essentially 'Suspend']

Second feature is this:  if you have entered new numbers, is possible to ignore the big 'Click Apply' staring at you and click 'Work' in which case you'll get the old numbers.  I doubt anyone would ever want that.  So 'Work' i believe should just automatically, unconditionally do an 'Apply', IMHO.

Thanks again for all your great work on this.  It helps me stay on track.

app103:
Ok, so you want a reset that doesn't clear your configuration? You could just exit and run it again when you are ready, if Pause isn't what you need.

Yes, the Apply button will be gong away. Next version will auto-apply when you click Work.

Montgomery_Minds:
OK i must confess to under-understanding the Pause button.  It DOES do what i want, for short pauses.  So Kudos for that.

It's less appropriate for long pauses, say 4 hours.

But, yes, exiting and re-starting does achieve the time "off the clock" function as i was describing it for such long pauses, so it is a valid workaround.

Thanks!

TaoPhoenix:
This drifts a little off topic, but it's thematic.

I have lately begun to imagine the old RISC-CISC fights in computing theory. For years I used my desktop as a visual placeholder for important things. Then I accidentally ran a narrow purpose batch file in the wrong place and trashed my desktop layout! So being forced to clean it up anyway, I made a "bold-for-me" decision and moved almost 50+ items off the desktop and into about 5 folders.

The key ideas were that my life *should* be rather simple right now.
1. Search for jobs.
2. My most important recreational project for a web 'zine.
3. Yes, some web surfing.
4. Resources for future projects - just to batch them for later.
(The fifth folder I called Resources because it's the same 10 utilities I always use, plus a couple of sound files, and a second set of less frequently used items.)

RISC won. To Get Back To Work is about focus. So finally my attention gave out staring at 60 icons worth of visual noise. Plus there's now more desktop space for NSFW wallpapers!  :Thmbsup:

Montgomery_Minds:
Installation help:

"Save As" the file (can't just "Open").
After it finishes downloading, Open it.  It should be a .ZIP file.
(Note: my fav program for .zip files is 7-zip)
Copy the InstantBoss folder in the InstantBoss.zip file to C:\Program Files\ which will create folder C:\Program Files\InstantBoss with the program InstantBoss.exe in it.

Next step depends on which windows you have

Windows XP:
Create new folder C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\InstantBoss
In that folder, create a shortcut back to C:\Program Files\InstantBoss\InstantBoss.exe


Windows 7:
Create new folder C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\InstantBoss
In that folder, create a shortcut back to C:\Program Files\InstantBoss\InstantBoss.exe

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