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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Release: WhenLast (Android app)

« Last post by mouser on January 28, 2015, 05:14 PM »

New version is up on dc server and uploaded as a BETA on google play store (people who signed up as beta access should be able to see it).
It has a fix from dc member ewemoa to solve the problem where the (#) part of tabs was sometimes being cut off.
Also a few more bugfixes -- hopefully solving a crash that could happen.
Plus new options for controlling what is displayed (date, duration, or both), as well as ability for advanced users to customize the date format, etc.

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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Release: WhenLast (Android app)

« Last post by mouser on January 28, 2015, 03:16 AM »

you need an upgrade -- i've been upgrading a lot recently.  this feature was added in the last 24 hours.

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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Release: WhenLast (Android app)

« Last post by mouser on January 28, 2015, 03:10 AM »

have you tried the widget option to use a background?
you can't customize the color yet -- it's black.  but it should make text visible clearly regardless of your home screen.

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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Release: WhenLast (Android app)

« Last post by mouser on January 27, 2015, 05:33 PM »

New version is up with some new widget options.

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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Release: WhenLast (Android app)

« Last post by mouser on January 27, 2015, 03:32 AM »

Updated; you can now specify both a reminder and an overdue setting for an item.

Every time I try to escape my reputation of filling my apps with a million options, they drag me back in again!

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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Release: WhenLast (Android app)

« Last post by mouser on January 26, 2015, 05:47 PM »

yes, it should fix that problem.
im just saying a secondary problem is that people have suggested i should make the icon more mobile-looking, and that might be best to do that instead.

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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Release: WhenLast (Android app)

« Last post by mouser on January 26, 2015, 05:24 PM »

  what i meant is make the image design itself more squarish, rather than an image which is technically square but has large transparent blank area on one side.

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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Release: WhenLast (Android app)

« Last post by mouser on January 25, 2015, 01:58 PM »

@mouser: It appears to me that you just need to add extra (transparent) padding to the top and bottom of the image to make it as tall as it is wide.

i could do that.. but it's been suggested to me that the "icon" is not very mobile-like, and that i should have a more square shaped icon..

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PBOL / Re: Cannot enter activation key.

« Last post by mouser on January 25, 2015, 02:19 AM »

Does it automatically grab the key from somewhere else if you have another DC program installed?

all my apps do. if you have received a license for donating, it will be seen by all apps, and be valid for all of time, as soon as you put it into one.

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PBOL / Re: Cannot enter activation key.

« Last post by mouser on January 24, 2015, 10:51 PM »

Hi MikleB!

Ok I can see the confusion!! Somehow i didn't put the About menu in the tray menu or on the DOCKED menu!
I'll release an update soon that fixes that.

For now though, the trick is to UNDOCK the program from the side of your screen (click and drag it off side of screen). Only then will you see a help menu with an About menu item that will let you put in license key.

I can't believe no one has pointed this out to me until now!

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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Release: WhenLast (Android app)

« Last post by mouser on January 24, 2015, 06:17 PM »

 

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Activation/License/Language Help / Re: lost registration key

« Last post by mouser on January 24, 2015, 01:02 PM »

As an aside, since you are recognized as a supporting member, you can always retrieve your license key by visiting the license key page (https://www.donationcoder.com/Keys).

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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Release: WhenLast (Android app)

« Last post by mouser on January 24, 2015, 05:06 AM »

I'm sure you are right.. I need to get some help making better icon.

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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Release: WhenLast (Android app)

« Last post by mouser on January 24, 2015, 04:15 AM »

Regarding my previous post about Reminders vs Overdue..

First an example of how it *CURRENTLY* works:
Let's say you set an event like "change smoke detectors" and set a reminder/due value of 6 months.
Then after 6 months elapses since you performed the task, you will see an alarm/notification that the event is OVERDUE.
After a month the onscreen display will say something like "1 month overdue".

Im thinking of changing this behavior.. I think probably a more coherent view of this app is not for setting hard deadlines and due dates, but for keeping track of when the last time you did something was and how long it's been.
To that end, i'm thinking that a reminder should maybe not have any conception of a "due date".
So if you set a reminder at 6 months, then after 6 months you would get a notification/alarm that said something like "Change smoke detectors was last done 6 months ago".
And if you checked back a month after that it would say "7 months ago".

So, no notion of a DUE date, just always telling you how long it's been, and the ability to ask for a reminder after a certain amount of time.

While it would be possible to let each task have both a reminder period and a separate DUE date, i think this would probably be overkill..

Thoughts?

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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Release: WhenLast (Android app)

« Last post by mouser on January 24, 2015, 04:09 AM »

Yes, they are same package name and signing key.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Free course on Hugo, a static site generator written in Go

« Last post by mouser on January 23, 2015, 11:36 AM »

Neat!!  I spent some time recently learning and playing with Go (see here).

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Macrium Reflect 6 News

« Last post by mouser on January 23, 2015, 10:04 AM »

I'm a big fan of macrium reflect.  Very fast, very stable, no bloat.

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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Release: WhenLast (Android app)

« Last post by mouser on January 23, 2015, 09:55 AM »

Actually there may be a better solution -- I can add people to the official google play store alpha/beta testing area for WhenLast, and then upload new versions there.
Message me with the email you use for google play store (not your password just your email) and i will add you to the testing list.

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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Release: WhenLast (Android app)

« Last post by mouser on January 23, 2015, 09:34 AM »

I haven't updated the play store version in a while because i've been coding like a mad man on this and with so many frequent major updates, i'm hesitant to push a new version to the store until i settle down a bit.
However, I am rapidly approaching that point..  After a bit more testing I will push a major new version to the store -- maybe at the end of this weekend.

That doesn't exactly answer your question, but explains why you are seeing what you see.  I'd love to have more tester reports if that helps to answer your question.

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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Release: WhenLast (Android app)

« Last post by mouser on January 23, 2015, 08:51 AM »

New update, more bugfixes and tweaks.

Includes new internal reminder scrolling ticker:



Note: if the app is not running, you will get normal Android notification alarm messages when items are overdue.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Slow

« Last post by mouser on January 23, 2015, 06:13 AM »

Can you elaborate a little regarding when/where it slows down? Any clues might help.  One thing we know can cause the CHS slowdown is a bad behaving antivirus which insists on rescanning database file everytime a change is made.  Try excluding the CHS database directory (will be under Documents\DonationCoder\ClipboardHelpAndSpell\Database or something similar).

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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Release: WhenLast (Android app)

« Last post by mouser on January 23, 2015, 01:01 AM »

New version up 1/23/15:

• Some stability bugfixes
• Handles case where there are multiple staggered reminder alarms while app is not running properly
• Creating new lasttime entires now shows remind options on first edit

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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Release: WhenLast (Android app)

« Last post by mouser on January 21, 2015, 09:32 PM »

Another question:

In the current version and in previous posts I have been talking about setting a REMINDER, for example if you have a task you can set a reminder for 30 days after the last time you performed the task.
But then in notifications and display I show this as "HOW LONG UNTIL *DUE*" or "HOW LONG SINCE *OVERDUE*", treating this time as the DUE date.

In the current version there is a REMINDERS tab, but it shows items that have past the reminder date as "overdue".


Now I am thinking about creating TWO automatic tabs -- one called REMINDERS and one called OVERDUE.

So here's my question:

Should I rename the field you edit and change it from "REMIND IN [X] [days]", to something like "DUE IN [X] [days]", and use that value for the overdue tab, and have a separate setting somewhere that says how far in advanced of due date i should put something on the REMINDERS tab.  Can I use a global option for that, or do i really need every item to have a separate option for DUE IN and REMIND IN, which I would like to avoid.

Ideally my preference would be to have a single value that the user sets for when to consider the activity OVERDUE (for example 120 days); and show OVERDUE items on an OVERDUE tab, and then use a heuristic to decide when to list items on a REMINDER tab, for example when there the time left before an item becomes overdue surpasses 90% of the interval that is considered overdue.

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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Release: WhenLast (Android app)

« Last post by mouser on January 21, 2015, 07:49 PM »

New version up (wed jan 21); you can now configure the detail level you want reported for timestamps and reminder due dates (in main app options); this value will effect timer resolutions, so if you tell it to show you due dates in terms of seconds, it will set up  timers to be able to do that.  In the same respect, if you set it to show you such information rounded to the hour/day, it will use less clock cycles on your device.  SO, for testing purposes you may want to set the granularity to seconds, so that you can watch the seconds tick by live as it counts up/down.

ps. you can click on the "titlebar" of the widget to re-bring up the configuration options.

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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Release: WhenLast (Android app)

« Last post by mouser on January 21, 2015, 03:48 AM »

New version uploaded with preliminary Widget support.