gmane.comp.sysutils.pim.taskcoach.devel

Re: [ANN] Release 0.70.1 of Task Coach

Frank Niessink — 2008-06-29T18:48:18

Hi all, 2008/6/29 Frank Niessink public.gmane.org>: In addition, the epydoc generated API documentation is available via http://www.taskcoach.org/epydoc Cheers, Frank ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/taskcoach-dev/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/taskcoach-dev/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:taskcoach-dev-digest-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw< at >public.gmane.org mailto:taskcoach-dev-fullfeatured-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw< at >public.gmane.org <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: taskcoach-dev-unsubscribe-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw< at >public.gmane.org <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

Re: Introduction and questions about reporting

Frank Niessink — 2008-06-24T20:23:04

Hi Istvan, 2008/6/24 tiz-tKRccxk9SbrTeHJm+VBaLA< at >public.gmane.org public.gmane.org>: What I usually do is create task structure like this: Client A Project 1 Task 1.1 Task 1.2 ... Project 2 Task 2.1 ... Client B etc. If you set it up like that you can simply filter ('search') for client and/or project name and export only the effort for a specific client or project (see my remark below). This indeed may be one direction to go in the future. Task Coach already allows you to do some of these things because it will print or export exactly what you see in the active viewer: sort order, search filter, columns, etc. Cheers, Frank ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/taskcoach-dev/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/taskcoach-dev/join (Yahoo! ID required)

Re: Introduction and questions about reporting

2008-06-24T05:46:48

Frank Niessink írta: > > Hi Istvan, > > Welcome! > > 2008/6/23 tiz-tKRccxk9SbrTeHJm+VBaLA< at >public.gmane.org public.gmane.org>: > > Hello! > > > > My name is Istvan Zoltan Toth, I'm a programmer from Hungary. > > I use TaskCoach and there are a few features I really would like to use, > > but they are not included yet. > > The reason I subscribed to this list is that I've actually developed a > > feature I use on daily basis but it would be nice to have it integrated. > > That's good to hear. > > > In a nutshell. I work on different projects and I switch between > > projects and tasks frequently (let's say I switch once in every 30 mins). > > At the end of every day I have to make a detailed report of activities. > > I've written a simple Python script which reads the TaskCoach file, > > summarizes efforts by categories and creates CSV files, one for each > > category and one which contains summaries. > > Then it sends those files to the accounting by e-ma

Re: Introduction and questions about reporting

Frank Niessink — 2008-06-23T19:15:03

Hi Istvan, Welcome! 2008/6/23 tiz-tKRccxk9SbrTeHJm+VBaLA< at >public.gmane.org public.gmane.org>: That's good to hear. I'm curious, is there any particular reason why you need to group effort per category? What do the categories represent? Do you have one category for each client/customer? In general, I'm hesitant to include code for very specific purposes because one of the goals for Task Coach is that it should be a 'friendly' (read: user friendly) task manager. This sounds like a good idea. Maybe the user could assign Shift-F1, Shift-F2, etc. to a limited number of 'favorite' tasks? Cheers, Frank ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/taskcoach-dev/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/taskcoach-dev/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:taskcoach

Introduction and questions about reporting

2008-06-23T13:42:26

Hello! My name is Istvan Zoltan Toth, I'm a programmer from Hungary. I use TaskCoach and there are a few features I really would like to use, but they are not included yet. The reason I subscribed to this list is that I've actually developed a feature I use on daily basis but it would be nice to have it integrated. In a nutshell. I work on different projects and I switch between projects and tasks frequently (let's say I switch once in every 30 mins). At the end of every day I have to make a detailed report of activities. I've written a simple Python script which reads the TaskCoach file, summarizes efforts by categories and creates CSV files, one for each category and one which contains summaries. Then it sends those files to the accounting by e-mail and they do the rest (billing). If it is possilbe I would like to see it integrated like a plug-in, when I select the menu item it runs all the reports. So, it would be great to know your opinion, and if you're positive, I would need some pointers wh

Re: Little bug, I think

Frank Niessink — 2008-06-21T14:26:57

Hi Jerome, 2008/6/21 Jerome Laheurte public.gmane.org>: This method is called when the user clicks save. If the task file does not have a filename the IOController needs to invoke saveas to force the user to give it one. This only makes sense if there is something to save, i.e. the task file is not empty. Ah, I see what you mean. So to solve this we would only need to change the above code into: def save(self, *args): if self.__taskFile.filename(): self.__taskFile.save() self.__showSaveMessage(self.__taskFile) return True else: return self.saveas() Right? I'll change this in the Release0_70_Branch. Cheers, Frank ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/taskcoach-dev/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/taskcoach-dev/join

Little bug, I think

Jerome Laheurte — 2008-06-21T08:13:22

Hi, Franck. What is the motivation of the "elif not self.__taskFile.isEmpty()" in IOController.save() ? def save(self, *args): if self.__taskFile.filename(): self.__taskFile.save() self.__showSaveMessage(self.__taskFile) return True elif not self.__taskFile.isEmpty(): return self.saveas() else: return False The problem is the following: starting with an empty file, if I create a task, undo the create, and try to save, the taskfile is still marked dirty, the save button is still enabled and I get the confirmation dialog when quitting, which I suppose is not the intended behaviour :) ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/taskcoach-dev/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/taskcoach-dev/join (Yahoo! ID required)

Re: Testing SyncML

Jerome Laheurte — 2008-06-14T14:08:56

Okay, since I must visit my mother to help her install Leopard on her MacBook, this will have to wait another week. On the other hand, I'll have an occasion to test my universal binary :) ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/taskcoach-dev/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/taskcoach-dev/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:taskcoach-dev-digest-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw< at >public.gmane.org mailto:taskcoach-dev-fullfeatured-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw< at >public.gmane.org <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: taskcoach-dev-unsubscribe-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw< at >public.gmane.org <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

Re: Testing SyncML

Jerome Laheurte — 2008-06-11T04:48:04

Yeah, the interface of SW is pretty bad. MemoToo is better as eye-candy, but it doesn't provide all data about its tasks when syncing. For the purpose of sharing data with Outlook and other devices, I think SW is perfect. I still have to: * Write a widget to let the user select what to keep on a field-by-field basis in case of conflict * Support reccurence and reminders (not sure if SW will accept a VEVENT inside a VTODO for reminder though) * Move some of the non-TC-specific code to the FunambolForge project I created for the occasion * Figure out how to make a universal binary for MacOS. Ah, and find a better icon for the menu item. Should be done next week-end. ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/taskcoach-dev/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/taskcoach-dev/join (Yahoo! ID require

Re: Testing SyncML

Frank Niessink — 2008-06-10T20:27:53

Hi Jerome. 2008/6/8 Jerome Laheurte public.gmane.org>: Congratulations on a great addition to Task Coach! I just tried it on Windows and it seems to work. The web interface of scheduleworld for tasks is pretty lousy, so I can't see all the tasks. But I was able to add a task via the web interface and then get it into TC via synchronization. Cool! I'll try to find some time the coming week to test it more thoroughly. Also, can you indicate what needs to be done before we can release this? Or should we just go ahead and release it to the public so we can get more feedback? In other words, what should the roadmap be? Cheers, Frank ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/taskcoach-dev/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/taskcoach-dev/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email:

Re: Testing SyncML

Jerome Laheurte — 2008-06-08T14:45:31

And I've just committed the conflict detection/resolution code, which removes one of these limitations. ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/taskcoach-dev/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/taskcoach-dev/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:taskcoach-dev-digest-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw< at >public.gmane.org mailto:taskcoach-dev-fullfeatured-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw< at >public.gmane.org <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: taskcoach-dev-unsubscribe-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw< at >public.gmane.org <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

Testing SyncML

Jerome Laheurte — 2008-06-08T12:09:42

Hi. The first version of the SyncML prototype seems to be working OK for me. I have included binaries for Win32, Linux and MacOS PPC (the MacIntel version must wait until I get my hands on one of them). If anybody wants to try it out, the branch is at https://taskcoach.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/taskcoach/branches/Feature_SyncML/taskcoach See the inline help for tips and limitations. Cheers Jérôme ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/taskcoach-dev/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/taskcoach-dev/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:taskcoach-dev-digest-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw< at >public.gmane.org mailto:taskcoach-dev-fullfeatured-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw< at >public.gmane.org <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: taskcoach-dev-unsubscribe-hHKSG33Tihhbj

Re: starting/stopping clock .

maho — 2008-06-03T21:52:32

[...] Oh, it's information I was looking for. I will check if it works for me tomorrow :). I'll try to do UI part too, but if it will be too hard, I'll just post ticket to sf.net BT with "backend part" patch .... regards Maho ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/taskcoach-dev/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/taskcoach-dev/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:taskcoach-dev-digest-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw< at >public.gmane.org mailto:taskcoach-dev-fullfeatured-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw< at >public.gmane.org <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: taskcoach-dev-unsubscribe-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw< at >public.gmane.org <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

Re: starting/stopping clock .

Frank Niessink — 2008-06-03T20:32:32

Hi, 2008/6/3 maho public.gmane.org>: Here's how I would approach this. First, since Task Coach has no pause/resume functionality at the moment I would implement that first, including the user interface. To resume, we need to know the task the user was tracking when effort tracking was paused. That information is already available by looking up the most recent effort record in the effort list. So conceptually, there is no difference between stopping effort tracking and pausing effort tracking. By the way, I am assuming that the time between pause and resume will not be registered as time spent on the task (what would the use of pause/resume be if it were, right?). So, to summarize "pause = stop tracking" and "resume = start tracking for the task that was last being tracked." Now we need to decide what the user interface will look like. Currently, Task Coach has two task tracking buttons: start effort and stop effort (the clocks). We at least need a resume button that is enabled

starting/stopping clock .

maho — 2008-06-03T18:27:38

Hi, I wanted to implement one small and easy (or rather "I thought that it's easy") feature in taskcoach. Stop an effort when laptop lid is closed/PC is suspended, and resume it after PC is resumed. My idea was such: - taskcoach registers to dbus when started, - scripts in /etc/acpi/suspend.d and /etc/acpi/resume.d/ are sending signals to taskcoach Everything was ok, I learned how to use dbus, successfully sent/received signals, and now I think that starting/stopping clock will be the easiest thing (as I have experience with wxPython programming). But it appeared, that taskcoach code isn't so easy. I see that it's very nice, and seems that is designed very good, but is complicated from other side ... how the hell can I just stop timer? :) Could someone give me some hints? regards Maho. ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/taskcoach-dev/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email

Re: [Task Coach-commits] taskcoach/taskcoachlib/gui uicommand.py, 1.142, 1.143 viewer.py, 1.139, 1.140

Frank Niessink — 2008-06-02T20:20:15

2008/6/2 Frank Niessink public.gmane.org>: Ignore me. I replied to an old email message. Sorry, Frank ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/taskcoach-dev/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/taskcoach-dev/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:taskcoach-dev-digest-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw< at >public.gmane.org mailto:taskcoach-dev-fullfeatured-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw< at >public.gmane.org <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: taskcoach-dev-unsubscribe-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw< at >public.gmane.org <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

Re: [Task Coach-commits] taskcoach/taskcoachlib/gui uicommand.py, 1.142, 1.143 viewer.py, 1.139, 1.140

Frank Niessink — 2008-06-02T20:18:38

Hi Jerome, This is strange, I just received an old commit message (March 24). Did you check in anything with the CVS repository? Cheers, Frank 2008/3/24 Jérome Laheurte public.gmane.org>: ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/taskcoach-dev/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/taskcoach-dev/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:taskcoach-dev-digest-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw< at >public.gmane.org mailto:taskcoach-dev-fullfeatured-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw< at >public.gmane.org <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: taskcoach-dev-unsubscribe-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw< at >public.gmane.org <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

Re: Some news

Jerome Laheurte — 2008-05-28T11:21:58

Okay, after further reading, almost everything is there in icalendar: parent/child relationship, attachments, I think notes may be represented as VJOURNAL objects with no date. The only thing missing is hierarchical categories. For the multi-user thing, I don't think that a synchronization-based mechanism would work (at least when using SyncML). It only has a global "changed" flag for each object; so for instance if user A changes a task's priority, and user B changes its description, there's a conflict. IMO, this use case should not require user intervention. This could be solved by considering all objects properties as separate objects (priority, description, etc) linked by the object unique ID, but 1) That begins to be a bit complicated 2) We couldn't use iCalendar format for that, so the whole "sharing with mobile devices" aspect is lost. Actually, I have some ideas about a multi-user system for TaskCoach, but I have to think a bit about it first. And finish my current SyncML pet projec

Re: Some news

Jerome Laheurte — 2008-05-28T10:11:46

Oh, and BTW, vCalendar does not seem to provide anything relating to notes. I'm still reading RFC 2445 :) ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/taskcoach-dev/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/taskcoach-dev/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:taskcoach-dev-digest-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw< at >public.gmane.org mailto:taskcoach-dev-fullfeatured-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw< at >public.gmane.org <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: taskcoach-dev-unsubscribe-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw< at >public.gmane.org <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

Re: Some news

Jerome Laheurte — 2008-05-28T07:54:30

Indeed. I'll have to check, but I think there is no binary incompatibility between the 2.4 and 2.5 C APIs. Except maybe under MacOS. I'll have to see how distutils handles the whole PPC/Intel/universal stuff. Mmmh, why not. I still have to study the vcard spec in order to see if it allows "private" application-specific data. In the current prototype for instance, task parent-child relations are lost to the server, among other things. ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/taskcoach-dev/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/taskcoach-dev/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:taskcoach-dev-digest-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw< at >public.gmane.org mailto:taskcoach-dev-fullfeatured-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw< at >public.gmane.org <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:

Re: Some news

Frank Niessink — 2008-05-27T19:53:29

Hi Jerome, 2008/5/27 Jerome Laheurte public.gmane.org>: Officially it's python >=2.4 currently, although 2.5 is shipped with the Windows and Mac installers. Will building the extension module be a distutils command? E.g. will "python setup.py build install" work for Linux users? Thanks, Frank PS: I'm getting more and more excited about this. We may also want to think about making syncing the primary persistence mechanism so we could add different back ends that support multiple users more easily (e.g. a database). ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/taskcoach-dev/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/taskcoach-dev/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:taskcoach-dev-digest-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw< at >public.gmane.org mailto:taskcoach-dev-fullfeatured-hH