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Bug Fixes for 2.3 (7/23/93)
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* This version was the first one posted to the archives.
* Fixed bug that caused preferences panel "reset defaults" to dump.
New Features for 2.2 (6/23/93)
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* Added alert panel confirmation for client deletion.
* A backup file is now created before writing changes to the data.
(The file is called client.data~)
* After an add/modify/undelete the edited cell is selected
* After deleting sessions/expenses, the first item is selected
* Two new command keys: Cmd-+ executes the "Add" feature, and
Cmd-m executes the "Modify" button. These allow clients to be
edited without using the mouse.
BUG FIXES
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* After add/modify of sessions or expenses main window became key.
* If you resized the inspector with the Client Data view selected,
things got wierd.
* When the client view was first selected it sometimes didn't show the
data for the currently highlighted item.
* Fixed the appearance of a rounding error. Actually, the computation was
correct; the number of hours being displayed to 2 decimal places was
the incorrect value! The calculation now uses the some rounded value
that is displayed, so it looks like there is no discrepency.
New Features for 2.1 (6/15/93)
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* The inspector view for sessions can also be invoked with Cmd-1, the
expenses with Cmd-2 and the Client info with Cmd-3. (Cmd-1 was
previously assigned to start/stop the stopwatch. This has been
reassigned to the key Cmd-$ for obvious reasons.
* The menu item that brought up the inspector in it's current state
(Cmd-i) has been removed, since the Cmd-{1,2,3} items give more
immediate control.
BUG FIXES
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* Session compaction was assigning the latest time to a group of
compacted sessions, due to the newly inverted ordering of sessions.
This has been restored to work the old way, i.e. the compacted session
takes the time of the earliest session.
* Fixed a minor bug in which it was possible to "Add" sessions or
expenses when no client was selected, which was a no-op, but possibly
annoying.
New Features for 2.0 (5/31/93)
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* There is a new combined Client/Session/Expense inspector which
replaces the previous separate Client Editor and Client Browser
panels.
* The inspector can be invoked by either Cmd-i or by double clicking on
an entry in the main window's browser. The browser initially displays
data for the client currently selected in the main window.
* The inspector now sports a columnized display of session
and expense info. The sessions and expenses are now sorted in reverse
chronological order for display.
* Session editor and expense editor now require dates in mm/dd/yy
format, and time in hh:mm. This is to provide a consistently parsable
format for sorting by time and date.
* When entering sessions using the session editor, the session
duration can now be given in any of three formats: "hh:mm" (1:45 means
1 hour and 45 minutes), or "h.d" (1.5 means one and one half hours),
or an un-punctuated number "m" (22 means 22 minutes.)
* Expense totals (for client and across all clients) are displayed in
the inspector's expense view.
* When manually adding a new item, the Expense and Session editors are
initialize to show the current date and time.
* Selection of multiple session or expenses is now allowed, and the
"Select All" menu item does the right thing. (The only operation
allowed on multiple selections of sessions or expenses is deletion.)
* Clients, sessions and expenses can be undeleted. Each deletion is
saved on a list particular to that type of object. Undeleting pops the
last item from the list.
* The import/export delimiter has been changed to a tab '\t' and it's
definition has been centralized in Controller.h, in case you want to
change it. If the need is there, this can become a preference item.
This was requested to allow the data to be used directly in some
spreadsheet products.
* Generated files now have the "most likely" current month added to
their names for convenient reference. The heuristic for "most likely"
is: the prior month if the current day is < 20, otherwise the current
month. This assumes you generate your invoice for each month between
the 20th of that month and the 20th of the next month.
* The manual has been updated to reflect these (most of) changes, and
has been transformed into a 3.0 Help document. Use Info->Help.
* Major code restructuring and cleanup.
Bug Fixes
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* If you deleted all and don't make any changes, file was never written!
New Features for 1.7
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* Windows remember their size and placement
* Stop/Start menu item (Cmd-1)
* Menu items to load templates into Edit
* Fixed a bug which caused the the templates from the app wrapper to be used
even though it copied the templates to the ~/Library/Stopwatch/Templates
directory! They were never subsequently used. (Oops!)
* a "HideOnAutoLaunch" preference item
* Wider text fields in Session browser to display current totals. Thankfully, this was
required.
New Features for 1.6
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* A manual! See Manual.rtfd.
* Copying of templates files now implemented directly rather than exec'ing
/bin/cp.
* Fixed the main menu's "New Client" button, which got disconnected somehow.
* The addition and deletion of clients is now reflected in the client
browser and the main window.
* Translation of tokens now implemented directly instead of requiring perl.
* Token format changed to square-bracketed strings for easier parsing. See
Manual.rtfd for all available keywords.
New Features for 1.51
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* Added new keywords #rate and #hours for use in the invoice template.
* Changed "File->Export" to use the client's short name rather than the
full name.
* Removed support for importing archaic log format.
* Fixed bug where if you double clicked in the Client Editor's browser
you would crash the app.
* Removed random .tiff artifacts from the directory.
New Features for 1.5
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* Added a preferences panel with two data items: the directory in which to
generate invoice files, and the next invoice number to use. These values
are stored in the defaults database with the following defaults:
Stopwatch InvoiceNum 0
Stopwatch InvoiceDir /tmp
* The invoice number read from the defaults db is incremented by the invoice
generation process, and the db is updated as well. This number is also now
incorporated into the generated filenames so that each invoice file is
unique. (Earlier you had to rename them to keep them around since the names
were the same each month for the same client.)
* Added expense report generation.
* Invoices, invoice detail, and expense reports are now RTF-based. They use
template files which contain certain key words (prefixed by '#') which are
replaced with values from the client data. If the template files are not
found in ~/Library/Stopwatch/Templates, they are copied there from the app
wrapper. Storing them externally to the app protects user mods from app
updates. Modify these files to customize your reports.
* Also note, the RTF file generation is based on perl scripts included in the
app wrapper. YOU NEED PERL TO USE THIS FEATURE! (see *.perl) Also note that
these scripts are hardwired to expect perl in /usr/local/bin/perl. This can
be changed but I didn't bother...
* Expense reports are based on "ExpensesTemplate.rtf". Invoice detail uses the
template file "DetailTemplate.rtf". The main invoice uses "InvoiceTemplate.rtf".
All available keywords are used in the example templates, but you don't have
to use them all in your customized versions.
* Changed "Sessions->Delete All" command to also delete all expenses records
for all clients.
New Features for 1.42
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* Changed font to bold when running so you can see if the clock is ticking
* Added powerOf:in:andSave: so you don't loose your work of you logout or power off.
New Features for 1.4
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* Reshaped Main Window, changed resizing behavior. The client list can be
reduced to nothing. (done earlier but never logged)
* New Icon
* Added AppIconView class for displaying time in the application icon.
* made changes to Controller to make this happen.
--hjk
New Features for 1.3
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* Further reduced the size of the main window, and eliminated the unsightly radio
buttons within the scroller. Reduced the size of the text on labels and text
fields as well.
* Prior versions had a bug in which, if a session is active and you clicked on
another client in the main window, the new session got credited to the newly
clicked client, rather than the original one! This has been fixed.
* Added ExpenseEditor support so expenses for a client can be entered and edited.
Still must add support for detail reporting on these expenses...
New Features for 1.2
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* Client panel now supports a 'short name' for each client. This serves two purposes:
- the main window has been made somewhat smaller
- the generated file have much more managable names, e.g. nacm_dtl.framemif
* The program recognizes old version archives (version == 0) and
initializes the short name field to the full client name. You should
run the new version and edit all short names as desired. This will
cause a version 1 file to be written containing the short name.
* Invoice files are no longer generated for clients for whom no work was performed.
* A couple of diagnostic messages which were printed during invoice
generation have been deleted from the code.
New Features for 1.1
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* Two new menu items were added: "File/Save As..." and "Delete All
Sessions...". The "Save As..." was added to allow the easy creation of
an archive of the current month's data, in preparation for using the
"Delete All Sessions..." feature. This clears out all session
information and resets all time and billing variables to 0, allowing a
new month to be started fresh.
(Ultimately, the tool should sit on a database such as dbVista,
allowing much more extensive reporting and archiving capabilities...)
* Two new output fields were added to the Session Browser, showing the
dollar amount billable for the selected client as well as the
total for the month across all clients.
New Features for 1.0
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* Client descriptions and work session data stored in a single
typestream which is manipulated by a series of data entry panels and
browsers.
* Generates frame maker invoice detail documents automatically. (For now,
these get deposited in the ~/Library/Stopwatch directory, just because it
was easy.)
* The main window looks much as it did before. Instead of writing
lines of text to an ascii file, it adds elements to a data structure
which is automatically written to a typestream file whenever there are
changes.
* Task description string defaults to the last string entered for each
individual client. (This works well with the "Compact" command
described below.)
* Client Setup allows client data to be entered. Some of this is used
to generate the invoice detail document. (This feature is still under
construction but is already worth using. Some touch up is required on the
generated document however, such as invoice #.)
* Session Browser allows manual entry and modification of individual
sessions. Also shows total hours across all clients, and subtotals for
individual clients, which are all updated upon each new entry or edit.
Entries created via the main window start/stop controls are added to
the browser automatically.
* Primitive import/export facility to handle ascii files (see more below)
This can also be useful if you don't want to generate frame maker files.
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