Well, the last few weeks have been hectic, but I have spent some time making much-needed updates to QuickLogger, adding requested functions and adding some more that came up as I went along. Here is an in-depth description of changes to QuickLogger 2.5. Many thanks to all of the users who suggested ideas and who helped me work out the kinks in the new version, especially Gerben, who wrote a few new pieces of code for me.
Bug fixes
- There was a spurious message box in the 24-hour setting, but it has now been removed.
- I have fixed some issues with how QuickLogger was inserting the daily Total hours in the Excel spreadsheet.
- Loading the favicon file from the Internet was causing the program to load slowly. It now gets loaded from a local file.
New Features
- QuickLogger will now save your log files in different folders for each month of the year. - Thanks Sebastian!
- Updating functionality has been added.
- You can now choose to have QuickLogger alert you when there is an update available, or even choose to have the program update itself. Up to this point, the only updating message was a change to the favicon.
- A little quality of life feature that I have added relates to the window placement function. In previous versions of QuickLogger you had to guess at the best numbers to use in the Top and Left option fields, or play with the placement multiple times to get it placed right. Now, you can just go to the Options, place your window where you want, and click on the “Set window placement” link to fill in the fields automatically. Don’t forget to save your changes.
- In previous versions of QuickLogger it was likely that you would have to have the program generate a new INI file when you updated, losing all of your settings. Now, QuickLogger will automatically fill in missing fields in your INI file, which will make future updates seamless with your logging history and settings.
- The Options dialog has been reformatted to make it easier to manage the increasing number of options.
- If you click on any task in the task list the text in the New Task input box will be filled in, allowing you to make changes to past tasks without having to re-type them. - Thanks Toby!
- QuickLogger now automatically updates its AutoHotKey script with a link to the latest logging file. There is also an option to turn this on or off, in case you don’t have AHK installed (defaulted to off). - Thanks Scott!
- Pressing Enter while focus is in the Saved Tasks list now logs the task. - Thanks Gerben and Patrick!
- Pressing Escape while the program is open will now close it. - Thanks Gerben and Patrick!
- Pressing the down arrow while focus is in the New Task field will put the focus in the Saved Tasks list. This makes it much easier to get to logged tasks without touching the mouse. - Thanks Gerben!
- QuickLogger now supports the native Excel 2007 file type “.xlsx”.
- Gerben re-wrote the Command Line functionality, which can be used with programs like Launchy and Executor. It now allows a few more options, like actually logging the task, and leaves the door open for more functionality in the future.
As alway, if you have any questions, want to see any other functions added, or need to report a bug, please feel free to drop me a line.
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