Task Coach - Your friendly task manager

Release 0.70.3 - August 17, 2008

Bug fix release

Bugs fixed:

• wxPython 2.8.8.1 generates images in a new, backwards incompatible way, even when told not to do that. This bug affects users that have an older version of wxPython installed and use one of the Linux packages. Fixed by adding the relevant pieces from wxPython 2.8.8.1 to the Task Coach sources. (2046084)
• Opening a new task viewer didn't work. (2053008)
• Closing effort viewers causes exceptions. (2053008)

Release 0.70.2 - August 6, 2008

This release fixes some bugs and brings back the Fedora RPM.

Bugs fixed:

• Using the "Save selection" feature together with mail attachments could result in data loss.
• Under KDE, the maximized state of the main window would not be restored.
• One couldn't e-mail tasks with non-ASCII characters in their description. (2025676)
• Dragging an email message from Thunderbird and dropping it on Task Coach could give a "UnicodeDecodeError" on Fedora. (1953166)
• When an invalid regular expression was entered in a search control, no items were displayed. Additionally, if it was saved in TaskCoach.ini, TaskCoach would crash on launch later.
• Mention of non-existing files in taskcoach.spec prevented the Fedora RPM from being built.
• The category viewer would sometimes skip keyboard navigation or need an extra mouse-click to get focus. (2020816, 2020812)
• On Mac OS X, the keyboard shortcut for 'help' was interfering with the shortcut for 'hide window'. (2006455)

Features added:

• Notes can be e-mailed.
• Display a tool tip to warn user when a search string is an invalid regular expression. In this case, default to substring search.
• Optionally put Task Coach in the user's startup menu so that Task Coach is started automatically when the user logs on (Windows only). (2017400, 1913650)
• Made (right-click) context menu's more consistent.

Feature removed:

• Don't supply the dummy recipient 'Please enter recipient' to the email program when mailing a task. This only forces the user to perform an extra action to remove that dummy text, while most if not all email programs will warn the user when she forgets to enter a recipient. (2026833)

Release 0.70.1 - June 28, 2008

This release optionally brings back the tabbed user interface that was removed in the previous release and fixes a few bugs.

Bugs fixed:

• The search control in the toolbar did not maintain state correctly for different viewers. Task Coach viewers now each have their own toolbar with search control. (1977196)
• Marking tasks completed or changing their priority would change the selection. (1888598, 1926362)
• On Max OS X, put preferences menu item in the TaskCoach menu instead of the Edit menu to conform with Mac OS X standards. (1965861)
• Focus issues: On Mac OS X, text couldn't be edited while the timer was running. On Windows, notifications from other programs overlapping with the main window would take away focus from dialogs. (1995469, 2000152)
• Prevent crash under Windows XP when dropping e-mail from Thunderbird if the APPDATA environment variable is not defined. (1960827)
• ImportError: No module named thirdparty.ElementTree. This exception would happen when using a source distribution of Task Coach or a package (rpm, deb) for Linux *and* when the default version of Python on the system is Python 2.4. Task Coach tried to import a module from the wrong package. (1964069)
• On Linux, when using a dark theme, use appropriate background colors for the category viewer and the text color buttons in the preferences dialog. (1988160)
• Remember whether the main window was maximized and if so, maximize the main window when starting the next time. (1969266)
• Correctly sort tasks on startup when sort column is 'Overall categories'. (1962003)
• Correctly redraw toolbar when it is 'damaged' by other windows (1977208)
• Correctly sort effort for subtasks in effort per day, per week, and per month effort viewers. (1989553)
• Better navigation with tab key in dialogs.
• Keep newlines in descriptions when printing or exporting to HTML.

Feature added:

• Task Coach can now use either the old tabbed user interface (whose layout still cannot be saved, by the way) or the 'managed frame' interface introduced in release 0.70.0. This can be changed in the Preferences dialog. (1964213)

Release 0.70.0 - May 12, 2008

Small feature enhancements, more translations and several bug fixes. Task Coach is now distributed under the GPLv3+.

Bugs fixed:

• Allow for editing seconds in effort editor. (1925748)
• The combobox in the effort detail editor always picked the first task when multiple tasks had the same subject, effectively prohibiting the user to move an effort record to another task with the same subject. (1918033)
• Reset invalid input in the priority field of the task editor to 0 instead of to the minimum priority (a large negative value). (1949222)
• "View->Filter->Reset all filters" now also unchecks all categories.
• Task Coach now is packaged as a proper Debian package, thanks to Stani Michiels. The Debian package installs a menu item for Task Coach in the Applications/Office menu. (1792706, 1792711, 1896796)

Features added:

• Paths to file attachments may be relative.
• Monthly and yearly recurrence of tasks. (1933222, 1957687)
• Added and reorganized keyboard short cuts. (1857101)
• Start tracking effort for any active task using the system tray icon right-click menu. (1934738, 1739666)
• Added a largely complete Ukranian translation thanks to Vitovt and incomplete Finnish, Greek, Persian and Thai translations.

Feature changed:

• Slightly higher preference window so all icons fit and no scrolling is needed. (1918678)

Dependencies changed:

• Task Coach now uses Subversion for version control. See http://sourceforge.net/svn/?group_id=130831. This only affects you if you want to develop or use Task Coach source code.
• Task Coach is now distributed under the GNU General Public License version 3 or (at your option) any later version. This only affects you if you want to distribute changed versions of Task Coach or want to include source code from Task Coach in other software.

Release 0.69.2 - March 28, 2008

Bug fix release.

Bugs fixed:

• Tasks created via the context menu of the category view now automatically belong to the selected category. (1592103)
• Update task status and colors at midnight. (1183043)
• Exception when starting Task Coach ("AttributeError: 'CategoryList' object has no attribute 'EventTypePrefix'"). (1901385)
• Exception when reopening a closed viewer (with the message "ConfigParser.NoSectionError: No section: 'effortperdayviewer1'" in the log file). (1894488)
• Exception when resetting all filters in the task tree viewer (with the message "No option 'hidecompositetasks' in section: 'tasktreelistview'" in the log file). (1903679)
• Don't take the priority of completed subtasks into account when calculating the overall priority of a task. (1905774)
• It was not clear that backup files can be opened in Task Coach. Backup files now have the extension '.tsk.bak'. The file open dialog has '*.tsk.bak' as selectable file type to make it easier to open backup files. (1911538)
• Exception when opening the task menu while the toolbar is hidden.

Features added:

• Task Coach now suggests a reminder date, based on the due date or start date of a task.
• Added a complete Norwegion Bokmal translation thanks to Amund Amundsen and incomplete Galician, Korean and Romanian translations.

Release 0.69.1 - February 14, 2008

Bug fix release.

Bugs fixed:

• Exception when closing a task editor dialog. This causes updates of task states not to be displayed properly. The bug itself does not cause data loss, but it might trick users into saving an empty task file over their existing data. (1893634)
• On Mac OS X, users couldn't enter 'P' and 'M' in text boxes, because these were mapped to menu items. Reorganized keyboard shortcuts to fix this. (1890566)
• The arrow ('→') and infinity symbol ('∞') are not visible on all computers, so Task Coach is back to using '->' and 'Infinite' again.

Release 0.69.0 - February 9, 2008

This release makes it possible to repeat tasks on either a daily or a weekly basis and to add notes to categories. It also contains a number of other changes and bug fixes.

Bugs fixed:

• The reminder dialog didn't close when opening the task from the reminder dialog. If the user had entered a snooze option in the reminder dialog, that snooze option would be overwritten when closing the task editor. (1862286)
• Don't allow filtering by both a parent and a child category at the same time.
• Sorting by total categories in the task viewers didn't sort correctly.
• Save didn't work for task files without a file name and without tasks, but with categories or notes.
• Adding a task to a category or removing it from a category was not undoable.

Features added:

• Tasks can recur on a daily or weekly basis. This feature is not complete yet. Most obviously, recurring on a monthly basis is missing. Also, recurring tasks with recurring subtasks do not behave entirely correctly yet. (1623364, 1464793, 1264210)
• Notes can be assigned to categories.
• Added Bulgarian translation, thanks to Rumen Belev.
• Added Danish translation, thanks to different translators.
• Added a number of rather incomplete translations (Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, and Turkish). See http://www.taskcoach.org/i18n.html for how you can help improve these translations.
• When filtering by one or more categories, new tasks and notes are automatically added to those categories. Of course, you can still change the categories in the category tab of the edit dialog before pressing the OK button.
• Whether descriptions of tasks, effort records, categories and notes are shown in a popup tooltip window is now a setting. (1857098)
• Added menu items for increasing, decreasing, maximizing, and minimizing task priority. (1768210, 1570616)
• Clicking a column header in a task viewer now iterates through the following sort orders: 'ascending, after sorting by task status first', 'descending, after sorting by task status first', 'ascending, without sorting by task status first', 'descending, without sorting by task status first'.

Features changed:

• Previously, unset dates were displayed as 'None' in date columns. To be consistent with how other attributes are displayed in columns, Task Coach now simply displays nothing for unset dates in date columns.
• Task Coach now uses the infinity symbol ('∞') to display the number of days left for tasks without a due date, instead of the word 'Infinite'.
• Task Coach now uses a real arrow symbol ('→') instead of '->' for separating parent and child subjects in the different viewers.

Feature removed:

• Task Coach no longer keeps track of the 'last modification time' of tasks.

Release 0.68.0 - December 26, 2007

This release makes it possible to open a task from its reminder dialog, adds a command line option to facilitate the PortableApps.com Task Coach distribution, makes starting and stopping effort tracking quicker and fixes a number of bugs.

Bugs fixed:

• Start and stop tracking effort is faster for tasks that have a large number of associated effort records.
• Task Coach now gives an error message if the file that it tries to open doesn't exist. (1857093)
• When selecting all text in a text control with '<cmd>a', indeed select all text and not all tasks (Max OSX only). (1857091)
• Attempt to prevent crashes on Fedora 8 that sometimes happen when adding top level tasks. (1840111)

Features added:

• It is possible to open a task from its reminder dialog.
• Task Coach has a --ini command line option that can be used to specify where the ini file is located.

Release 0.67.0 - December 16, 2007

This release make it possible to color tasks via their categories, adds a translation in Hebrew, and makes it easier to mark tasks as not completed.

Bug fixed:

• Don't move selection to the first line of the task tree viewer when deleting a subtask. (1849171)

Features added:

• Added Hebrew translation thanks to Ziv Barcesat.
• You can assign a color to a category. Tasks are colored according to the color of the categories they belong to. (1466159, 1784932)
• The 'mark task completed' button and menu items can now also be used to mark tasks as not completed. (1449714)

Dependency changed:

• Task Coach now needs at least wxPython 2.8.6.0-unicode. Since the Windows installer and the Mac OSX dmg package have wxPython included, this only affects users of the RPM, Debian, and source distributions.

Release 0.66.3 - December 11, 2007

Bug fix release to address crashes.

Bug fixed:

• Work around a bug in the TreeListCtrl widget that caused crashes. The TreeListCtrl widget is used by Task Coach for the task tree view. (1846906, 1840111, 1832490, 1829622, 1821858, 1820497)

Release 0.66.2 - November 9, 2007

Bug fix release to address crashes.

Bug fixed:

• Don't crash when refreshing a tree view. (1828846)

Release 0.66.1 - November 7, 2007

This release fixes a number of minor bugs.

Bugs fixed:

• When changing the sort order in a tree viewer, keep collapsed items collapsed and expanded items expanded. (1791638)
• Sort categories alphabetically in task editor. (1824180)
• Double clicking a task in the tree view did not open the task edit dialog.
• When filtering on a specific category, a newly added task belonging to that category was not shown in the task viewers.

Release 0.66.0 - October 31, 2007

Small feature enhancements and a translation in Traditional Chinese.

Bug fixed:

• Make categories and category viewer more robust. (1821776)

Features added:

• Added Traditional Chinese translation thanks to Joey Weng.
• Added an 'overall categories' column that recursively shows the categories a task belongs to, i.e. its own categories and the categories of its parent task(s). (1790054)
• Column widths are saved between sessions. (1799998)
• Ctrl-PageUp and Ctrl-PageDown can be used to cycle through open viewers. (1818428)

Release 0.65.3 - October 20, 2007

This bugfix release fixes one critical bug that affects users on the Windows platform and several minor bugs that affect users on all platforms.

Bugs fixed:

• Don't leak GDI objects on Windows. (1813632, 1811058, 1810297, 1806004, 1803085)
• Don't notify of new version when the user has just installed that version.
• Mail disappears from Outlook when dropped in TaskCoach. Try to use Outlook to open mail attachment when it's the "default" mailer. (1812399)
• Mail task doesn't work. (1810356)
• Categories not sorted correctly. (1810469)

Release 0.65.2 - October 8, 2007

This release is aimed at better performance.

Bugs fixed:

• Slow performance. (1806001, 1794007)
• Don't require administrator privileges for installation on Windows XP/Vista.

Release 0.65.1 - September 23, 2007

This release fixes one critical bug and two minor bugs.

Bugs fixed:

• Tooltip windows steals keyboard focus on some platforms. (1791627)
• Taskbar icon is not transparent on Linux. (1648082)
• Saving a task file after adding attachments via the 'add attachment' menu or context menu fails. (1796829)

Release 0.65.0 - September 9, 2007

This release adds the ability to record notes, improves the flexibility of the different views, and fixes several bugs.

Bugs fixed:

• Made subject column resizable. (1702270, 1766664)
• Enable export of data containing non-ASCII characters to CSV. (1753422)
• Don't activate another viewer when another application is minimized (Windows only). (1765103)
• Outlook 2003 email messages added as attachment couldn't be opened from Task Coach. (1748738)
• German translation had wrong menu accelerators. (1772019)
• Apply undo/redo/cut/copy/paste actions to text if a text control is visible and has focus (Mac OSX only) (1768315)
• Added a copy of the ElementTree package to the Task Coach source code, so the source code distribution of Task Coach works with Python 2.4, without needing to install ElementTree. (1783575)

Features added:

• Notes. Notes have a subject and an optional description. Notes can be hierarchical, i.e. notes may contain subnotes. Notes can be sorted and searched (filtered), printed, and exported. This feature can be turned on or off via the preferences dialog.
• Categories can be searched (filtered) using the search control on the toolbar.
• Category sorting can be changed: ascending or descending, case sensitive or case insensitive.
• Categories can have a description.
• Each viewer/tab has its own settings for sort order and visible columns. Viewers can be renamed. This makes it possible to e.g. create a 'Todo today'.
• The search control on the toolbar can (optionally) include subitems in the search result. This makes it easy to show one task and its subtasks in a task viewer or show effort for one task and its subtasks in an effort viewer.
• Added a setting to start Task Coach iconized either always, never, or only when Task Coach was iconized when last quitted. (1749886)
• Added a setting to turn off spell checking (Mac OSX only) (1768330)
• Added (incomplete) translations in Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Latvian and Polish. See http://www.taskcoach.org/i18n.html for more information about translations and on how you can help.

Release 0.64.2 - June 30, 2007

This release fixes sorting of tasks by priority and makes sure that Task Coach does not block OS shutdown.

Bugs fixed:

• Don't take child task priority into account when sorting by priority in the task tree view. (1732968)
• Don't block OS shutdown on Windows. (1735532, 1484652, 1489870)

Release 0.64.1 - June 10, 2007

Bugs fixed:

• Task Coach would complain about an error when closing the application. This was due to a missing package in the Windows executable distribution. (1727237)
• On Linux, Task Coach was not very helpful when the taskcoachlib package is installed for a different python version than the one the user is starting Task Coach with. (1728485)

Release 0.64.0 - May 28, 2007

Bugs fixed:

• Ubuntu users had to manually install the wxaddons package. This package is now included in the Task Coach distribution.
• Don't hide the main window when it's iconized by default because on Linux with some window managers the main window receives minimize events in other situations as well, most notably when changing virtual desktops. So, to reduce the chances of confusing new users this option is off by default. (1721166)

Features added:

• Added Breton translation thanks to Ronan Le Déroff
• Show a tooltip with a task's description when the mouse is hovering over a task. Patch provided by Jerome Laheurte. (1642608, 1619521, 1578623)
• Allow for dragging emails from Thunderbird and Outlook to the attachment pane of tasks to create email attachments. Opening an attached email will open it in the user's default mail program. Patch provided by Jerome Laheurte.

Release 0.63.2 - April 20, 2007

Bug fixed:

• Task tree view does not refresh tasks after task editing. (1701368)

Release 0.63.1 - April 16, 2007

Bugs fixed:

• Dropping a file on a task in the tree viewer didn't work.
• Showing the description column in the composite effort viewers (effort per day, per week, per month) caused exceptions.
• The task tree viewer was trying to update tasks that weren't shown, resulting in exceptions. (1697568, 1697574)

Release 0.63.0 - April 9, 2007

Bugs fixed:

• Cancelling printing would give a 'Task Coach Error'
• Make sure the main window is on a visible display when starting. This is for laptop users that sometimes extend their desktop to a second display. (1667120)
• Sort categories alphabetically in the categories viewer. (1694532)
• Filtering a category no longer automatically checks all subcategories. However, tasks belonging to a subcategory are still filtered (since they belong to the filtered category via the subcategory).

Features added:

• Export to HTML and printing of tasks colors tasks appropriately.
• Added description columns to the task and effort viewers. Like other columns, the description column is printed and exported if visible.
• Added reminder column to the task viewers.

Release 0.62.0 - April 1, 2007

Bugs fixed:

• When saving timestamps in a task file, e.g. for effort start and stop times, microseconds are no longer saved as part of the timestamp. The microseconds caused problems when importing Task Coach data in Excel. (1660670)
• When exporting tasks to HTML or CSV format from the task tree viewer, child tasks hidden by a filter would still be exported. (1659307)

Features added:

• Added Slovak translation thanks to Viliam Búr
• Printing a selection is enabled (except on Mac OSX).
• The notebook that contains the different views allows for dragging and dropping of tabs, enabling you to create almost any layout you like. Unfortunately, this widget does not yet provide functionality to store the layout in the TaskCoach.ini file.
• Whether the clock icon in the task bar blinks or not is now a setting (see Edit -> Preferences -> Window behavior.
• The toolbar buttons for 'new item', 'new sub item', 'edit item' and 'delete item' now work for tasks, effort records and categories, depending on what view is active.
• Added a category column for task viewers. (1629283)
• Added an attachment column that shows whether a task has one or more attachments.
• Added an 'Open all attachments' menu item for tasks
• Added snooze option to reminders.

Feature changed:

• Removed filter sidebar. Filter options previously available on the sidebar are now available via the search filter on the toolbar, the category tab and the view menu.

Dependency changed:

• Task Coach now requires wxPython 2.8.3-unicode or newer (this is only relevant if you use the source distribution).

Release 0.61.6 - January 27, 2007

Bugs fixed:

• Crash on trying to use down-arrow to move to sub-task. (1640806)
• When deleting a task that has subtasks that belong to categories, the task file gets 'corrupted', giving errors when loading it. (1638419, 1589993)

Release 0.61.5 - January 10, 2007

Bug fixed:

• Opening a Task Coach file with many effort records is slow. Opening an edit dialog for a task with many effort records is slow too. (1630102)

Release 0.61.4 - December 30, 2006

Bugs fixed:

• Make Task Coach work with Python 2.5.
• Cancel reminders when marking a task completed. (1606990)
• Unchecking a reminder would cause an exception. (1606990)
• Column resizing is now less jumpy. (1606319)
• MSVCP71.DLL was missing from the Windows distribution. (1602364)
• Marking a task completed while completed tasks are hidden wouldn't immediately hide the completed task. (1572920)
• The category filter was not applied correctly on launch; showing categories as filtered but not hiding the associated tasks. (1603846)
• Turning on filtering for a category didn't mark the task file as changed. (1603846)

Feature added:

• Added RPM and Debian distributions.

Release 0.61.3 - November 19, 2006

Bugs fixed:

• If saving the TaskCoach.ini file would fail, displaying the error message would fail (too) because the i18n translator had not been imported at that point. (1598568)
• Mac OSX distribution did not start. Upgraded py2app. (1594190)
• Dragging and dropping a task in the task tree view would sometimes drag the wrong task.
• Give category dialog focus and select default category title to make it easier to quickly enter categories using the keyboard.
• The gdiplus.dll was missing from the Windows distribution. (1596843)

Release 0.61.2 - November 11, 2006

Bugs fixed:

• Some Linux distributions do not have the BROWSER environment variable set, causing errors. Be prepared. (1567244)
• Saving failed with a UnicodeError if a category description would contain non-ASCII characters. (1589991)
• Deleting a task would not delete the task from the categories it belonged to, resulting in errors upon next loading of the task file. (1589993)

Release 0.61.1 - November 3, 2006

Bug fixed:

• Source distribution was missing some files.

Release 0.61.0 - November 2, 2006

Bugs fixed:

• Displaying a previously hidden toolbar would result in an incorrectly drawn window. (1551885)
• Exported HTML didn't contain an explicit charset. (1561490)
• Negative effort preventation was not working correctly. (1575458)

Features added:

• Hierarchical categories.
• Export in Comma Separated Values (CSV) format. As with export to HTML, the current view is exported. (1534862)
• Task Coach can be run from a removable medium, such as a USB stick. On Windows, use the installer to install Task Coach to the medium. Then, start Task Coach and turn the setting 'Save settings to same directory as program' on. This setting can be found in Edit -> Preferences -> File). This makes sure the TaskCoach.ini file is saved on the removable medium, in the same directory as the main program. (1464435)

Release 0.60 - August 30, 2006

Bugs fixed:

• Closing a task file did not reset the 'lastfile' setting. (1548126)
• Selecting Japanese translation would cause error upon next restart. (1545593)
• Task Coach wouldn't quit when the setting 'Minimize window when closing' was set. (1545936)
• Deleting an effort record would throw an exception. (1548117)

Website change:

• Added MD5 digests to download page. (download.html)

Release 0.59 - August 23, 2006

Bugs fixed:

• Improved efficiency while tracking effort for tasks. (1429545)
• The column width of the list with filenames in the attachment page of the task editor is now adaptable, so that long filenames can be made visible entirely. (1503006)
• Translation errors in tips. (1525410, 1525423)
• When having multiple tasks with the same subject, new effort records would always be created for the first of these tasks instead of the selected task. (1513403, 1524037)
• Opening a file with a non-ascii filename specified on the command line did not work. (1532528)

Features added:

• Japanese translation thanks to Yutaka Usui.
• Filter sidebar.
• Printing. Selecting 'File' -> 'Print' will print the currently active view. This means only the visible columns will be printed and only the filtered tasks will be printed, in the current sort order. (1481881, 1472662, 1307275, 1205819)
• Export to HTML. Selecting 'File' -> 'Export' -> 'Export to HTML' will export the currently active view to HTML. This means only the visible columns will be exported and only the filtered tasks will be printed, in the current sort order. (1375773, 1205819)
• Columns with numbers or dates are right-aligned.

Release 0.58 - May 14, 2006

Bugs fixed:

• On Mac OSX, Task Coach would seg fault upon exiting.
• Right-clicking a task in the task tree view would, correctly, pop up the context menu, but would not select the underlying task. (1440416)
• The memory leak in the TreeListCtrl was fixed in wxPython 2.6.3.2. The installer for Windows and the disk image for Mac OSX use wxPython 2.6.3.2, thus fixing the memory leak in Task Coach. If you use the source distribution of Task Coach you will have to install wxPython 2.6.3.2 yourself to get the fix. (1309858)
• Filtering on task categories was improved.
• Hitting Delete when editing the text in the find dialog would delete any selected tasks. Unfortunately, to fix this bug some accelerators had to be changed: the accelerator for "Delete task" is now Ctrl-Delete, for "New task" it is now Ctrl-Insert, and for "New subtask" it is now Shift-Ctrl-Insert. (1463316)
• Don't close the current file when user cancels opening another file. (1475473)

Features added:

• Added toolbar button for 'new subtask'.
• Task Coach searches incrementally as you type a query in the find bar.
• When dragging a task in the tree view, hover over a tree button (a boxed plus-sign or a triangle, depending on your platform) to expand the sub tree.
• To promote a sub task to a top-level task in the tree view, drag it and drop it anywhere as long as it is not on another task.
• When filtering tasks by multiple categories, you may either choose to view tasks that belong to at least one of the selected categories, or view tasks that belong to all selected categories.

Release 0.57 - March 16, 2006

Bugs fixed:

• When adding a new effort to a task, take into account that the user may have changed the task that the effort belongs to in the effort editor dialog (using the dropdown combobox). Because Task Coach didn't do that, the effort would be added twice if the user changed the task of the new effort record. (1443906)
• A file that was saved with an active effort couldn't be loaded again. Task Coach would complain that the file was invalid. (1433611)
• Added different sizes of the Task Coach icon. This prevents scaling up the 16x16 version to 32x32 on Windows or to even 128x128 on the Mac. (1406651, 1434044)

Feature added:

• Task Coach is now also available as disk image (.dmg) for Mac OSX (tested on OSX 10.4).

Release 0.56 - February 14, 2006

Features added:

• Tasks can have attachments. Attachments can be added, removed and opened. Opening of attachments is done by starting the default application for the attachment file type. Attachments can also be dragged from a file browser and dropped onto a task in one of the task viewers or on the task attachment pane in the task editor dialog. (1250241, 1339113)
• Whether a task is marked completed when all its child tasks are completed is now a setting that can be changed application-wide via the preferences dialog. The application-wide setting can be overruled on a task-by-task basis via the task editor dialog. (1393803)
• Task Coach shows a 'tips' dialog at startup. Hopefully it is helpful for new users. Experienced users can turn it off.

Features changed:

• More visual feedback when dragging tasks in the tree view.
• Task editor layout changed. Priority is now part of the task description. Budget and revenue have been merged into one pane. (1312284)

Implementation changed:

• Default values for task and effort attributes are no longer saved in the Task Coach file, resulting in an estimated 33% reduction of file size.

Release 0.55 - January 13, 2006

Bug fixed:

• Sorting by total budget was broken. (1399116)

Feature added:

• Simple reminders. (1372932)

Dependency changed:

• Task Coach now requires wxPython 2.6.1.0-unicode or newer (this is only relevant if you use the source distribution).

Release 0.54 - January 6, 2006

Bugs fixed:

• The accelerators INSERT and Ctrl+INSERT were mapped to 'c' and 'Command-Copy' on the Mac, which caused Task Coach to create a new task whenever the user typed a 'c'. Fixed by changing the accelerators for new task and new subtask to Ctrl+N and Shift+Ctrl+N (on the Mac only). (1311413)
• It was possible to enter control characters -- by copy-and-pasting -- resulting in invalid XML in the Task Coach file. (1288689)
• One python file was missing in the source distribution of release 0.53. Added a test to check that all python files in the source are actually added to the source distributions, so hopefully this will never happen again. (1389224)

Feature added:

• Effort can be exported as iCalendar (ICS) file and imported into e.g. Mozilla Sunbird. Each effort record is exported as a "VEVENT". This is an experimental feature. Patch provided by Gissehel.

Release 0.53 - December 19, 2005

Bugs fixed:

• On some platforms, Python and wxPython seem to disagree on what the maximum integer is. The maximum integer is used to set the maximum and minimum allowed priority values. Fixed by allowing priority values between the rather arbitrary minimum and maximum values of -1000000000 and 1000000000.
• Fixed exception: "wx._core.PyAssertionError: C++ assertion "ucf.GotUpdate()" failed in ..\..\src\msw extctrl.cpp(813): EM_STREAMIN didn't send EN_UPDATE?". This seems to be a bug in wxPython 2.6.0 and 2.6.1. Patch provided by Franz Steinhaeusler. (1344023)

Features added:

• Columns in the effort view are hideable too, just like columns in the task views. See 'View' -> 'Effort columns', or right-click a column header in the effort view.
• Added possibility to mail tasks via your default mailer, see 'Task' -> 'Mail task' or right-click a task in one of the task views.
• Added option to minimize the window when you attempt to close the application via the close button on the window title bar or the system menu. See 'Edit' -> 'Preferences' -> 'Window behavior'.

Release 0.52 - November 29, 2005

Bugs fixed:

• For completed tasks, the number of days left for a task is now the number of days between the completion date and the due date. This prevents that the number of days left of completed tasks keeps decreasing, i.e. becoming more negative. For uncompleted tasks, the number of days left is still the number of days between today and the due date, of course. Patch provided by Maciej Malycha.
• Put taskocachlib package first on the Python search path to prevent name conflict with the config module on Gentoo Linux. (1353636)
• Mention blue icon in the help on task colors. (1355985)
• Don't allow empty categories. (1333896)

Features added:

• Tasks can be dragged and dropped. (1262863)
• Tasks can have an hourly fee and/or a fixed fee. Revenue is calculated based on effort spent. (1361790)
• First tiny steps towards a user manual, see 'Help' -> 'Help contents'.
• Whether the main window hides itself when iconized is now adjustable behavior. See 'Edit' -> 'Preferences'.

Feature changed:

• Backups are created just before saving, instead of when loading a .tsk file. Patch provided by Maciej Malycha.

Feature removed:

• Files in the old comma-separated format can no longer be read by Task Coach.

Release 0.51 - October 30, 2005

Bugs fixed:

• Hitting enter in the find dialog didn't work on Linux.
• Old TaskCoach.ini files with a language setting of 'en' instead of 'en_US' or 'en_GB' would cause an exception. Patch provided by Nirendra Maharaj.

Features added:

• Escape closes pop-up windows. Patch provided by Markus Meyer. (1241547)
• The task of an effort record can be changed.
• Effort records can be cut, copied, and pasted.

Release 0.50 - October 2, 2005

Bug fixed:

• Exception was thrown when opening a task with logged effort.

Release 0.49 - October 2, 2005

Bug fixed:

• Previous release did not work on Linux/Mac OSX because of a platform inconsistency between Windows and Linux (GetCountPerPage method is missing on Linux, added manually). (1305457)

Feature added:

• Task colors can be adjusted via 'Edit' -> 'Preferences'. (1205579)

Release 0.48 - September 24, 2005

Bugs fixed:

• Filtering tasks by status ('View' -> 'Tasks that are' -> '...') would cause an exception.
• Sorting by days left would cause an exception. (1295122)

Release 0.47 - September 18, 2005

Bugs fixed:

• 'View'->'All tasks' now also resets any search criterium entered by the user in the search bar.
• When opening a task with a (long) description, the cursor will be positioned on the first line of the text, instead of on the last line. (1265845)
• When viewing tasks due before a certain date in the tree view, tasks with subtasks due before that date will be visible. (1275708)

Features added:

• Added Hungarian translation thanks to Majsa Norbert.
• The task tree view now also shows columns with task details, similar to the task list view. (1194642)
• Sorting on task subject can now also be case insensitive. See the menu item 'View' -> 'Sort' -> 'Sort case sensitive'. (1228873)
• Recent files are remembered and can be opened from the File menu. The maximum number of recent files shown can be set in the Preferences dialog. Set the maximum to zero to disable this feature. (1191707)
• The last modification time of tasks can be viewed.

Release 0.46 - August 12, 2005

Bugs fixed:

• In the effort views, the status bar would show information about tasks, not about effort.
• Entering a negative effort duration while using a non-english language would crash Task Coach. (1250177)
• Having a two letter language string (e.g. 'en') in the TaskCoach.ini file would cause an error in the preferences dialog. (1247506)

Features added:

• Double-clicking the system tray icon when Task Coach is not minimized will raise the Task Coach window. (1242520)
• Added Spanish translation thanks to Juan José.

Feature changed:

• Keyboard shortcut for deleting a task is now 'Delete' instead of 'Ctrl-D' and 'Ctrl-Enter' marks the selected task(s) completed. (1241549)

Implementations changed:

• Task ids are now persistent, i.e. they are saved to and loaded from the Task Coach (XML) file. This will make it easier, in the future, to keep tasks synchronized with external sources, e.g. Outlook.
• Task Coach now keeps track of the last modification time of tasks. These times are saved to and loaded from the Task Coach (XML) file. This change is also in preparation of synchronization functionality.

Release 0.45 - July 26, 2005

Bugs fixed:

• When tracking effort the task file would be marked as changed after every clock tick.
• Task priority can now be set to both positive and negative integers.
• Opening a help dialog before the splash screen disappeared would make Task Coach stop responding to input. Fixed by making the helpdialogs modeless (as they should be). (1241058)

Feature changed:

• Setting the start date of a subtask earlier than the start date of the parent task, or setting the due date of a subtask later than the due date of the parent task will adapt the parent start or due date as necessary. (1237634)

Release 0.44 - July 21, 2005

Feature added:

• Added Russian translation thanks to Valdimir Ilyash.

Release 0.43 - July 19, 2005

Bug fixed:

• Tree and list view were not updated correctly when changing sort key or sort order.

Release 0.42 - July 17, 2005

Bugs fixed:

• Double clicking a task with children in the tree view would open the edit dialog and expand or collapse the task as well. Fixed to not collapse or expand the task when double clicking it.
• Adding a subtask to a collapsed parent task now automatically expands the parent task.
• Changing the description of a task or effort record wouldn't mark the task file as changed.
• Time spent is now updated every second. (1173048)
• Don't try to make a backup when loading the file fails. Reported by Scott Schroeder.
• (Windows installer only) Association between .tsk files and Task Coach was broken.

Feature changed:

• The start date of a task can now be left unset, creating a task that is permanently inactive. This can be useful for activities that you would normally not want to plan, but have to keep a time record for, e.g. sickness.

Release 0.41 - June 20, 2005

Features added:

• URL's (including mailto) in task and effort descriptions are clickable. (1190310)
• Tasks can have a priority. Priorities are integer numbers: the higher the number, the higher the priority. Default priority is 0. Negative numbers are allowed (1194527, 1194567, 1210154)

Features changed:

• Default start date of new subtasks is today (used to be the start date of the parent task)
• When 'sort by status first' is on, active tasks always come before inactive tasks which in turn come before completed tasks, regardless of whether the sort order is ascending or descending.

Release 0.40 - June 16, 2005

Bug fixed:

• Budget left was rendered incorrectly when over budget. (1216951)

Feature added:

• Tasks can belong to zero or more categories. Tasks can be viewed/hidden by category. (1182172)

Release 0.39 - June 6, 2005

Bug fixed:

• When sorting by due date, composite tasks in the tree view are now sorted according to the most urgent subtask instead of the least urgent subtask.

Features added:

• Tasks can be sorted on all attributes (subject, start date, due date, budget, etc.) This includes options to sort ascending or descending and to first sort by status (active/inactive/completed).
• Sorting order can be changed by clicking on column headers.
• Added German translation, thanks to J. Martin.
• Minor view menu changes. (1189978)

Release 0.38 - May 22, 2005

Features added:

• Simplified Chinese user interface added, thanks to limodou.
• Autosave setting to automatically save after every change. (1188194)
• Backup setting to create a backup when opening a Task Coach file.
• Added preference dialog to edit preferences not related to the view settings.
• Now using gettext for i18n.

Release 0.37 - May 14, 2005

Bug fixed:

• Icons in tree view on Windows 2000. (1194654)

Features added:

• Columns in the task list view can be turned on/off by right-clicking on the column headers.
• Tasks can be sorted either by due date or alphabetically. (1177984)
• More options when editing an effort record.
• Used a new DatePickerCtrl. (1191909)

Release 0.36 - May 5, 2005

Bug fixed:

• Descriptions loose newlines after reload. (1194259)

Feature added:

• French user interface added, thanks to Jerome Laheurte.

Release 0.35 - May 2, 2005

Bugs fixed:

• Toolbar icons had a black background instead of a transparent background on some Windows platforms. (1190230)
• Package i18n was missing. (1190967)

Features added:

• Internationalization support. Task Coach is available with Dutch and English user interface. (1164461)
• Added 'expand selected task' and 'collapse selected task' menu items to the view menu and the task context menu. (1189978)

Feature removed:

• 'Select' -> 'Completed tasks'. This can be done through the View menu too.

Release 0.34 - April 25, 2005

Bugs fixed:

• msvcr71.dll was not shipped with the Windows installer. (1189311)
• Budgets larger than 24 hours were not written correctly to the XML file.
• Mark completed stops effort tracking of parent task. (1186667)

Release 0.33 - April 24, 2005

Bug fixed:

• The .tsk fileformat is now XML, making Task Coach fully unicode-enabled.

Release 0.32 - April 18, 2005

Bugs fixed:

• Task Coach failure on startup due to trying to add a column from the task list view to the effort view.
• Budget couldn't be filled in in the executable Windows distribution "LookupError: unknown encoding: latin1".
• Loading files with the executable Windows distribution failed. (1185259)

Release 0.31 - April 17, 2005

Bugs fixed:

• A unittest.py bug that was fixed in Python 2.4 revealed a bug in test.py. (1181714)
• When searching for a task that is completed, while the 'show completed' switch is off, the search shows the path to the task (i.e. parent tasks), but not the matched task itself. (1182528)
• When searching for tasks in the tree view, composite tasks are expanded automatically to show the children that match the search string. (1182528)
• Columns were hidden by setting their width to 0, but that did not make them entirely invisible on some Linux platforms. (1152566)
• When editing a subtask, sometimes its branch would be collapsed. (1179266)

Features added:

• In the task list and effort list the task column is automatically resized to take up the available space.
• Added columns to the task list view for: budget, total budget, budget left, and total budget left.
• Reorganized view menu, added extra task filters, added menu item to reset filters (1181762, 1178882, 1178780)
• The subject is selected in the task editor so that replacing it is a bit easier. (1180887)

Dependency changed:

• Task Coach migrated to Python 2.4.1 and wxPython 2.5.5.1. Added check to give friendly message if wxPython version is below the required version number.

Release 0.30 - April 11, 2005

Bug fixed:

• More than one task due today would crash Task Coach. (1180641)

Release 0.29 - April 10, 2005

Bugs fixed:

• New effort in the context menu did not work in release 0.28. (1178562)
• When selecting 'View' -> 'Completed tasks' in the task tree, only completed root tasks were hidden. (1179372)

Features added:

• What tab is active is now a persistent setting. This includes the tabs and choices in the main window and the effort choices in the task editor. (1178779)
• Reordered 'View' -> 'Tasks due before end of' menu. (1178880)
• Added a separate 'Budget' tab in the task editor.
• Taskbar icon now indicates whether task effort tracking is on. (1178057)
• Effort is sorted from most recent to least recent. (1179332)
• Changed task/subtask separator in the task list view from '|' to ' -> '. (1179374)

Release 0.28 - April 6, 2005

Bugs fixed:

• Hitting return or double click to edit effort in the task editor now works. (1172164)
• Subtasks with the same name would only be visible once in the task tree view.

Feature added:

• You can hide composite tasks in the task list view so that only leaf tasks are visible. Menu item 'View' -> 'Tasks with subtasks'. Requested by Brian Crounse.

Release 0.27 - April 4, 2005

Feature added:

• Tasks can have a budget.

Release 0.26 - March 28, 2005

Bugs fixed:

• Marking a task completed did not stop effort tracking. (1159918)
• Reading lots of efforts was slow.

Features added:

• Save button is disabled when saving is not necessary, requested by Mike Vorozhbensky. (1164472)
• Effort records have a description field, requested by Kent. (1167147)

Release 0.25 - March 13, 2005

Bug fixed:

• The menu item 'Effort' -> 'New effort' did not work in release 0.24.

Features added:

• XML export now includes effort records.
• Effort per day, per week and per month view now also show total time spent (i.e. time including time spent on subtasks).

Release 0.24 - March 10, 2005

Bugs fixed:

• Saving a selection of tasks to a separate file would also save all effort records to that file (instead of just the effort records for the selected tasks), giving errors when loading that file.
• Deleting a task with effort records would not delete the effort records.

Feature added:

• The tracking status of tasks is saved. So if you start tracking a task, quit Task Coach, and restart Task Coach later, effort for that task is still being tracked. Requested by Bob Hossley.

Release 0.23 - February 20, 2005

Bug fixed:

• Fixed a couple of bugs in the unit tests, discovered by Stephen Boulet and Jerome Laheurte on the Linux platform.

Release 0.22 - February 17, 2005

Bugs fixed:

• In the effort summary view, effort spent on a task in the same month or week but in different years would erroneously be added. E.g. effort in January 2004 and January 2006 would be added.
• The mechanism to prevent effort periods with a negative duration (i.e. a start time later than the stop time) in the effort editor was invoked on each key stroke which caused inconvenient behaviour. Fixed it by only invoking it when the user leaves the text or combo box.

Features added:

• Added possibility to start tracking effort for a task, with start time equal to the end time of the previous effort period. This is for example convenient if you stop working on a task and then spend some time deciding on what to do next. This is the 'Start tracking from last stop time' menu item in the 'Effort' menu.
• (Re)Added the unittests to the source distribution. See INSTALL.txt.
• Export to XML. Currently limited to tasks, effort is not exported yet.

Release 0.21 - February 9, 2005

Bugs fixed:

• Setting the start date/time in the effort editor would change the stop date/time while not strictly necessary to prevent negative durations.
• Refreshing the virtual ListCtrl failed under wxPython2.5-gtk2-unicode-2.5.3.1-fc2_py2.3 and wxPython-common-gtk2-unicode-2.5.3.1-fc2_py2.3. Reported by Stephen Boulet.
• After iconizing the main window for a second time, the icon in the task bar wouldn't be hidden anymore. Reported and fixed by Jerome Laheurte.

Release 0.20 - February 6, 2005

Bugs fixed:

• Reading .tsk files version 2 failed.
• Completed child tasks were not hidden in the tree view when 'View->Completed tasks' was on.
• Hiding the find panel did not clear the search filter.
• When searching for tasks, not all matches were shown in the tree view.
• Displaying time spent and total time spent in the list view for more than a dozen tasks and efforts was slow. Used caching to speed it up.
• Tool tips on the toolbar included mnemonics and accelerator characters on Linux. Reported on python-2.3.4 and wxPython2.5-gtk2-unicode-2.5.3.1-fc2_py2.3 on Suse 9.2 by Stephen Boulet.

Features added:

• Effort can be viewed summarized per day, per week, and per month.
• Effort for a specific task can be viewed (and edited) in the task editor.
• Effort tracking can be stopped from the taskbar menu.
• Size and position of the main window are saved in the settings and restored on the next session. This also includes whether the main window is iconized or not.
• Splash screen can be turned off.