Hi Alan,

I suspect this will not be possible, certainly in the short term.

Have you considered re-mapping the number pad keys. I have re-mapped my 
NumLock key since I always have this set to on. You could for instance, 
remap the NumLock key to a colon and that way you wouldn't take your hands 
from the numberpad. The easiest way to do this is using AutoHotKey. If you 
are familiar with AHK I can provide you with a script, if not, I can 
provide you with an .exe file. Let me know.

On Thursday, 4 June 2015 16:03:46 UTC+1, Alan Limebeer wrote:
>
> Wow! You know how some days you just feel like an idiot? I just had one of 
> those ones. After writing this novel, i posted it and looked at the top of 
> the topics list and what do I see? I pinned topic on adding feature 
> requests, that directs users to UserVoice, of all things. Grrrrrrr. D'oh.
>
> On Thursday, 4 June 2015 10:57:00 UTC-4, Alan Limebeer wrote:
>>
>> Hi MLO Team,
>>
>> I'm a (very) long time user of MLO, having first used it on a PocketPC 
>> Phone Edition (anyone remember those)? Long before Apple even started 
>> thinking about phones, Microsoft released the now long dead Windows CE. 
>> I've since moved on to (currently) being a registered Desktop, Android, and 
>> CloudSync user. In all the years I've searched for tools to fully implement 
>> a GTD process, nothing (among literally hundreds of products I've looked at 
>> over the years) has ever been able to come close to being able to do it all 
>> in one tool. Except for MLO (and one other tool that DavidCo developed 
>> internally, but it was based on Lotus Notes (uhg), and didn't have anywhere 
>> near the functionality of your amazing little piece of software. 
>>
>> I checked the website and couldn't find a specific method for submitting 
>> feature requests and product feedback so I thought I'd put it here, since I 
>> found a bunch of others already posted to this group when I did a search. 
>> As an aside, before I get into it, have you considered implementing 
>> UserVoice (https://www.uservoice.com/product/product-management/)? If 
>> you haven't heard of it, it's fantastic (at least from a user persepctive). 
>> There are a number of small development projects who make products that I 
>> use that have implemented it to gather feature requests from their user 
>> base. It does a whole lot more to support product development, apparently, 
>> but my experience with it is as a user. What makes it so fantastic from 
>> that point of view is that it maintains a list of features requested by the 
>> community, or suggested by the developers, and allows the users to vote on 
>> the features they'd most like to see. Each person gets a finite number of 
>> votes to apply, and can add one, two, or three votes to an item. These 
>> votes are then locked until either the user removes them to place somewhere 
>> else, the feature is implemented and the developer marks it complete, or 
>> it's retired.
>>
>> Anyway, I'm not posting about user voice. I wanted to ask if it would be 
>> possible to add a capability to time entry fields/controls. I live on 
>> 24-hour time and have all clocks in my life set to the 24-hour format. When 
>> ever I reference time in writing I simply have to type 4 digits. E.G. 7:39p 
>> = 1939; 3:07am = 0307.
>>
>> So far the only place I enter time data is in due dates and reminders, 
>> but since my workflow is heavily dependent on reminders I interact with 
>> these fields very often. What I'd like to be able to do is enter the time 
>> of a reminder just as I've described above, without having to put in the 
>> colon.
>>
>>
>> I realize this is a special case and, as a hobbyist developer myself, I 
>> understand that one tries to avoid special cases as much as possible, but 
>> this one in particular would be really really nice to have :)
>>
>> I know it probably doesn't seem like much, but since there's no : on the 
>> number pad, it's actually quite a distruptive shift to have to change over 
>> to the main keys, press shift then ;, then go back to the number pad to 
>> finish. In fact, even cooler would be, if I enter only two numbers, they be 
>> assumed to be the hour, and the minutes just set to :00.
>>
>> At the moment, when i try to enter time like this, the control thinks I'm 
>> entering a year, and blows up my date. I've attached a couple of screen 
>> shots to illustrate.
>>
>> I just spent an hour or so researching online the best practices for 
>> storing dates in software (datetime or separate date and time fields) and 
>> it looks to me like the controls that have been used conform to established 
>> best practices. I don't know how easy it to would be to code up the logic 
>> on the controls to evaluate for the condition I've asked for on the 
>> LeaveControl event, but if it's not too much trouble I'd really love it!
>>
>> Thanks so much for building such a fantastic product! You have a customer 
>> for life.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Alan Limebeer
>>
>>
>>
>>

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