Hey Pottster, Great suggestion! I considered that as a workaround, but I couldn't decide what key to use. NumLock is a fantastic idea! I'll do that. I appreciate the offer for the script, thank you, but I've already got a remapping tool that changes the keyboard layout in the registry that I use to shut CAPS LOCK
On Thursday, 4 June 2015 11:53:33 UTC-4, pottster wrote: > > 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 >>> >>> >>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/a2a8b1cf-b094-4a94-8637-244d38f0d3b0%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
