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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>

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