I'm lovin' the new functions. Just thought you might like to hear some feedback from having used it last night.
1) MULTIPLE PROJECTS: I've been aching for this for ages. I really love it. What I love about your implementation is that it's so simple and compact. I use your time to track multiple projects / billable hours. I just love it.
2) POSTION AWARENESS. I have two screens. At my desk, I have a large LCD screen, my primary screen, and a G4 PowerBook which I use as the "secondary" screen. I like to keep my biz tools over there: Address Book, OmniOutliner, iTunes and Clockwork. If I Quit and relaunch Clockwork, it positions the interface back on my primary monitor, not where I left it.
3) ADJUSTING TIME: I really miss the little arrows from HB Timer that allowed me to adjust the hours, mins, secs with a few clicks of my mouse. I don't like the way the text stays highlighted.
4) TITLE: would be nice to have the current timer's title listed in the interface so I can be sure I'm adding time to the right project.
5) TIMER SWITCHING: would be great to be able to switch between projects when the GUI is in its smallest/minimal state.
6) ENTER KEY: not wild about the enter key starting/stopping the clock. To me, the enter key just means 'confirm'.
Thanks again for supporting and developing this s/w. I use it throughout the day and it's a big part of keeping my business on track.
Thanks for posting your
Thanks for posting your feedback here.
That’s a good idea, though I’m not immediatly sure how to make it work, so i probably won’t start this immedialty. Would you mind posting an official feature request for this. To do that choose the Clockwork menu Help > Request New Feature… and then fill in the web page form. Once posted you can also vote on it to let me know how important it is to you. I’m hoping this system will make it easier for me to prioritize my time.
I removed the arrows because they added some complexity to the program and I wanted to get this first version done as soon as possible, but note that you can still click on a number to increment it, or shift click to decrement it. You can also use the up and down arrow keys to change numbers, as well as entering then with the keyboard number keys. My hope is that this Clockwork’s approach is more functional and easy to use then HBTimers arrows were.
This bothers me too sometimes, but I’m not sure what the solution should be. The text is highlighted when it is editable and the text field has focus. This indicates that you can use the arrow keys and number keys to change the time. I think that’s fairly standard and good.
But maybe unlike standard text field we should remove forcus when the mouse is clicked somewhere (such as window title) that normally wouldn’t change the focus? I’m not sure, does anyone else have ideas on this?
I’m not sure that I would like this by default, it would make the interface look more busy especially for a timer with a long title. But it should be possible to make an applescript that will do this. I’ll look into this.
This should also be possible with applescript. I don’t want to clutter the interface with extra gui controls, but I could make a script that will select the next timer. So things don’t get confusing i would need to combine this script with the previous show title script… This might be my afternoon fun project.
True, but it’s also a nice easy key to hit. The spacebar might be a better choice, but I can’t get that to show up as a keyshortcut in the Timer menu. And now Command-Spacebar is taken by spotlight. Other thoughts out there?