Because of the File I/O system used, saving an Event List essentially deletes the old and writes the new under the same name and in the same location. Because of this, the Created and Modified fields in the Event List file Get Info window (in the Finder) will appear the same, and they will be the date/time of the last save. I hope this doesn’t cause anyone a problem.
Absurd Timestamps for DST
Times+ simply creates an Entry with two timestamps with one hour between them, either positive or negative, in order to compensate for Daylight Savings. When you view the Time Record these entries will have the Sequence# -1 and will have absurd date/time started and stopped, with either 60 or -60 minutes in between. Ignore the date/times, they don’t affect the Event at all. It is the total time which is important in this case. A future version of Times+ will directly support compensation Entries rather than this work-around method.
Display Field Flicker
I have noticed, on some machines, that the text fields which are constantly updated flicker. I used the standard Prograph Text objects for this, and my guess is that they were not designed with constant updating in mind. Should this prove to be annoying enough, I will create my own text fields which draw the update directly, eliminating any possible flicker.
Menu Problems
It seems that, because the menus created/used by the Prograph System classes are “non-standard” (i.e. internal instances rather than external resources) some menu modification extensions will play with the display a bit. For instance, “Open…” gets a hollow square box rather than an arrow from Super Boomerang, which modifies it to be a hierarchical menu for quickly opening files. Otherwise, things work fine, including the menu item, the sub-menu, and Super Boomerang.
Text Field Acts Strange
This is a bug which I cannot track down. It’s not tied to an extension, and I’m almost positive it has nothing to do with my code. It’s very erratic. Sometimes the cursor will not show up in an Edit Text field. Hiliting acts funny to. You can still edit text, it’s just annoying to lose the visual feedback. I get it in the View Time Record window, and a Beta tester got it in the Main window Notes field. Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn’t. I believe I’ve found a work around to eliminate it, and have not experienced it since implementing the work around, but since I don’t understand the problem to begin with I’m not absolutely confident that it will not show up for users despite my work around. It’s just annoying but won’t harm anything.
