James Woodall

ToolTask 1.2

I've been away for such a long time and decided in 9 months that it was about time I finally released the next version of ToolTask.

Well, whats new:
ICalendar and VCalendar support!

Finally, non Outlook users can use my software.

A (small) list of supported applications can be found on my site at: http://www.jwsoft.co.uk/ToolTask/app.asp

If you know of any other applications then please contact me and I will add soon.

Download can be found here:
http://www.jwsoft.co.uk/ToolTask

Regards,

-james

ToolTask (Progress Update)

Hi,

Over the past few weeks I have received alot of email regarding ToolTask and its current status.

Unfortunately (or fortunately) my 3 month stint of unemployment has ceased and I now work for a respectable web-design company as a Programmer.  This has put me off development for tooltask for the time being but since I have received so many emails about Version 1.2 I might aswell put the final efforts into fixing it.

Currently it can save in 3 different formats (Outlook Task, vCalendar, iCalendar) but the vCal and iCal formats are a bit dodgy.

As to whether I will release the source-code is another matter since it will require alot of time to tidy it up (I am not a naturally tidy person when it comes to code) but I assure you all that the source is on track for release some time in the near future.

I would like to thank you all for your interest in this 'hobby project' of mine and I assure you that you won't be disappointed with coming releases.

ToolTask V1.2 BETA

I know it hasn't been long since Version 1.1 but 1.2 is now around the corner and it looks like it is going to be a bigger one than the previous.

This version comes with support for other software apart from Microsoft Outlook so will require more substantial testing.  I also plan to release the source-code for 1.2 so it needs to be very stable.

Please can you register your interest and support by email me at <ADDRESS REMOVED DUE TO MOUNTAINS OF SPAM!!!>

Many thanks

James

ToolTask V1.1

ToolTask Version 1.1 is now complete and is ready to download from Here.

Version 1.1 includes the new history feature that allows you to easily revisit pages that were recently 'Tasked'.
Edit: This version also included the Comment feature that can be applied to any task

IE ToolBand Custom Control Issues

I decided to add a drop-down button to ToolTask. Realising I would have to write this manually (the ToolBarButton only exists within a ToolBar control) I started off by implementing it into a simple Form and then plan to just add it to my DeskBand control like any other control.  After a while I completed this and it worked fine under the Form but as soon as it was hosted in IE things started to go wrong!

The button consists of 2 buttons, a Text button and a Drop-Down button.  The idea being that when the mouse hovers over the entire control the state should be 'hot'.  For some reason the mouse enter and leave events (while hosted in Internet Explorer) were being thrown in a different order to when it was running under the simple form.  This meant that when the mouse moved from one section to the other there were major state drawing issues (half hot, half not).

There is no logical explanation to this so I had to write a messy hack which now gives some flicker when the mouse moves from one section to the other.

If anybody else has had any problems with ToolBands hosted in Internet Explorer please reply.

ToolTask

This is just a filler for the category 'ToolTask' in my blog.

ToolTask is an Internet Explorer plugin to allow people to set themselves reminders to view webpages.  It was written because I kept on forgetting what I needed to read and when.  Since 'favorites' is only basic I needed a better implementation.

It uses concepts and code defined in http://www.thecodeproject.com/csharp/dotnetbandobjects.asp but I am slowly drifting away from this code with subsquent releases.

The source code will be released eventually but needs tidying up at the moment.

Please see http://www.jwsoft.co.uk/ToolTask for more information