May 5th, 2012· task reparenting
· stop task button in thumbnail
April 21st, 2012· database encryption and password protection
· safe mode
February 6th, 2012New kind of data stored for individual work items in database:
· rate per hour
· flag "invoiced"
Changes to the Work Item Registry window:
· ability to choose which columns should be displayed
· new available columns: rate & invoiced
· ability to filter records by flag "invoiced" (3-state)
· filtering by flag "hidden" enhanced to 3-state
Changes to the Task Tree window:
· ability to filter work items by flag "invoiced" (3-state)
· filtering by flag "hidden" enhanced to 3-state
· task visibility control always shown
· added a readonly box to show path of the current task
Changes to the Modify Task dialog box:
· ability to control how changed task rate should impact rates for existing work items
Copy Work Items to Clipboard (command):
· includes rate & flag "invoiced"
· two commands in menu: copy with/without header
· main window flashes to confirm operation
Changes to the Export Wizard dialog box:
· ability to choose new columns to be exported: rate & flag "invoiced"
· ability to filter exported work items by flag "invoiced"
Changes to the Database Conversion wizard:
· conversion classic-to-express must be extra confirmed due to data loss during such a conversion
· graphical changes
Restore environment (setting):
· windows are restored any time a database is opened
· position of child windows is ensured to be completely within main window
Settings/Configuration:
· layout of controls changed due to how "restore environment" now works
· ability to set format for currencies
· affected GUI: work item registry, status bar, task create/modify
Application toolbar:
· An icon added for the "MapleXp Configuration" command
September 9th, 2011· Quit MapleXp command in Windows 7 thumbnail preview
· Initial focus changed in "Stop & Review" dialog box
· Changes in application menus (Edit / View)
· Database conversion demo --> demo allowed.
August 29th, 2011· Demo Mode - ability to test "classic" features before donating
· Conversion Wizard - integrated into open command
August 1st, 2011· A new feature of this release is a "Restart Manager".
July 25th, 2011· The version merges the two editions (MapleXp Express and MapleXp Classic) into one installation package.
July 25th, 2011The version brings improvements in two areas:
· Message Center - new category of messages added
· Update Center - automatic background updates
July 25th, 2011· The main feature of this version is a message center - non-critical exceptions will not go unnoticed anymore.
January 9th, 2011New features:
· Start task continuously from notification area menu.
· Task rate feature (requires "gold" license)
Improvements:
· Sharing violation exception (on database open) does not remove the database from the list of recently used databases.
· Setting to remember last database even if it was closed before application quit.
· More granular controls for "restore environment" options.
· Work items registry - filter dates controlled to meet requirement "date-from"
November 30th, 2010· Final release (non-beta) along with updated documentation
August 26th, 2010Improvements:
· Current license shown in status bar.
Changes:
· Personal registration not longer required.
August 19th, 2010· Improvements
· Hidden task filtering: drop down list replaced with toolbar icons.
· Task chooser: expand/collapse all context menu commands added.
· Bug Fixes
· Restart work item menu command: no 'locked' icon was displayed for unregistered users.
· Statistics (tasks window): 'include hidden' always enabled if no proper license present.
August 9th, 2010New feature:
· Hidden tasks. (archiving)
Improvements:
· Tasks can be deleted directly from the "Task Modification" window.
· Work items can be deleted directly from the "Work Item Modification" window.
May 18th, 2010Changes:
· License file format changed.
· Only private licenses handled.
Improvements:
· Only database filename shown in status bar. Full path available in tooltip.
· Present setting for "time quantum" shown in status bar.
· Controls in the summary panel in the Tasks window replaced with a single list control.
Fixes:
· The "Review Workitem" dialog was not shown after it has been decided to register a "too short" work item.
May 4th, 2010New Feature:
· MapleXp is available as both native and 32-bit .NET image.
Improvement:
· MapleXp can run agains all version of SQL CE 3.5 (RTM/SP1/SP2).
Changes:
· The work items windows has two columns to show durations: exact and with time quantum.
· The tasks windows has two panels to show total time: exact and with time quantum.
April 20th, 2010Bug Fixes:
· Option "never show in task bar" hasn't worked since version 1.5.
· Recently used databases were incorrectly loaded from configuration.
Changes:
· Main form title set to plain "MapleXp One".
April 19th, 2010New feature:
· Command to restart work item.
Improvements:
· Time threshold setting for warning before starting tasks continuously.
· Time threshold setting for warning before restarting work item.
January 18th, 2010· Notification balloons, if enabled, appeared every 30 secs not at the set interval
January 18th, 2010· Expand All/Collapse All commands in task tree.
· Multiline task descriptions.
· Multiline work item descriptions.
December 21st, 2009· Command to start task continuously.
· Duplicate Work Item Today command.
October 26th, 2009News:
· Licensing model introduced for MapleXp.
Improvements:
· The "container" flag to mark task that can be used only for grouping purposes
June 14th, 2009· Application settings such as windows positions were not saved correctly if MapleXp quited as result of user logoff or computer shutdown.
June 4th, 2009· Bug Fixes
· Wrong icon (stop) displayed in the dialog box shown after export has been successfully accomplished.
· Settings dialog box would crash depending on the installed language packages of the .net framework and selected date/time format.
· Some of antivirus software reported a false positive for MapleXp installer.
May 28th, 2009New:
· German translation.
Improvements:
· Works with SQL Compact 3.5 with and without SP1. (previous version required SP1)
· Task & Summary windows combined into one window.
· "Stop task" and "Stop & Review Task" commands added to the task hierarchy menu. (both main and context menu)
March 5th, 2009· "Active tasks" renamed to "Pinned tasks" to avoid confusion.
· New icons for the task hierarchy control (regular/pinned/running).
· Notification area task menu: check box is put next to a task only if the task is running.
January 24th, 2009Fixes:
· Context menu in the notification area crashed application in some scenarios
January 19th, 2009Improvements:
· Tasks & Summary: task creation time can be shown in the status bar. (optionally)
· Summary: simplified view - information on task removed. (available in the status bar)
New Features:
· Work Items: new command "Duplicate Work Item"
October 1st, 2008Improvements:
· Export settings are saved and restored between sessions.
· Small donation reminder window added.
New Features:
· "Copy Work Items to Clipboard" command copies currently displayed work items to the Clipboard where from this data can be pasted into a spreadsheet or other application.
· "Start Same Task" command (available for work items) starts a new job for the same task and with the same description as the selected work items.
Fixes:
· If the "minimalize on close" option was on and the close button was clicked the main application window was indeed minimalized but also database connection was closed.
August 15th, 2008· Work items; total time shown in status bar.
· Work items; sorting by task name.
· Option to minimize main application window (instead of quitting application) when the close button is clicked.
July 22nd, 2008· Work Items window displays number of records in the status bar.
· Work Items window has now capability of filtering records by task name and/or by comment.
· New work items can be now created with todays date or on the same day as the selected record on the list.
· The tasks window has no status bar any more. Status information is displayed now on the status bar of the main application window.
June 25th, 2008· List of work items is populated much faster (many times) than in previous versions.
· Export; export periods can be selected from a predefined list.
· Export; after you have clicked "selected task" option you are automatically moved to another screen to select tasks.
· Export; number of selected task is shown next to the "selected task" radio button
March 25th, 2008· Tasks start with a blank description.
· Setting for the Statistics window: "use days - number of hours to be considered 1 day" allows for a user defined value
March 17th, 2008· Tasks' active flag can be changed directly from the menu. (including context menu)
· Description of a running task cannot be changed any longer in the Task Controller window.
February 29th, 2008· Application crashed when any top level task was started and MapleXp notification icon was visible.
February 25th, 2008· Task are always identified by their full names.
· The task path column removed from export; now task names are always fully qualified
January 8th, 2008· In work items window task paths are displayed instead of bare task names.
December 27th, 2007· MapleXp uses now Microsoft SQL Compact Edition 3.5 engine as it database instead of Microsoft Access. (current databases can be converted to the new format)
· Fixed: Export: all task were always exported even if the user's choice was a set of tasks.
· Improvement: MapleXp windows have new look - Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 native.
September 14th, 2007· New Features: support for Chinese
· Fixes: in some advanced scenarios the Settings dialog box crashed when non-english language was selected for formatting dates and application interface
· Fixes: some date time pickers used to open a calendar when clicked instead of having up/down arrows for settings the time
· Fixes: MapleXp icon was missing in Windows Alt Tab dialog box
· Improvements: choice of application language in the settings dialog box- it is possible to choose "use system default"
· Improvements: change log contents is shown in the language selected for help
August 15th, 2007· in the MapleXp menu, the tick at the Task Controller command didn't work correctly
· in Windows 98/ME application crashed in the Export Wizard when user tried to export selected tasks
· some dialog boxes had their minimize and maximize buttons enabled
· state of MapleXp windows wasn't correctly maintained when the application button was shown or hidden in Windows taskbar. (windows weren't opened after application restart, application title contained duplicated names of child windows etc)
August 1st, 2007· JobPad; active tasks in combo box sorted
· Notification area; submenu with active tasks sorted
· Notification area; tooltip; path identification applied
· Updated help files
April 4th, 2007· Updated manuals and help files
March 30th, 2007· This version of MapleXp runs on Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 and has been prepared to be used with Windows Vista (both 32 and 64 bit)
· A new format of configuration file is used; application will start with default settings.
March 26th, 2007· In some scenarios application menu bar disappeared after restoring from the notification area.
· In some scenarios when using notification area menu application crashed with the message "Windows API procedure "ShowContextMenu" failed. Win32 error code is 0."
January 27th, 2007· Individual work items can be reassigned to other tasks
· List of recently used databases
· Improvements: settings; choice of application language is now restricted to languages for which respective language packs have been installed
· Improvements: settings; help language; a warning is displayed if help system is not installed for the selected language
November 8th, 2006· Added Export wizard
· Added time quantum of 6 minutes
· Added icons to distinguish archival and non-archival projects
· Added icons to distinguish active and non-active tasks
· Corrected language of the message about a successful export
· Behaviour of balloons in Windows 2000 corrected
June 25th, 2006· HtmlHelp system and PDF manuals updated
· change log list didn't display the text "you have the most recent version of software installed" when appropriate
· date time pickers used the wrong formats for dates (dependent on installed version of Windows instead of on user choice of application language
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