[Announcement] The current status of MJournal

[mdw1982]

As of right now the program is a very strong beta: version 0.7.6.7. Most, if not all of the bugs have been dealt with. Now and then I still find something, though I believe that will always be the case. The Linux binary runs great! The windows binary is not far behind. The hold up is the extra care that needs taken because of the differences in the operating systems. Most of those are the way files are accessed and opened. Being very used to doing things on Linux systems, I sometimes forget how some simple things can be very different. I hope to have the Windows binary ready in the next few days. Just when I think I'm ready I find a few more items that need refactoring to get them right so they're the same no matter which platform the program is running on. I'm attempting to get this critter as Pythonic as possible.

[mdw1982]

Key bindings added to allow specific events to be triggered using the keyboard function keys. I know... very retro, but also handy. Back in the day that's how folks got around to different screen in dumb terminals: they used the F-keys! Imagine that!!!

• F1: opens howto file
• F4: Insert Date/Time value into the New/Update Entry
• F5: Update Entry
• F8: New Entry Window
• F9: Database Maintenance
• F11: Reload Tree Data (tree menu)
• F12: Exit the program.

[dweaver2015]

Bring the "File - Edit - Tools" bar along into the new entry and the update entry windows. Maybe have a dictionary function as well as a spell checker function. Can't remember the other couple of items we talked about but those are two that stuck in my head.

[mdw1982]

Can you elaborate a little more in regards to a dictionary?

On 1/20/23 19:42, David Weaver wrote:

Bring the "File - Edit - Tools" bar along into the new entry and the update entry windows. Maybe have a dictionary function as well as a spell checker function. Can't remember the other couple of items we talked about but those are two that stuck in my head.

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[mdw1982]

Bring the "File - Edit - Tools" bar along into the new entry and the update entry windows. Maybe have a dictionary function as well as a spell checker function. Can't remember the other couple of items we talked about but those are two that stuck in my head.

I was going over things today and getting caught up on new features and documentation... popped in here and saw this. I know... it's been a year. Anyway, To address your request adding the menu bar to the new entry window wouldn't be a big deal, but what would you do with it? The new entry window has a sole purpose and that's to make a journal entry; nothing fancy or elaborate. As for a spell checker.... not a bad idea at all. Lord knows I can't speel very well at all. Not because I can't but because I can't type. However, I'm definitely putting spell checker on the program's TODO list.

[mdw1982]

Bring the "File - Edit - Tools" bar along into the new entry and the update entry windows. Maybe have a dictionary function as well as a spell checker function.

Spell checker eh? I was sitting here working on documentation and the squirrels - which are constantly talking - got me to thinking... holy crap! it'd have to be realtime... then another one spoke up and hollered, "that's a hell of a lot of words to have to catalog!" So, I'm hoping there's a mod for that in Python. I am NOT going to write that critter on my own.