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priomsrb / lighttasks

A simple and lightweight task timer
http://priomsrb.github.com/lighttasks/
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Feature Request - Export #13

Open TheWanderingCoder opened 9 years ago

TheWanderingCoder commented 9 years ago

Firstly, congratulations on making a task timer which not only seems to be one of the only timers that can record multiple tasks at once, is by far the easiest task timer to use out of the 20 or so I have tried out and that can also accept Japanese language input for tasks (one of the biggest problems in finding software is being able to use Japanese characters). As I saw by the previous Feature Request, you seem to not be so active on this project at the moment but for when you do get back to it I have the following request.

I was wondering if it would be possible at all to have some kind of export function so as time spent recording the times would be kept to a minimum. Ideally a .csv type would be helpful but really, any way of exporting the data would be a great help.

Thanks in advance for your consideration and I hope all the coding goes your way.

priomsrb commented 9 years ago

Hi there! Sorry for the delay in my reply.

Thanks. Fortunately, lighttasks uses the Qt framework which automatically takes care of things like Japanese input :).

I think there might already be an export button in the task history dialog. I'll check to make sure if it was included in the last release. On 8 Jan 2015 12:21, "TheWanderingCoder" notifications@github.com wrote:

Firstly, congratulations on making a task timer which not only seems to be one of the only timers that can record multiple tasks at once, is by far the easiest task timer to use out of the 20 or so I have tried out and that can also accept Japanese language input for tasks (one of the biggest problems in finding software is being able to use Japanese characters). As I saw by the previous Feature Request, you seem to not be so active on this project at the moment but for when you do get back to it I have the following request.

I was wondering if it would be possible at all to have some kind of export function so as time spent recording the times would be kept to a minimum. Ideally a .csv type would be helpful but really, any way of exporting the data would be a great help.

Thanks in advance for your consideration and I hope all the coding goes your way.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/priomsrb/lighttasks/issues/13.

TheWanderingCoder commented 9 years ago

No problems! We all have lives outside of coding.

I couldn't find the task history or the export button. Right Click Context menus also didn't bring me any joy. Did I miss it somewhere?

priomsrb commented 9 years ago

Thanks for understanding. I do hope I get a chance to do some coding on this project soon.

Now there is good news and bad news. Good news is that the export functionality has already been coded. Bad news is that it was coded after the last release. So the only way to see it currently is to compile the code yourself.

Since I haven't touched this code in quite a while, it will take some work to port the existing code to Qt 5 and make a new release. But once the release is out, you should have the feature you requested :)

TheWanderingCoder commented 9 years ago

Thanks for such a quick reply.

I like the good news but unfortunately apart from PHP my coding skills are non-existent at the moment. I will hold out for when you manage to get the release out.

Thanks in advance.