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A comment on the idea "Better Spaces support in Check Off" in Second Gear:

The way Check Off's window is designed kind of prevents it from behaving like a standard app window. It's actually a sheet that is dropping from an invisible/ghost window. I may change it in the future to be more Spaces friendly, but it didn't make it into 4.0. – Justin Williams, on September 17, 2009 03:47

Justin Williams posted an update in Second Gear on September 15, 2009 20:39:

Check Off 4.0.2 Beta 2

Hi,

I believe I have what can be considered a release candidate for Check Off 4.0.2. Please give it a whirl and let me know if you run into any issues.

Please DO NOT submit this build to MacUpdate, VersionTracker or any other software update service. This is a beta quality build that is not intended for general use. Please only download this build if you are comfortable using beta quality software that has bugs and may do shameful things to your Mac.

What's Changed Since Beta 1

- Rewrote portion of data exporter so that it doesn't lock up for users with larger data lists.
- Fixed an errant PPC crasher

What's Changed Since 4.0.1

- Updated crash reporter to handle 10.6 better. Please send crash reports if you generate them.
- Resolved a few garbage collector related crashers
- Resolved a few issues in the 4.0 data migration script.
- Addedgradient behind toolbar items to give them a bit more pop.
- Resolved issue where creating a new task or folder while editing an existing one would not retain the edited values
- Updated Check Off's outline view to no longer toss warnings about reloading data while editing an existing item

Known Issues

- None

There is no Sparkle updating for the build as it is a beta. You can download it from:

http://www.secondgearsoftware.com/dow...

Please report issues via the Second Gear support email address (support at secondgearsoftware dot com).

Justin Williams posted an update in Second Gear on September 09, 2009 16:57:

Check Off 4.0.2 Beta 1

Hi,

I'm working on a larger scale change for the next Check Off release, but I thought I'd go ahead and get out the existing changeset for the next release as a beta so users can test it and send in any issues they have with it.

Please DO NOT submit this build to MacUpdate, VersionTracker or any other software update service. This is a beta quality build that is not intended for general use. Please only download this build if you are comfortable using beta quality software that has bugs and may do shameful things to your Mac.

What's Changed

- Updated crash reporter to handle 10.6 better. Please send crash reports if you generate them.
- Resolved a few garbage collector related crashers
- Resolved a few issues in the 4.0 data migration script.
- Addedgradient behind toolbar items to give them a bit more pop.
- Resolved issue where creating a new task or folder while editing an existing one would not retain the edited values
- Updated Check Off's outline view to no longer toss warnings about reloading data while editing an existing item

Known Issues

- Exporting will lock up if you have a giant list.
- There may still be some PPC-related crashers. I can't reproduce locally, but if you can, please send in the crash reports.

There is no Sparkle updating for the build as it is a beta. You can download it from:

http://www.secondgearsoftware.com/dow...

Please report issues via the Second Gear support email address (support at secondgearsoftware dot com).

A comment on the discussion "Check Off 4.0: What Do You Want?" in Second Gear:

Syncing Mac to Mac interests me and is something I am planning to investigate.

Syncing to the iPhone is not currently on my radar for technical reasons as well as political reasons dealing with the AppStore. Not to mention that it is a completely separate product that takes time and resources to build.

That opinion may change in the future, but if you're waiting to pull the trigger on whether to buy the app or not based on a companion iPhone app, I'd tell you to look elsewhere at this time. – Justin Williams, on August 25, 2009 17:25

Justin Williams set one of Justin Williams' replies as an official response to "html export in Check off_3.8 not working correctly" in Second Gear

Justin Williams replied on August 17, 2009 03:54 to the problem "html export in Check off_3.8 not working correctly" in Second Gear:

This is fixed in 4.0 (presently in beta).

Justin Williams set one of Justin Williams' replies as an official response to "Download PocketTweets How???" in Second Gear

Justin Williams replied on August 17, 2009 03:53 to the question "Download PocketTweets How???" in Second Gear:

PocketTweets is no longer available as its been usurped by far superior native iPhone applications like Tweetie and Birdfeed.

Justin Williams set one of Justin Williams' replies as an official response to "why does check off attempt to make network connections via nmblookup?" in Second Gear

Justin Williams replied on August 17, 2009 03:53 to the question "why does check off attempt to make network connections via nmblookup?" in Second Gear:

I have no idea. The only thing that would be making a network connection in Check Off is checking the Sparkle update feed on the secondgearsoftware.com site. There's no other networking related code in the application.

Justin Williams set one of Justin Williams' replies as an official response to "Transfering my Check Off list from mac to mac" in Second Gear

Justin Williams replied on August 17, 2009 03:52 to the problem "Transfering my Check Off list from mac to mac" in Second Gear:

The Library is stored in [Home]/Library/Preferences/com.carpeaqua.checkoff.plist

Justin Williams set one of Justin Williams' replies as an official response to "Delete it, it's gone forever ?!?" in Second Gear

Justin Williams replied on August 17, 2009 03:51 to the problem "Delete it, it's gone forever ?!?" in Second Gear:

Undo is presently not supported in Check Off. It's something I plan to address in a future release.

Justin Williams replied on June 28, 2009 13:02 to the idea "How attached are you to the menu-bar attachment?" in Second Gear:

Ok. Here's a tease.

Here's how the window attaches presently (ignore the clipped edges. It's under construction). The window subtly/quickly fades in and out.

A comment on the idea "How attached are you to the menu-bar attachment?" in Second Gear:

Not ready to commit to what's going to be in 4.0 yet. I scrapped the old codebase and started from scratch rewriting everything using Mac OS X Leopard. I'm just now getting it back to where 3.8 was in terms of functionality and am modernizing the UI. Feedback on how the window attaches is part of that. – Justin Williams, on June 28, 2009 12:58

A comment on the idea "How attached are you to the menu-bar attachment?" in Second Gear:

My dislike of preferences has to do with me not wanting to maintain multiple window styles just to please everyone. I'd rather please myself and a majority with a default window style and be done with it. Less code to maintain.

I'm still not sold on doing the free-floating window, but I'm also not a fan of how I have it attached to the window right now either. – Justin Williams, on June 28, 2009 12:57

A comment on the idea "How attached are you to the menu-bar attachment?" in Second Gear:

The sheet animation from 3.0 is gone. I'm just toying with what to replace it with. I am not a fan of preferences, so I'm opening up what to do as the replacement for feedback. – Justin Williams, on June 27, 2009 18:54

Justin Williams replied on June 27, 2009 18:36 to the idea "How attached are you to the menu-bar attachment?" in Second Gear:

I should have been more clear. The black check will still be in the menu-bar, but I'm curious about whether people actually want the Check off window attached to the menu bar or free floating.

Justin Williams replied on June 27, 2009 15:52 to the discussion "Check Off 4.0: What Do You Want?" in Second Gear:

I'd love to get everyone's feedback on something I'm considering for Check Off 4: ditching the menu-bar attachment. Please comment over on this thread with your thoughts:

http://getsatisfaction.com/secondgear...