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Cool.

Well thanks a lot for all your hard work and the quick reply again.
It's a great application (menu bar item).. It's already super useful!

I'd love to play with it if you decide to release the source, but if not, no big deal.

Thanks again!
Nick

Two things, Justin: (1) Manipulating the slider produced no change in the opacity, no matter in what position I left it. When returning to the preferences dialog, my previous setting was retained but, again, moving to a different spot on the slider, including its extremes, changed nothing in terms of the opacity/transparency. If this is what you mean by the slider "not working", then, indeed, the slider is not working. When I initially entered the bug report I was assuming that the slider control itself was working (I could adjust it) but that its value wasn't being respected. However, (2) In re-using the app a moment ago, now Check Off seems to be working properly in this respect. Opacity is solid when the slider is set all the way to the left; transparency is quite high (much like the image I uploaded earlier) when it's all the way to the right. In the intervening time between now and when I submitted the bug report, I logged off and on (well, powered off and on) -- so that must be a key variable in correcting the phenomenon I described. As it was, I was seeing the transparency 'problem' immediately after installation.

Also, now that I can see the app better, I am noticing a couple of rendering problems: The application initially paints behind a window if that window would otherwise block it. Then, immediately after rendering behind the window, Check Off *and* that window are re-rendered such that Check Off is on top, which results in a slight blink-like effect. Shouldn't Check Off just render on top to start with?

And, finally, the left and right sides of the 'label' (rows that are colored), which are normally rendered with rounded corners, seem to render improperly as the window is getting re-sized. That is, a given label will have sharp, rectangular edges as the window is being re-sized (while the mouse is down) which are re-rendered as curved edges when the mouse is released. This phenomenon is not is not consistent but, for me, occurs about 90% of the time. Moreoever, if Check Off's application window is initially widened (rather than narrowed), the original, right-hand edge's rounded corners can be seen staying in place while, following to the right is a new 'extension' of the label in the correct color; but that 'extension' portion has sharp , 90-degree left corners, which are filled-in or overlayed with the label color after about 1 to 1.25 seconds (even if window resizing is still going on), ultimately giving the impression of a single solid horizontal bar of color. But in the intervening 1 second or so, that little gap in the label, obviously, shouldn't be visible. And, if the window is ever narrowed, the label's right-hand edge is truncated and is later (only after the mouse is released) rendered with curved corners. Open up iCal, create an appointment (which will show with curved corners), and then horizontally re-size iCals application frame. You'll see that the appointment item's rounded corners are constantly preserved.

And this brings to mind a question. Any plan to integrate/coordinate with iCal's "To Do" list--sort of what your Today app does for iCal appointments, but for the To Do's?

Thanks for the suggestions everyone. I'm hard at work on implementing a lot of these.

It's just objective-c/cocoa. I relicensed for a variety of political and personal reasons. I may release the 3.0 code as a historical archive once I ship the Check Off 4 rewrite.

I just wanted to figure out what language was used to build it.

What made you change your mind about the GPL?

It's freeware, effective whenever I did it. 2005 or 2006 maybe. What exactly are you trying to find out?

Wow, thanks for the quick reply!
Do you happen to have a copy of the current license and it's effective date?

Check Off is not GPL. It was relicensed years ago. There might be some ancient tarballs lying around on Google.

Try relaunching Today and see if it wipes out the issue.

Are you saying that the transparency slider isn't working for you? I don't quite follow.

THANK YOU THANK YOU! – CindyLou, on July 23, 2008 00:32

http://secondgearllc.com/checkoff/ I'm having some issues with Godaddy not forwarding the old site to the new domain. – Justin Williams, on July 23, 2008 00:26

http://secondgearllc.com/checkoff/ I'm having some issues with Godaddy not forwarding the old site to the new domain. – Justin Williams, on July 23, 2008 00:26

Hi Justin - I just had a major computer crash and now am trying to reinstall all my apps. I can't find where to re-download Check Off. Can you help me out with that? I rely on it quite heavily as a freelance retoucher. It has been a great help to keep track of multiple projects, clients, and hours worked on each to date. I'm feeling a little lost without it.
-cindylou
Also - as a note for the new release, having a way to sync with the iphone would be tremendous.

I love the Check Off program. There is only one thing that I was looking for...being able to sync with my iPhone. I noticed you said you were considering syncing with mobileme but would that include an app for the iPhone?
Thanks for program
Shannon

I think adding in photo uploading functionality including selecting a tag for the photo taken before upload would be nice. Also being able to just upload pictures, get geo location of them and allow you up tag before upload would be killer. Even AirMe does do that.

When it's done. I'm working on it in parallel with Today 1.3. It's a from scratch rewrite though, so I'm not sure how long it will take to get back to the 3.8 starting point. I think once I get to that point, I might start tossing out some private betas. – Justin Williams, on July 22, 2008 05:08

mobleme sync/ical sync/sync/sync/sync. I work on multiple computers and an iPhone. I love the easy to use interface but can't easily use a product that does not allow me to port my list between them. I also like headbirth's idea of a tabbed interface that would allow multiple sorted sublists to be set up. That would be very useful.

Do you have a target date for 4.0?

Having used my iPhone a bit more, a key feature in an upload application would be the ability to add photos to a batch and then upload them together, rather than one at a time.

I can see sense in having this as a separate application. Perhaps shaking Exposure launches the other app, but you can launch it independently. I know that Safari can be invoked in this manner, but I'm not sure if you can launch one app from another. Shades of Finder 6 Transfer....