OmniOutliner-Users digest, Vol 1 #190 - 2 msgs

[Brian C.]

Peter -
We're not really sure what's going on there with the date formatter, 
but it's a bug, and we'll fix it in a future release. Thanks for 
bringing that to our attention. I'll also write up a feature request 
that we increase the degree of precision used for fractions of an hour.

Regarding the column type pop-up - do you mean that you're seeing the 
inspector section actually close itself, or are you seeing some other 
phenomenon. I did discover that selecting Type: Pop-Up will deselect 
the column that you're changing; while that's a bug, I'm not sure it's 
the one you were trying to report...

  If you have any other questions or suggestions, please don't hesitate 
to contact me. When replying, please include the quoted text of this 
message. We really appreciate your help!

Sincerely,

Brian C.
Support Manager
Omni Group



On Thursday, December 5, 2002, at 12:02  PM, 
omnioutliner-users-request at omnigroup.com wrote:

> Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 20:25:59 +1100
> Subject: Date and duration columns in OO 2.1.1
> From: Peter Gallagher <reg at inquit.com>
> To: omnioutliner-users at omnigroup.com
>
> When they first appeared I had high hopes for these column types. But I
> find that they remain almost unusable, unfortunately.
>
> Date type: I want to enter a time in normal AM/PM format. I choose the
> "05:45" format and enter either "15:45" or "3:45" in the column.
> Inexplicably, OO registers BOTH times as "03:45". That is,
> quarter-to-four in the morning! So I have to choose the 24 hour clock
> time format.
>
> Duration type: No matter which format I choose ('custom' is on the
> drop-down list but doesn't appear to be available, in fact) the results
> that OO produces are rounded down to an hour or a fraction of an hour
> to one decimal place. So I can't record a duration of (say) 15 minutes!
> Why not? If I enter 15, OO assumes I mean 15 hours. If I enter 0.25, OO
> lets me have only 0.2.
>
> These really seem to be minor programming issues. Could they be given
> some attention please?
>
> [A minor annoyance compared to these is that the Info dialog collapses
> the column type pane every time I make a selection of a type. Grrr....]
>
> Thank you
>
> Peter Gallagher