Task Coach Portable 0.69.2 Pre-Release 5

I just tried installing it and I get this nsis error:

Installer integrity check has failed. Common causes include incomplete download and damaged media. Contact the installer's author to obtain a new copy.

I have re-downloaded and got the same error.

I can't get a good download. Is the server having trouble?

I tried it and it worked initially, but when I tried to re-start Task Coach, I got the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "taskcoach.pyw", line 4, in
File "taskcoach.pyo", line 89, in start
File "taskcoach.pyo", line 43, in __init__
File "taskcoach.pyo", line 80, in init
File "gui\iocontroller.pyo", line 40, in openAfterStart
File "gui\iocontroller.pyo", line 74, in open
File "gui\iocontroller.pyo", line 177, in __removeRecentFile
File "config\settings.pyo", line 99, in getlist
File "", line 1
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I copied and pasted this error out of the TaskCoach.exe.log

I'm running Vista Ultimate SP1,
P4 2.4Ghz
2GB ram
BFG Tech Geforce 7300GT 512MB video card

Your MD5 does not match. Did u update it.

Looks good works well.
amm u changed it. it still does not match. lol

PreRelease 2 looks good here. Nothing left behind that I can see. I had little use for this program before two weeks ago when we were informed that all requests to revise/improve our maintanence manuals had to be time tracked. That day, I download Task Coach portable (since I can't install on work computer) and life has been grand. Now, if I can only remember to always start it when I'm working on these requests instead of having to go back and and edit the effort later.

Looking forward to the release. Thanks for getting this program in PA format.

The language check code is incorrect and won't work. PortableApps.comLocaleglibc uses the language codes from GIMP, etc. So, Spanish is just es... not es_ES. For the full list, just look in GIMP Portable's App\gimp\share\locale directory. If Task Coach uses the form es_ES for everything, you could handle them specially:

StrCmp $APPLANGUAGE "en_US" SetAppLanguage ;english is built in, so skip locale file check
StrCmp $APPLANGUAGE "bg_BG" "" +3
  StrCpy $APPLANGUAGE "bg_BG"
  Goto SetAppLanguage
StrCmp $APPLANGUAGE "br" "" +3
  StrCpy $APPLANGUAGE "br_FR"
  Goto SetAppLanguage
...
StrCmp $APPLANGUAGE "zh_CN" SetAppLanguage
StrCmp $APPLANGUAGE "zh_TW" SetAppLanguage RememberPath

Just be sure they all match up to valid codes used by Task Coach. We'll need another pre-release to ensure it's working.

I just tried pre-release 3, and and I'm getting a Task Coach file error message on start up.

It will start up fine if I don't have anything saved, but once I've saved it I get the following error box pop up:

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Then I get a second message referring me to see the log file 'G:\portableapps\taskcoachportable\app\taskcoach\taskcoach.exe.log' for details.

The log file is pretty much identical to the one I got in pre-release 2, except it repeats the information a couple times (probably from me trying to duplicate the error) and mentions the following error:

SyntaxError: EOL while scanning single-quoted string

I've hung on to the log file if you need it.

I have also deleted and did a fresh install with the same effect

I also noticed when I ran ccleaner registry cleaner afterwards there was a unused file extension of .tsk which is the same one that task coach uses, and I don't have the non portable version installed.

hi all,

first thanks Patrick for you effort.

Should I give the pre release a whirl or will 0.69.2 come soon? I could give it a try on Mon.

I've just started using TaskCoach Portable, and it seems great but one thing doesn't seem to be working, for me at least. According to the program features list..

# Tasks can be created by dragging an e-mail message from Outlook or Thunderbird onto a task viewer.

# Attachments can be added to task by dragging and dropping files, e-mail messages from Outlook or Thunderbird, or URL's onto a task.

... which if it worked would be a very nice feature. (I get lots of emailed bug reports and feature requests etc..) URLs dragged from Firefox work fine, however dragging a mail item from Thunderbird Portable seems to do nothing. After each attempted drag+drop I get this in my taskcoach.exe.log file:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "widgets\draganddrop.pyo", line 76, in OnData
File "mailer\thunderbird.pyo", line 203, in getMail
File "mailer\thunderbird.pyo", line 125, in __init__
File "mailer\thunderbird.pyo", line 39, in getDefaultProfileDir
ValueError: No default section in profiles.ini

Thanks

Edit: I'm also getting the corrupted filename in the .ini file error that others have reported above. In my case I have copied my USB contents into a local dir on my C: drive and I can confirm that for me the bad file name is "C:C:C:C.." etc

With PR2 I ran into that issue and I just downgraded back to PR1. When you get that bug figured out I'll upgrade and try it out.

I've just tested it uneder Vista Ultimate SP1 and XP Pro SP2, and it works under both of them.

I had to delete the old one first of course.

could't find anything obvous left behind either

I did notice something in the app\taskcoach directory I wanted to ask about...are unis000.exe and unins000.dat needed?

Just had the chance to do a test of Pre-Release 5 in Vista Ultimate SP1, and it works without leaving anything obvious behind

Is this good to go guys?