Programmer's release notes for Chaos Free
For Internal Use only.
Welcome to the Free version of Time & Chaos.
Version 10.6.0.0
- Added new phone label for TextMsg: which supports Microsoft Phone Link in Windows 11 and Windows 10 for sending text messages with your connected mobile phone. When you use this new label you would also add the Cellular or Mobile phone number to this phone number field even if that means you have the cell phone in two places. Each of those two places will have a labeled purpose - Cellular for voice calls and TextMsg: for text messaging.
- Added new Instagram, Threads, YouTube and Bluesky phone labels for social media links you may want to add to contacts
- Other cumulative bug fixes and improvements
Version 10.4.0.0
- Updated Contacts service links (seen in phone number labels)
adding Bing Maps (which is the Windows 10/11 Maps program) and
removing some now-defunct services
- Other cumulative bug fixes and improvements
Version 10.3.1.0
- Editing records no longer display linked contacts until the linked contacts tab is actually clicked, speeding up the opening of the entry screen
- Updated Inbasket to improve reliability when accepting items via Transportable Records
- Fixed an issue that prevented all phone numbers from being displayed on main screen's phone number panel
version 10.3.0.8
- Added a scrollbar as needed on the contact dial pad side panel
- Print settings improvement when changing the printer selection
- Default for sending appointments via email is now .ics vs .vcs which seems to be a more universally accepted extension
- Fixed a task mailmerge bug that incorrectly used the wrong field for description and group
- Various bug fixes and other maintenance items
version 10.3.0.7
- In the calendar module, print week and calendar now support multiple periods
- improved the install to card experience
- contacts phone number have the dock panel pin
- if all columns in a module are blank then an automatic column header reset is triggered
- fixed a theme issue on the find dialog within the notes field
- fixed a bug when building a new word template and there are no records selected
version 10.3.0.6
- various bug fixes and maintenance updates
version 10.1.0.7
- fixed a issue with type ahead disabled in contacts that was still autofilling fields
- fixed an inconsistency with recalling the previous word wrap choice on the classic screen
- various bug fixes and maintenance updates
version 10.1.0.6
- fixed a month calendar start time bug when appointment start time was edited in the Android application
- added 2 new themes darker theme blue and darker theme orange.
- various bug fixes and maintenance updates
version 10.1.0.5
version 10.1.0.4
- fixed a bug in the import tool under the file menu that was injected with the last update that would prevent the importing of data.
- added a delete confirmation dialog on the Quickfind screen.
- added a fix when importing transportable records of old daytitles so that they do not convert to local time
- appointment location now fills in automatically when dropping a contact into the appointment window
- new option to turn on/off leading trailing dates on monthly calendar printout, located on the Print Options Tweaks tab.
- fixed a minor selection issue with calendar, tasks on classic view to display linked names when multiselecting records
- export to csv file works with selected records rather than the whole list.
version 10.1.0.3
- fixed a minor issue with toggling the All Contacts checkbox on Linked Contacts
- fixed a possible error that occurred for some when doing a backup when closing the program
- fixed the alarm checkbox inconsistency with repeating calendar events on the monthview and weekview screen without an alarm
- added the name of the dataset being opened to the password access screen.
- fixed an issue when synchronizing with Chaos Host that would skip deletes from Host
- minor highlighting change in the notes editor so cursor keys remove highlight selection
- fixed a possible error in selection of paperbins on printers
version 10.1.0.2
- improved error handling for invalid photo format on a contact record.
- removed resize rows from columns menu to simplify interface options.
- blank end time on calendar events is now possible as a default if you set the default duration to 0 minutes
- fixed word wrapping issue on QuickPrint
- fixed the drop down list for field 19 of the contacts custom fields.
version 10.1.0.1
- fixed a minor month view calendar issue where the mouse moving to a 2nd monitor could raise an error
- fixed a minor theme issue with Caspian where the telephone numbers font was an incorrect color.
- fixed an issue in calendar where the duration column would display incorrectly.
- fixed a possible error when synchronizing with Chaos Host
- fixed a display issue with 4K displays
- fixed an alarm system
version 10.1.0.0
- unicode support - you can now type a description, note in international character sets such as Kanji, Hebrew ...
- new records may now be added using the Insert key on the keyboard.
- imported vCalendar and vCard records now replace \n for a line feed
- incoming transportable records can be double clicked on to preview
- much improved drag and drop of grid items
- search footer hot key ctrl + s
- vastly improved column stretch. It actually works now.
- removed any invalid plugins from appearing on the accessory menu
- fixed a bug that would cause a new appointment to pick up the incorrect group name if the contacts were also filtered by group.
- fixed a bug that would prevent the grid from scrolling to a newly added contact
- fixed a bug where the cursor keys would not work when using the type ahead lookup in the contact list
- fixed a theme color bug with text box on quickfind screen