New Year's Glitch

[apolliana]

I use asLJ as my main LJ client, and today I noticed that when I select Past Entries in my account, it won't go backwards to December 2010--it only gives me different months of 2011.

(I also wish it wouldn't close the Past Entries window after I finish editing a single past entry, but that's another issue.)

Comments

[aslj_client]

I think the first might be a quirk of how the date-selecting control works--with the month selected, the up/down arrows only change the month, but you can arrow over to or click on the year, then use the up/down arrows to change the year, or type in a year. (I also find it disconcerting that when I'm on 1/2011 with the month selected, going down goes to 12/2011 rather than 12/2010, but the control is provided by OS X that way.) Please let me know if this is not the issue.

As to the past entries window, each window represents a single entry, so changing the entry within the same window is a bit counter to the paradigm. Would it work better for you if the calendar panel were a separate window, so you could leave that open and edit multiple entries from there?

[apolliana]

Yup, that's the issue. But it appears that I can't get to 2010--that's what I'm worried about. If I choose the 'up' arrow it goes to 2/2011, and 'down' goes to 12/2011. What should I do to actually view my old entries?

Yes! The calendar panel staying open in a separate window would be perfect!

[aslj_client]

You should be able to either press the right arrow key or click on the year and the highlight should change to the year (for me, there's a light blue rounded-corner box around the month when I open the past entry window; pressing the right arrow or clicking on the year moves this highlighting box to the year). Once you've got the year highlighted, you should be able to use the down arrow key or the down button next to the date box to change the year to 2010.

I'll look into having the calendar panel stay open in a separate window when I next have a block of time to work on asLJ. If you'd be willing to try pre-release test builds of new versions of asLJ as I work on it, add this account as a friend and follow @aslj_dev on twitter (which is a private account, so requires waiting for me to approve).

[aslj_client]

The latest dev build now has the calendar panel in its own window.