Feature: Monthly Calendar Due Date selector

[kyith]

I am not sure how difficult this is to implement but i feel Appigo ToDo's full month calendar picker is better than the rolling datepicker.

Up for discussion.

[ceperry]

A calendar-based date picker is on my list of future improvements. I will investigate it at some point, but I'm just not sure which release I might target.

Incidentally, is there anyone that would be opposed to changing the date picker from the standard date picker to a calendar picker? There are some valid arguments against it. Just wondering how people feel.

[kyith]

hi charles what are these misgivings about using a calendar picker?

would like to hear other opinions as well.

[ceperry]

You have to understand that I'm coming at this from a developer's perspective. But since you asked, here are a few arguments against using a calendar picker: The interface would no longer be using the standard iPhone date picker that every iPhone user is already familiar with. It might lead to confusion due to someone thinking that there was an actual calendar built into Action Lists. The calendar I would use would be someone else's code and might have bugs that I can't fix. The calendar might have code in it that might cause the app to be rejected from the App Store at some indeterminate point in the future (eg. Three20's recent problems).

All that being said, my current inclination is that a calendar-based date picker would be a a big enough benefit to overcome the downsides. But as I said before, I still haven't taken a really close look at how I could implement it.

[kyith]

thanks for considering it charles.

[peteo]

Please add this feature, makes it so much easier to see what days the dates or on.

[huthut]

I agree, a calendar date picker would be more appropriate and a good enhancement to scheduling tasks then just the default method.

Ken

[Houston88]

I've already mentioned this, as you know, but I think that the reasons for sticking with Apple's method are farily trivial. Apple does a good job, but they aren't necessarily flawless. Calendar pickers are much much faster.

[roman]

What about a possibility to select which type of the selector to use?

[ceperry]

The calendar-based picker has already been implemented. If you like the old style picker you can still get it. If you turn your iPhone sideways, Action Lists will go into landscape orientation and use the old style, Apple supplied, date picker. (There wasn't enough vertical screen space to make the calendar picker work in landscape mode.)