Subject: Re: [Time Sink Talk] Pre-sales question: Tabs

From: Visnu Pitiyanuvath <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 09:53:38 -0700

along those lines, getting URL support for browsers would be pretty awesome. I know you'd have to do the same thing pretty much to have custom code per each app, but it's easier for me to key off the URL for my reports (for when I'm doing time tracking for a client). 

On Aug 10, 2011, at 4:31 AM, Rob Griffiths <[email-masked]> wrote:

> On Aug 4, 2011, at 10:59 AM, jessica wrote:
> 
>> I am interested in buying Time Sink, but I'm wondering if it can track
>> tabs within windows? Especially Coda and Firefox/Chrome. I was unable
>> to tell from the screenshots. Thanks!
> 
> First, please note that we have free demos of all our App Store apps (except Desktop Curtain) available on our site: <http://manytricks.com> -- you can try Time Sink yourself to see exactly what it can and can't do before you decide to buy.
> 
> Second, Time Sink tracks tabs in one sense: when a tab is frontmost, its foreground and total time is counted in the reports, and you'll see it in the Time Sink Organizer window.
> 
> When a tab is in the background, however, it's effectively like a closed window and Time Sink treats it as "inactive." That's because we can't see tabs in apps except when they're frontmost -- there's no public interface to get information on tabs within a window. To Time Sink, a window filled with tabs looks just like any other window; the frontmost tab provides the window title, and once that tab moves to the background, it looks exactly like a closed "normal" window looks.
> 
> We're looking at adding more robust tab support for a few key apps in the future, but it's a non-trivial process as each app will have to have hand-coded support, and any changes to how those programs handle tabs will likely break Time Sink's support for that app.
> 
> regards;
> -rob.
> 
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From: Rob Griffiths <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 06:31:02 -0500

regards;
-rob.

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From: jessica <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 08:59:21 -0700 (PDT)

Hi,

Jessica