Task List - Wizard

Wizard’s Task List gathers tasks from active project files, presents them in a unified list, aids navigation. Tasks may serve as reminders or indicators of future work objectives. The delimiting characters for a task are the same for comments: #, //, and /**/. The Task List is accessible from the View Menu.

Features

Task Table

Tasks are presented in the Task Table, a fully customizable view of project tasks. The following data columns are visible by default:

• File

• Line

• Tag

• Description

The following data columns are hidden by default and available via Task List Preferences:

• Column

• Directory

From the Task Table, the user may double-click a task to view it in the associated project file.

Task Filter

The Task Filter allows the user to control task visibility by file context. It contains the following filters:

• All Scenario Files

• Open Scenario Files

• Current Scenario File

Preferences

Configure the Task List via Options > Preferences > Task List.

Task Tags

Tags are keywords used by the Task List to locate tasks in a project. To add a custom task tag, type the tag name in the Add New Tag field and click Add (+). To remove a tag, select it in the tag list and click Remove (-).

Default tags include:

• ATTENTION

• BUG

• DEBUG

• HACK

• TASK

• TODO

• UNDONE

Column Order and Visibility

Task Table data columns are fully customizable and may be configured using the arrow buttons, located between the column visibility lists.

• Up Arrow - Swap the selected column with the preceding column

• Down Arrow - Swap the selected column with the succeeding column

• Left Arrow - Hide the selected visible column

• Right Arrow - Show the selected hidden column

Example

Here is an example scenario with a few tasks:

# This is a normal comment, not a task.

# TASK Create a platform of type WSF_PLATFORM with the name of your choosing.

/*
BUG

The following platform has the initial position incorrect.
Change to 1n 2e.
*/
platform p WSF_PLATFORM
   position 4n 3e
end_platform

// UNDONE The following platform does not have an initial speed.
platform q WSF_PLATFORM
   add mover WSF_AIR_MOVER
      route
         position 0n 0e
         position 0n 1e
         position 1n 1e
         position 1n 0e
      end_route
   end_mover
end_platform

Here is the Task List with the tasks from an example scenario: