Daily Word Count feature requests :)

[Michael]

My luck, this is a dead topic and I don't realize it. I've gone ahead
and installed yWriter5 to play with, and find myself with two feature
requests.

1. [minor convenience] When setting up the word targets for the first
time, you have to save (exit) the dialog and go back in to see your
stats. Everything auto-populates after this initial setup, so I don't
know if this is an actual bug or just an extremely lame feature
request.

2. [painfully complex] Would it be possible to keep track of how many
words of your target you've written that day? Unless I'm misreading
the output, it looks like daily word counts are based solely on your
end target minus how many words are in the project so far divided by n
- 1 (days left == n ). But I find myself to be slightly OCD at times,
and like to check in on the word count stats. But since there's no
delineation on how many of the daily word target has been met today, I
usually have to do a guessing game to get the right math back out.
With yWriter4 I actually resorted to only firing up yWriter twice a
day - once to get my word count, then I would switch to yedit and set
my target and keep writing until I met it, then import everything back
into yWriter. I see at the bottom that you show how many words were
added today - but not knowing the underlying code in the least, I'm
not sure how easy it would be to integrate that into the daily word
target displays (or super pipe dream, be able to say at the bottom
that you have written X words of today's Y word goal). The hackish
side of me says sure, you just add YetAnotherVariableOrArray to the
mix to keep track of starting word count and the day's target word
count, but that's just the lame way I used to do quick bug fixes.

Complete non sequitur, but geek creds for running Gentoo ;) (you'll
still find my name in the changelogs for most of the dev-perl tree).

Anywho, happy writing and/or hacking, as the case may be. Thanks again
Simon for making all our lives easier such that we have to
procrastinate by inventing new feature requests to explain why we
aren't writing.