OnTrack is a time management app built with Python. It keeps track of the active time of various windows.

At the moment, OnTrack is only supported on Windows operating systems.

• Python >3.12 (might work on lower versions, but 3.12 is the active development version)
• tkinter: usually comes bundled with modern Python installations
• Pip modules: pygetwindow, pyyaml, keyboard, tkcalendar, pillow, matplotlib, ttkwidgets, requests
• For building: The pyinstaller pip module

Once you have all of the dependencies installed, simply run py ontrack.py to start the application.

To build into the final distribution, run py -m PyInstaller --onefile --noconsole ontrack.py. Ensure you have the pyinstaller pip module installed.

In some cases, since this program tracks active windows, using --noconsole can trigger virus threat protection actions, consider omitting that option if this is the case.

Documentation on the tkcalendar module states that there may be issues with PyInstaller and the babel.numbers hidden import. Refer to the tkcalendar HowTos - PyInstaller section to fix this issue if a problem arises during building.

The recommended safe command is: py -m PyInstaller --onefile --hidden-import babel.numbers ontrack.py

For the purpose of auto updates, the build must not have a _internal folder, as this would poorly interact with the _internal folder required by the auto-updating script. This could be solved by allowing the auto-updater to have a different internal folder name.

The self_update executable should fetch the latest_stable data from VERSION_DATA and update the ontrack executable with anything it needs.

To build the self_update.py script, use py -m PyInstaller self_update.py

Similarly to the --noconsole option for ontrack.py, attempting to build this with --onefile causes it to be flagged as a virus. This seems to be caused by the requests to github it makes internally. If compiled with a separate _internal folder, this will contain a certificate which prevents it from being false-flagged.