New Calculator to try

[Scouser]

Thanks for the update Rod. Some great features added and I see some of my requests added. Thanks again for all your hard work.

 

[engmia]

I sent you a PM. Please check.

Did you manage to find them? Try searching for recipes.xml using File Explorer in all files on your hard drive (including hidden ones!)

Version 8.0.0.3 is available for download. Changes include...

HotRod, you're amazing as usual! This calculator is getting more and more full featured and the new "days to steep" feature is extremely well designed and implemented.

How do you trigger the "Last made" in Recipe history?

Please find attached a bug I found when using the "Print Inventory" function. I was actually trying to print to a digital file (running the calculator under WINE in Linux as a reminder) and Microsoft XML Viewer was giving me a blank document. No biggie I thought, just probably not properly configured in WINE. I was surprised to see my printer that is setup in Linux recognised in WINE, and trying to print using that setting both a digital and physical copy produces the bug. Just tested the printer using another WINE program (Notepad) and it is printing normally so I don't think the issue is WINE specific.

PS: Talking about WINE, everything is still operating perfectly with the exception of the weird "two instead of one click" bug in the toolbar sometimes. Obviously the impact of this is minor.

In fact, the add to shopping list bug seems to be resolved for me!

For anyone looking how to get the calculator running in a few easy steps, expand my updated guide below. You can also feel free to ask me questions if you have problems setting up and I'll try to answer to my best of knowledge.

@HotRod19579 I would just like to thank you for your continuing support of this great calculator and your amazing contribution to the DIY community.

I can happily report that I've been running the juice Calculator without any problems including automatic updates, under Linux (Fedora 23 and 24). I'm going to post this short and simple guide how to most easily get it up and running with WINE, feel free to post it in the main page if you want. I've tried using a virtual machine as well, but the experience was choppy and underpar, running it under WINE is in another league. The guide is Fedora specific but should work the same for other distros if slightly adjust the terminal commands to represent the package manager the distro is using.

How to install
1. su //input superuser password
2. dnf install wine
3. dnf install winetricks
4. rm -rf ~/.wine //this step is redundant, you can skip it
5. exit //just once to exit superuser mode, make sure you don't miss this and proceed to the next steps without root access
6. WINEARCH=win32 winecfg
7. winetricks dotnet452 //you can now install dotnet46 as well
8. wine /home/user/Downloads/Setup.exe //input the actual directory containing the Setup for the juice calculator
9. exit
That's it really, a couple of next prompts to follow during the installation and you're good to go, shouldn't take more than 5 minutes. A shortcut will be created in your App Drawer and you'll be able to use the app without any hassle.

Bugs

• Sometimes need to double click the menu bar functions.
• There is a confirmed bug, in which you cannot add ingredients if you choose "Add to shopping list" from the menu bar. The workaround for this is to open the Shopping list from View -> Shopping List and everything is working as intended in there. Now resolved.
• Everything else seems to work correctly

 

[Scouser]

Did you manage to find them? Try searching for recipes.xml using File Explorer in all files on your hard drive (including hidden ones!)

HotRod, you're amazing as usual! This calculator is getting more and more full featured and the new "days to steep" feature is extremely well designed and implemented.

How do you trigger the "Last made" in Recipe history?

Please find attached a bug I found when using the "Print Inventory" function. I was actually trying to print to a digital file (running the calculator under WINE in Linux as a reminder) and Microsoft XML Viewer was giving me a blank document. No biggie I thought, just probably not properly configured in WINE. I was surprised to see my printer that is setup in Linux recognised in WINE, and trying to print using that setting both a digital and physical copy produces the bug. Just tested the printer using another WINE program (Notepad) and it is printing normally so I don't think the issue is WINE specific.

PS: Talking about WINE, everything is still operating perfectly with the exception of the weird "two instead of one click" bug in the toolbar sometimes. Obviously the impact of this is minor.

In fact, the add to shopping list bug seems to be resolved for me!

For anyone looking how to get the calculator running in a few easy steps, expand my updated guide below. You can also feel free to ask me questions if you have problems setting up and I'll try to answer to my best of knowledge.

Just to add to this.... you can also use WineBottler, which provides a GUI to automate this (also removes the dangerous need to log in as root). I run the calculator under Wine on the Mac, I have never been able to get the printer working properly. I can see my printer and print to it but the output is similarly messed up. But it's a minor problem for me as I have not required the printer features. I just hand write my labels But great to see others using Wine for the calculator under Linux/Unix systems

 

[-SMT-]

Need some help, just installed this and getting into DIY.
Haven't done anything yet...just opened it up.
I proceeded to change to grams so I can mix by weight, clicked options then got an error message:
"The RPC server is unavailable"

Running good computer with Win7 64bit
Here is what pops up:

 

[HotRod19579]

Need some help, just installed this and getting into DIY.
Haven't done anything yet...just opened it up.
I proceeded to change to grams so I can mix by weight, clicked options then got an error message:
"The RPC server is unavailable"

Let me look into this. It looks like you have a setup that I didn't allow for. It appears, I need to look into, that you have a printer defined that may not always be available. When you launch the options I query to get information about your defined printers and something happened that I wasn't expecting.
I will investigate.


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[-SMT-]

Thankyou
BTW I don't have any printer installed
Thx for your help

 

[-SMT-]

Errr, got it to work, thx to you.
I had print spooler disabled in services, enabled it and all good. THX!

 

[HotRod19579]

I was just going to say that I have made a change, available in the next version, that will trap any errors that Windows generates when I am asking Windows what printers are installed. I am glad you found the issue but I am going to trap the error so that it doesn't happen to someone else.

 

[jpasint]

Did you manage to find them? Try searching for recipes.xml using File Explorer in all files on your hard drive (including hidden ones!)

All good now.

 

[engmia]

@HotRod19579 the calculations for the price are broken in the latest version. You can find linked my juice file and upon inspecting it you'll see the calculated price for the recipe "tpd cost 2" is 0.72, where as according the values I've put in the ingredients it should be something close to 3.10. I haven't verified the calculations on the other recipes. You can actually try increasing up and down the flavour percentage and see how it's going bonkers and changing the price illogically.

Tell me if you need me to attach any more files.

Thank you!

edit: Forgot to mention that I'm using the latest version (8.0.0.3).

 

[JahLove7124]

Huge thanks to Jpasint for helping me out and saving the day! I appreciate you taking the time to try and solve my issue [emoji1360]


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[jpasint]

Huge thanks to Jpasint for helping me out and saving the day! I appreciate you taking the time to try and solve my issue [emoji1360]


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You're very welcome and I'm glad we had success.

 

[HotRod19579]

I opened your recipe and everything appears to be the correct values of 1.51, see the attached images. Were there any actions that you took where incorrect values started showing?

@HotRod19579 the calculations for the price are broken in the latest version. You can find linked my juice file and upon inspecting it you'll see the calculated price for the recipe "tpd cost 2" is 0.72, where as according the values I've put in the ingredients it should be something close to 3.10. I haven't verified the calculations on the other recipes. You can actually try increasing up and down the flavour percentage and see how it's going bonkers and changing the price illogically.

Tell me if you need me to attach any more files.

Thank you!

edit: Forgot to mention that I'm using the latest version (8.0.0.3).

 

[newphreak]

HotRod19579:
In all my recipes I like to keep a link to the elr/atf/reddit url i found it at. But if I do that, selecting/clicking the line(s) below becomes quite hard, as the whole area now points to the link instead. Any way to improve this?

 

[IDJoel]

HotRod19579:
In all my recipes I like to keep a link to the elr/atf/reddit url i found it at. But if I do that, selecting/clicking the line(s) below becomes quite hard, as the whole area now points to the link instead. Any way to improve this?

Are you manually inputting (typing out) your links or "cut & pasting" them? I use the cut & Paste (opening the source window, highlighting then copying the address found in the address bar, then pasting it into my notes on its own line. Then I add a hard return and can continue my notes as I need; nothing following has been attached to the link. It ends up looking like this with active links:

 

[newphreak]

hard return? I cut and paste from the browser, so it becomes an active link, but so does the whole notes box while I move my mouse around in it. So trying to mark/click somewhere below it, to start typing is always somewhat of a problem.

 

[Fozzy71]

hard return? I cut and paste from the browser, so it becomes an active link, but so does the whole notes box while I move my mouse around in it. So trying to mark/click somewhere below it, to start typing is always somewhat of a problem.

ditto, and I always do 2 hard returns but I don't always type more text below the links if I don't have any notes to add yet

 

[HotRod19579]

HotRod19579:
In all my recipes I like to keep a link to the elr/atf/reddit url i found it at. But if I do that, selecting/clicking the line(s) below becomes quite hard, as the whole area now points to the link instead. Any way to improve this?

I can't make this happen. See the image below with 3 links, all with text before and after the link.

 

[Fozzy71]

I can't make this happen. See the image below with 3 links, all with text before and after the link.

View attachment 617117

It doesn't happen every time for me it seems. The first recipe it had opened when launched to I could click below the link but I had 5 hard returns in the note field without any text notes. If I mouse below those hard returns I get the finger/hand mouse icon instead of the standard cursor icon. If I only have 1 or 2 hard returns it shows the hand instead of the pointer in the entirety/most of the notes field.

Here is a short video - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11623474/2016-11-26_8-23-09.mp4

 

[newphreak]

Thanks for making a video, that's exactly what I meant.