New Calculator to try

I do the same thing, drop about 1ml in a BCC, and adjust flavor, not quite so accurately as you, I just rough estimate percentages by number of drops. some good ideas so far, going to have to think about it. I know what your saying about deciding how to treat case sensitivity, and variation in naming, unfortunately no one uses any kind of standard for it, and many of my recipes came from where ever. Would be nice to be able to select Substitute "Banana" for "banana" in all recipes option, which would also delete the ingredient being substituted.

 

Seeing you've already have the "adjust total flavoring %" tool, how 'bout something similar or expand the feature?



Have it import the flavoring% data and convert to either drop/ml/g by default. When the values are adjusted for either drop/ml/g, the New% and New Flavor% automatically adjusted in response to the new total volume (similarly if New Flavor% is adjusted). Also, an export bottom to export the New% to the recipe on the main screen and a reset button to return to default drop/ml/g/% would be nice. Not sure how difficult it is to incorporate these features though...

 

MODIFYING RECIPES:

From a practical standpoint when finding the right recipe, I could care less about maintaining the nicotine levels and PG/VG levels. My focus is finding the right flavor %. Can you add an option where it'll only tell me how much flavor I need to add to reach a new target?

I test samples in 5ml bottles. The more I taste, the more each drop contributes to flavor % because I have less juice. A drop doubles in % when adding to 2ml vs 4ml. Nor is this situation solved by topping off the base to 5ml each time, because you end up diluting the previous drops that were added.

Can you add density properties to all ingredients for making recipes by weight?

 

label printing?

 

Very nice programming Hot Rod !
This is on its way to being a commercial quality program, if it isn't already.
About all it could need is the ability to show your current quantities of stock on hand after mixing up a batch. I could imagine it telling me I don't have enough watermelon to make 60.ml bottle, because I have only 1.5 .ml left of it.
Thanks for your efforts on this project, it is very well appreciated!

 

Thanks! appreciate your work, can't say it enough, great program, and getting better each revision!

 

First, I'd just like to say thank you for creating this application. I gave it a try initially because of the ability to display measurements in grams. Having used it for a few weeks now it's become my favorite among the calculators out there. The feature set is above and beyond, excepting of course the online calculators and their ability to share recipes.

I do have one suggestion to offer and that's a larger text box for taking notes. I take a lot of notes and find the current size lacking. I was thinking that you could move the notes box down below the ingredients list. It could take up the entirety of the width of the window and the vertical space between the bottom of the ingredients list and the save/exit buttons. In this way, the user would have some control over the size of the notes box by resizing the application.

I made a very crude mock up of how you might move the interface elements around to get rid of the dead space left behind if you moved the notes box:



Oh, one more suggestion.. another sorting option for the recipe list might be useful: by date, descending. That way a user with a ton of recipes could have their newest, 'under construction' recipes right up top easy to find.

 

HotRod

thank you for your fine work on this calc !

I`ve been using a graphics program to take screenshots of a simpler calc,then adding all my notes for a saved recipe

sooner or later,I really need to learn how to use a calc such as yours.....life would get a lot easier !

I run a screen resolution of 1680 x 1050 and also have a win styler program running somewhere in the backgound

when I bring up your calc the window is barely readable for my old guy eyes

would there be a simple method for me to change font type and size to a larger,bolder type ?

thanks man...programmers like yourself are miracle workers

here`s a screen cap of how the calc displays on my desktop

 

Certainly I haven't any insight into your design framework or development environment - if you say a change isn't worth the effort, that's more than good enough for me

Yeah, I think creation date would accomplish the task well enough. Hm, how about using the action of viewing a recipe (selecting from listbox) as a trigger to update a "last used" timestamp for recipes? That might be a happy medium if it would be easier to implement than a "last modified" timestamp.

Ideally, the notes box would be larger for both viewing and entering info. Right now I use a text editor alongside the calculator for note taking - some flavors have upwards of 30 lines of notes. I'd like to transfer these notes into the calculator to be more convenient, but the current interface just isn't feasible. Again, if you feel it's not worth implementing I understand. Hey, for all I know I'm a total outlier. Having descended from a long line of scientists I just can't shake the old adage, "If you didn't write it down it didn't happen".

 

thanks for the response HotRod

I re-sized a screen cap to more closely reflect what I see on my screen....previewing this,prior to posting,I see the program just as it displays on my desktop

prior to the screen grab I started a "new recipe". So now,the notes window can be seen

it would be great if I could increase the size of the text.......but if others, running a screen resolution like mine, aren`t experiencing any visibility issues,I wouldn`t want you to mess with your design

thanks HotRod








EDIT: the image sized down from what it looked like as I preview it....I`ll keep trying to get a more true-to-size depiction

 

ok.....THIS is pretty much an accurately sized depiction of what I see