New Calculator to try

[Scouser]

Default Nicotine Vendor - You can already setup recipe default values. Create a recipe such as "Default Values" and then go to "Tools->Options", Recipe defaults tab, and set the "Recipe to use as template for new recipes" to "Default values".

Save an image in each recipe - I am not sure what you are asking for. How is the saved image used?

Enable Main Recipe window scroll bars - I am not sure what you are asking for.

The other items I have added to my "ToDo" list.

Thanks Rod. Appreciated.
The Default Recipe Values is a great idea. I never thought about doing that. That'l do fine for me.
The image: I am into developing clones for myself (mostly, although I do share some Being able to save a pic of the clones would be cool. But Also, strange as it may seem, I like to keep a record of the colour of my vape mix. So saving a pic would be useful.
Main Recipe window scroll bars: I have a few recipes where I don't have enough ingredients. For some of them, the Warning error messages are many and so the scroll bar is enabled for warning text that is below the window border. Of course I can scroll up and down to see the list but if I click "add to shopping list" I can't scroll the list of ingredients in order to know all the items to click the checkbox in the "Add ingredients" window as the main recipe window is disabled. I presume this might not be possible due to single threading.

 

[jayv]

The image: I am into developing clones for myself (mostly, although I do share some Being able to save a pic of the clones would be cool. But Also, strange as it may seem, I like to keep a record of the colour of my vape mix. So saving a pic would be useful.

I have added images in the notes field in the past. Where are your clones posted? Id love to give them a go.

 

[Hoggy]

I have added images in the notes field in the past.

Oh wow! That's pretty damn cool! I just copied my avatar into the notes section! One has to do a 'ctrl-v' though, as right click doesn't allow any pasting at all when an image is on the clipboard. (I notice that that also happens when wanting to paste text into the "Import from text file/Import pasted text" section - a ctrl-v only). I was first thinking he meant the picture to the right of "Precedence" field in the Recipe section.

On that note [HR sighs] - I have some other UI 'tidying up'/usability/polishing-up improvements.
1) Although I'm affected by the ingredient-folder crash-bug (going slow seems to help), the wording in the options says "category", while the wording in the ingredient window says "folder". Maybe change the word "category" to "set folder" in the Options, as that discrepancy confounded me for a while at first.

2) When copying any text-only to the clipboard from within JC, it's copied as 'rich text format' - which is exactly what my clipboard manager, Ditto, displays for it.. Making it hard to determine which is which, when wanting to select some previous text within the Ditto window. EDIT: A 'ctrl-c' copies the text as text. but a right-click/"Copy" does the 'rich text' copy. ETA-2: I found some options in Ditto to show RTF as well as image thumbnails, but perhaps a co-ordination between the workings of the right-click menu copy and Ctrl-c is in order? .... Again, only if there is text-only selected, as I can see the usefulness of having it copy images as well.

3) The 'filter recipes by' list is sorted alphabetically, but the dropdown in the "Recipe" section for "Category" is not sorted alphabetically.. It seems haphazard.

4) For the new options within the "adjust inventory" window, maybe make it so deselecting "adjust inventory for all ingredients", also deselects all ingredients. (And maybe also allow for deselecting of single ingredients when it's ticked, which in turn de-selects that tick-box.)

5a) I don't know how practical/easy this would be to implement... But hopefully have it remember the window position and size for ALL the various windows in the program.. Or for ones that don't allow sizing, then just remember the position.

5b) On that note, I notice when not maximized, positioning any of the main windows' edges 'too close' to any screen border, that positioning and sizing will be lost when reopening the program. ETA: I also just found that it doesn't remember a maximized window either.

6) I don't know if this would be possible - for the Notes section. I tried changing system fonts to no avail.. But the 'kerning'(??), or whatever the word is for spacing between letters, is very small here.. Making it hard for my aging eyes to discern some letters - as well as difficulty determining exactly which position the cursor is at when wanting to insert/delete text in there.

[HR sighs again] #10) Take a break, and have a coffee or beer, on me. =)


This program is a perfect example of what can be achieved when we all put our heads together! Thanks, HR, for knowing how to program it all!

 

[Hoggy]

I have added a change that will be in the next version. You will have the ability to setup a hot key that will add a recipe to the steeping list (Tools->Hot key options). Space on the main recipe window is beginning to become limited so I would rather setup a hotkey than add a button.

One possibility perhaps.. Maybe within the phrase "Days to steep" - turn the word "steep" into a button with no border-spacing to do that...??? Sort of a 'hot-word', so-to-speak.
I have a disability that affects cognition and memory, so trying to remember too many hotkeys quickly gets me lost. And this would be one I'd definitely use & hopefully remember. .... ctrl-c,v,x,s,z - is pretty much all I got down-pat..

Just spitballing an idea....

 

[scotdc]

Interesting. Maybe I am missing something but where is the "Last made" window? The box "Last made on" box on the main recipe form is auto filled when you "Make recipe". Is this what you mean? But why would you want a calendar pop up here?

Yes, I do mean the "Last Made On" box, but mine doesn't auto fill. Maybe I'm missing something in the settings? I'll have to look at that. Thanks for the info.

 

[Scouser]

Oh wow! That's pretty damn cool! I just copied my avatar into the notes section! One has to do a 'ctrl-v' though, as right click doesn't allow any pasting at all when an image is on the clipboard. (I notice that that also happens when wanting to paste text into the "Import from text file/Import pasted text" section - a ctrl-v only). I was first thinking he meant the picture to the right of "Precedence" field in the Recipe section.

Hmmm... I don't know how you did this. I cant seem to copy/paste or drag/drop an image into the notes section in a recipe. Additionally, I can't see how this is possible. HR may correct me here but the database is XML (text) based so storing image data in the XML can't be done unless its first converted to MIME and parsing this would have huge performance implications. It would be possible to store a URL to a file, maybe that's what you are achieving but I can't get that to work either.

On that note [HR sighs] - I have some other UI 'tidying up'/usability/polishing-up improvements.
1) Although I'm affected by the ingredient-folder crash-bug (going slow seems to help), the wording in the options says "category", while the wording in the ingredient window says "folder". Maybe change the word "category" to "set folder" in the Options, as that discrepancy confounded me for a while at first.

They are different aren't they? I mean, Category in the main recipe is NOT the ingredients folder. In my Category, I have things like Sweet, Fruity, Bakery, etc. In my Ingredients window "Folder name" I have INW, FA, TPA, CAP, LA, etc. Maybe I misunderstand this feature. HR help me out

2) When copying any text-only to the clipboard from within JC, it's copied as 'rich text format' - which is exactly what my clipboard manager, Ditto, displays for it.. Making it hard to determine which is which, when wanting to select some previous text within the Ditto window. EDIT: A 'ctrl-c' copies the text as text. but a right-click/"Copy" does the 'rich text' copy. ETA-2: I found some options in Ditto to show RTF as well as image thumbnails, but perhaps a co-ordination between the workings of the right-click menu copy and Ctrl-c is in order? .... Again, only if there is text-only selected, as I can see the usefulness of having it copy images as well.

This is roughly what I am requesting....although I didnt include the paste image part but that would be nice. IMHO, I think the default to a paste or a ctrl-v should be to paste text only with a menu item to paste rich text.

 

[tshing02]

Awesome new update Hotrod! Thanks. Quick question guys, this bring my first update since installing and spending many hours adding ingredients, just wanted to make sure they will all silk be there after update. Can anybody answer this?

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[Scouser]

Awesome new update Hotrod! Thanks. Quick question guys, this bring my first update since installing and spending many hours adding ingredients, just wanted to make sure they will all silk be there after update. Can anybody answer this?

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Absolutely! The update has worked flawlessly for me both on Windows and using Wine on the Mac. Go for it.

All your recipes/ingredients/conf settings will be preserved.

 

[tshing02]

Absolutely! The update has worked flawlessly for me both on Windows and using Wine on the Mac. Go for it.

All your recipes/ingredients/conf settings will be preserved.

Awesome thanks Scouser


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[Scouser]

I'd like to hear from anyone else who has got JC up and running under Wine on the Mac, either using WineBottler or with Wine direct. There are some niggly, if not weird, issues that I have been experiencing and Rod and I have been painstakingly working on trying to resolve. Rod has done his utmost best (and I mean he's put 150% into it bless him!) to fix these problems but in the end it looks like the problem is with either with Wine or the Mac. The JC works enough to use it without too much of problem. But it does some strange things, which I can replicate. But if you have it running on the Mac using Wine I would like to understand your configuration.

 

[Hoggy]

Hmmm... I don't know how you did this. I cant seem to copy/paste or drag/drop an image into the notes section in a recipe. Additionally, I can't see how this is possible. HR may correct me here but the database is XML (text) based so storing image data in the XML can't be done unless its first converted to MIME and parsing this would have huge performance implications. It would be possible to store a URL to a file, maybe that's what you are achieving but I can't get that to work either.

It turns out, that seems to be the case.. While the image does paste here, only when doing ctrl-v, it doesn't survive after a save-close-restart - or even when switching to another recipe and back. Oh well..

They are different aren't they? I mean, Category in the main recipe is NOT the ingredients folder. In my Category, I have things like Sweet, Fruity, Bakery, etc. In my Ingredients window "Folder name" I have INW, FA, TPA, CAP, LA, etc. Maybe I misunderstand this feature. HR help me out

That's right - they ARE different. And that's exactly why I'm thinking the wording should change within the Options - so people know that they are different. That had me bewildered for the longest time, too, when I first started with the program a couple/few weeks ago.

 

[Hoggy]

Doh! I forgot one other UI quirk:

When starting the program with the notes field already detached... It remembers the size and position just fine, but when reattaching it afterwards, the notes box will be much shorter lengthwise in the main window.

Also, it would be great when tabbing inside the Notes section, that an actual 'TAB' is done - ala Notepad and EjuiceMeUp.. Either by simply adding 5 characters or by going to a preset tab position like Notepad does. --- as opposed to tabbing to another field.

Oh wow! That's pretty damn cool! I just copied my avatar into the notes section! One has to do a 'ctrl-v' though, as right click doesn't allow any pasting at all when an image is on the clipboard. (I notice that that also happens when wanting to paste text into the "Import from text file/Import pasted text" section - a ctrl-v only). I was first thinking he meant the picture to the right of "Precedence" field in the Recipe section.

On that note [HR sighs] - I have some other UI 'tidying up'/usability/polishing-up improvements.
1) Although I'm affected by the ingredient-folder crash-bug (going slow seems to help), the wording in the options says "category", while the wording in the ingredient window says "folder". Maybe change the word "category" to "set folder" in the Options, as that discrepancy confounded me for a while at first.

2) When copying any text-only to the clipboard from within JC, it's copied as 'rich text format' - which is exactly what my clipboard manager, Ditto, displays for it.. Making it hard to determine which is which, when wanting to select some previous text within the Ditto window. EDIT: A 'ctrl-c' copies the text as text. but a right-click/"Copy" does the 'rich text' copy. ETA-2: I found some options in Ditto to show RTF as well as image thumbnails, but perhaps a co-ordination between the workings of the right-click menu copy and Ctrl-c is in order? .... Again, only if there is text-only selected, as I can see the usefulness of having it copy images as well.

3) The 'filter recipes by' list is sorted alphabetically, but the dropdown in the "Recipe" section for "Category" is not sorted alphabetically.. It seems haphazard.

4) For the new options within the "adjust inventory" window, maybe make it so deselecting "adjust inventory for all ingredients", also deselects all ingredients. (And maybe also allow for deselecting of single ingredients when it's ticked, which in turn de-selects that tick-box.)

5a) I don't know how practical/easy this would be to implement... But hopefully have it remember the window position and size for ALL the various windows in the program.. Or for ones that don't allow sizing, then just remember the position.

5b) On that note, I notice when not maximized, positioning any of the main windows' edges 'too close' to any screen border, that positioning and sizing will be lost when reopening the program. ETA: I also just found that it doesn't remember a maximized window either.

6) I don't know if this would be possible - for the Notes section. I tried changing system fonts to no avail.. But the 'kerning'(??), or whatever the word is for spacing between letters, is very small here.. Making it hard for my aging eyes to discern some letters - as well as difficulty determining exactly which position the cursor is at when wanting to insert/delete text in there.

[HR sighs again] #10) Take a break, and have a coffee or beer, on me. =)


This program is a perfect example of what can be achieved when we all put our heads together! Thanks, HR, for knowing how to program it all!

 

[28if]

HR, just installed the latest update. Freaking awesome. Thank you for all the time you put into this project.


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[jayv]

I have added to my "ToDo" list.

Another thing to please add to take a look at is the "Days Remaining" in the new steep section. It does not get updated as each day goes on. It is constantly shows the same number of days as "Days to Steep".

 

[ceedee]

Any chance of adding more indexing options to the Sort Ingredients list?
I'm thinking primarily of by Folder (so it's user-definable) but maybe also by Manufacturer, Vendor, Location, etc.
Or alternatively a view filter for the same parameters?

I agree that the main recipe window 'tab bar' has become over-crowded and would welcome you shifting all but the core operations back to the menus.

ps. I've never been able to find any guidance on formatting a file to use the report generator - any pointers appreciated.

 

[HotRod19579]

Wow, a lot of good ideas. Let me start going thru all of them and see what I can do.


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[HotRod19579]

Another thing to please add to take a look at is the "Days Remaining" in the new steep section. It does not get updated as each day goes on. It is constantly shows the same number of days as "Days to Steep".

You identified a bug (stupid mistake on my part). Fixed and will be in the next version. The steeping days remaining isn't being calculated correctly and therefore no steeping complete alarms.

 

[GothPaw]

Awesome update! Still can't thank you enough for all your hard work. Amazing, Amazing, Amazing.....

That said: here comes for feature requests/ideas;

1. Please add a column "alarm value" *editable* and sortable in the ingredients editor window ** This leads to feature request #2 **

2. Would be nice if the threshhold and alarm value were co-reversable. (IE. If I fill in the newly added "alarm value" column it then will automatically update the threshold value (just like in the reverse method already implemented)). This would be very valuable for someone like me who does not always order the same amount of ingredients each time I order. So if I order one time 100ml of nicotine and then enter a threshold of 90ml so I get an alarm at 10ml.. This is awesome until I run out and then I buy 1L of nicotine. If I don't edit the threshold then the alarm values are now messed up. Would be easier for me to just add an alarm each time I add ingredients. This way I could open the ingredients editor and see a new column for alarm value. Then thanks to your awesome copy/paste feature I can select all of my flavours and enter say 5ml and then no matter how much I buy I will get the alarm at 5ml.

3. In the "search for recipes" window please add checkbox to only show ingredients currently in stock.

4. In the "search for recipes" window could you please add an option to only show ingredients that can produce a 100% inventory ready recipe(s)

5. In the "search for recipes" window could you please add an option to show only single or only multiple flavour recipe(s) ** A drop down menu could be perfect for this **

6. Today I made a mistake and hit the "Make recipe" button ( I happened to be viewing the wrong recipe at the time and forgot to switch back to the one I was actually making) and this made me think of adding in a "UnMake Recipe" option in the menu for those rare moments like this one. Then when pressed it would show you the recipes currently being made so you can select the one you want and then it would unmake the recipe and automatically add back the deducted inventory.

7. ** Not a feature request, but an issue since last update ** I resorted the columns in the ingredients editor window ** last version ** and they were remembered each time I opened the ingredients editor window. After the last update **not sure what could have caused this** they are all back to the default order they were in when I first opened the window. I resorted them back to the way I like to have them but each time I close the window and reopen it the sorting I did is gone and it is back to the default.

 

[HotRod19579]

Version 8.0.0.1 is available. This version includes several of the recommended changes but I still have several items on my to-do list. Changes include:

1. Added the ability to set a hot-key to trigger the viewed recipe to be added to the steeping recipes list. Go to the "Hot key options" for the recipe window to add.

2. The steeping days remaining wasn't being calculated correctly. Fixed.

3. Added a new option in the "Tools->Options", Recipe defaults tab, "Add recipe to steeping recipe list when printed".

4. Added a new option in the "Tools->Options", Ingredient defaults tab, "Show inventory alarm when started". By default inventory alarms will not be generated when the application is launched.

5. On the "Adjust inventory" window, when the "Adjust inventory for all ingredients" is unchecked, the checkboxes next to each of the ingredients will not be unchecked automatically.

6. On the "Print label advanced" 3 checkboxes were added: 1) Reduce ingredient inventory 2) Add recipes to steeping list and 3) Update last made date.

7. When the notes are in a detached window at startup they were being incorrectly sized when placed back into the original window. Fixed.

8. The calculator will remember the size and position of most/all of the windows. A total of 47 windows were updated, let me know if I missed any.

9. Allow the tab character to be used in the notes field of recipes and ingredients.

10. When pasting "Text only" any rich text formatting will be removed.

11. In the filter by category dropdown the categories are now sorted alphabetically.

 

[Fozzy71]

Version 8.0.0.1 is available. This version includes several of the recommended changes but I still have several items on my to-do list. Changes include:

1. Added the ability to set a hot-key to trigger the viewed recipe to be added to the steeping recipes list. Go to the "Hot key options" for the recipe window to add.
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This doesn't seem to take into account the actual/existing last made on date if it was made in the past for all recipes. It did for the Marshmallow Vanilla Swirl and the Western Menthol at the bottom of the list.