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BeerTools Pro Bug Reports Archive C

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Not necessarily a bug, but upon starting 1.1, a dialog box appears announcing that BTP v1.0.28 is available for download and asking if we want to update.

Also, the shortcut Apple-P does not bring up the print dialog box. In fact the print option in the edit pulldown is grayed out. The print icon on the interface, however, appears to be working.
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Menu Bar Icons missing

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TCBrewguy wrote:Not necessarily a bug, but upon starting 1.1, a dialog box appears announcing that BTP v1.0.28 is available for download and asking if we want to update. ... snip
Same here.

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I immediately noticed that the icons are missing from the menu bar, or rather the bar right below it. I see some off colored squares where I think the icons should be, and mousing over them I see bubble messages like "new folder", "delete folder", "new item", "delete item", "save", and "save as copy".

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Search field might need some tweaking

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Let me start by saying that I'm very impressed so far, and I've barely done anything with the new program; I'm just looking around.

I really like the search function, but thought I found a bug in it so it might need a _little_ bit of work yet. Okay, when I was in the "Hops Inventory", and typed "Gold", it limited the list at the top to "Brewers Gold, East Kent Goldings, First Gold, Goldings, Styrian Goldings, Whitbread Golding (WGV) ... BUT it also tossed in Wye Target (not sure why, but that is not my main point); I REALLY like the way this feature works.

However, then I went to "Grains Inventory" and typed "brown" -- looking for brown malt, and the search didn't work, even after I hit my 'Enter' keyboard button. NOTE: this seems to be an intermittent problem because I have actually gotten it to work, but can't get it to work again. More on this: if I type "brown m" it goes to brown malt, but it seems like with the way its working elsewhere (all I need to type is "gol" to get the "gold" in the hops list), it ought to work with just "brown" without typing further. It's not a problem to type the 'M', but since I wasn't expecting to need to do that, I didn't try at first and just thought there was a problem.

Also, re the menu list on the left-side the screen, it seems to me that it might be a little backward. All of the 'regular' folders for grains, hops, etc., directly under the recipe folder, are empty, whereas the "Inventory" folders contain everything, which of course I don't have. Seems to me that I would have ALL grains listed in the NON-inventory 'grains' folder, and just the grains that I have on hand in the INVENTORY folder.

Finally, the +/- signs/commands in the directory tree did not work, i.e., when I first start BTP, the directory tree is collapsed and has '+' signs in front of 'Inventory', 'Ingredients', and 'Styles'; clicking on the '+' signs expands them, but then they did not want to collapse when I clicked on the '-' signs. I restarted the program and it works okay, so this is an intermittent problem.

That's all for now.

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Re: Search field might need some tweaking

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billvelek wrote:Also, re the menu list on the left-side the screen, it seems to me that it might be a little backward. All of the 'regular' folders for grains, hops, etc., directly under the recipe folder, are empty, whereas the "Inventory" folders contain everything, which of course I don't have. ... snip
Either I looked at it wrong, or there's an intermittent problem. I've restarted the program several times and things are like they should be re ingredients lists vs. inventory lists. Or maybe my eyes were playing tricks on me; I'll try to be more careful and try to duplicate problems before posting. Sorry.

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New Update

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I just posted a new file. It seems to fix the missing icons and print menu item issues.
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Re: New Update

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jeff wrote:I just posted a new file. It seems to fix the missing icons and print menu item issues.
Print menu issue fixed for me.
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All of the menu buttons on the interface are grayed out (except the print button) when I open a new window.
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Re: Buttons

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TCBrewguy wrote:All of the menu buttons on the interface are grayed out (except the print button) when I open a new window.
That sounds right. The buttons illuminate when they can be used, and only the print button can be used when a new window opens. The save icons don't become active until a recipe folder is selected, and the add and subtract buttons are activated based on the current selected item or folder. Since nothing is selected when a new window opens, the only thing you can do is print the blank recipe.
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Re: Buttons

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jeff wrote:
TCBrewguy wrote:All of the menu buttons on the interface are grayed out (except the print button) when I open a new window.
That sounds right. The buttons illuminate when they can be used, and only the print button can be used when a new window opens. The save icons don't become active until a recipe folder is selected, and the add and subtract buttons are activated based on the current selected item or folder. Since nothing is selected when a new window opens, the only thing you can do is print the blank recipe.
Hmm...ok. I think I get that. I'm not sure I understand the inventory feature, however. I never keep ingredients on hand because I live so close to my LHBS. It doesn't seem like I can add new items to my ingredient database - only the inventory database. Is that correct? Also, how to you remove an item once you have dragged it into the recipe area?
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Not a bug, but just a slight inaccuracy. The ingredient database lists Rahr malt as originating in Canada. While Rahr does have a malting facility in Canada, the company is headquartered just south of Minneapolis, MN, where its largest malting facility is located. :wink:
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Re: Buttons

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TCBrewguy wrote:snip ... Also, how to you remove an item once you have dragged it into the recipe area?
In the ingredients panel, right click on your mouse and then select "delete". To make this a little more intuitive as well as consistent, I suggest that the keyboard delete button also be able to do this as well as the "delete item" icon on the menu bar. That is the button that you click to delete an item from your ingredient list [edit: from the LIBRARY ingredient or inventory lists], and likewise it should be able to be deleted with a right-click drop-down menu command as well as the keyboard delete button. There's no point in doing deletions one way in one part of the screen, and a different way in another part of the screen -- in my humble opinion.

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Re: Buttons

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billvelek wrote:
TCBrewguy wrote:snip ... Also, how to you remove an item once you have dragged it into the recipe area?
In the ingredients panel, right click on your mouse and then select "delete". To make this a little more intuitive as well as consistent, I suggest that the keyboard delete button also be able to do this as well as the "delete item" icon on the menu bar. That is the button that you click to delete an item from your ingredient list, and likewise it should be able to be deleted with a right-click drop-down menu command as well as the keyboard delete button. There's no point in doing deletions one way in one part of the screen, and a different way in another part of the screen -- in my humble opinion.

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I agree.
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Glitch in the 'Schedule' display

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When I click on a step in the 'Schedule' display, the name of the step disappears; it reappears if I click on a different step (which then disappears), but this is obviously a bug.

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I'm also getting the version 1.0.28 update available popup on opening the program.
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I'm also unable to add to the ingredients database. Also, once you are viewing the grains database you are unable to open a grain to adjust variables, I usually buy a whole sack of base malt and like to update the file to my lot analysis sheet that comes with the grain.
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