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TCBrewguy wrote:...out of curiosity, when BTP 1.1 imports a recipe, do subsequent changes to that recipe get reflected in the file from which it was imported? If not, where is BTP 1.1 saving my recipes?

BTP behaves much like iTunes in this regard. Import of recipes via the recipe scanner makes a COPY of the recipe and places it in the BeerTools Pro/Recipes Folder in your documents folder.

lathe wrote:

TCBrewguy wrote:...out of curiosity, when BTP 1.1 imports a recipe, do subsequent changes to that recipe get reflected in the file from which it was imported? If not, where is BTP 1.1 saving my recipes?

BTP behaves much like iTunes in this regard. Import of recipes via the recipe scanner makes a COPY of the recipe and places it in the BeerTools Pro/Recipes Folder in your documents folder.

Cool. I was hoping I'd still be able to swap recipes with other BTP users. Thanks!

Not so much a bug as a slight irregularity: when an unrecognizable value is entered into a field in the grain editor, all of the pane's text gets grayed out. Data can still be entered in the editor fields, but the text remains gray.

Hi all...

This may or may not be a bug but just a quirk or something that i am not doing correctly!

First of all I have changed the location in the Preferences Panel of the Library Location path to c:\Program Files\BeerToolsPro1.1\Recipes\

Then I did a recipe scan and imported all my recipies. From the Scan Results window, I preceeded to create my folder structur like I had it before and catagorized and moved all my recipes into the correct folders.

Now...when I closed the application then relaunched it, when I click on a folder in the tree on the left and select lets say Lagers/German (yes..i did create some subfolders) I get only 1 recipe out of 4 that is displayed.

I have been trying to remedy this all day and have tried to delete and re-add into this folder but get the same results everytime.

I have also double checked the path in Preferences panel and it is correct, and have also checked the contents of the said folder to insure that there are indeed more than one recipe in the folder, and there is.

Any suggestions? Possible Bug??

Also, could we get say like a something in the status bar on the bottom that will report the total number of recipes (objects) in the DB? Just an idea!
I know i'm supposed to have 88 but i have counted manually 73. I may have missed some and also deleted some as well.

Thanks!

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Hi Again..

I just tried to import 2 separate beer XML files that was created with the previous version of BeerTools and the import fails and displays a message that the file cannot be imported.

I am finding it difficult to switch from units of measurements ie: Lbs to Ounces/ Ounces to Grams etc.. We should be able to do this on the fly as in previous versions.

Also, I am finding it difficult to efficently change ingrediant amounts as the little arrow buttons were removed and now we have to type it in. Please bring back these buttons!

Inventory feature seems nice and I have to get going on working with that. I'll have to get my scale out then take a manual inventory of what I have, then I'll plug it in to BTP-a and see how that goes.

Thanks Again!
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wottaguy wrote:Now...when I closed the application then relaunched it, when I click on a folder in the tree on the left and select lets say Lagers/German (yes..i did create some subfolders) I get only 1 recipe out of 4 that is displayed.

There isn't much I can do without seeing the library folder and DB. You can zip the whole thing and send it to me if you want me to take a look. Thanks.

What exactly will you need?
I don't mind sending it over.

wottaguy wrote:What exactly will you need?
I don't mind sending it over.

The whole library folder you specified in prefs into which you scanned your recipes. If you zip it, it should email fine. Thanks.

Hi Jeff....sorry but I just fixed the issue.
I had to re-build the file structure and re-import all recipes and allocate them to the correct folders. All is working well now.

Thanks!

wottaguy wrote:Hi Jeff....sorry but I just fixed the issue.
I had to re-build the file structure and re-import all recipes and allocate them to the correct folders. All is working well now.

Thanks!

Problems can occur if changes are made to the file structure outside of BTP. If files are removed, added or renamed using the filesystem rather than BTP, the DB file will become out of sync with the files. A planned feature to be included in BTP will rebuild the library from what exists in the filesystem. This will remedy out-of-sync issues caused by changing files and folders using the filesystem rather than BTP.

I do not know if this has been reported before... but if you fill in a value in the text box, say for a mineral... and press enter, the view does not update... but it seems the underlying value does...

when the up and down arrows are pressed, the view finally updates.

cheers!

There is some strangeness under calculator/unit conversion...

the textbox contains the units, also there is a dropdown for the units.. there can be mismatch between what is in the textbox and what is selected within the dropdown...

Edit: I am not sure if the unit conversion tab makes sense anymore since there is the right click option to get auto-conversion.

cheers!

Hi bzwrxbz

How are you performing that Right Click to get your Unit Conversions to work? Is it done in the Ingrediants list box where you type in the amounts of ingrediants?
When I right click on it i get a popup menu that has "Edit, Delete, New Grain etc" on it. No conversion info.
I have no such option to do that.

When looking through the various displays I've noticed that when you display Volume Adjustments then go back to any of the Ingredients' displays the text in the Stage column is shifted 1/2 character to the left. This will continue to display like this until you display Schedule which afterwards the Ingredients text is corrected. I've repeated this very minor error multiple times on my PC.

Bob O.

wottaguy,

the right click seems to work only on some text boxes, for example the kettle volume, wort boil duration, evap loss, etc... it does not work on the ingredients list, although i think it needs to.

cheers!