Version 4.02
Bug fixes
– Fixed a bug with batch numbers. The date was not read from the database correctly.
– Fixed a bug when saving a product in the Inventory. The Weight was rounded to an integer.
– Some minor changes to support lower resolution screens better. The W% trackbar is now resized when the form is resized so that the buttons on the right is always visible.
– Fixed bug when changing Final weight to a weight that is larger than Total weight, this caused the program to crash.
– Fixed installation so that a desktop shortcut is always added to V4 when updating from V3.
– Fixed bug with the Min/Max ranges of ingredients, they were not saved correctly in the recipe. They reverted back to the values set in the ingredient database and not the overridden values set in the recipe.
Online charts
For new installations all the online charts will be loaded automatically.
Chart value text
Made the chart value text a bit easier to read if it overlaps a range line.
Tags
You can now toggle the TAGS for a recipe in the main form. Added a small blue “T” button to toggle TAGS on and off.
Balancing
I have rewritten the Automatic balancing algorithms. There were a few issues I wanted to address.
One thing was that if you had one target property that could not be reached that property could mess up the other targets. For example, say you have a target for stabilizers but your recipe doesn’t have any stabilizers in it. Then this property will never be possible to satisfy, and this would affect the balance of the other properties.
I also wanted to be able to prioritize one property that I think is more important. If the balancing fails it can fail in different ways, if you have one property that you really would like to succeed it would be good to be able to flag that property as important.
And finally I wanted to improve the quality of the balancing in general.
I think all these issues have been resolved after rewriting the algorithms. I believe the balancing is now really good and the results when it fails are more intuitive. A challenge for users would be, if the automatic balancing fails, can you manually change the recipe so that all charts and panels are green? If you find such a case please let me know!
So, you can now set a Priority flag on a property to indicate it is important.
When balancing, both the chart and any panels with a range (min or max) set will be used. You can now turn off panels from the balancing if you like. If a panel is used in the balancing a small blue dot is displayed in the panel to indicate this. To disable a panel from balancing uncheck the Use in balancing checkbox.
Minimize cost balancing
Added a new balancing method to minimize the total cost of the recipe. This balancing method will balance as usual but also try to minimize the total cost of the recipe.
