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ProMash Revision History - V1.3.C

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Version 1.3.c Upgrade
Posted 03-10-2000
New Features and Enhancements:

  1. When loading and/or saving recipes, ProMash will now remember the last Folder/Directory you were working in, and the next time ProMash is opened that directory will be the default directories for recipe.

    The same also applies to Brewing Sessions, although the Recipe and Brewing Session default folders/directories can be different.

    Furthermore, Water Profile and Mash Schedule files can also be loaded/saved from their own directories, and those are remembered after every ProMash Session.

    This should allow users to orginize their recipe, brewing session, water profile and mash schedule folders much easier. Network drives and folders are also supported.

  2. ProMash will now allow you to view and print all color values in either SRM (Lovibond) or EBC measurements. To set the which values you would like to use, goto the System Settings, Mash & Color section where you will see the new selections. The default remains SRM (Lovibond). Previous vesrions of ProMash allowed the EBC color value to be set in the Malt database, but only SRM was displayed and/or printed in recipes and brewing sessions.

UI Modification:
  1. The order of Style components in all style-pick dialogs has been changed so that the Category number is the first item in the list, and the list is now sorted according to the category number, as opposed to the Category name it previously sorted on. We think this will make it much easier to find a specific style.

  2. Previously, when choosing hops from within a recipe or brewing session, the list box presented did not contain the 'usage' field (IE bittering, aroma, both) as the pick box in the hop database maintenence list did. It was pointed out that this field would actually be more helful if presented in the pick lists within recipes and brewing sessions. We completely agree, it has been an oversight that this was not already implemented, it has been changed. You will now see the 'usage' field in the pick list while formulating recipes.

  3. All values for SRM or EBC color are now only displayed and entered as integer values (with the exception of the recipe's anticipated color, where we left 1 decimal place in for your viewing pleasure). Most users felt that the display of decimal places for the color feilds were not reuired and only cluttered up the display. We agree in that trying to target any decimal value regarding beer color is far reaching indeed, and that a single integer value is cleaner and easier to read.

  4. The 'TAB' order of many dialogs were modified appropriately.


Bug Fixes:
  1. Previously, if a user went to the styles database and chose to delete an entry, if they chose 'No' for the 'Are You Sure' dialog the entry was still deleted. This error has been fixed. Note that you still had to Save the database for the change to take affect permanently. The error only occured in the styles database.

  2. If you opened a recipe, printed it, closed it and then tried to reopen it upredictable results would occur and on some systems the program would crash. This has been fixed.

  3. If you reduced ProMash to an Icon on your taskbar, and closed it from the taskbar, the next time your opened ProMash it would appear in it's iconized state, forcing you to Maximize it to become active. This has been fixed.

  4. In the brewing session imbedded water profiler, is you choose to view the "Mash and Sparge Totals", the amount of water shown for the mash was not correctly adding additional infusions you may have set in the mash schedule. This has been fixed.

  5. In both the stand-alone mash designer, and the complex mash designer imbedded in a brewing session, if you manually typed in a new qts/lbs or l/kg water to grain ratio (as opposed to using the up/down arrow bars), the first infusion amount in the standalone, and the dough-in amount in the imbedded were not being updated properly until a post-digit was entered. IE if you entered in 1.2, the amounts were not correct until you entered in 1.20. This has been fixed.

  6. In both the stand-alone Water Needed Calculator, and the Water Needed Calculator imbedded within brewing sessions, if you had all settings turned on to Metric, the amount of water being absorbed by the grain was in error and not following the Liters/kg grain absorbtion rate. This has been fixed.

  7. If you had set your system measurements to default to metric, and had also set the default evaporation rate to be Liters per Hour as opposed to % per hour, both the pre-boil calculator display and printout within recipes and brewing sessions would incorrectly print Gallons, not Liters. This has been fixed.

  8. When printing a detailed report sheet for a particular Yeast, within the Yeast database, the optimum fermentation temperature would always printf as 0. This has been fixed with the temp now correctly reported in both degrees Fahrenheit and Celsius.

  9. When printing a detailed report sheet for a particular hop, within the hop database, there was a problem that would either result in some of the minor oils being printed as 0.0, or possibly crashing the program. This has been fixed.

  10. When printing a recipe or brewing session, if you had chosen an extra ingredient that had it's 'TIME IN WHAT' value set to 'Mash', it would incorrectly print (boil) on the recipe report. This has been fixed.

  11. When printing a recipe, if you had chosen an extra ingredient that had it's measurement type set to 'Teaspoon', the Tsp abbreviation would not print. This has been fixed.

  12. When using the hydrometers correction calculators imbedded in the brewing session mash specifics or fermentation specifics dialogs, there was a curious behavior that was not really a bug, but confused some users. What happened was, if you:

    a) Brought up a hydro correction calculator, and adjusted the temp measured out to read higher, accepted the new reading.

    b) Brought up the hydro correction calculator again, the temp measured at would read the same as previously entered, and adjust the NEW gravity upwards as well.

    The end result is that if you set a higher "measured at" temp, and continuiously brought up the hydro correction calculator (prior to closing the brewing session), the gravity would be continously adjusted higher as well. This was because it would be adjusting the already 'corrected' number.

    This has been changed so that every time a brewing session imbedded hydrometer correction calculator is launched, the adjusted temperature is reset to the hydrometer calibration tempature. Gravity numbers will now stay at their current level until the temperature is adjusted.