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* The Wine Makers' Recipe Database *
* By David Asbury *
* ╜ D.Asbury 15/7/91 *
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This Software is public domain, distribute it freely.
Introduction.
Wine making is not a boring hobby carried out by country bumkins
with nothing better to do than drink scrumpy. Similary, playing
with computers is not a boring hobby carried out by spotty 13 year
old youths,(although there do seem to be some around). This program
is the answer to a small problem I had with storage and a way of
bringing two of my hobbies together.
Wine making, unlike computing is fairly cheap to start and like a
lot of computing these days doesn't require too much input, but the
rewards are great. If you'd like to start making alcohol all you
need is a demi john (one pound) an airlock (one pound) and some
ingredients (kits around two to three pounds-but real fruit is
better) and that's about it. There are extras such as hydometers
and filters, but they're not all necessary. Oh and some recipes.
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The Wine Makers' Database
This is my first program, so don't expect it to be brilliant.
The program comes with the following files(please keep them intact
if you give a copy away).
mon_Wine.prg [the main program]
label1.pi3 [example label in degas format]
label2.pi3 [example label in degas format]
label3.pi3 [example label in degas format]
recipes.dtb [data file]
ingreds.dtb [data file]
methods.dtb [data file]
The three data files are not needed to run the program, but are
there to explain some of the programs functions.
To load the program double click on wine.prg. When loaded the
program imeadiately loads any recipes on disk. When loading is
completed you will be presented with an options box. There are
eight options in all.
1) About Winemaker.
Clicking on the top option presents you with the details of the
program. Ie it's name and the fact that it was written by me. There
is also a metric to imperial calculator just in case your'e ever
given a recipe using metric units. At the bottom left of the box
there is a display telling you how much remaining memory you have
in bytes. For a rough guide divide by a 1000 to work out how much K
you have. In the bottom right of the box the amount of free disk
space is displayed. Click on the [CANCEL] box to leave.
2]Add a Recipe
3] Edit an Existing Recipe
These two options a very similar with the following exceptions.
When you choose add a recipe you jump straight to the edit screen
and the recipe number is automatically selected one above the last
entered recipe.
If you choose to edit a current recipe the program first displays
the names of all the recipes in memory. Click on a name to edit
that recipe, or click on Cancel.
As the two are similar, it is best for this example to edit a
current recipe. Choose a recipe to edit, say Plum. Immeadiately the
edit screen appears with the recipe number one filled in and the
program waits for you to enter a name. To the right of the main
edit screen you may notice a smaller box conataining the current
name. When you ADD a recipe this box will obviously be empty. You
can now enter a name (up to 15 characters) or if you wish to keep
the name press the [RETURN] key.
As soon as the return key is pressed the Type of wine is filled
in,(empty if ADDing) and the box to the right of the main screen
alters. You are now given three choice of wine, Dry, Medium and
Sweet. Use the mouse to select one of the three.
The box on the right changes again to allow you, using the mouse,
to enter the Colour of the wine, Red or White. Once this is done
the box will alter and the amount of wine the recipe makes in
gallons, is displayed.(zero if ADDing).
By clicking on the up and down arrows the amount is altered. When
the figure is correct click on the [ENTER] box. This will cause the
display tochange again, allowing you to enter the month. The month
refers to the month that the fruit is most easily available, NOT
the month the wine was bottled). Use the pointer to select a month.
When this has been done the cursor jumps down to the first
ingredient. The discription of the ingredient is diplayed in the
box to the right as was the name previously. This is to stop
confusion when overtyping discriptions. If the current ingredient
discription is correct you can hit [RETURN] and the discription
will be filled in. If not you can enter a new one as before.
Upon entering a discription it [RETURN] and the box to the right of
the edit screen changes to allow you to enter the amount of
ingredients in the same manner as before. When the amount is
correct, click on [ENTER]. The display on the right hand of the
screen will once again alter, allowing easy entry of the unit type,
ie: gallons,pints etc. The bottom box is used for ingredients with
no measurements, ie:nutrient.
Short cut. If at any time you wish to skip ingredients entry, ie if
say only the first ingredient needed altering, or if ther are only
four ingredients, you can jump to the end of the ingredients by
entering the ESC key as the first character of an ingredient and
pressing [RETURN]. This will fill in all the following ingredients,
unchanged.
When all the ingredients have been entered a query box appears
asking you if you want to edit the directions. Clicking on NO will
return you to the main menu. Clicking on YES will put you directly
into the edit Intructions screen.
Editing Instructions.
You are given 15 lines to enter you instructions. At the end of a
line press [RETURN]. Once entered a line cannot be changed. Again
you can press [RETURN] at the start of a line to leave it
unchanged, this is useful if you only want to edit one line in the
middle of you're text. When the fifteenth line has been entered the
program returns to the main menu.
4] View a Recipe.
Clicking on this option causes a pop up menu to appear with four
sub-options:
View by Recipe name
View by Month
View by ingredients
Cancel
If you choose view by Recipe name you will be presented with the
names of all the recipes in memory. Use the mouse to select a Rice
to view.
The view by month option id useful if in say July, you'd like to
know what wine you could make. Clicking on this option bring up
another pop up box allowing you to enter the month. The Search is
NOT case sensitive.
The program will now search through the recipes until it finds one
where the months match. This recipe will be displayed. From here
you can either see the directions, search again using, NEXT (if
another recipe exists with this month) or quit to the menu.
The view by ingredient is similar to view by month, except all
inredients are searched.Agin the search is not case sensitive , so
if you originally entered Rice, the program will still find it,
searching with rice.
5] Print a Recipe.
This option allows you to have print out all the details of a recipe.
Again pick a recipe from those displayed. Immeadiately a pop up
box appears showing the recipe name and number. It also shows how
many gallons the recipe makes.
By using the + and - buttons you can alter this amount. Doing so
automatically alters the amounts for the ingredients, ie: If a
recipe originally made 3 gallons using 5 lbs of apples, and you
change the gallons to 6 the apples, when printed should read 10lbs.
Finally click on the [PRINT] button to produce the print out.
6] Print labels.
Choosing this option allows you to print labels for you bottles.
Chhosing the Recipe Name from the list results in a pop up options
box similar to that of the print recipes option. However you can
now alter the year to be printed on the label using the + and
- buttons. At the bottom of the box there are three small buttons,
one red two are blue. These are the label type options. The Red
button indicates the selected type. Simply click on the Label
typeyou wish to label you bottle with.
The labels are loaded from disk and are standard Degas PI2
drawings. This allows the user to alter the labels if the supplied
ones are not to the users liking.
7] Save Recipes to disk.
The program doesn't automatically save the recipes to disk. This
allows you to enter several recipes in bulk if you wish and save
them all in one go. The disk i/o is by no means brilliant and I
hope at some pint in the future to upgrade it. If anyone knows how
to compress/decompress text files i'd be gratefull to know.
8] Quit. this speaks for itself. When you quit you are given the
option to save the recipes.
If there are any other ST owners out there into making wine, and
would like to send any recipes give us a shout
on any of the Birmingham BBS especially F.Breese, Magic Castle, Red
Dwarf and Wolvehampton ROS.
Hi to Snow Dog, Bart and anyone else whose both to communicate in
the last year.