mstevens
Toadfish. Splendid is implied but not guaranteed.
Pasting a number in the "working pressure" box doesn't work - the number goes in, but doesn't appear to "count" (the SAC doesn't update, and when changing to another dive I'm not asked if I want to save). Only digits entered from the keyboard appear to work.
It's annoying to have the "DC Modified" flag displayed when all I did was add a working pressure. My computer has no way of knowing working pressure, so I'm not really altering the DC data. However, someone (shop, divemaster, instructor, etc.) looking at the screen could justifiably presume I'd messed with the actual computer data.
Like others, I miss the "Dive Computer" display in the "Dive Details" tab. Without it, I fail to see any point in the forward and back buttons. For that matter, I really miss the "Play" and "Fast Forward" buttons from Version 1. I found it useful to run through the dive and watch what was going on with the computer as the dive progressed. It's really tedious to have to keep stepping through one data point at a time in 2.0.3. (As I said, there's no apparent point to stepping through in 2.1.)
It *STILL* says "Intergrated weights" in the "Gear Bag" tab. I think by now it's extremely clear that correct spelling is not a priority. Would you be willing just to take my word for it that there really are people out there who immediately notice such things and who will take that as evidence of sloppy work? That it's been pointed out with each release, though, makes it seem as if somebody desperately WANTS it spelled wrong. What's up with that?
The Gear Bag is still not at all useful. I recently did 20 dives. During the process, I made 2 weight adjustments. If I change the weight in one dive, it changes in all dives that use that "Gear Bag." That means I need a "Tropical Day No Gloves No Primary Light 10-lb" "Gear Bag" and a "Tropical Day No Gloves No Primary Light 12-lb" one and so on. Each tiny change in gear requires creating an entirely new "Gear Bag" with a unique name. This means that the Gear Bag tab is useless for such important diving-related tasks as keeping track of weight used under varying conditions. I can use memos, but then why bother even to have the Gear Bag tab?
The "Dive History" tab does not update in real time. For example, if I go through each of my old dives and update the working pressure so a SAC will be created, the Dive History tab will, on the first iteration, still show blank max and min SAC's but will be correct after restarting the program. If I do a few at a time, the tab will show the max and min from before the current restart only and does not reflect data entered during the current session.
The System Tray display doesn't seem useful. Double-clicking the icon displays a modal "About" window. Doing this again without first closing that windows gives a Runtime Error 400 and crashes the program. The icon in the tray just causes more clutter with no benefit.
Thank you for:
- fixing SAC calculations. They now match mine (nearly enough, which I presume is mostly due to rounding in the displayed averages vs. true averages)
- having SAC update for old dives once sufficient data (working pressure, cylinder size) has been entered for that dive
- fixing the color theme issue. Now I can use the program even if I use the Silver theme in Windows XP!
Obviously, it's highly inadvisable for anyone to use version 2.1.0beta on anything other than a "play" data file since it can and will permanently and irreparably alter important dive data. Still, the new features are fun to play with.
It's annoying to have the "DC Modified" flag displayed when all I did was add a working pressure. My computer has no way of knowing working pressure, so I'm not really altering the DC data. However, someone (shop, divemaster, instructor, etc.) looking at the screen could justifiably presume I'd messed with the actual computer data.
Like others, I miss the "Dive Computer" display in the "Dive Details" tab. Without it, I fail to see any point in the forward and back buttons. For that matter, I really miss the "Play" and "Fast Forward" buttons from Version 1. I found it useful to run through the dive and watch what was going on with the computer as the dive progressed. It's really tedious to have to keep stepping through one data point at a time in 2.0.3. (As I said, there's no apparent point to stepping through in 2.1.)
It *STILL* says "Intergrated weights" in the "Gear Bag" tab. I think by now it's extremely clear that correct spelling is not a priority. Would you be willing just to take my word for it that there really are people out there who immediately notice such things and who will take that as evidence of sloppy work? That it's been pointed out with each release, though, makes it seem as if somebody desperately WANTS it spelled wrong. What's up with that?
The Gear Bag is still not at all useful. I recently did 20 dives. During the process, I made 2 weight adjustments. If I change the weight in one dive, it changes in all dives that use that "Gear Bag." That means I need a "Tropical Day No Gloves No Primary Light 10-lb" "Gear Bag" and a "Tropical Day No Gloves No Primary Light 12-lb" one and so on. Each tiny change in gear requires creating an entirely new "Gear Bag" with a unique name. This means that the Gear Bag tab is useless for such important diving-related tasks as keeping track of weight used under varying conditions. I can use memos, but then why bother even to have the Gear Bag tab?
The "Dive History" tab does not update in real time. For example, if I go through each of my old dives and update the working pressure so a SAC will be created, the Dive History tab will, on the first iteration, still show blank max and min SAC's but will be correct after restarting the program. If I do a few at a time, the tab will show the max and min from before the current restart only and does not reflect data entered during the current session.
The System Tray display doesn't seem useful. Double-clicking the icon displays a modal "About" window. Doing this again without first closing that windows gives a Runtime Error 400 and crashes the program. The icon in the tray just causes more clutter with no benefit.
Thank you for:
- fixing SAC calculations. They now match mine (nearly enough, which I presume is mostly due to rounding in the displayed averages vs. true averages)
- having SAC update for old dives once sufficient data (working pressure, cylinder size) has been entered for that dive
- fixing the color theme issue. Now I can use the program even if I use the Silver theme in Windows XP!
Obviously, it's highly inadvisable for anyone to use version 2.1.0beta on anything other than a "play" data file since it can and will permanently and irreparably alter important dive data. Still, the new features are fun to play with.
