LuciferX
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Thanks! I just cleaned up the UI a bit for the 0.3 release, should be a bit cleaner looking
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Evil Ernie
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Yes I was looking for the info to appear on the home tab. I have used the custom status and events which logs nicely, if that info could show up on the home screen with the nutrient/reservoir status box or whatever would be great.
I love that Home tab for its quick overall view of whats going on from seedling to harvest.
I see there is a new update gonna go and get it now. Thanks!
IAmKrazy2
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This is awesome. I am looking forward to the improvements on future versions. Would adding colors or separation of seeds vs. clones vs. veg be possible? I often have plants at several different stages and color coding or separation would be awesome. Love the program. Used every day since download.
Where would you recommend we implement colors? On the status boxes?
LuciferX
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It wouldn't take much work to make the status screen customizable so they could choose which phase or item to assign to which box. I believe there is also a desire to integrate the custom status box into the main status screen too so that's the first thing that comes up.
Ps I despise colors so lets make that optional
Green Floyd
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Might be cool if I could load pics into the program. Link to a folder somewhere I guess.
Have the pics password protected maybe?
This is definitely cool!
Have the pics password protected maybe?
This is definitely cool!
Ya, I think the best option is to allow users to pick pre-defined queries or write their own and then for user to have the option to use any status box to display any info they like. Maybe if we do that, then Custom Status tab gets moved under the Home tab or something. Could even let users add/remove status tabs if they desire.It wouldn't take much work to make the status screen customizable so they could choose which phase or item to assign to which box. I believe there is also a desire to integrate the custom status box into the main status screen too so that's the first thing that comes up.
Ps I despise colors so lets make that optional
Glad you like it!Might be cool if I could load pics into the program. Link to a folder somewhere I guess.
Have the pics password protected maybe?
This is definitely cool!
Not sure what you're saying exactly. We do allow you to store pics currently. They aren't password protected yet. I think Lx has some plans to do that eventually.
Green Floyd
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Haha! Ok my bad. I see it now.
Just for the record, I am having some problems with my password at the moment which is kind of unsettling
I entered it 3x before I got in, came back to this after I saw the pictures tab, went back and it was gone!
Just searched this thread for "password" and got this: " I had it crash on me and then noticed it had erased my password and I had to log in w/ blank password." Logged in with blank password and got in which is kind of even more unsettling!
Is this something that's still being worked on?
Still an awesome little program.
Just had a thought..How about a "discreet" version for those that would prefer not to have a pot leaf icon on their PC.
There are other plants in the world you know.
LuciferX
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With the current version if the program crashes or is terminated for any reason it will clear out your password, you just have to go back in and re-enter it. We have plans to correct that by never unencrypting the data to disk but that won't be for another release or two. You can probably just go into the install directory and replace the Marijuana.ico to get rid of the pot leaf, if not we could definately enable a discreet version, I think we even have that in the todo list somewhere alreadyHaha! Ok my bad. I see it now.
Just for the record, I am having some problems with my password at the moment which is kind of unsettling
I entered it 3x before I got in, came back to this after I saw the pictures tab, went back and it was gone!
Just searched this thread for "password" and got this: " I had it crash on me and then noticed it had erased my password and I had to log in w/ blank password." Logged in with blank password and got in which is kind of even more unsettling!
Is this something that's still being worked on?
Still an awesome little program.
Just had a thought..How about a "discreet" version for those that would prefer not to have a pot leaf icon on their PC.
There are other plants in the world you know.
LuciferX
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Thanks! Don't forget about DB, he's got a lot of blood and sweat into this now too
We still have to get the app working 100% on windows before we can start planning on porting to mac or linux. I am pretty confident there will be some WPF to silverlight conversion tools released by then, making the work on our end a lot easier.
Dropastone
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You can just right click on the icon. Go to properties and click the change icon tab and use whatever icon you want or even browse for your own icon.
LuciferX
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Thanks! I didn't think that would work since it was embedded into the project, good call
I actually think we should create a duplicate project, "PlantIQ" and remove all Herb references in the app and SF site. We could keep the same codebase for the most part. Might also be easier to integrate with other things (like cellphone apps). Alternatively, this could be an Installer option or app option. I'm a fan of a completely different project tho to limit the link from PlantIQ to HerbIQ.
Green Floyd
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I've done that before so I know what you mean.
For me though it just opened the Herb IQ program folder with just the original ico.
I tried that with a different icon just to see where the usual list was but it was a bit strange trying to find it that way so I that could browse to it when I tried "change icon" from the Herb IQ icon.
I ended up just searching for ".ico" in windows. Found tons of cool (non-microsoft) icons that way from websites I had visited.
Found at least 5 other pot leaf icons! One that kind of looked like a tomato but ended up using a yellow smiley guy with a devious grin.
I just copied that into the Herb IQ program folder where the original pot leaf icon is and then when I clicked "change icon" it popped right up.
I also deleted the comment you see in the properties menu which mentions marijuana.
Part of what I meant by this also was that this prog could be used for other plants as well.
I grow tobacco and actual tomatoes(!) I'd also like to use it for things besides pot so that made me think about a sort of more generalized, "innocent" version that could be used for any gardening and sort of just say "tomato" instead of pot for someone that just really didn't want to take any kind of chance with having any reference to nefarious activities on their PC.
Thx! Love the re-alignment of the plant info tab. Much cleaner looking.Thanks! Don't forget about DB, he's got a lot of blood and sweat into this now too
sufc8t1
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Hi,love the idea of using this software,however when I try and download it,my mcafee virus checker says "Potentially dangerous download detected,in our tests this download contained programs some would consider as adware,spyware or other potentially unwanted programs".
Now I hate to go againt warnings ike these,but I woud like to sample the software.anybody else get this?.
Now I hate to go againt warnings ike these,but I woud like to sample the software.anybody else get this?.
LuciferX
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No chance of that, that's why we released the project as open source. If you are suspecious of anything you can download the source code and see EXACTLY what it's doing. If you don't trust our executables you can compile your own binaries from source and use it that way.
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LuciferX
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I'm almost done with the grow room tracking, I will probably put this out as 0.3 over the weekend. Fixed a number of bugs, also added code that will prevent your datafile password from being wiped out, the only thing it wouldn't be able to catch is if your pc lost power. Will try to customize the status screen and/or integrate the custom status too if there is time 
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DawgMountain
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I'm going to go back and read this long thread... but I wanted you to know that I'm a "semi-retired" database programmer. I'm doing some stuff right now on the evaluation copy of Visual Studio .Net 2010. I can help. This would help me with these newer languages. So let me study your application some more and read the rest of this thread. Where's the open source?