ChickenPing Changelog

What's new in ChickenPing 2.1.5.0 Beta

Sep 12, 2013
  • Added: Option to permanently save changes made when scaling a recipe.
  • Changed: Requirements for custom icons are now more forgiving.
  • Changed: When scaling a recipe, the list now respects sections.

New in ChickenPing 2.1.0.0 (Sep 11, 2013)

  • Added: Option to export/save snapshots from the context menu.
  • Changed: The list of existing measurements for autocomplete now pulls from both shopping list items and ingredients.
  • Changed: Recipes can now be added to the shopping list from the list in meal planner.
  • Fixed: Bug where ChickenPing would crash if the install wizard was not completed.
  • Fixed: Bug where two items were added instead of doubling the quantity of each item when adding the same recipe to the shopping list twice (Thanks Alison).
  • Fixed: Meal planner bug where the wrong recipe was shown when double clicking a recipe in the 'Recipe List' view.
  • Fixed: Language/measurement selection bug.
  • Fixed: Fatal crash when trying to paste garbage text as a list of ingredients.
  • Fixed: Intermittent settings saving bug where a change of language would not be reflected until ChickenPing was restarted.

New in ChickenPing 2.0.5.0 (Sep 11, 2013)

  • Added: Copy to clipboard as text/HTML via context menu.
  • Added: Export to HTML using templates.
  • Added: Option to specify allergens and special diet information for recipes.
  • Added: When searching for nutrition, more matches should now be returned. (Previously, "egg white" would not match against the USDA defintiion of "Egg, white". This is no longer the case).
  • Changed: Shopping list names no longer have to be unique.
  • Changed: Wines, Cocktails and the Wine Cellar is now synchronized.
  • Fixed: Wine regions grid editor.
  • Fixed: Shopping list item update bug. If the same combination of ingredient name, comment and measurement are added on the same list, the existing item is now updated instead of a new item being added.

New in ChickenPing 1.9.2.0 (Jan 4, 2012)

  • Fixed: Bug on bulk nutrition search.
  • Changed: Authentication and licensing system to remove dependance on internet connection.
  • Changed: ChickenPing can now import from backups created pre 1.7.5 (Thanks Daniel).

New in ChickenPing 1.8.8.0 (May 30, 2011)

  • Added: Wine search via Snooth.com.
  • Added: Restaurant search via OpenDining.
  • Added: Cellar Manager too manage and index wine locations.
  • Changed: Region/country labels are now hidden when the region/country for a wine are not set to save space.
  • Changed: Position of the main window is now saved when closing.
  • Fixed: Bug when submitting error reports.
  • Fixed: Crash when searching Wine.Com with special characters.
  • Fixed: Crash when trying to download the USDA nutrition database with a limited user account.
  • Fixed: Bug when country and origin of wines was not shown when editing a wine.

New in ChickenPing 1.8.5.0 (May 30, 2011)

  • Added: "Pairings" for items to link recipes with other recipes/wines.
  • Added: Dropdown to quicksearch bar and streamlined the quicksearch bar.
  • Added: Wine supplier/region management.
  • Added: Search via Wine.Com.
  • Changed: Multiple categories can now be deleted at one.
  • Fixed: Bug when duplicating recipes which caused snapshots not to be duplicated.
  • Fixed: Bug in measurement converter with negative temperatures.

New in ChickenPing 1.7.6.0 (May 30, 2011)

  • Added: Windows Phone 7 support.
  • Added: Import from REML.
  • Added: Quick search bar
  • Added: Option to send a recipe with a message to friends via email.
  • Added: Extra step when importing recipes to allow selection of the recipes and categories to include.
  • Added: Conversion options for temperatures and ability to set units for a temperature, also to convert between different temperature units.
  • Added: Select/Deselect all button for categories
  • Added: Option to submit recipes to ChickenPing.com and view recipes via the site instead of just the application.
  • Added: Auto-upgrade to new databases schemas, hopefully eliminating the need to export/re-import after upgrading.
  • Fixed: Preparation time parsing bug when downloading from FatSecret.

New in ChickenPing 1.7.5.0 (May 30, 2011)

  • Added: Ability to add custom icons
  • Added: More icons
  • Added: Italian Translation
  • Changed: Parsing and display of fractions to allow more tolerance of imperial measurements (1/3, 2/3 etc) - Thanks pgauthier71 and slcollns.
  • Fixed: Hungarian translation bug.
  • Fixed: Casing bug

New in ChickenPing 1.70 (May 4, 2010)

  • Added: More icons
  • Added: Printing of meals for a range of dates
  • Added: Creation of shopping lists for a date range.
  • Added: Print preview for shopping lists on meal planner
  • Fixed: Fraction bug when languages which use a comma as a decimal separator were used

New in ChickenPing 1.67 (Apr 4, 2010)

  • Added: Culinary Dictionary feature
  • Added: Option to sort ingredients by an artificial order
  • Added: Searching by author name
  • Added: Checkbox column to the shopping list print output, and sorted ingredients by name.
  • Added: Slider to control the width of the paper when printing shopping lists
  • Changed: Categories are now sorted by name
  • Fixed: Duplicate measurement bug when printing a shipping list (Thanks
  • Fixed: Recipe name now appears when printing a meal list (Thanks

New in ChickenPing 1.65 (Apr 4, 2010)

  • Added: FatSecret.com recipe search and download.
  • Added: Check for updates feature.
  • Fixed: Bug which caused sometimes causes an unhandled crash when editing the quantity field of an ingredient.
  • Fixed: Importing bug which prevented recipes exported/reimported to a PC with different regional settings.

New in ChickenPing 1.60 (Jan 21, 2010)

  • Added: Persistent storage for In the Fridge
  • Added: French (Canada) translation
  • Added: Print preview to meal planner and recipe printing.
  • Added: Option to print recipes when printing meals from the meal planner.
  • Added: Minimum version check when synchronizing with ChickenPing Mobile.
  • Changed: The contents of the fridge are now saved between restarts
  • Changed: Replaced buggy numeric up/down controls (spinners) with a simpler TextBox which responds to the arrow keys.
  • Changed: Shopping lists are now synchronized with ChickenPing Mobile.
  • Changed: Behaviour of MealMaster parser.
  • Fixed: RecipeML parsing bug
  • Fixed: Recipe nutrition view bug.

New in ChickenPing 1.54 (Jan 10, 2010)

  • Meal planner improvements

New in ChickenPing 1.51 (Nov 15, 2009)

  • Added: Import from Food Data Exchange (FDX) format.
  • Added: Spanish translation (Thanks Carlos).
  • Changed: When searching for nutrition for a recipe, the food selected from the USDA database for each ingredient is now remembered.

New in ChickenPing 1.50 (Nov 8, 2009)

  • Added: MealMaster, MasterCook MX2 and MasterCook plain text import.
  • Added: Author and Preparation Time fields to recipes.
  • Changed: Recipes and backups can now be imported from their native formats (xml, mmf, mx2 etc) as well as zip files or multiple zip files or any combination of the two.
  • Fixed: Bug which caused fractions to be parsed incorrectly from RecipeML.

New in ChickenPing 1.49 (Nov 1, 2009)

  • Added: Meals list, search and print options to meal planner.
  • Added: Ability to print a shopping list for a date range in meal planner.
  • Added: German translation
  • Changed: Redesigned shopping list print output.
  • Changed: Pasting ingredients now only works when the Ingredients tab is selected.
  • Changed: Colours on Sticky Fingers mode

New in ChickenPing 1.48 (Oct 21, 2009)

  • Added: Meal Planner.
  • Added: Option to manually specify calories for nutritional analysis.
  • Added: Spanish translation (Thanks Arturo GarcĂ­a).
  • Added: Notification if a recipe has been scaled to allow use of discretion with cooking times.

New in ChickenPing 1.45 (Oct 5, 2009)

  • Added: Nutritional analysis for a whole recipe.
  • Added: Preference to enable/disable auto-completion of ingredient names.
  • Changed: If the Add Recipe form is closed while an ingredient is being edited, the ingredient is now saved.
  • Changed: Measurement Combobox on recipe and shopping list dialogs to an auto-completing TextBox instead.

New in ChickenPing 1.42 (Sep 28, 2009)

  • Added: Option to download a local copy of the nutrition database for instant searches.
  • Added: Spanish measurement recognition
  • Improved ingredient parser.

New in ChickenPing 1.41 (Sep 24, 2009)

  • Added: Measurement converter.
  • Added: Global preference to convert all units automatically between metric and imperial.

New in ChickenPing 1.40 (Sep 17, 2009)

  • nutrition data is now available for many ingredients
  • improved support for copy and paste

New in ChickenPing 1.35 (Sep 13, 2009)

  • Added: Snapshots Gallery to find recipes from pictures of finished dishes.
  • Changed: Snapshots can now be added by dragging and dropping images from the main window and when adding a recipe (Thanks James149).
  • Changed: When saving a recipe, any uncommited snapshots will now be added in the same way as ingredients. Users reported forgetting to press the 'Add Snapshot' button.

New in ChickenPing 1.35 (Sep 6, 2009)

  • Added: Recipe upload/download service.
  • Added: Option to create a copy of a recipe
  • Changed: Recipes can now be selected by right clicking.

New in ChickenPing 1.32 (Sep 1, 2009)

  • Synchronize snapshots taken with device camera

New in ChickenPing 1.30 (Aug 28, 2009)

  • Substitutes

New in ChickenPing 1.27 (Aug 17, 2009)

  • Timers

New in ChickenPing 1.24 (Aug 9, 2009)

  • Sticky Fingers Mode

New in ChickenPing 1.21 (Aug 3, 2009)

  • Picasa support

New in ChickenPing 1.12 (Jun 30, 2009)

  • Snapshots, Flickr support and more!

New in ChickenPing 1.1.0.0 (Jun 29, 2009)

  • Added: Windows Mobile Syncronization utility.
  • Added: Categories, minimum and maximum number of ingredients to search.
  • Added: Ability to store multiple snapshots for a recipe.
  • Added: Uploading snapshots to Flickr.
  • Added: Selectable icons to each recipe.
  • Added: Splash screen.
  • Changed: Entering a comma when adding categories for a recipe now adds the category.