Vape Liquid Inventory and Recipe App

First: looks friggen awesome well done!!
Side note: credit where credit is due to Microsoft, they really are on the up and up, Im so impressed with the latest visual studio, and I work now in vscode I prefer it to jetbrains and thats really saying something!

True! I dont tell everyone this, but im kinda a Microsoft fanboy :)

I love all things linux too, but besides all the bad press, MS just works
 
First: looks friggen awesome well done!!
Side note: credit where credit is due to Microsoft, they really are on the up and up, Im so impressed with the latest visual studio, and I work now in vscode I prefer it to jetbrains and thats really saying something!
Yep, Vscode is everything an IDE should be. I use it for all my development. Even as a text editor.
 
Can one import all your flavours from ELR?

Definitely doable! basically functional, but might be very experimental. When doing it, i would suggest, first import from ELR before doing anything else, so that if it messes up, its easy to restart.

Added a flavorstash to ELR, exported and imported, and success!

my flavor stash was quite small, i think ELR has public flavor stashes, so will download some random ones, and just test the import of those

Can you (or anyone else) confirm please, i havent really used ELR's stash, i see amount, and bottle volume, i take it as, you paid xx for xx ml, right?

So on the flavor stash, your current on hand ml isnt shown, right?

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@muller.s - Well done man... This looks really good!!

Now forgive me for being a partypooper but have you ever checked out JuiceCalculator

This app has an abundance of advanced features that are a cut above the rest.

I'd highly recommend checking it out. Maybe you can gain some tips from there...

I'm gonna include some screenshots from the app below:

This is the ingredient editing window. It calculates the grams per ml based on the VG, PG & nicotine content etc.
Edit Ingredient.jpg

It includes useful calculators like these, merge two recipes etc.
Tools Menu.jpg

It has this nicotine calculator.
Nicotine Calculator.jpg

You can generate custom reports that exports as a tab-delimited text file which I just copy and paste into Excel, convert it to a list with Ctrl+L and then I can sort by Amount (ml) to see what concentrates I have lots or little of.
Custom Reports.jpg

The Edit menu which includes some useful tools including making a one-shot (Create flavor base from recipe)
Edit Menu.jpg

The Ingredient Editor lets you modify these values directly in the table.
Ingredient Editor.jpg

Other than clicking Mix Recipe in the main window, you can also add or reduce ingredients from the inventory using this tool which can do adjustments on individual ingredients.
Adjust Inventory Window.jpg

I don't mean to derail your thread in any way but just thought you might find this of interest.

I also believe the developer of Juice Calculator (Rod Brown) is quite open to discussion, feature implementation etc. It may be advisable to collaborate with each other as all too often freeware, shareware or open-source projects inadvertently compete with one another unknowingly.

Wishing you all the best!! :)
 
@muller.s - Well done man... This looks really good!!

Now forgive me for being a partypooper but have you ever checked out JuiceCalculator

This app has an abundance of advanced features that are a cut above the rest.

Hey man, yes. I have used JuiceCalculator, i think its also called ejuicemeup, or is that a different one? also juice grinder.

The thing what i dont like about those are, the interface can be quite hard, and sometimes you need to jump thru hoops to add stuff etc.

So i took lockdown to teach myself some programming and took this project as a learning experience. The "flow" for me is a lot easier, everything done in a click or two.

But i agree, its a amazing app, and def drew some inspiration from it.
 
Hey man, yes. I have used JuiceCalculator, i think its also called ejuicemeup, or is that a different one? also juice grinder.

The thing what i dont like about those are, the interface can be quite hard, and sometimes you need to jump thru hoops to add stuff etc.

So i took lockdown to teach myself some programming and took this project as a learning experience. The "flow" for me is a lot easier, everything done in a click or two.

But i agree, its a amazing app, and def drew some inspiration from it.
eJuiceMeUp is a different one that I couldn't ever get running and I've stuck with JuiceCalculator since then... I didn't ever try Juice Grinder.

I can certainly testify to the fact that some features are a bit long-winded in their execution so if your app has a more optimised workflow then I can definitely see it being a winner!

I'd also be keen to feature and bug test it for you once it's distributed and I'll gladly provide feedback on any issues or improvements I may encounter...

P.s. I'm rusty on programming at the moment but if you store your recipe ingredients in a dynamic array then you can add or remove items without a fixed maximum of 15 ingredients and could iterate through the array for the recipe's ingredient listing. Dunno if that makes sense but hopefully it does ;)
 
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eJuiceMeUp is a different one that I couldn't ever get running and I've stuck with JuiceCalculator since then... I didn't ever try Juice Grinder.

I can certainly testify to the fact that some features are a bit long-winded in their execution so if your app has a more optimised workflow then I can definitely see it been a winner!

I'd also be keen to feature and bug test it for you once it's distributed and I'll gladly provide feedback on any issues or improvements I may encounter...

P.s. I'm rusty on programming at the moment but if you store your recipe ingredients in a dynamic array then you can add or remove items without a fixed maximum of 15 ingredients and could iterate through the array for the recipe's ingredient listing. Dunno if that makes sense but hopefully it does ;)

Makes perfect sense! I played a bit with arrays. If there is a big need for 15+ ingredients i will have a look at it. My biggest issue is space on the form to add more ingredients

And i will post the app here as soon as im done.

I was thinking of putting the source up on github but that code has more spaghetti in it than a Italian restaurant so I'm not sure the world needs to see it. 2020 has been hard enough
 
@muller.s - Well done man... This looks really good!!

Now forgive me for being a partypooper but have you ever checked out JuiceCalculator

This app has an abundance of advanced features that are a cut above the rest.

I'd highly recommend checking it out. Maybe you can gain some tips from there...

I'm gonna include some screenshots from the app below:

This is the ingredient editing window. It calculates the grams per ml based on the VG, PG & nicotine content etc.
View attachment 203998

It includes useful calculators like these, merge two recipes etc.
View attachment 203999

It has this nicotine calculator.
View attachment 204000

You can generate custom reports that exports as a tab-delimited text file which I just copy and paste into Excel, convert it to a list with Ctrl+L and then I can sort by Amount (ml) to see what concentrates I have lots or little of.
View attachment 204001

The Edit menu which includes some useful tools including making a one-shot (Create flavor base from recipe)
View attachment 204002

The Ingredient Editor lets you modify these values directly in the table.
View attachment 204003

Other than clicking Mix Recipe in the main window, you can also add or reduce ingredients from the inventory using this tool which can do adjustments on individual ingredients.
View attachment 204004

I don't mean to derail your thread in any way but just thought you might find this of interest.

I also believe the developer of Juice Calculator (Rod Brown) is quite open to discussion, feature implementation etc. It may be advisable to collaborate with each other as all too often freeware, shareware or open-source projects inadvertently compete with one another unknowingly.

Wishing you all the best!! :)
im watching this thread with great interest and will definitely help with any testing once ready. good on you @muller.s for tackling this one and all the best, thanks so much @takatatak I switched from ejuicemeup to juice calculator and it works so much better. love the inventory function to pick concentrates from and custom reports keeping track what you made when and busy steeping. I could even load a few flavoured 24mg commercial tobacco juices that I use as a base ingredient in other recipes sometimes. thanks again much appreciated!
 
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