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What’s new
Release 2.3.286.9 - April 2008
This is a minor release correcting a few of problems.
• Dialog consumption event
• A problem occurred if one switched between the menu and consumption pages.
Thanks to Mr Naim for reporting this issue.
• Reports
• The cellar book report by current value had incorrect totals. Thanks to Mr Schatto
for reporting this issue.
• The wine card report did not show the current value. Thanks to Mr Schatto for
suggestion this change.
• Transfer between cellars
• The button for this function on the consumption page was sometimes available
when it should not have been. Thanks to Ms Augay for reporting this issue.
• Purchase
• Sometimes an error would occur. Thanks to Ms Augay for reporting this issue.
• Tasting
• Sometimes an error would occur. Thanks to Stephen E. for reporting this issue.
• Report Manager
• Upgraded to version 2.7e
Release 2.3.282.9 - February 2008
This is a minor release correcting a few of problems.
• vinoXML file download
• Program now ensures that a file name is provided. Thanks to M. Yusuf for
reporting this issue.
• Temporary file is not removed if MS Internet Explorer is used, it’s left up to MS IE
to clean up the temporary file. Thanks to Mr. Pinault for reporting this issue.
• Vineyard dialog
• Updating an existing entry may have caused an error. Thanks to Yan G. for
reporting this issue.
• GWS value update
• Trying to report a missing wine to GWS would cause an error on Windows Vista.
• Wine rack display
• Custom wine rack would have a problem with displaying certain drink types.
Thanks to Mr. Pinault for reporting this issue.
Release 2.3.275.9 - November 2007
This is a release providing an enhancement and correcting a couple of known problems.
• Transfer dialog
• The current value will in the ‘to’ cellar will be updated with the ‘from’ cellar value.
Thanks to Lars J. for the suggestion.
• Image tabs
• One could not select a particular file type in the file browser. Thanks to Wilma M.
for reporting this.
• Copy from the clipboard now also supports using the filename, i.e. some source
application provide only file name and not a Windows Bitmap.
• URL controls
• These controls are used for the web site fields, pasting certain values or changing
the value would cause an error. Thanks to D. Terrett for reporting this.
Release 2.3.272.9 - October 2007
This is a minor release correcting a couple of problems.
• Ingredient dialog
• Creating a new item and closing the dialog without saving caused a problem.
Thanks to R. Henry. for reporting this.
• Recipe
• Pasting ingredients containing an apostrophe from the clipboard was causing a
problem. Thanks to R. Henry. for reporting this.
Release 2.3.270.9 - October 2007
This is a minor release correcting a couple of problems and it includes a Danish translation
done by Jesper R.
• vinoXML copy problem
• Wine rack designer problems
Release 2.3.266.9 - September 2007
This is a release providing a few enhancements and correcting known problems.
• Global Wine Stocks
• Improved integration with the GWS site.
• You can now obtain current market values for your wine. This feature requires a
subscription with Global Wine Stocks which you can get from here .
• There are two additional menu options to support this.
• First of all under menu Master data - wine/Internet search configuration you
need to define the e-mail address you used when signing up with GWS (I would
appreciate if you use the link above should you sign up with them) and the
password and then you can obtain an authentication key by clicking the
appropriate button.
• Second under the menu Tools/Obtain current value from GWS is the dialog
which allows you to search the Global Wine Stocks database to find their
reference number for your wine and for wines which already have a GWS
reference you can obtain the current value.
• Bottle tab
• The GWS reference number is shown on this tab and the current value will be
written to the current value field.
• The button next to Internet source allows you to obtain a reference code and/or
current value for just this wine.
• vinoXML import wine information
• Supplier and/or Producer information can now be imported from the vinoXML file.
This is not done automatically, but when you click on the Supplier or Producer
button the program will give you the option to import from the vinoXML file or
create a new entry.
• Convert price to local currency when importing.
• Master data updates
• Added over 40 regions for Portugal.
• Added Whisky (Scottish) and Whiskey (Irish and North American) as drink type
• Added 14 Whisky regions
• Import from CSV file
• Please note that the layout has changed, it is not the same as it was in 2.2!
• Support for additional columns has been added.
• for alcohol percentage with a heading of: alcohol
• for additional varietals with headings of: varietal2, varietal3, varietal4
• for producer name with a heading of: producer
• for supplier name with a heading of: supplier
• for maturity information headings are now: maturityfrom, maturitybest,
maturitypast
• A sample twcb.csv file is provided and installed in the folder
“C:\TheWineCellarBook\xmlImport”
• Cellar book reports
• Two cellar book reports have been added which will print by price in descending
order. There is one menu option which will print it using the last purchase price and
a second one which prints it using current value. Thanks to Loraine M. for this
suggestion.
• Events listing
• This now prints the menu served for a particular event - a parameter (F12 in report
preview) allows you to suppress this section.
• Cleaned up the layout of the report and fixed some problems with it. Thanks to
Loraine M. for reporting this.
• Wine rack / Bottle tag assignment
• This dialog now allows you to filter by wine rack. Thanks to P. Girot for this
suggestion.
• The system can now auto assign tags, you need to activate this in preferences.
When you click on the button “Assign tags” on the purchase tab the appropriate
number of tags are assigned to this purchase and shown in a list, you then just need
to assign them to the appropriate wine rack position.
• Database backup
• It is now possible to select a particular folder when performing the backup, it
defaults to “C:\TheWineCellarBook\Backup”. Thanks to P. Girot for this
suggestion.
• Ingredient search
• Corrected problem when adding a new ingredient from this dialog. Thanks to Klaus
O. for reporting this problem.
• This dialog can now be maximized, which allows you to see more ingredients and/or
recipes. Thanks to Klaus O. for this suggestion.
• Supplier and Producer dialog
• A new keyword field with the corresponding search. Thanks to Yan G. for
suggestion this.
• Country information was not saved on these dialogs. Thanks to Yan G. for reporting
this problem.
• Notebook for wines
• The pages on this notebook are now only loaded when one accesses the particular
page, this means that there is less database access which translates into a bit of a
speed up.
• Purchase
• Default supplier name onto new purchase. Thanks to Klaus O. for suggesting this.
• Consumption
• Show the consumption event or batch description. Thanks to Klaus O. for
suggestion this.
• Winemaker’s tab
• Changed field size for residual sugar content.
• Charts
• Better use of available colors for plots and better positioning of percentage text.
Thanks to Yan G. for suggesting this.
• Report Manager
• Upgraded to version 2.6v
• GUI tool kit
• Upgraded to version 2.8.4.2
Release 2.2.238.9 - June 2007
This is a minor release correcting a couple of problems
• German translation corrections
• Major revision to the German translation done by Klaus O., this should have been
mentioned in 2.2.211 already, but I just forgot it.
• Tasting tabs
• Problems when trying to work with tasting method “Broadbent”. Thanks to Y.
Gagnon for reporting this problem.
• Invalid point values were accepted when one changed to the summary page, causing
an error. Thanks to Y. Gagnon for reporting this problem.
• Rating type
• The rating type “100” could not be selected easily. Thanks to Y. Gagnon for
reporting this problem.
• Graphics
• Upgrade to a newer version of the library matplotlib.
Release 2.2.211.9 - May 2007
This is a release providing a few enhancements and correcting known problems.
• CSV (comma separated value) file import tool
• On the Menu Tools there is a new import tool which allows you to import
information about wines stored in a CSV file (this type of file can be generated very
easily from e.g. Microsoft Excel, or OpenOffice Calc, or Corel Office and from
many other programs).
• Currently one layout of the file is supported.
• twcb.csv - a sample of this format is included in the “xmlimport” folder.
• should your software generate a CSV with a different layout you can use your
favorite spreadsheet program (Calc from OpenOffice, Excel etc) to change the
column labels and the column order to match the ones shown in the sample file
twcb.csv.
• See the help file for more details (currently only in English).
• Prices in the file are all considered to be in the home currency set in The Wine
Cellar Book.
• Bottle size values should be valid types as defined in The Wine Cellar Book.
• Drink type values should be valid types as defined in The Wine Cellar Book.
• vinoXML
• On most sites supporting vinoXML the file will be automatically be saved to the
xmlImport folder when downloading a “.vinoxml” file.
• Tasting Notes
• Entry fields were sometimes available when they should not have been.
• American Viticultural Areas (AVA)
• Added new areas from Snake River Valley in Idaho, Outer Coastal Plain in New
Jersey and Shawnee Hills in Illinois.
• Error log files location
• In 2.1 I had relocated these files, but it caused some issue with the error reporting
tool, so I had to relocate them once more.
• These files are no longer created in “Program Files/TheWineCellarBook” as this is
not allowed on Vista.
• On Vista they are now located in:
“/user/YOURLOGINNAME/TheWineCellarBook”
• On XP, 2000 etc they are now located in:
“Documents and Settings/YOURLOGINNAME/TheWineCellarBook”
• Batch and Event Consumption
• It is now possible to create a rating for the wine for which you are entering a
consumption.
• Error dialog
• When using the option “Send via MAPI” the error logs were not attached.
• Tasting tab
• Average score would not update when deleting tasting record.
• Average rating score per wine
• An average rating score is shown per wine. You need to select which type of ratings
should be averaged, currently it defaults to the “100 “ point ratings, but you can
change this in the menu option File/Preferences.
• Rating types
• Additional rating types have been added to the database (Wine Enthusiast, Wein
Plus and Hachette).
• When defining rating types one now has to select the maximum points they use for
their rating (100, 20, 5). This definition is used for the average rating score
calculation.
• Changes for Vista
• Date fields were using too much space
• Legend on graphs was not totally shown
• Tab key on combobox was not working
• Yellow background on combobox is not supported by Vista. The status bar will
now show a message which identifies which fields have not been completed, instead
of highlighting them with a yellow back ground.
Release 2.1.166.9 - March 2007
This release is to ensure compatibility with Windows Vista.
• “fixedpoint.py:300: RuntimeWarning”
• Thanks to P. Desenfans for reporting this problem.
• “C++ assertion "!(lvi.mask & LVIF_STATE)"”
• Thanks to W. Struck for reporting this problem.
• Log files
• The error log files are now stored in the following folder.
“C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\TheWineCellarBook”
• Notebook widgets
• All screens and dialogs using a notebook have been changed to use a nicer looking
version of the notebook widget.
Release 2.1.142.9 - February 2007
This is a release providing a few enhancements and correcting known problems.
• Wine maker’s information
• A new tab on the vintage/bottle tab has been added to record additional information
about how the wine was made.
• Vintage information
• Total acidity and residual sugar fields have been moved to the wine maker’s
information tab.
• Printing cellar labels
• If no bottle size is defined to print a cellar label a program error is generated.
Thanks to A. Fleuri and H. Roche for reporting this problem.
• Vinoté tab
• Added information about the location of a bottle tag. Thanks E. Sieger for the
suggestion.
• vinoXML
• Updated to support version 1.1 of the standard. Note that
“http://www.globalwinestocks.com/” is now supporting vinoXML and from their
site you have access to well over one hundred thousand wine profiles and over 1.9
million prices.
• Tasting tab
• Average score would not update when creating a new tasting record.
• New wine dialog
• Using the edit category button causes an error. Thanks to C. Cuevas for reporting
this problem.
• Using the edit vineyard button would erase data entered in other fields.
• Guest book dialog
• Deleting an event from this dialog causes an error. Thanks to V. Reinhartz for
reporting this problem.
• Deleting a guest was not always working correctly.
• Wine search dialog
• Double clicking to select and close the dialog causes sometimes an error. Thanks to
L. Jorgenson for reporting this problem.
• Images
• The image file names could not contain multiple “.”. Thanks to T. Karl for
reporting this problem.
• Lists
• Clicking on a column header would sometimes cause an error.
• Delete key on numeric pad
• Using this key in certain circumstances would cause an error. Thanks to E. Graber
for reporting this problem.
Release 2.0.131.9 - December 2006
This is a minor release correcting a couple of problems and providing a few enhancements.
• Wine rack design dialog
• It is now possible to delete a wine rack design
• Guest dialog
• It is now possible to delete a guest
• Restoring a database
• This is now fully automated, no more manual renaming of files. Thanks to T.
Coudray for the suggestion.
• Region search dialog
• Wine region search did sometimes not work. Thanks to Y. Gagnon for reporting this
problem.
• Geographical region search sometimes did not work.
• Country search sometimes did not work.
• vinoXML Export dialog
• Wine search did not work. Thanks to Y. Gagnon for reporting this problem.
• Import of new wine sometimes did not work. Thanks to Y. Gagnon for reporting this
problem.
• Assign bottle tag dialog
• Sometimes caused an error. Thanks to M. Holmstrom for reporting this problem.
• Rack view dialog
• If design was changed this could sometimes cause an error on this screen. Thanks to
M. Holmstrom for reporting this problem.
Release 2.0.128.9 - November 2006
This is a minor release correcting a couple of problems
• Tasting and Rating tabs
• Creating a new entry did not work. Thanks to L. Jorgensen for reporting this
problem.
Release 2.0.126.9 - November 2006
Release 2.0 is the first really major upgrade of The Wine Cellar Book. This upgrade brings
the following four new features which we are confident will provide our users with much
greater functionality.
1. Recipe Management
2. Wine Pairing
3. Wine Rack Design and Management
4. Import/Export Facility
Instead of just adding functionality to pair wines with food categories we thought that
creating a recipe book application would bring much more value for our users - hopefully
most of you will agree.
The concept of “wine and food pairing” relies heavily on the new Recipe Book feature and
the definition of Wine Families (as defined by the French authority “Larousse des vins”).
For those who do not have the time or desire to set up recipes, it is still possible to pair
wines with food by simply associating a wine family with an ingredient or group of
ingredients. Incidentally, version 2.0 comes with over 600 pre-defined ingredients.
Description of New Features and Changes
• Help
• The online help has been totally rewritten. It is now more of a “how to” type of
manual which better complements the help made available with ToolTips and
ContextHelp.
• We are also planning to issue this new manual in German and French in the future
(during 2007).
• Toolbar - wines
• Wine rack
• This is a new button to the left of the Chart button which allows you to visualize
your wine racks in a graphical format - see below.
• Recipe book
• This is a new button to the far right of the toolbar giving access to the recipe
book function.
• Consumption Event
• We moved the “Maintain Consumption Event” to the right of “Delete wine”, to
access the “Create Consumption Event” dialog use this button.
• Consumption Batch
• We moved the “Maintain Consumption Batch” to the right of “Maintain
Consumption Event”, to access the “Create Consumption Batch” dialog use this
button.
• Recipe book
• The is one of the major enhancements for this version, the following are just some
of the highlights.
• Ingredients
• The system comes with many ingredients predefined in all three languages,
currently over 600 items.
• The ingredients are categorized into groups, facilitating the linking of these
groups to particular wine families.
• The ingredient groups are further categorized into main groups to facilitate
searching.
• Recipe
• Ingredients, an unlimited number of ingredients can be defined per recipe.
• Recipe, an unlimited number of recipes can be included into a recipe
(particularly useful for base recipes such as sauces etc.).
• You may attach an unlimited number of images to a particular recipe.
• It allows you to record detailed cooking instructions.
• It allows you to record tips and tricks and which utensils are necessary for a
particular recipe.
• Ingredient import from the clipboard - see online help.
• vinoXML.org
• The import/export facility to a standard format (vinoXML) is the other major
enhancement included in this release. We have in late 2005 initiated the discussion
and worked with other wine cellar book software authors to create a definition for a
common data exchange standard. The standard is available free of charge on
www.vinoxml.org to any interested parties and we hope that over time sites
providing information on wines will use this standard.
• Export wines to “.vinoXML” files
• Under the new Tools menu there is an option to export wine information,
selecting the option will bring up a dialog on which you can select which wine
you want to export. The export files will be saved to the following folder:
“C:\TheWineCellarBook\xmlexport”.
• Import wine information from “.vinoXML” files
• If you receive, or download “.vinoXML” files you should store them in
“C:\TheWineCellarBook\xmlimport” and use the Import option on the new
Tools menu, a dialog will open showing you all the files available for import,
when you select a file by clicking on it the system will show the wine name,
vintage etc of the selected wine and will try to find similar wines already in your
cellar. If similar wines are found in your cellar you can import just the new
vintage and/or bottle information or you can import it as a new wine.
• Wine rack design
• This dialog can be accessed from the menu Master data - Wine. It allows you to
define/configure the wine racks you have in your cellar(s).
• There are two types of racks supported at this time, which should allow you to
define just about any kind of rack configuration.
• Standard rack layout
• You would use this for racks (e.g. the often seen metal racks) which store a
bottle per slot. The one we have has 15 rows and 12 columns, but they come
in all kind of sizes and also exist in wood and other materials - this type of
rack can easily be defined - see online help for details.
• Custom rack layout
• A custom layout is anything which can NOT be done using the standard rack
layout. It allows you to define bins and their capacity and then lay them out
with graphical shapes. In our cellar we would use this to define the rack
which provides for storing anything from 6 to 36 bottles per bin and the
bottles are stored neck to neck - again see the online help for details.
• Consumption event dialog
• A new tab has been added which allows you to define the menu served during the
event.
• Menu items are free format, but you can assign an ingredient or recipe to each - in
the future this will allow to generate a shopping list.
• A wine can be assigned to each menu item
• If you want to use this for planning events, just enter the guests and the menu and
update the event later on with the consumption information.
• Beverage list
• Additional optional columns have been added (Supplier name, Producer name and
Average score), all of them need to be activated through the menu Master
Data/Configuration listctrl. Thanks to J. Novak for suggesting these changes.
• Wine search
• Bar code search field has been added
• Country search field has been added
• Wine details tab
• Wine Family
• Added a “Wine family” combobox which allows for the definition of the
particularity of a wine and is used to link wines with food items.
• It allows you to easily link a particular wine families to a particular ingredient,
to a particular ingredient group and/or to recipes.
• Variety
• Added a “Variety” text field which is similar to the “Additional name” field in
that it allows you to define more detailed information about a particular wine. It
should only be used to enter grape variety names (e.g. for Penfolds Merlot you
would enter Merlot into this field), however you will probably still want to
define the grape variety in the cuvée to define the percentage and for the search
by grape variety.
• Tree list of vintage/bottle
• Entries are now sorted in ascending order of the vintage
• Entries with zero quantity on hand will NOT be shown. If all bottle sizes of a
certain vintage are ALL at zero quantity on hand the vintage will NOT be shown,
unless the check box “Incl. Zero” for wine search has been checked..
• Added additional drink types for better mapping with the new vinoXML
import/export facility.
• Vintages/Bottles tab
• Tree list of vintage/bottle
• Entries are now sorted in ascending order of the vintage
• Entries with zero quantity on hand will NOT be shown. If all bottles sizes of a
certain vintage are ALL at zero quantity on hand the vintage will NOT be shown,
unless the check box “Incl. Zero” for wine search has been checked.
• Bar code
• Allows to record a bar code (supports the entry via a barcode scanner or by hand
of any barcode up to 22 characters long). It can also be used to record any other
type of unique identification code for a particular bottle size.
• Minimum quantity on hand
• Allows the recording of the min. quantity on hand which is very useful for a
suggested purchase report.
• Serving temperature
• Allows for the definition of the ideal serving temperature
• Decanting time
• Allows for the definition of the recommended decanting time, e.g 1.5 for one
and a half hour.
• Total acidity
• Change the label to Acidity g/L, I believe this is the more often used way to
define the Total Acidity - instead of in %.
• Tastings and Ratings tab
• Both of these will now show all Tastings or Ratings for a selected vintage,
regardless of bottle size and/or cellar location..
• However creating a Tasting or a Rating record can only be done when a bottle size
is selected.
• A new tasting method has been added “100 - Wein.Plus.com”, you can find details
on how they taste and rate wines on the page listed below.
http://www.wein-plus.com/wineguide/bewert.htm
• Dialog Maintain Consumption Event
• Events are sorted by event date instead of description. You can sort them by the
other columns by clicking on the appropriate column header.
• Dialog Consumption Event
• The layout of the screen has been modified and a notebook providing two tabs, see
below.
• Consumption details tab
• Added quantity on hand as a display only field. When creating a new
consumption entry it shows the quantity on hand in the cellar, after saving this
entry it will show the quantity on hand in the cellar taking this entry into
account.
• Quantity is now limited to the quantity on hand before this consumption was
entered.
• The reason and consumption date is now shown, it defaults to the entries you
made on the top of the screen (event reason and date).
• Menu details tab
• This allows you to define the menu served at this particular event and which
wines were served with which menu item (course).
• Consumptions tab
• A new button allows you to transfer from this cellar to another cellar.
• You could use this to manage your “Primeur” purchases, e.g. create a cellar
called “Primeur” and record the wine in that cellar when you order it, when it
gets delivered you transfer it using this new function to the cellar where you
store it.
• The transfer will create a consumption entry in the cellar you transfer from and a
purchase entry in the cellar you transfer to. If the same vintage/bottle size exists
in the transfer to cellar it will be used, otherwise a new entry will automatically
be created.
• The quantity to transfer is limited to the quantity on hand.
• Dialog preferences
• Allows for the definition of a default reason code for the cellar transfer (see above)
• Allows for the definition of a backup interval which defaults to 14 days. If you have
not done a backup for more than 14 days (or whatever number of days you set this
to) a reminder prompt will be shown when you startup The Wine Cellar Book.
• Allows for the definition of defaults for measures and ingredients, used if a
corresponding item is not found during the new ingredient import from the
clipboard.
• Allows the user to specify which tasting system to use for average score calculation
on the beverage list.
• Dialog assign bottle tags to wines on hand
• If you have been using The Wine Cellar Book for some time, and subsequently
decide to use the bottle tag function you can use this tool (under the menu Tools) to
assign bottle tags based on the quantity on hand.
• Technical changes
• Report Manager - version 2.6e
• This version allows for the translation of all the report prompts into the
supported languages.
• The way reports are accessed has also changed, this means that there is no DOS
window shown when running reports from within The Wine Cellar Book.
• If you are creating custom reports you need to upgrade to this version.
• wxPython - version 2.6.3.3
• Current stable release of the GUI library.
• Firebird SQL
• Version 2.0 of the SQL database engine
• OdbcFb32.dll - ODBC driver for Firebird, version 2.0.142 Beta
• This is a new version of what previously was called OdbcJdbc.dll.
• Much better support for e.g. MsAccess.
• Easier install/use with 3rd party packages such as OpenOffice, MsAccess etc by
using the Firebird variable - see online help.
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