ChickenPing is a recipe and wine organizer which lets you create, download, rate and share recipes.
Note: ChickenPing requires both the .NET Framework and the VC++ 2010 runtimes.
Installation - With Installer
- Run the installer.
- Launch the program using the start menu shortcut.
Installation - Without Installer
- Extract the files from the archive to a suitable directory.
- Launch the program by running ChickenPing.exe.
Upgrading
Before upgrading from an earlier version, you may wish to export your recipe database by clicking File->Export To->XML Backup. This step is optional unless specified in the release notes.
Support
Documentation for ChickenPing is available online at the online wiki.
If you have any problems with installation, ideas for new features or bugs to report, please use the forums, located at http://forums.lime49.com/.
License
ChickenPing is released as shareware.
2.0.1 (19th May 2012)
- Changed: Snapshots are now uploaded for others when sharing recipes.
- Changed: The ingredient parser will now recognize "half" and "quarter" as measurements.
- Changed: The selected recipe now stays selected after editing.
- Fixed: Ingredient drag/drop bug.
- Updated German translation (Thanks Frederic).
2.0 (21st April 2012)
- Added: Sections for recipes. Ingredients can now be categorized into sections.
- Updated ingredient parser to recognize sections.
- Removed Windows Mobile 6.5 support. Only iOS and WP7 are now supported.
1.9.6.2 (2nd March 2012)
- Fixed: Rare 'In The Fridge' search crash.
- Changed: Star rating icons for forks, which are more foodie.
1.9.6 (21st February 2012)
- Fixed: Spanshot preview sizing bug.
- Fixed: Editing double click bug.
- Fixed: Mix component image adding bug.
1.9.5 (11th February 2012)
- Added: iPhone support.
- Added: Sync with DropBox to make backup/sync with a mobile/cell phone easier.
- Added: Recipe grid virtualization, so loading a database of 10000 recipes should no longer cause a slow down.
- Fixed: Bug when searching for recipes by author.
- Changed: Default icon and other icons to ensure 5 sizes are available.
- Changed: Custom icon storage directory to be more consistent. Icons are now stored in ChickenPing's data folder instead of the application directory.
1.9.2 (1st January 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).
1.9.1 (11th September 2011)
- Updated: Licensing system.
1.9.0 (25th June 2011)
1.8.8 (29th May 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 (Thanks Matt).
- 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.
1.8.5 (29th April 2011)
- Added: "Pairings" for items to link recipes with other recipes/wines.
- Added: Dropdown to quicksearch bar and sttreamlined 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.
1.7.6 (22nd April 2011)
- Added: Windows Phone 7 support.
- Added: Import from REML.
- Added: Quick search bar (Thanks xcorvis - #2, #3)
- 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 (Thanks WakkoBlues), and ability to set units for a temperature, also to convert between different temperature units.
- Added: Select/Deselect all button for categories (Thanks xcorvis - #12)
- 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.
1.7.5 (13th March 2011)
- Added: Ability to add custom icons (Thanks Rhaz and Judy3356).
- Added: More icons (Thanks Judy356).
- Added: Italian Translation (Thanks Filippo "Scorpioprise" Montano).
- 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. (Thanks Judit).
- Fixed: Casing bug (Thanks Deshi).
1.70 (3rd May 2010)
1.67 (4th April 2010)
- Added: Culinary Dictionary feature (Thanks bgbiggs).
- Added: Option to sort ingredients by an artificial order (Thanks Professor X and Rhaz).
- Added: Searching by author name (Thanks MightyVI).
- 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 (Thanks aaguilera83).
- Changed: Categories are now sorted by name (Thanks MightyVI).
- Fixed: Duplicate measurement bug when printing a shipping list (Thanks aaguilera83).
- Fixed: Recipe name now appears when printing a meal list (Thanks aaguilera83).
1.65 (6th February 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.
1.60 (18th January 2010)
- Added: Persistent storage for In the Fridge (Thanks Esgrimidor).
- Added: French (Canada) translation (Thanks Gabriel Mongeon, ing. jr.).
- 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 (Thanks Esgrimidor).
- 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 (Thanks Csutkbaba).
- Fixed: Recipe nutrition view bug.
1.54 (9th January 2010)
- Added: Copy meals to date in meal planner (Thanks Esgrimidor).
- Changed: Tooltips are now shown in meal planner.
- Fixed: Wrapping of directions text when printing recipes.
1.53 (19th December 2009)
- Added: Snapshots to print output.
- Added: Hungarian translation (Thanks Juhász Gábor).
- Fixed: Bug which caused settings to be saved if the Cancel button was clicked in Options.
1.52 (15th November 2009)
- Added: Text-to-speech for Sticky Fingers Mode.
- Fixed: Bug which caused the last few days of the previous month not to be shown in the meal calendar summary.
- Tweaked thumbnail generation.
1.51 (14th November 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.
1.50 (6th November 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.
1.49 (1st November 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 (Thanks Michael Erdmann).
- Changed: Redesigned shopping list print output.
- Changed: Pasting ingredients now only works when the Ingredients tab is selected.
- Changed: Colours on Sticky Fingers mode (Thanks Dave).
1.48 (20th October 2009)
- Added: Meal Planner.
- Added: Option to manually specify calories for nutritional analysis.
- Added: Spanish translation (Thanks Arturo García).
- Added: Notification if a recipe has been scaled to allow use of discretion with cooking times.
1.45 (4th October 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.
1.42 (27th September 2009)
- Added: Option to download a local copy of the nutrition database for instant searches.
- Added: Spanish measurement recognition (Thanks argarmx).
- Improved ingredient parser.
1.41 (24th September 2009)
- Added: Measurement converter.
- Added: Global preference to convert all units automatically between metric and imperial.
1.40 (17th September 2009)
1.37 (13th September 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.
1.35 (5th September 2009)
1.32 (1st September 2009)
- Added: Snapshot synchronization with ChickenPing Mobile.
- Fixed: Behaviour of ingredient suggestion ListBox to allow selection of selected item by mouse double click (Thanks James149).
1.31 (29th August 2009)
- Added: Ingredient substitutions synchronization and a few tweaks for the display of substitutes (eg: hidden if zero).
- Changed: Up/down spinner controls now respond to presses of the up and down keys.
- Changed: Styling on lists to be consistent.
1.30 (27th August 2009)
1.27 (16th August 2009)
- Added: Timers.
- Changed: All string resources can now be localized. If you can speak another language fluently, please help with a translation.
- Changed: Resizing algorithm for snapshots.
1.24 (9th August 2009)
- Added: Sticky Fingers Mode.
- Added: Category panel to the main window to filter by one or more categories.
- Added: Default recipe when ChickenPing is first installed.
1.21 (2nd August 2009)
- Changed: After uploading to Picasa or Flickr, the upload window now automatically closes.
- Fixed: Crash caused when adding albums from Picasa with ChickenPing open.
1.20 (30th July 2009)
- Added: Upload to Picasa for snapshots.
- Added: Shortcut keys to Add Recipe and Shopping List windows.
- Added: Ability to keep ChickenPing on top of other windows (Tools->Always on Top).
- Added: Preference to show quantities as decimals or fractions.
- Changed: Quantity is now auto-focused instead of name when adding an ingredient.
- Changed: When 'Add Ingredient' is clicked, if an ingredient is already being added, it is saved (as long as there are no validation errors) and the quantity field is focused to add a new ingredient. Ingredients currently being added are saved before the window is allowed to close.
- Changed: Default when searching from Starts with to Contains.
- Changed: Star rating on recipe list is now coloured.
- Changed: Styling on insertion row when adding ingredients to be more distinct from other rows.
- Fixed: Measurements in the shopping list were limited to integers.
- Fixed: Typo in Full Editor.
- Fixed: Bug when editing ingredients which caused quantities to be rounded to the nearest integer when an ingredient was edited.
1.15 (14th July 2009)
- Added: Synchronization support. Databases from ChickenPing and ChickenPing Mobile can now be updated so both databases contain all recipes.
1.13
- Added: Recipe count indicator to main window.
- Added: Clear Database button to options window.
1.12 (30th June 2009)
- Added: Button to focus the new item at the top of the Ingredients and Shopping List grids. (Thanks ThaAmazingAustin).
- Changed: Behaviour of Ingredients and Shopping List grids to be more intuitive. The selected cell can be changed by pressing tab.
1.11 (29th June 2009)
1.10 (28th June 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.
1.0 (22nd June 2009)
Credits
ChickenPing uses the following libraries and resources:
An up to date list of contributors is available at the ChickenPing website.
Translations
If you can speak another language fluently and would like to contribute, please help with a translation. Full credit will be given. Thanks to the following people for helping so far:
- Arturo García (Spanish translation)
- Gabriel Mongeon, ing. jr.
- Michael Erdmann (German translation)
- Juhász Gábor (Hungarian translation)
- Filippo "Scorpioprise" Montano (Italian translation)
- Jean-Charles (French fr-CA and fr-FR translations).
- Lukasz Kowalczyk (Polish translation).