ChickenPing is a recipe organizer which lets you create, download, rate and share recipes.

Installation - With Installer

  1. Run the installer.
  2. Launch the program using the start menu shortcut.

Installation - Without Installer

  1. Extract the files from the archive to a suitable directory.
  2. 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->Recipe ML. 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 Freeware under a Creative Commons License. You are free to use it, but you cannot change it and copyright notices must be left intact.

Changes[Show/Hide]

1.53

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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

1.40

1.37

  • 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

1.32

  • 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

  • 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

1.27

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

1.10

  • 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

  • Initial Release

Credits

ChickenPing uses the following libraries and resources:

Translations

Ifyou 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:

Contributors

We'd like to thank a number of people for contributing various content to ChickenPing. An up to date list of contributors is available at the ChickenPing website.