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Ok Guys, I'm looking for beta testers for PilotFreeStuff: Multimedia Logbook. I need to stress that at this point, it is FAR from a completed project, and there is VERY likely some bugs.

A few notes, while this is a public beta, I really only want people to download this that can deal with the fact that this project will not run properly in certain circumstances. There is a bit of debug left in the code to help with bug reports as well, so it is a bit bulkier than it should be.

What I want y'all to do is use as many of the features as you can and try to make this program crash.

***NOTE: A generic workaround for any log display errors that make the program unusable, for the time being, is to check the box that says "Do not display picture/video" so that you can delete that entry.***

A few known issues:

All Operating Systems:
* Adding a picture or video to a logbook entry and then deleting the file from the original directory will cause the photo/video to not display and the program to crash. This is actually something that I am redesigning so I can actually store the media in an alternate method. This does not need to be reported.
FIXED* Editing a log entry produces Date errors. FIXED
FIXED* This is a dumb one (D'OH!) The currency calculator on the main page shows a time associated with it!!! FIXED
FIXED*It also defaults to today's date, even when a flight was not logged todayFIXED
* The about menu does nothing. This isn't a bug, I just haven't set it up to do anything yet.

Windows
* Having the QuickTime Launcher running may or may not cause a NilObjectException. I'm still figuring out why this is, and why its not consistent. Any information you can produce related to this bug would be a great help!

Macintosh
Nothing known at this time, but I have not tested this myself, as I lack access to a Mac. Any bug reports from Mac Users would be VERY, VERY helpful! bugs@ridetheskies.com

Linux
Nothing known at this time. Please report bugs to bugs@ridetheskies.com

If you have a feature request, please email it to requests@ridetheskies.com

FEATURES STILL IN DEVELOPMENT
* Multiple photos/videos per log entry
* Airplane/Pilot database to reduce the number of fields required
* Customizable logbook headings
* Ability to import from other logbook formats
* IFR Currency Checking (I removed the IFR Approaches column for this reason)
* GUI that doesn't look like it was written by an 8 year old child.

So - if you want to help, you can get it at http://www.ridetheskies.com/PFS

Thanks!!
 
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On my mac, I tried to paste stuff in from Excell, and it changed all the dates by one day.
 
steingar said:
On my mac, I tried to paste stuff in from Excell, and it changed all the dates by one day.
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Interesting. How did you paste stuff into it from Excel (could be a feature I didn't know existed)....I'll try to reproduce this once I figure that part out :D
 
Nick, You left out us lowly CFI's and didn't include a column for instruction given. Might also consider a drop down menu on there for common aircraft flown in the a/c ident column, make it learn as you go. I also drug the PFS.exe file onto the desktop and it wigs out, I guess it needs to be in the same folder as the data folder.:dunno:

Edit: just read that the aircraft/pilot database is under development, hurry up, lol
 
steingar said:
On my mac, I tried to paste stuff in from Excell, and it changed all the dates by one day.
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If we're talking about the same thing (I downloaded a logbook program from here a short while back, but I don't remember from who), I copied columns in Excell and pasted them into the logbook program. I think it did it all right, except all the dates all changed by one day.
 
steingar said:
If we're talking about the same thing (I downloaded a logbook program from here a short while back, but I don't remember from who), I copied columns in Excell and pasted them into the logbook program. I think it did it all right, except all the dates all changed by one day.
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Ok, I see the confusion. This is a different project than that. This is a standalone project that doesn't require any other software.
 
For your entries Nick. Make a clickable calendar with todays date selected. Would be nice. Also, If you make a entry for default aircraft and have it saved into the users database, it would make it alot easier to add entries.

Good start.
 
Michael said:
For your entries Nick. Make a clickable calendar with todays date selected. Would be nice. Also, If you make a entry for default aircraft and have it saved into the users database, it would make it alot easier to add entries.

Good start.
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Clickable Calendar is definitely in the works (I have to design it myself, unfortunately, so it will take a bit longer than it should)

The rest is definitely being developed!
 
Received the following bug reports, and I'm working on fixing them. After they're fixed, I'll put up a 2nd beta, with a lot more stuff available in short time:

FIXED: Dual Time does not show up properly in the summary window FIXED
FIXED: Some numbers are cut off before they display FIXED
 
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And here's a dumb bug - you can attach videos to the log entries, but you have to type the video name in manually. I forgot to add that as an option.

That said - if you choose a video and tell the logbook it is a picture, it crashes, and vice versa.
 
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