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The
Master Chef
Reference
The Master Kitchen Management Tool
For IBM Compatible Computers
Copyright (c) 1992-1994 by Acme Workshops
Copyrights
Master Chef is NOT a public domain program. It is a
commercial product copyright 1992-1994 by Thomas C.
Johnson. All rights reserved.
License Statement
The complete text of the license statement is provided
in the file LICENSE.DOC.
Disclaimer Of Warranty
Although this software, data, and documentation have
been thoroughly tested and reviewed, both are provided
solely "as is" and without warranty of any kind. Acme
Workshops specifically disclaims all warranties,
expressed or implied, including, but not limited to,
implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a
particular purpose with respect to defects in the
distribution media or method, documentation, software,
and the license granted herein.
In no event shall Thomas C. Johnson
be liable for any loss of profit or any other damage,
including but not limited to, special, incidental,
commercial, consequential or other damages of any kind
resulting from the use of this software, data or
documentation.
The Master Chef Reference
Table of Contents
Introduction To Master Chef . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Main Menu Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Main Menu Option Organization: . . . . . 4
Main Menu Option Descriptions . . . . . . . . 6
Main Menu Option : ≡ (Behind the
Scenes) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
≡ | About . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
≡ | Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Main Menu Option: Recipes . . . . . . . . 7
Recipes | Edit . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Recipes | Load . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Recipes | Sort . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Recipes | Print . . . . . . . . . . 7
Main Menu Option : Plan . . . . . . . . . 8
Plan | Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Plan | Load . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Plan | Print . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Main Menu Option : Schedule . . . . . . . 8
Schedule | Edit . . . . . . . . . . 8
Schedule | Load . . . . . . . . . . 8
Schedule | Create . . . . . . . . . 9
Schedule | Sort . . . . . . . . . . 9
Schedule | Print . . . . . . . . . . 9
Main Menu Option : List . . . . . . . . . 9
List | Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
List | Create . . . . . . . . . . . 10
List | Print . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
List | Common Items . . . . . . . . 10
Main Menu Option : Ingredients . . . . . 10
Ingredients | Edit . . . . . . . . . 10
Ingredients | Sort . . . . . . . . . 10
Main Menu Option : Misc . . . . . . . . . 11
Misc | Courses . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Misc | Meals . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Misc | Categories . . . . . . . . . 11
Misc | Stores . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Misc | Exchanges . . . . . . . . . . 11
Misc | Measurement . . . . . . . . 11
Misc | Measurement | Types . . . . . 12
Misc | Measurement | Units . . . . . 12
Misc | Measurement | Equivalents . . 12
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Main Menu Option : Utilities . . . . . . 13
Utilities | Equiv Calc . . . . . . . 13
Utilities | Configure . . . . . . . 13
Utilities | Configure | Special
Options . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Utilities | Configure | Colors . . . 13
Utilities | Configure | Printer . . 13
Utilities | Configure | Printer |
Select Printer . . . . . . . . 13
Utilities | Configure | Printer |
Printer Codes . . . . . . . . . 13
Utilities | Configure | Forms . . . 14
Form Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Quick Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Ready To Go . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Master Chef Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
S t e p O n e . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
S t e p T w o . . . . . . . . . . . 16
S t e p T h r e e . . . . . . . . . . . 16
S t e p F o u r . . . . . . . . . . . 17
S t e p F i v e . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
S t e p S i x . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
S t e p S e v e n . . . . . . . . . . 19
Recipes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
About Recipes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Edit Recipes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
New Filter Button . . . . . . . . . 21
The Filter Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . 21
Edit Button . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Add Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Delete Button . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Select Button . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Done Button . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Editing a Recipe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Editing Main Items . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Category . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Courses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Meal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Use For Automatic Scheduling . . . . 24
Ingredients Button . . . . . . . . . 25
Notes Button . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Scale Button . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Print Button . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Servings Button . . . . . . . . . . 26
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Done Button . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Editing Recipe Ingredients . . . . . . . 26
Viewing and Selecting the
Ingredients . . . . . . . . . . 26
Edit Button . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Clear Button . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Editing an Ingredient . . . . . . . 27
Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Quantity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Measure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Done Button . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Edit Recipe Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Notes Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Cancel Button . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Edit Serving Information . . . . . . . . 29
Servings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Serving Size . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Quantity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Measure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Exchanges . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Display Totals . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Printing Recipes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Recipe Marking . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Mark One . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Mark All . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Unmark All . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Print Button . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Print Index Button . . . . . . . . . 31
Recipe Card . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Full Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Scaling The Recipe . . . . . . . . . 32
About Recipe Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Filter Checkboxes . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Category Filter . . . . . . . . . . 33
Meal Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Course Filter . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Ingredient Filter . . . . . . . . . 34
Category Pick line . . . . . . . . . 34
Course Pick line . . . . . . . . . . 34
Meal Pick line . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Ingredient Pick line . . . . . . . . 35
Done Button . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Cancel Button . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Some Examples of Using Filters . . . . . 35
Automatic Use of Filters . . . . . . 36
Loading Recipe Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
New File Name . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Done Button . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
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Cancel Button . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Sorting the Recipe File . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Meal Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
About the Meal Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Saving and Entering Meal Plans . . 39
Daily Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Print Button . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Done Button . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Meal Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Meal Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Course Names . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Servings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Food Exchanges . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Quantity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Protein, Fat, Carbohydrate Content . 42
Loading Meal Plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Print Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Detailed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Cancel Button . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Schedule Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
About Schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Edit Schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Add Days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Delete Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Auto Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Create Shop List . . . . . . . . . . 47
Done . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Edit Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Meals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Auto Schedule Day . . . . . . . . . 48
Print Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Done . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Print Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Edit Meal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Meal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Courses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Servings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Totals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Auto Schedule Meal . . . . . . . . . 51
Print Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Print Recipe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Clear Recipe . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Done . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
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About AutoSchedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
How the Auto Scheduler Works . . . . 53
Printing Schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Print All . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Print Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Create New Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Start Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Number of Days . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Cancel Button . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Done Button . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Loading a Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
New File Name . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Done Button . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Cancel Button . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Sorting a Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Shopping List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
About the Shopping List . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Creating a Shopping List . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Editing the Shopping List . . . . . . . . . . 60
Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Add . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Delete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Done . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Save Item to Common List . . . . . . 60
Editing a Shopping List Item . . . . . . . . . 61
Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Recipe Quantity . . . . . . . . . . 62
Recipe Measure . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Store Quantity . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Store Measure . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Store Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Item Location . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Store Price . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Common Items . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Ingredients . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Done Button . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Printing the List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Brief Style . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Detailed Style . . . . . . . . . 64
Common Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
What is a Common Item? . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Selecting Common items . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Select . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Cancel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
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Delete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Done . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Editing a Common Item . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Store Quantity . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Store Measure . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Store Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Store Price . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Done . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Cancel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Ingredients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Selecting Ingredients . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Select . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Find . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Find Next . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Convert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
New . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Done . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Editing an Ingredient . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
How Recipe and Store Measurements
Relate: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Ingredient Name . . . . . . . . . . 72
Nutrient Information . . . . . . . . 73
Recipe Quantity . . . . . . . . . . 73
Recipe Measure . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Store Quantity . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Store Measure . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Store Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Store Price . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Done . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Cancel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Recipe Quantity . . . . . . . . . . 76
Done . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Cancel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Select . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Cancel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Add . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Delete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Done . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Courses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
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Select . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Cancel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Add . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Delete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Done . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Meals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Select . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Cancel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Add . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Delete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Done . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Food Exchanges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
About Food Exchanges . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Editing Food Exchanges . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Protein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Fat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Carbohydrate . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Measurement Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
About Measurement types . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Select . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Cancel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Add . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Delete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Done . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Measurement Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Selecting a Measurement Unit . . . . . . . . . 89
Select . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Cancel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Add . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Delete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Done . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Editing a Measurement Unit . . . . . . . . . . 90
Equivalencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
About Conversions and Equivalencies . . . . . 92
Selecting Equivalencies . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Editing an Equivalency . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Base Quantity . . . . . . . . . . . 94
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Equivalent Measure . . . . . . . . . 95
Done . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Cancel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
About the Measurement Calculator . . . . . . . 96
Base Quantity . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Base Measure . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Equivalent Measurements . . . . . . 96
Calc Button . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Done Button . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Special Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Data Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Reduce Recipe Measurements . . . . . 98
Reduce Shopping List Measurements . 99
Filter Selections . . . . . . . . . 99
Filter Method . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Quantity Format . . . . . . . . . . 101
Fraction Rounding . . . . . . . . . 101
Round To Next . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Scaling Method . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Date Format . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Done Button . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Cancel Button . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Printers and Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Selecting Printers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Select . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Cancel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Changing the Printer Codes . . . . . . . . . . 106
Line Spacing Setup . . . . . . . . . 108
Printer Code for Normal Line
Spacing . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Lines Per Inch (Normal) . . . . . . 108
Printer Code for Narrow Line
Spacing . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Lines Per Inch (Narrow) . . . . . . 109
Character Width Setup . . . . . . . 109
Printer Code for Normal Character
Printing . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Characters Per Inch (Normal) . . . . 109
Printer Code for Narrow Printing . . 109
Characters Per Inch (Narrow) . . . . 110
Other Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Printer Code To Turn On Bold
Characters . . . . . . . . . . 110
Printer Code To Turn Off Bold
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Characters . . . . . . . . . . 110
Printer Code For Form Feed . . . . . 110
Select IBM Box Character Set . . . . 110
Done . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Cancel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Setting Up Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Initialization Code . . . . . . . . 111
Line Spacing . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Character Width . . . . . . . . . . 112
Page Length . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Top Margin . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Left Margin . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Bottom Margin . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Disk File To Print To . . . . . . . 113
Form Advance Type . . . . . . . . . 115
Forms Per Page . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Done . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Cancel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
The User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Using The Mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Using the MENU system. . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Working with windows. . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Working with Dialog Boxes . . . . . . . . . . 121
Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Input Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Static Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Labels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Scroll Bars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Pick Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Text Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
List Boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Radio Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Check Boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Date Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
About the Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Changing A Date Using the keyboard: . . . 130
Changing the Date Using the Mouse . . . . 131
Other Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Message Boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Program Status Line. . . . . . . . . . . 132
File Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Path Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Using the HELP system. . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Changing Screen Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Error Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
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Introduction To
Master Chef
Welcome!
Welcome to Master Chef! Master Chef comes to you from
Acme Workshops, a business dedicated to providing high
quality software. The roots of Master Chef are found in
Meal Master, a popular meal planning program introduced
in 1989, and its successor, Master Meal Manager. Master
Chef incorporates the same basic functional design as
those packages, which is the ability to perform the
three basic kitchen management tasks: manage recipes,
plan meal schedules, and prepare shopping lists. This
unique concept of combining these three basic functions
into one program is what has made Meal Master and
Master Meal Manager so popular.
Master Chef, like Master Meal Manager has been designed
to be an integrated tool to manage recipes, plan diets,
schedule meals, and prepare shopping lists. But, It has
many other features that take kitchen management to a
new level of convenience and sophistication. It can
assist you with all of the tedious chores involved in
planning and managing your kitchen. Integrated means
that each of the different parts of Master Chef work
together. The recipes you create are used in the meal
schedule, and the meal schedule is used to create the
shopping list. Of course, there are many other parts
and pieces of information as well that are used to make
Master Chef work. These pieces include ingredients,
categories, meals, courses, measurements, equivalency
tables, and others. All of these pieces can be used as
is, or can be completely redesigned by you the user. Of
course, all of these pieces work together (integrated)
to make Master Chef very easy to use.
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System Requirements
In order to use Master Chef most effectively, you
should have a computer system that has the following
features:
CPU: Any 80x86 processor.
RAM: 1 MB minimum installed, with as much
conventional available as possible.
DISK: Requires at least 3 MB of disk space
for program and data files, and can grow
larger depending on the number of
recipes, recipe files, meal plans,
schedules and schedule sizes, and
ingredients being used.
VIDEO: Any (Monochrome, CGA, EGA, VGA, SVGA, etc.)
DOS: MS-DOS 3.0 or later. DR-DOS 5.0 or
later.
MOUSE: A mouse will allow you to take advantage of
many convenient features of Master Chef, and
is much easier to use if you have one, but
you can get by without one.
If you do wish to use a mouse, the following
is required for proper operation:
-Microsoft Mouse version 6.1 or later,
or any mouse compatible with this.
-Logitech Mouse version 3.4 or later.
-Mouse Systems PC Mouse version 6.22 or
later.
-IMSI mouse version 6.11 or later.
The mouse driver must be loaded before
running Master Chef.
KEYBOARD: A standard 101 key "AT" style keyboard
(sometimes referred to as an "Extended"
keyboard) is recommended.
NOTE: Some keyboards may exhibit strange
operation when using the number keys and/or
cursor keys. This is most often due to the
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keyboard having an older keyboard BIOS,
usually found on older or non 100% IBM
compatible computers.
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Main Menu Overview
This section will introduce you to the menu options
available, how the main menu is organized, and briefly
explain what all of the options will do for you.
Main Menu Option Organization:
≡(Behind the Scenes)
About
Statistics
Recipes
Edit
Load
Sort
Print
Plan
Edit
Load
Print
Schedule
Edit
Load
Create
Sort
Print
List
Edit
Create
Print
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Common Items
Ingredients
Edit
Sort
Misc
Courses
Meals
Categories
Stores
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Exchanges
Measurement
Types (Meas)
Units (Meas)
Equivalents
Utilities
Equiv Calc
Configure
Special Options
Colors
Printer
Select Printer
Printer Codes
Forms
Recipe Cards
Recipes Full Page
Recipe List
Brief Meal Plan
Detailed Meal Plan
Brief Schedule
Detailed Schedule
Brief Shopping List
Detailed Shopping List
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Main Menu Option Descriptions
In the descriptions shown below, each main menu option
will be given as "Main Menu Option: xxxxxxx", then each
of the sub options will be shown with the entire path
of option choices necessary to get to the option being
described. For example, the Recipes option would be
shown as "Main Menu Option: Recipes", followed by the
description of that option. Then each of the options
below that would be shown as "Recipes | Edit" or
"Recipes | Load", followed by the description of that
option.
Main Menu Option : ≡ (Behind the Scenes)
This menu item provides you with some background
information on Master Chef, as well as a means to
conveniently fill out and print your registration form.
The options available from here are:
≡ | About
Shows Master Chef Title and copyright info.
≡ | Statistics
The Statistics box shows how many of each item is
currently loaded in Master Chef. The items quantities
shown are:
Memory Available
Recipes
Ingredients
Schedules
Equivalencies
Measure Types
Measure Units
Shopping List Items
Common Items
Also reported are the current filenames for
Recipe File
Meal Plan
Meal Schedule
Finally, the current data path used is displayed.
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Main Menu Option: Recipes
This option allows you to view, add, edit, delete, and
print recipes used in Master Chef. Master Chef has a
practical limit of about 1000 recipes, depending on how
much conventional memory you have available on your
computer, how many ingredients you have, and the number
of days in your schedule.
The recipe management sub-options available are:
Recipes | Edit
This option shows you a list of the recipes in the file
you have selected to use, and allows you to pick the
recipe you wish to either add, delete, or edit.
The edit option also allows you to change which recipes
appear in the list, by selecting recipes according to
their category, course and meal types, and ingredients.
Recipes | Load
Master Chef allows you to keep as many different recipe
files as will fit on your disk. The Load option allows
you to specify which of those files you wish to work
with. Once you specify a file to work with, Master Chef
works with that file until you select another one.
You can either enter a new name, or pick from a list of
existing ones.
Recipes | Sort
Selecting this option will cause Master Chef to sort
all the recipes in the currently selected recipe file.
This, in many cases, will allow Master Chef to find the
recipe information faster when you pick a recipe to
view, edit, or print. It will also speed up the Auto
Scheduler and the Shopping List creation.
Sorting is not necessary for Master Chef to operate
properly, but can speed things up a bit. The only trade
off is that you may have a bit of waiting to do while
Master Chef sorts the recipes. How long this will take
depends on how fast your computer is and how many
recipes you have in the file.
Recipes | Print
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Selecting this option will allow you to print recipes
that you select.
Main Menu Option : Plan
The meal plan options will allow you to work with the
meal plan used by Master Chef to manage the meal
schedule. The meal plan defines the names of the meals
and courses to be served in the schedule, and the
number of food exchanges for each meal.
The options available under this option are:
Plan | Edit
This option allows you to view and make changes to the
meal plan.
Plan | Load
Master Chef allows you to keep as many different meal
plans as will fit on your disk. The Load option allows
you to specify which of those plans you wish to work
with. Once you specify a plan to work with, Master Chef
uses it until you select another one.
You can either enter a new name, or pick from a list of
existing ones.
Plan | Print
This option allows you to print the contents of the
meal plan.
Main Menu Option : Schedule
This option allows you to do all the work necessary to
effectively manage your meal schedule.
The options available under this option are:
Schedule | Edit
This option allows you to view and make necessary
changes to the schedule, either manually changing
things or using the Auto Schedule feature.
Schedule | Load
Master Chef allows you to keep as many different meal
schedules as will fit on your disk. The Load option
allows you to specify which of those schedules you wish
to work with. Once you specify a schedule to work with,
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Master Chef uses it until you select another one.
You can either enter a new name, or pick from a list of
existing ones.
Schedule | Create
With this option, you will be able to create a new
schedule, completely removing all existing information
from the schedule and starting over. The starting date
and length of the schedule are determined from
information you supply when the schedule is created.
The current schedule name will be used (the one
selected in the Schedule | Load main menu option).
Schedule | Sort
Selecting this option will cause Master Chef to sort
all the schedules days in the schedule in the file that
resides on your disk. The list you see on the screen
will always be sorted by the date, but this is not
necessarily so for the information stored on the disk.
Sorting the information on the disk in many cases will
allow Master Chef to find the schedule information
faster when you pick a schedule to view, edit, or
print. It will also speed up the Auto Scheduler and the
Shopping List creation.
Sorting is not necessary for Master Chef to operate
properly, but can speed things up a bit. The only trade
off is that you may have a bit of waiting to do while
Master Chef sorts the schedule. How long this will take
depends on how fast your computer is and how many days
you have in the schedule.
Schedule | Print
This option allows you to print all or parts of the
meal schedule.
Main Menu Option : List
The Shopping List main menu option will allow you to
create and manage a Shopping List from the recipes
scheduled in the Schedule. The options available under
this option are:
List | Edit
This option allows you to view and make changes to the
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Shopping List.
List | Create
This option will cause Master Chef to analyze the meal
schedule and build a shopping list from it. It extracts
all of the ingredient items from all of the recipes
scheduled and combines common items, adds up the total
quantities required, and organizes them into a
convenient list.
List | Print
This option allows you to print the contents of the
Shopping List.
List | Common Items
Common items are items that you regularly need to
remember to get when shopping, but may not show up on
the shopping list from the recipes scheduled in the
meal schedule.
This option allows you to add, edit, and delete these
items.
Main Menu Option : Ingredients
Master Chef has a practical limit of about 1000
ingredients, depending on how much conventional memory
you have available on your computer, how many recipes
the current file has, and the number of days in your
meal schedule.
The options available here are:
Ingredients | Edit
This option will allow you to add, edit, or delete
ingredients used in Master Chef. You will be able to
define the nutrient content, recipe measurement, store
measurement, store name, store location, and price of
the item.
Ingredients | Sort
Selecting this option will cause Master Chef to sort
the Ingredient file. This in many cases will allow
Master Chef to find the Ingredient information faster
when you pick a Ingredient to view, edit, or delete. It
will also speed up the Auto Scheduler and the Shopping
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List creation.
Sorting is not necessary for Master Chef to operate
properly, but can speed things up a bit. The only trade
off is that you may have a bit of waiting to do while
Master Chef sorts the Ingredients. How long this will
take depends on how fast your computer is and how many
Ingredients you have.
Main Menu Option : Misc
This option allows you to add, delete, and edit various
pieces of information used in Master Chef. These are:
Misc | Courses
This options allows you to add, edit, and delete names
of courses that will be used throughout Master Chef,
such as in the meal plan, schedule, and recipes.
Misc | Meals
This options allows you to add, edit, and delete names
of meals that will be used throughout Master Chef,
such as in the meal plan, schedule, and recipes.
Misc | Categories
This option will allow you to add, edit, or delete the
names of the categories available for use in recipes.
The category is simply a label that allows you to group
similar recipes together.
Misc | Stores
This options allows you to add, edit, and delete names
of stores that will be used throughout Master Chef,
such as in the ingredients, shopping list items, and
common items.
Misc | Exchanges
This option will allow you to change the names of the
food exchanges used in Master Chef. You will also be
able to define the proportions of protein, fat, and
carbohydrates each exchange represents.
Misc | Measurement
This option has three sub-options that allow you to
define the basic fundamental measurement units of
Master Chef. Since these items are so critical to the
proper operation of Master Chef, you are cautioned
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about this with a warning dialog box before allowing
you to proceed with the option.
The sub-options available are:
Misc | Measurement | Types
This option will allow you to redefine the basic
measurement types used in Master Chef.
All measurements in Master Chef are based on what type
they are ( such as Dry Volume, Liquid Volume, Weight,
etc.). These various types allow Master Chef to know
how to convert a measurement from one form to another,
or to know when it is not appropriate.
Since these items are so critical to the proper
operation of Master Chef, you are cautioned about this
with a warning box before allowing you to proceed with
the option.
Misc | Measurement | Units
This option will allow you to redefine the various
measurement units used for all measurements in Master
Chef.
All measurements in Master Chef are defined by both the
type (liquid volume, weight, etc.) and the unit (cup,
oz, tbsp, etc.). Every measurement unit used for
ingredients, shopping lists, serving sizes, etc. are
maintained here.
Since these items are so critical to the proper
operation of Master Chef, you are cautioned about this
with a warning dialog box before allowing you to
proceed with the option.
Misc | Measurement | Equivalents
This option will allow you to edit the equivalency
table used in Master Chef.
The equivalency table is the place where the
relationship between all related measurements is
defined.
For example, this is where Master Chef goes to find out
that 3 teaspoons liquid volume is equal to 1 tablespoon
liquid volume.
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Since these items are so critical to the proper
operation of Master Chef, you are cautioned about this
with a warning dialog box before allowing you to
proceed with the option.
Main Menu Option : Utilities
This option provides some general purpose utilities
that make using Master Chef easier and more adapted to
your computer and likings. The options available from
here are:
Utilities | Equiv Calc
This option will bring up the Equivalency Calculator,
which is a dialog box which will allow you to enter a
measurement and view all measurements equivalent to it.
Utilities | Configure
This option has several sub-options which allow you to
configure ( setup) Master Chef to work the way you want
it to. The sub-options available are:
Utilities | Configure | Special Options
This option allows you to configure (setup) the place
where Master Chef looks for the data files it uses and
allows you to define how Master Chef handles dates,
measurements, quantities, and recipe filters.
Utilities | Configure | Colors
This option will allow you to change the colors used to
display all of the various windows, dialog boxes, and
other things used in the program.
Utilities | Configure | Printer
This option has two sub-options which will allow you to
define your printer to Master Chef. They are:
Utilities | Configure | Printer | Select Printer
This option will allow you to select your printer from
a list of available printers to define the printer
control codes needed by Master Chef to control your
printer.
Utilities | Configure | Printer | Printer Codes
This option is useful if you wish to customize your
printer to print in a special way, or if you have a
printer that is not included in the printer list. It
will allow you to configure your printer to properly
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print out the various reports available to you.
Utilities | Configure | Forms
This option has several sub-options which allow you to
define the details of how Master Chef will print the
various forms available. The forms available are:
Recipe Cards
Recipes Full Page
Recipe List
Brief Meal Plan
Detailed Meal Plan
Brief Schedule
Detailed Schedule
Brief Shopping List
Detailed Shopping List
Form Setup
Each of the above options allow you to setup the
various features of the specified form. The features
that can be set are:
Printer Initialization Code
Line Spacing
Character Width
Form Width
Form Length
Left Margin
Top Margin
Print Destination
Items Per Form
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Quick Tour
Sometimes it is difficult to know where to begin when
first trying a new software package. This is true of
any package, no matter how simple or how complicated.
There always is some sort of learning curve associated
with it. Here we hope to "level out" that learning
curve by getting you focused on the most important
items of the program, and directing you to the items
you need to do first.
Ready To Go
Master Chef is extremely versatile, and has many
options that are changeable by the user. But it is
configured to be essentially "ready to go" when you
load it on your computer. Only a few minor things need
to be setup prior to using the program. Once you are up
to speed on the basic operation, then you can explore
more of the deeper features of the program and see how
powerful it really is.
Master Chef Operation
The basic overall operation of Master Chef can be
described as having 4 major operations:
Enter Recipes
Select Meal Plan
Create Schedule
Create Shopping List
Recipes are the main major building blocks of the
program. With recipes (how to make what to eat), you
can create a meal schedule ( when and what you will
eat), and then with that you create a shopping list
(what you need to buy in order to make what you are
going to eat). Simple as that! Now, we will take you
through a number of simple steps to familiarize you
with the program.
S t e p O n e
Getting Familiar With The Basics - F1
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While Master Chef has been written to use many
convenient methods of displaying and controlling the
information available, it would be beneficial to you to
review the help screens dealing with the various parts
of the program (windows, dialog boxes, scroll bars,
etc.) to become familiar with how they work. Once you
gain that familiarity, it will be much easier for you
to navigate your way through the program and understand
the various terms and phrases used. Press the F1 key
for help anywhere in the program.
You are also encouraged to read the chapter entitled
"The User Interface." It describes all of the basic
parts of the programs included in the Master Chef
package.
S t e p T w o
Recipes - F2
The first thing you will want to do is take a look at
the recipes. Master Chef comes with a sample recipe
file containing a number of recipes which demonstrate
its features. To look at the available recipes, press
the F2 key.
You will see a list of recipe names. These are the
names of the recipes available in the currently
selected recipe file (Master Chef can handle many
recipe files). From here you will probably want to look
at some of them. You can do this by clicking the left
mouse button twice rapidly while the mouse cursor is on
the desired recipe name. (This is called "double-
clicking"). You can also select the recipe by
highlighting the name of one of them and clicking the
left mouse button on the " Edit" button at the bottom
of the dialog box.
You will then see a part of the recipe in a dialog box,
with the other parts available by clicking on any of
the three appropriate buttons at the bottom of the box.
Once you are done looking at recipes, press the ESC key
until you are back at the main menu (nothing covering
the main background screen).
S t e p T h r e e
Select Plan - Alt-F3
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Master Chef comes with a number of pre-defined meal
plans that you can use. The meal plan is like the
blueprint for the meal schedule. It defines what meals
you will have each day and which courses you will have
each meal. It also defines a target number of food
exchanges for each course and meal. Using the meal
plan, you provide the basic skeleton necessary to
create a meal schedule.
To select a meal plan from those available, press the
Alt key and the F3 key together. You will see a dialog
box appear with the name of a meal plan underneath the
"New File Name" label. To see the complete list of
available meal plans, press the down arrow key. A new
list box will appear with the available names. Use the
up and down arrow keys to highlight one that looks
good. Then press the RETURN key. Press the RETURN key
again to load the new meal plan. You are now ready to
use this meal plan for the next step. If you want to
look at what the meal plan looks like, press the F3
key. When you are done looking at it, press the ESC
key.
S t e p F o u r
Schedules - F4
Press the F4 key to bring up a list of dates for a meal
schedule that has been prepared. If this is the first
time running Master Chef, a message box will appear
telling you that a schedule does not exist, and asking
you if one should be created. Just press RETURN (this
tells Master Chef yes). You will then see another
dialog box with a date in it (should be today's date),
and another line with the number 7 in it. Just press
RETURN here as well. Master Chef will create a 7 day
meal schedule starting with today's date.
Now that the list of dates is showing, you can see what
meals have been scheduled by double clicking the left
mouse button on the date of choice, or doing a single
click on the date and another one on the "Edit" button.
A second dialog box will appear showing the names of
the meals planned for this day, as well as some other
buttons. To view the contents of one of the meals,
double click on it.
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A third dialog box will appear showing more information
about the selected meal including the courses
scheduled, the recipes scheduled for each course, the
number of servings. If you are curious about what all
that means, read the appropriate sections of the
reference (not everything is automatic), or the online
help for that piece.
At this point there will not be any recipes scheduled,
so press the AutoSchedule button to have Master Chef
automatically schedule recipes for you. You may then
edit the schedule to your liking.
Press ESC enough times to get back to the Main Menu.
S t e p F i v e
Shopping List - F5
Press the F5 key to view the shopping list. If this is
the first time running Master Chef, a message box will
appear telling you that a shopping list will be
created. Just press RETURN here. Master Chef will
dutifully create a new shopping list, based on the
schedule you just created, and using the recipes in the
recipe file. When it is done creating a shopping list,
a message box will inform you of that fact. Just press
RETURN at that point. Then press F5 again to bring up
the new shopping list.
Now that the shopping list is showing, you can see the
names of all the items it will take to prepare all of
the recipes scheduled in the meal schedule. To look at
a shopping list item, just double click on one of them.
A new dialog box will appear with details about the
item. Check it out!
Now press ESC enough times to get back to the main
menu.
S t e p S i x
Setting Up the Printer
The final major thing you want to do before pulling up
your sleeves and digging into the reference and help
screens is to select the printer that you will be using
with Master Chef (assuming you have a printer).
First select the "Utilities" option from the main menu.
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Then select the "Configure" option. Next select the
"Printer" option, Finally, select the "Select Printer"
option. You will now see a list of printers that is
available for use with Master Chef. Find your printer,
or one that your printer emulates (acts like) and then
press the "Select" button, (or double click on it).
You will then be ready to do most of the basic printing
available in Master Chef.
S t e p S e v e n
Have fun with Master Chef!
You should now have enough of a start to dig into
Master Chef with confidence. Remember to use the F1 key
when in doubt about anything. Complete help is
available on all parts of the program. And now that
you've got a feel for how Master Chef works, it might
be a good time to read the rest of The Master Chef
Reference. For a more detailed tour of Master Chef,
read the Master Chef Tutorial.
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Recipes
About Recipes
This chapter describes how Master Chef manages the
recipes and what information it keeps and how to make
changes to that information.
Master Chef will allow you to have many separate recipe
files, each having over 800 recipes in them. This
allows you to have much flexibility in keeping track of
your recipes and having them at your fingertips. Each
recipe file is organized by recipe name, but also
allows you to categorize them, and to assign the proper
meal/course combination for them. You can also keep
track of the source of the recipe and make it capable
of being automatically scheduled in the meal schedule.
Of course the standard parts of a recipe are easily
edited, such as ingredients and notes (instructions).
Each recipe can have up to 30 ingredients, and can have
up to 1500 characters worth of instructions. This gives
you plenty of room to accurately describe how to make
even the most complicated recipes.
Another powerful feature of Master Chef is the ability
to keep track of serving information, such as the
number of servings for the recipe, the size of the
servings, as well as the food exchange ratings of the
recipe and complete nutritional data, including 19
nutrients and calories.
Not only is the information kept for each recipe
important for the recipe itself, but also for the
planning and scheduling process. This information tie-
in with the meal scheduler makes Master Chef a very
powerful tool in meal planning and scheduling.
Information in each recipe is used directly by the
scheduler. See the chapter on the Meal Schedule manager
for details.
The following sections in this chapter will describe
how to use all of the various parts of the Recipe
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Manager.
Edit Recipes
When you select the Recipe | Edit main menu option
(F2), you are presented with a special dialog box that
allows you to perform most of the things necessary to
manage the recipes in the file.
Note:
If you have not selected a recipe file to use
(with the Recipe | Load main menu option) you
will be presented with a message box telling
you that there currently is no recipe file
named or loaded. This usually happens if you
have changed your data path and have not
copied the recipe files to the new directory
(they are the ones with the .REC extension).
You will need to name one or select one using
the Recipe | Load option. You will also be
given the opportunity to select one right
then if you wish.
The Edit Recipes dialog box consists mainly of a list
box which shows the names of the recipes in the current
recipe file. Another part of the dialog box shows
several buttons that allow you to perform various
actions on the recipes.
New Filter Button
Press this button to cause Master Chef to display a
dialog box which will allow you to change the criteria
used for listing the recipes.
The Filter Dialog Box
The three main pieces that control the filter are the
filter check boxes, the filter pick lines, and the New
Filter button.
Each of the different parts of the filters are set
according to the state of the check box for that part
of the filter. The actual information used to do the
filtering is selected in the select lines next to the
check boxes as described below. Then when the Done
button is pushed, the Filter dialog box disappears, the
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recipe list is filtered accordingly, and the new list
is shown. The details of these pieces are described
below. Also see "About Recipe Filters" below for more
information on how to use filters.
The other buttons that are available in the Edit
Recipes dialog box are:
Edit Button
Press this button when you are ready to change the
information for the item highlighted in the list box.
This will bring up the Edit Recipe dialog box and you
will be able to edit the information in that recipe.
Add Button
Press this button when you are ready to add a new item
to the list. You will be taken to the Edit Recipe
dialog box to enter the new data.
Delete Button
Press this button when you are ready to delete the item
highlighted. You will be warned before the item is
deleted.
Select Button
Pressing this button will select the highlighted recipe
and close the recipe selection dialog box.
Note:
This button only appears when you are
selecting a recipe for use in a meal schedule
using the Schedule | Edit main menu option.
Done Button
Press this button when you are all done working with
the Recipes. The Edit Recipe dialog box will close any
you will be returned to the main menu screen.
Editing a Recipe
When you select a recipe to edit, the Edit Recipe
dialog box appears. This dialog box shows some of the
pieces of the recipe that you can edit, along with some
buttons that allow you to edit the other parts of the
recipe. The following descriptions will show you what
you can edit and how to do it.
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Editing Main Items
The items that show in the Edit Recipe dialog box are
considered the main items. These items are what really
define the recipe and how it will work in the meal
schedule. The items that you can edit in this dialog
box are:
Name
This is an input line where you enter the name of the
recipe that you wish to add or change to. Remember that
this name will be used when sorting the recipe file.
Examples:
Blueberry Pie
Chicken Chow Mein
Chicken With Rice
Hamburgers
Tuna Sandwich
Source
This is an input line where you enter information that
will assist you in remembering where you got this
recipe, or if you intend on printing this out and
giving it to someone else, letting them know where they
got it.
Some examples:
Betty Crocker pg 27
Joy of Cooking pg 245
Tom and Diana's kitchen
Category
This is a Pick Line where you can select a category
that will be meaningful for this recipe.
The categories that you can select are defined using
the Misc | Categories main menu option.
Courses
These are 5 pick lines where you can select courses
that will be meaningful for this recipe. The course
names, combined with the meal names next to them, will
be used by the Auto Schedule feature in the Schedule
Manager to determine the meal and course for which this
recipe is appropriate.
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These fields are also used with the recipe filter to
determine if this recipe matches the course filter
selected.
The course names that you can select here are defined
using the Misc | Courses main menu option.
Meal
These are 5 pick lines where you can select meals that
will be meaningful for this recipe. This meal names,
combined with the course names next to them, will be
used by the Auto Schedule feature in the Schedule
Manager to determine which meal and course this recipe
is appropriate for.
These fields are also used with the recipe filter to
determine if this recipe matches the meal filter
selected.
The meal names that you can select here are defined
using the Misc | Meals main menu option.
Note:
The meal scheduler, when using the automatic
scheduler, uses the course and meal names as
pairs. For example, the top meal goes with
the top course. The second meal goes with the
second course, etc. When the scheduler is
scheduling recipes, it goes through the
schedule meal by meal, course by course, and
searches all of the recipes in the file for a
recipe with a course/meal pair that matches
the particular meal and course it is looking
for. If it finds a meal/course pair that
match both the meal and course needed, it
selects the recipe for use in the schedule.
It will also use a recipe if the meal/course
pair for the recipe has the matching meal
name and a blank course name, or a blank meal
name and a matching course name.
For more detail on how the scheduler works,
see the "Meal Schedule Manager" chapter.
Use For Automatic Scheduling
This radio button is used to tell Master Chef whether
or not to use this recipe when performing an automatic
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scheduling operation. The different options are:
Yes
Selecting this option will enable this recipe to
be used for automatic scheduling.
No
Selecting this option will prevent this recipe
from being used for automatic scheduling.
The other buttons that allow you to edit other portions
of the recipe are:
Ingredients Button
This button will open up the Recipe Ingredients
Selection Box in order to edit the recipe ingredients.
See "Editing Recipe Ingredients" for details on how to
edit ingredients.
Notes Button
This button will open up the Notes dialog box, which is
a simple text editor that will allow you to enter any
instructions necessary to describe how to prepare the
recipe.
See "Editing Recipe Notes" for details on how to edit
recipe notes.
Scale Button
This button will allow you to scale the recipe
permanently. It will open up a dialog box that will ask
for the number of servings desired. When a number is
entered, the recipe will be scaled to that number of
servings, changing the quantities of the ingredients
proportionately. The actual number of servings that the
recipe will be scaled to is determined by the Scaling
Method settings in the Utilities | Configure | Special
Options menu option. If the Multiple option is
selected, then the number of servings actually scaled
to will be a multiple of the original number of
servings. If the Any Number option is selected, then
the recipe will be scaled exactly to the number of
servings requested.
Print Button
This button will allow you to print the recipe being
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edited, and changing the number of servings to be
printed for.
Servings Button
This button will open up the Recipe Serving Information
dialog box in order to edit the recipe serving
information.
Serving information includes number of servings,
servings size, food exchanges, and nutrition
information.
See "Edit Serving Information" for details on how to
edit the recipe serving information.
Done Button
Press this button when you are done editing this
recipe. The new information will be saved in place of
the old, and you will be returned to the selection
list.
Editing Recipe Ingredients
Viewing and Selecting the Ingredients
When the Ingredients button is pressed in the Edit
Recipe dialog box, a new dialog box will appear,
showing a list box with the recipe ingredients in it,
as well as three buttons to assist in editing the
ingredients. This List Box shows a portion of the
ingredients used in this recipe. You may have up to 30
ingredients per recipe, and they are shown in the order
you enter them in the list. They are not sorted.
The buttons on the bottom of the dialog box show what
you can do with a highlighted ingredient.
Edit Button
To edit an ingredient, highlight the one desired in the
list and press the Edit button, or double-click the
left mouse button on it.
Clear Button
To clear one, highlight the one desired in the list and
press the Clear button. Clearing the ingredient will
remove the ingredient from the recipe.
When you are done editing the ingredients, press the
Done button. You may also press the ESC key or click on
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the close box ═[■]═ in the upper left hand corner of
the dialog box.
Editing an Ingredient
Once you have selected an ingredient to edit using the
procedure described above, another dialog box will
appear that will allow you to edit that particular
ingredient. The different parts of this dialog box that
appear are:
Name
This pick line allows you to select an ingredient to
use in this recipe. You will be picking from the
ingredients entered using the Ingredients | Edit main
menu option. When you select an ingredient from the
main ingredients list that appears, Master Chef will
also fill in the Quantity and Measurement lines from
the Recipe Quantity and Recipe Measurement fields for
that ingredient. This provides a starting point for you
to fill in those fields.
Quantity
This input line is where you enter the quantity of the
ingredient needed for this recipe.
Enter this number either in a fractional form (3 1/2)
or a decimal form (3.5) depending on how you have the
system configured using the Utilities | Configure |
Special Options main menu option.
Measure
This pick line is used to select the desired measure
for the ingredient measurement for this recipe. The
measures available are the shown when you press any key
except the TAB, SHIFT-TAB, ESC, and BACKSPACE key or
double-click the mouse on it. When you do this, a
pop-up selection list will appear. These measurements
are those entered with the Measurements| Units option.
You will notice that not all of the possible
measurements are listed. Only those with the same
measurement type are shown. This insures that you
select a measurement that makes sense for the
ingredient selected. The reason for this is simple.
Suppose you have Milk as an ingredient. Since Milk is
normally a liquid, it would be entered in the
ingredient file as having a 1 Gallon Liq Volume recipe
measurement. Now when you go to use this ingredient in
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a recipe, your recipes won't always call for gallons of
milk. But, the Milk listed in the ingredients file will
not be a Dry Volume or Unit or anything else except a
Liq Volume. So it makes no sense to include Milk as an
ingredient in your recipe and give it some other
measurement type. Now, since you will probably want to
use some other measurement unit for this recipe, the
selection list for this input line will show you all of
the Liq Volume measurements you can select from. This
will now allow Master Chef to make appropriate
conversions later on if necessary.
Done Button
Press this button when you are done editing this item.
The new information will be saved in place of the old,
and you will be returned to the selection list.
Cancel Button
Press this button to exit and NOT save the changes
made to this item.
Edit Recipe Notes
When you press the Notes button in the Edit Recipe
dialog box, a new dialog box will appear. This dialog
box will have a simple text editor box and two buttons
in it. They are described below.
Notes Editor
This text editor is used to enter and make changes to
the recipe instructions. This editor has some handy
features that make editing the notes simple.
You can have up to 1500 characters in your
instructions, and lines will automatically wrap if they
exceed 70 characters.
See the chapter entitled "The User Interface" for a
detailed description of how the text editor works.
Done Button
Press this button when you are done editing this item.
The new information will be saved in place of the old,
and you will be returned to the Edit Recipe dialog box.
Cancel Button
Press this button to exit and NOT save the changes
made during this editing session.
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Edit Serving Information
When you press the Servings button in the Edit Recipe
dialog box, a new dialog box will appear with several
items in it to enable you to correctly define the
serving information for this recipe. The various items
in this dialog box are:
Servings
This input line allows you to enter the number of
servings for this recipe.
Note:
This number is very important, for
scheduling, scaling a recipe, and computing
the per-serving nutrient content. Make sure
this number is as accurate as possible!
For example, if this recipe will serve 10 servings, and
it is scheduled for a meal that requires 20 servings,
Master Chef can figure out that it needs twice as much
of every ingredient in order for you to prepare enough
for the 20 scheduled. This will also be done when
printing the recipe, so that the correct quantity of
ingredients appear in the printouts and when creating
the shopping list.
Serving Size
This is made of two fields: the Quantity and the
Measurement. This information is used only for
printouts, and is not used to compute any other
information. It is merely a reference guide for those
using the recipe to get an idea of how large a serving
is.
NOTE:
It is up to you to determine exactly how
large and what measurement a serving is.
MASTER CHEF CANNOT COMPUTE THIS!
Quantity
This input line allows you to enter the quantity
portion of the serving size.
Enter this either in a fractional form (3 1/2) or a
decimal form (3.5) depending on how you have the system
configured using the Utilities | Configure | Special
Options main menu option.
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Measure
This pick line is used to select the desired measure
for the serving size for this recipe. The measures
available are shown when you press any key except the
TAB, SHIFT-TAB, ESC, and BACKSPACE key. You may also
double-click the left mouse button on this field. When
you do this, a pop-up selection list will appear. These
measurements are those entered with the
Measurements|Units option.
Exchanges
The right side of the dialog box shows the list of food
exchange names, and has associated input lines to enter
the number of food exchanges each serving is worth.
This is combined with the food exchange type next to
it. This is important if you are tracking the number of
food exchanges in the schedule.
Enter this either in a fractional form (3 1/2) or a
decimal form (3.5) depending on how you have the system
configured using the Utilities | Configure | Special
Options main menu option.
Display Totals
This button will cause Master Chef to open a new dialog
box showing the total nutrient content PER SERVING for
this recipe, along with the total cost and the cost per
serving for this recipe. These nutrient numbers are
based on the quantities of the ingredients, and the
number of servings for this recipe. The costs are based
on the store price entered for each ingredient and
adjusted according to the quantity of each ingredient
required for the recipe.
Done Button
Press this button when you are done editing the serving
info. The new information will be saved in place of the
old, and you will be returned to the Edit Recipe dialog
box.
Cancel Button
Press this button to exit and NOT save the changes made
to the serving information.
Printing Recipes
Selecting the Recipe | Print main menu option (Shift
F2) will bring up a dialog box very similar to that
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which appears for the Recipe | Edit main menu option
described above, except that the main buttons at the
bottom of the dialog box are different, showing the
different print options that are available. You will
notice that the same recipe name list box is present,
as well as the same filter control items, allowing you
to select a desired portion of the recipe file to print
from, just like you could when editing.
Since the operation of the list box is described above
and the filter is described below, only the operation
of each of the print buttons is described here.
Recipe Marking
In order to provide the most flexibility in printing
desired recipes, Master Chef allows you to "mark" the
recipes that you wish to print. Marked recipes are
shown in the list by a check mark " ". There are three
buttons available to assist with the marking of
recipes.
Mark One
Pressing this button will mark the currently
highlighted recipe. If the recipe is already marked,
then the recipe will be unmarked. Recipe marking can
also be done by moving the mouse cursor to a desired
recipe and clicking the mouse on it.
Mark All
Pressing this button will cause all recipes in the list
to be marked.
Unmark All
Pressing this button will cause all marked recipes in
the list to be unmarked.
Print Button
Pressing this button will begin the process of printing
the marked recipes in the recipe list box.
Print Index Button
Pressing this button will begin the process of printing
a list of all the recipes shown in the recipe list box.
Again, this will work with the filtering capability of
Master Chef to list only those recipes that match your
desired criteria.
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If you press this button, Master Chef will immediately
begin printing the recipe index.
Print Style
If you press either the Print, or Print All buttons,
you will be presented with a dialog box that allows you
to select the type of recipe printout you desire.
Master Chef offers you two types, a recipe card format
and a full page format. The buttons in this dialog box
are:
Recipe Card
Pressing this button will select the Recipe Card style
to print. The card style takes up less room on the
paper and includes only the Name, Category,
Ingredients, and Instructions.
Full Page
Pressing this button will select the Full Page style to
print. The Full Page style uses the whole page and
prints all of the recipe information, including meal
and course types, serving and nutritional information.
Scaling The Recipe
When you press the Print button, you will get another
dialog box (after telling Master Chef which print style
to use) asking for the number of servings to scale the
recipe to. If there is no change, just press the OK
button (by clicking on it or pressing the RETURN key).
To make changes to the number of servings, the dialog
box has an input line that allows you to enter the
number of servings to which the recipe will be scaled.
NOTE:
Master Chef can apply the number of servings
entered to the recipe in two ways, depending
on the setting of the Scaling Method
radiobuttons in Utilities | Configure |
Special Options main menu option. If it is
set to Multiple of Servings, Master Chef
scales in whole number multiples of the
original recipe servings closest to the
requested number of servings. With that
setting it can only scale a recipe to a
higher number. This prevents abnormal
ingredient quantities. If it is set to Any
Number, then Master Chef will scale the
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recipe to the exact number requested.
Cancel Button
Pressing this button will cancel this printing session
from any of the dialog boxes it appears in.
Once printing begins, Master Chef will show you it's
progress in a message box.
About Recipe Filters
The use of Filters is a feature of Master Chef that
allows you to limit and control the size and nature of
the list of recipes that appears in the recipe list,
either for editing, printing, or selecting recipes. The
4 items available for use in the filter are Category,
Meal, Course, and Ingredient. The filter works by
checking each recipe in the recipe file and comparing
it with the various items enabled and selected.
Filter Checkboxes
Each filter checkbox can be set to one of three
possible conditions. Either off (nothing in the box),
Inclusive (with an I in the box) or Exclusive (an E in
the box).
If the checkbox is set off, then that filter criteria
is ignored. If it is set to I (inclusive), then the
recipe list will include recipes that include the item
selected. If it is set to E (exclude) then the recipe
list will include recipes that DO NOT include the
selected item.
Category Filter
This checkbox tells Master Chef to use the Category
selected in the Category Filter pick line just to the
right when the New Filter button is pushed.
You can change the state of this check box by either
pressing the space bar (when it is highlighted) or
clicking on it with the left mouse button.
Meal Filter
This checkbox tells Master Chef to use the Meal
selected in the Meal Filter pick line just to the right
when the New Filter button is pushed.
You can change the state of this check box by either
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pressing the space bar (when it is highlighted) or
clicking on it with the left mouse button.
Course Filter
This checkbox tells Master Chef to use the Course
selected in the Course Filter pick line just to the
right when the New Filter button is pushed.
You can check or uncheck this box by either pressing
the space bar (when it is highlighted) or clicking on
it with the left mouse button.
Ingredient Filter
This checkbox tells Master Chef to use the Ingredient
selected in the Ingredient Filter pick line just to the
right when the New Filter button is pushed.
You can change the state of this check box by either
pressing the space bar (when it is highlighted) or
clicking on it with the left mouse button.
Category Pick line
This pick line is used to select the desired category
that will be used as a filter for listing the available
recipes. The categories available are shown when you
press any key except the TAB, SHIFT-TAB, ESC, and
BACKSPACE key, or by double clicking the left mouse
button on the line.
A picklist will appear with the available choices.
Select the desired choice from the list that appears.
Course Pick line
This pick line is used to select the desired Course
that will be used as a filter for listing the available
recipes. The Courses available are shown when you
press any key except the TAB, SHIFT-TAB, ESC, and
BACKSPACE key, or by double clicking the left mouse
button on the line.
A picklist will appear with the available choices.
Select the desired choice from the list that appears.
Meal Pick line
This pick line is used to select the desired Meal that
will be used as a filter for listing the available
recipes. The Meal available are shown when you press
any key except the TAB, SHIFT-TAB, ESC, and BACKSPACE
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key, or by double clicking the left mouse button on the
line.
A picklist will appear with the available choices.
Select the desired choice from the list that appears.
Ingredient Pick line
This pick line is used to select the desired Ingredient
that will be used as a filter for listing the available
recipes. The Ingredient available are the shown when
you press any key except the TAB, SHIFT-TAB, ESC, and
BACKSPACE key, or by double clicking the left mouse
button on the line.
A picklist will appear with the available choices.
Select the desired choice from the list that appears.
Done Button
Pressing this button will close the filter dialog box,
apply the new filter to the recipe list and cause the
new list to be displayed. The way the criteria are
applied to the recipe list is determined by the Filter
Method settings in the Utilities | Configure | Special
Options menu options. If it is set to All, then the
recipes selected for the list will be included only if
the recipe matches all of the filter criteria. If it is
set to Any, then the recipes selected for the list will
be included if the recipe matches any of the filter
criteria.
Cancel Button
Pressing this button will cause the filter dialog box
to close and ignore any changes made to the filter. The
recipe list will not be changed.
Some Examples of Using Filters
EXAMPLE 1
Suppose you wish to see all the recipes in your file
that are in the "Soups and Stews" category.
Press the Change Filter button.
In the New Recipe Filter dialog box, TAB to or click on
the pick line next to the "Category" check box. Then
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press a key except those mentioned above, or double
click on the line to bring up the Category selection
list (you can just double click on the line from
anywhere else in the dialog box and bring up the
selection list, in other words, you don't have to click
once on it and then click twice). Select the desired
category, in this case Soups and Stews.
You would then TAB to or click on the [ ] Category line
just below the recipe list box. If you TABbed to it,
then press the space bar to put an I the box (like
this: [I]).
Finally, press the Done button (by clicking the left
mouse button on it, or TABbing to it and pressing
ENTER, or pressing ALT+F keys).
Master Chef will examine all recipes in the file and
display only those whose Category field matches the
category you specified (Soups and Stews).
EXAMPLE 2
Suppose you wish to see all the recipes that are
designated to be used as a Main Dish for Supper, and DO
NOT have Sugar in them.
You would select Supper as the Meal, Main Dish as the
Course, and Sugar as the Ingredient. Then you would
mark the Meal and Course checkboxes with an I, and the
Ingredient checkbox with an E. Finally, press the Done
button, and see all the recipes that match those three
items.
NOTE:
Remember that the recipes actually listed depends on
the Filter Method setting in the Utilities | Configure
| Special Options main menu option. If it is set to Any
then the list will contain all the recipes that are
EITHER a Main Dish, a Supper, or DO NOT have Sugar. If
it is set to All, then the list will contain the
recipes that are Supper, Main Dish recipes AND do not
have Sugar in them.
Automatic Use of Filters
Master Chef will automatically set the filter for you
when you are working on a Meal Schedule. When you wish
to select a recipe for a particular course in the
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schedule, Master Chef will set the filter to the Course
and Meal you are currently working on, and
automatically show you the matching recipes. Now you
can, while you are selecting these recipes, disable
these items to allow you to see all of the recipes or
to use some other items as the filter. The Filter
Method setting has the same effect here as described
above.
By using the Utilities | Configure | Special Options
main menu option you may turn off this automatic
filtering feature. See "Special Options" for details on
how to do this.
Loading Recipe Files
If you select the Recipe | Load main menu option, you
will be presented with a dialog box which will allow
you to enter or select a new recipe file name.
The items in this dialog box are:
New File Name
This is a special input line that works like either a
standard input line or a pick line. You can type in a
new name. If you enter a name that already exists and
you press the Done Button, it will be loaded. If you
enter a name of a recipe file that does not exist and
press the Done Button, a new one will be created for
you to edit.
If you wish to select from existing recipe files, press
the down arrow or double click the left mouse button on
the name field or click the mouse on the down arrow in
the small box to the right of the input line. This will
cause a list box to appear with the names of existing
recipe files from which to pick.
Master Chef looks on your disk in the path specified in
the Data Path input line in the Utilities | Configure |
Special Options for the files that appear in the
selection list. These files are known by Master Chef to
be recipe files since they all have a ".REC" extension.
Done Button
Pressing this button will cause the selected recipe
file to be loaded or created.
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Cancel Button
Pressing this button will exit you from this dialog box
WITHOUT loading or creating a new recipe file.
Sorting the Recipe File
Selecting the Recipes | Sort option will cause Master
Chef to sort all the recipes in the currently selected
recipe file. This, in many cases, will allow Master
Chef to find the recipe information faster when you
pick a recipe to view, edit, or print. It will also
speed up the Auto Scheduler and the Shopping List
creation.
Sorting is not necessary for Master Chef to operate
properly, but can speed things up. The only trade off
is that you may have a bit of waiting to do while
Master Chef sorts the recipes. How long this will take
depends on how fast your computer is and how many
recipes you have in the file.
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Meal Plan
About the Meal Plan
The meal plan is the part of Master Chef that contains
a "blueprint" of what a daily meal will consist of. It
contains the standard information for each of the meals
for each day. If you use the Auto Schedule feature
(the feature that automatically schedules recipes for
each of the meals of the day) in the Schedule | Edit
main menu option, then this is where the names of each
of the meals and courses to be scheduled are put. Of
course, you are still able to edit the names of the
meals and courses for each day of the schedule (using
the Schedule | Edit main menu option) if you wish.
Saving and Entering Meal Plans
Master Chef is capable of keeping many different meal
plans for you. They can be loaded using the Plan | Load
main menu option. You may then edit the plan using the
Plan | Edit main menu option.
This allows you to have different plans available for
different occasions or purposes. If you are a dietician
servicing various institutions or individuals, you
could have a different meal plan for each institution
or individual. Then, with each institution having a
copy of Master Chef, you could just distribute the
appropriate meal plan to them when you wanted to
institute a diet change. The staff then could use your
meal plan with their local copy of Master Chef to
generate the actual meal schedule.
Daily Plan
The Daily Plan is the initial dialog box that you see
when you select the Plan | Edit main menu option (F3
key). It shows you the all of the currently established
meals planned for each day and all of the courses
planned for each of the meals. This gives you an
overview of the day's schedule. As you can see, you can
schedule up to 6 meals per day. The order that you see
them is the order that they will appear in the meal
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schedule unless you change it using the Schedule | Edit
main menu option.
Notice that the name of the current plan shows in the
heading of the dialog box in brackets [].
At the bottom of the Daily Plan dialog box are four
buttons. They are:
Print Button
Pressing this button will send the meal plan to the
printer, based on how you have the printer configured
under the Utilities | Configure | Printer. You will
have a choice to print either the brief or detailed
meal plan.
Totals Button
Pressing this button will bring up a dialog box
displaying the total number of exchanges for the day.
It also displays the Protein, Fat, Carbohydrate, and
Calorie equivalents for the exchange totals.
Done Button
Press this button when you are done editing this item.
Your changes will be saved.
Cancel Button
Press this button when you are finished but do not wish
to save any changes you may have made.
Meal Plan
When you double-click the left mouse button on one of
the meal names in the Daily Plan dialog box, (or press
the down arrow when one of the meal names is
highlighted) the Meal Plan dialog box will appear. This
window contains a number of different pieces of
information about that meal. They are:
Meal Name
This pick line is used to select the desired meal name
for this meal. The names available are shown when you
press any key except the TAB, SHIFT-TAB, ESC, and
BACKSPACE key or double-click the mouse on it.
When you do this, a pop-up selection list will appear.
Select the desired meal name from the list.
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Note:
The names that appear in the selection list
can be changed by selecting the Misc | Meals
main menu option.
Course Names
The column on the left side of the window shows the
currently planned courses for this meal. These are the
courses that the Auto Scheduler will attempt to fill
with recipes. The order that you see and place the
names here will be the same throughout the schedule
unless you make changes to particular parts of the
schedule using the Schedule | Edit main menu option. If
you leave one blank, then the Auto Scheduler will not
pick a recipe for it, although you may manually do that
yourself.
When a particular course name pick line is highlighted,
you may select a new name for it. By pressing any key
except the TAB, SHIFT-TAB, ESC, and BACKSPACE key or
double-clicking the mouse on it., you will be able to
select the name of the course you wish to put in this
position.
Servings
The next column to the right of the Course names
contains the default number of servings to use for each
of the courses to be scheduled. This is handy if you
know ahead of time how many servings of each course
will be needed. If you're planning for a family of 5,
then you could put the number 5 in each entry where a
course is defined. This number will automatically show
up in the meal schedule. Again, this number can be
changed for each individual scheduled course using the
Schedule | Edit main menu option.
Each entry in this column is associated with the course
in the course column to the left of it. The number
entered here will become the initial number of servings
scheduled in the meal schedule for that course. You may
use this column to put servings in even if you do not
intend to use the AutoScheduler, In which case you
could use these numbers as the serving numbers for
manually selected recipes.
Food Exchanges
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The next column over shows the names of the Food
Exchanges. These are the names that are entered in the
Misc | Exchanges option.
See the chapter on Exchanges for more information.
Quantity
The column just to the right of the Exchange Names
contains the PER SERVING quantities of each exchange.
The numbers entered here represent a GOAL for the meal.
This will be the baseline against which you can compare
the actual scheduled exchanges based on recipes. Each
entry is associated with the corresponding name to the
left of it. The number of each Exchange entered here
becomes the goal for this meal for each of the days in
the schedule.
To edit a quantity, highlight the desired input line by
using the mouse or the TAB key. Numbers are entered
either in a fractional form (3 1/2) or a decimal form
(3.5) depending on how you have the system configured
using the Utilities | Configure | Special Options main
menu option.
NOTE:
Each Food Exchanges entry is NOT related to
the Course and Servings entries to the left
of it. These represent the total PER SERVING
Food Exchanges for this entire MEAL, not any
particular COURSE.
Protein, Fat, Carbohydrate Content
The block of numbers below the Food Exchanges shows the
Protein, Fat, Carbohydrate, and Calorie content based
on the Food Exchanges defined for the meal. These
numbers are obtained from the numbers set up for each
exchange in the Misc | Exchanges main menu option. Like
Food Exchanges, these are PER SERVING numbers.
Loading Meal Plans
When you select the Plan | Load main menu option, you
will be presented with a dialog box which will allow
you to enter or select a new meal plan name.
The items in this dialog box are:
New File Name
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This is a special input line that works like either a
standard input line or a pick line. You can type in the
new name. If you enter a name that already exists and
you press the Done Button, it will be loaded. If you
enter a name of a plan that does not exist and press
the Done Button, a new one will be created for you to
edit.
If you wish to select from existing plans, then press
the down arrow or double-click the left mouse button on
the name field or click the mouse on the down arrow in
the small box to the right of the input line. This will
cause a list box to appear with the names of existing
plans from which to pick.
Done Button
Pressing this button will cause the selected plan to be
loaded or created.
Cancel Button
Pressing this button will exit you from this dialog box
WITHOUT loading or creating a new plan.
Print Plan
When you press the Print button in the Daily Plan
dialog box, you will first be presented with a dialog
box with three buttons in it. These buttons allow you
to select the type of meal plan to print, either a
brief or a detailed printout. You will also have a
Cancel button to allow you to cancel the print option
and go back to the main menu.
Print Style
The two styles of printouts are:
Brief
Pressing this button will select the Brief Style of
meal plan to print. The Brief Style takes up less room
on the paper and includes only the number of exchanges
planned for each meal.
Detailed
Pressing this button will select the Detailed Style of
meal plan to print. The Detailed Style takes up more
room on the paper and includes all the meal plan
information for each meal.
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Cancel Button
Pressing this button will cancel this printing session.
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Schedule Manager
About Schedules
In order to plan effective and nutritious meals, Master
Chef includes a powerful but simple to use Meal
Schedule manager. It is designed to easily perform the
tasks that are necessary to make sure that meals are
what you want them to be. The schedule manager used in
Master Chef has close ties to the recipe manager, the
meal plan manager, and the shopping list manager.
Master Chef can handle as many different schedules as
you have disk space to hold. It can easily change the
dates of these schedules, change the number of days in
them, change the meals, courses, recipes used in each
day of the schedule, and each schedule can be up to 93
days long.
Master Chef makes it simple to work with the schedule,
as described in the following sections.
Edit Schedules
When you select the Schedule | Edit main menu option
(F4), you are presented with a dialog box that allows
you to perform most of the things necessary to manage
the schedule.
Note:
If you have not selected a schedule file to
use (with the Schedule | Load main menu
option) you will be presented with a message
box telling you that there currently is no
schedule file selected. This usually happens
if you have changed your data path and have
not copied the schedule files to the new
directory ( they are the ones with the .SCH
extension).
You will need to name one or select one using the
Schedule | Load option. You will also be given the
opportunity to select one right then if you wish.
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If there are no days in the schedule, Master Chef will
ask you if you wish to create a schedule at that time.
You may answer Yes to do it now, or answer NO to do it
later using the Schedule | Create main menu option. A
schedule must be Created before it can be Edited.
The Schedules dialog box consists mainly of a list box
which shows the dates of the daily schedules that are
in the current schedule. There are also several buttons
that allow you to perform various work on the
schedules, including changing the dates of the daily
schedules, editing them, changing the number of days in
the schedule, perform an AutoSchedule, and create a
Shopping List. Each of these pieces are described
below:
At the top of the dialog box is the name of the
schedule file currently in use, shown within brackets
[].
The dates in the list box may or may not have recipe
and serving information in them, depending on what you
have done to them so far. This can be determined by
editing them.
The buttons in this dialog box are:
Edit
Press this button to view and edit the contents of the
highlighted schedule. See the "Edit Day" section for
details on how to edit the daily schedule.
Add Days
Pressing this button will cause Master Chef to add the
number of days you define to the end of the schedule.
These new days will be empty and will need to be
edited. A dialog box will appear asking you for the
number of days to add. One day will be the number
showing in the box, but you may enter any number you
wish up to the maximum (93) minus the number of days
already in the schedule. Master Chef will not let you
enter a number which would create a schedule longer
than 93 days. The dialog box will also have a Cancel
button to allow you to cancel the Add Days process.
Delete Day
Pressing this button will cause Master Chef to delete
the currently highlighted day from the list. The
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schedule will then be adjusted to insure that all days
in the schedule are consecutive, starting with the date
of the first day in the
schedule.
Adjust Dates
Pressing this button will allow you to enter a new
starting date for the schedule. Master Chef will use
this date to adjust the dates of all the days in the
schedule, without changing any other information in the
schedule.
For example, suppose you have a 7 day schedule
beginning with March 7th. Your desire is to reuse the
schedule information for the following week beginning
March 14th. You would select March 14th from the
calendar display, and then Master Chef will apply new
dates to the existing schedule, starting with March 14,
and without changing any of the recipes scheduled for
those days.
Auto Schedule
Pressing this button will begin the Auto Schedule
process, which automatically schedules recipes for each
course and meal for each of the days which are listed.
When completed you will be asked if you wish to create
a shopping list from the newly created schedule. Answer
Yes or No.
Create Shop List
Pressing this button will allow you to create a
shopping list from the existing schedule. This button
performs the same action as the List | Create main menu
option. See the chapter entitles "Shopping List" for
details on how this works.
Done
Press this button when you are done working with the
schedules. You will be returned to the main menu.
Edit Day
When you select a day to edit from the Schedule dialog
box described in "Edit Schedules", a new dialog box
labeled Daily Schedule will appear. This dialog box
will have a number of items that briefly show the meals
planned for that day, and some buttons that will allow
you to work with that schedule. The various items in
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this dialog box are described below.
Date
The date of this schedule will appear at the top of the
dialog box. It will show the date in the format
selected using the Utilities | Configure | Special
Options main menu option. Also shown will be the day of
the week for this schedule.
Meals
This pick line shows the names of the meals scheduled
for this slot in the day. The names originally come
from the Meal Plan, which in turn uses the names
defined in Meal Plan | Courses. Of course, these can be
changed when editing that particular meal schedule, and
you can edit the meal schedule when you press any key
except the TAB, SHIFT-TAB, ESC, and BACKSPACE key. You
may do this by double-clicking the left mouse button on
the course name.
Totals
Pressing this button will cause Master Chef to compute
and display the cumulative nutrient and cost totals all
the meals scheduled, including all recipes planned, and
taking into consideration the serving size. The
information displayed is:
Food Exchanges
The display will show the planned number of food
exchanges for this day compared to the actual
number of food exchanges scheduled (based on the
food exchanges for each recipe).
Nutrients
Also displayed are the totals of all of the
standard nutrients tracked in the ingredients.
Costs
The display also shows the total cost and cost per
serving of all of the recipes scheduled for the
day.
This display can be used to keep track of the dietary
content of the meals scheduled for the day and give you
an idea of the cost of the meals being scheduled.
Auto Schedule Day
Pressing this button will begin the Auto Schedule
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process, which starts up the Meal Auto Scheduler for
each of the meals which are named for this day. See the
"About AutoSchedule" section for details on how
AutoSchedule works.
Print Schedule
Pressing this button will start the process of printing
all the meals scheduled for this day. All of meals
which are defined (having a name appear in the Edit Day
dialog box) will be printed.
Done
Press this button when you are done editing this day's
schedule. You will be returned to the Schedules dialog
box.
Print Style
Before beginning printing, you will be presented with a
dialog box that will allow you to select the style of
printout that you desire. You have a choice of either
Brief or Detailed. The brief style takes up less room
on the paper and includes only the meals and recipes
planned for each day. The detailed style takes up more
room on the paper and includes all the Schedule
information for each meal.
You will also have the option of cancelling the
printing process if desired.
Edit Meal
When you select a meal to edit from the Daily Schedule
as described in the last section, a new dialog box
labeled Meal Schedule will appear. This dialog box has
a number of items in it which will allow you to tailor
the meal schedule to your needs and accurately plan
your meals. This is where recipes are actually selected
for use in your schedule. Other items can be tailored
to the specific needs of the meal. A description of
each of these items follows.
Meal
This pick line is used to select the desired Meal name
for this meal. The Meal names available are shown when
you press any key except the TAB, SHIFT-TAB, ESC, and
BACKSPACE key, or by double-clicking the left mouse
button on the line. A picklist will appear with the
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available choices. Select the desired choice from the
list that appears.
Courses
These pick lines allow you to define each of the
courses that will be served during this meal. Each pick
line works the same. The Courses available are the
shown when you press any key except the TAB, SHIFT-TAB,
ESC, and BACKSPACE key, or by double clicking the left
mouse button on the line. A picklist will appear with
the available choices. Select the desired choice from
the list that appears.
Recipes
These pick lines are used to select the recipes to be
scheduled for the courses in the meal. The recipes
available are shown when you press any key except the
TAB, SHIFT-TAB, ESC, and BACKSPACE key. You may also
double-click the left mouse button on the desired
recipe pick line. When you do this, the filtered
recipe select list will appear as described in the
"Recipes" chapter. Select the desired recipe from the
list.
Note:
The automatic filtering feature can be turned
off by using the Utilities | Configure |
Special Options main menu option.
Servings
These input lines allows you to enter/change the number
of servings planned for the associated recipe. This
number will be used to determine the scaling of the
recipe planned and the amounts of each of the
ingredients needed to prepare the recipe associated
with it. It is also used to compute the total nutrients
for the recipes and the meal when the Nutrition button
is pressed.
This number is originally derived from the Meal Plan,
and is considered a starting point for planning this
meal. If the meal plan calls for 5 servings, but you
realize you need to serve 10, change the number to 10.
The recipe selected for this course will be scaled
accordingly when being printed or when the shopping
list is created. (The original recipe in the recipe
file will not be changed.)
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Recipes are scaled in whole number multiples of the
recipe servings when computing ingredient quantities
and printing recipes. For example, if a recipe is
defined to be good for 5 servings, and the schedule
calls for 8 servings, Master Chef will scale the recipe
up to 10 servings to cover the 8 required and to avoid
having abnormal quantities computed for the ingredients
in the recipe. If the schedule called for 17 servings,
then the recipe would be scaled to 20 servings for the
same reason.
If you make the number of servings equal to 0 here,
Master Chef will use the number of servings defined in
the recipe, and will not scale the recipe when it is
used in the schedule, and when it computes shopping
list quantities.
The buttons that are available in this dialog box are:
Totals
Pressing this button will cause Master Chef to compute
and display the cumulative nutrient and cost totals all
the recipes scheduled for the meal and taking into
consideration the serving size. The information
displayed is:
Food Exchanges
The display will show the planned number of food
exchanges for this meal compared to the actual
number of food exchanges scheduled (based on the
food exchanges for each recipe).
Nutrients
Also displayed are the totals of all of the
standard nutrients tracked in the ingredients.
Costs
The display also shows the total cost and cost per
serving of all of the recipes scheduled for the
meal.
This display can be used to keep track of the dietary
content of the recipes scheduled for the meal and give
you an idea of the cost of the recipes being scheduled.
Auto Schedule Meal
Pressing this button will begin the Auto Schedule
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process, which automatically and randomly selects a
recipe for each of the courses which are named under
the "courses" column. The Auto Scheduler goes through
the recipe file looking for a recipe that has not
already been scheduled for that meal, and one that has
been defined to match the current meal and course being
scheduled. The Auto Scheduler will also use the current
meal plan to schedule the correct number of servings.
Note:
The auto scheduler will remove any previously
scheduled recipes.
Print Schedule
Pressing this button will start the process of printing
this meal schedule. The schedule will be printed in the
Detailed style. The detailed style includes all the
Schedule information for the meal.
Print Recipe
Pressing this button will print the recipe for the
currently highlighted course. You will be presented
with a dialog box that will allow you to select the
style of printout that you desire for the recipe. As
discussed in the "Recipes" chapter, you have a choice
of either Card or Full Page styles. The Recipe Card
style takes up less room on the paper and includes only
the Name, Category, Ingredients, and Instructions. The
Full Page style uses the whole page and prints all of
the recipe information, including meal and course
types, serving and nutritional information. You will
also have the option of cancelling the printing process
if desired.
The number of servings will be taken from the schedule,
but you will have the option of changing that in a
dialog box. If the schedule quantity is zero, then the
number of servings defined for the recipe will be used.
In order for this button to work, you must have one of
the recipes, courses, or servings highlighted. Then
Master Chef will print the recipe on that line.
Clear Recipe
Pressing this button will erase the recipe scheduled
for the currently highlighted course. The servings will
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be reset to the number defined in the meal plan.
Done
Press this button when you are done editing this meal.
You will be returned to the daily schedule display.
About AutoSchedule
When the auto scheduler begins, you will be presented
with a message box that will ask you if you are sure
that you wish to perform an Auto Schedule action. This
is done since the Auto Scheduler will overwrite and
remove all previous recipes scheduled.
How the Auto Scheduler Works
The Auto Scheduler attempts to assign randomly selected
recipes to each of the courses in a meal. This
assignment is made according to which meals and courses
for which each recipe has been defined in the Recipe |
Edit main menu option.
Master Chef first generates a "selection list" from
which to randomly select a recipe. To create this list,
Master Chef reviews each of the recipes available in
the current recipe file for those that have the Use For
Automatic Scheduling button set to Yes. Then it checks
the Meals and Courses pairs and adds the recipe if:
a) The Meal and Course for the recipe match the
Meal and Course to be scheduled.
b) The Meal matches the meal to be scheduled and
the Course is blank (indicating the recipe is
appropriate for any Course ).
c) The Course matches the course to be scheduled
and the Meal is blank (indicating the recipe is
appropriate for any meal).
This list is recreated for each meal to be scheduled.
For each meal scheduled, a recipe is selected from the
selection list, and then removed from the "selection
list" so that it will not be scheduled more than once.
When all courses in a particular meal are scheduled,
the selection list is emptied. If there are more meals
to be scheduled, the "selection list" is recreated and
the process is repeated.
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The number of servings defined in the Plan | Edit main
menu option will be used as the number of servings for
each course in a meal.
Printing Schedules
When the Schedule | Print main menu option is selected,
a dialog box that looks very similar to the Schedules
box is displayed with the Schedule | Edit main menu
option.
There will be a list box showing a portion of the days
in the schedule. There are also three buttons as
described below.
Print
Pressing this button will start the process of printing
the day highlighted in the schedule. The printing
process will print each meal schedule for each meal
defined for the selected day.
Print All
Pressing this button will start the process of printing
all of the days in the schedule in the same fashion as
defined above for the Print button.
Done
Pressing this button will close the dialog box and
return you to the main menu.
Print Style
Before beginning printing, you will be presented with a
dialog box that will allow you to select the style of
printout that you desire. You have a choice of either
Brief or Detailed. The brief style takes up less room
on the paper and includes only the meals and recipes
planned for each day. The detailed style takes up more
room on the paper and includes all the Schedule
information for each meal.
You will also have the option of cancelling the
printing process if desired.
Create New Schedule
When you select the Schedule | Create main menu option,
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desire to create a new schedule, since this process
will completely remove all schedule information and
start over. All current information will be permanently
lost.
If you answer with a Yes, a dialog box labeled Start
Date and Period will appear. This box will allow you to
configure the new schedule to the exact starting date
desired and the number of days required. The items in
this dialog box are described below.
Start Date
This special input line will bring up a calendar dialog
box that will allow you to easily select the starting
date for the schedule. The starting date is the date
the first day of the schedule is assigned. All other
days in the schedule (if there are any) will follow the
first.
To bring up the calendar, press any key except TAB,
Shift-TAB, and ESC. You may also double-click the left
mouse button or click on the down arrow in the small
box next to the date line.
For a detailed explanation of how to use the calendar
date selector, see the "Calendar" section.
Number of Days
This input line allows you to enter the number of days
that will be in your schedule. You may enter between 1
and 93 days.
Cancel Button
Press this button to quit entering the schedule
options, and cancel the schedule creation process.
Done Button
Press this button when you are done setting up the
schedule options. The new information will be used to
create the new schedule, and the schedule creation
process will begin.
Loading a Schedule
If you select the Schedule | Load main menu option, you
will be presented with a dialog box which will allow
you to enter or select a new schedule file name.
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The items in this dialog box are:
New File Name
This is a special input line that works like either a
standard input line or a pick line. You can type in a
new name. If you enter a name that already exists and
you press the Done Button, it will be loaded. If you
enter a name of a schedule file that does not exist and
press the Done Button, a new one will be created for
you to edit.
If you wish to select from existing schedule files,
then press the down arrow or double click the left
mouse button on the name field or click on the down
arrow in the small box next to the input line. This
will cause a list box to appear with the names of
existing schedule files from which to pick.
Master Chef looks on your disk in the path specified in
the Data Path input line in the Utilities | Configure |
Special Options for the files that appear in the
selection list. These files are known by Master Chef to
be schedule files since they all have a ".SCH"
extension.
Done Button
Pressing this button will cause the selected schedule
file to be loaded or created.
Cancel Button
Pressing this button will exit you from this dialog box
WITHOUT loading or creating a new schedule.
Sorting a Schedule
Selecting this option will cause Master Chef to sort
all the days in the current schedule file. The list you
see on the screen (when using Schedule | Edit or
Schedule | Print main menu options) will always be
sorted by the date, but this is not necessarily so for
the information stored on the disk.
Sorting the information on the disk, in many cases,
will allow Master Chef to find the schedule information
faster when you pick a schedule to view, edit, or
print. It will also speed up the Auto Scheduler and the
Shopping List creation process.
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Sorting is not necessary for Master Chef to operate
properly, but can speed things up a bit. The only trade
off is that you may have a bit of waiting to do while
Master Chef sorts the schedule. How long this will take
depends on how fast your computer is and how many days
you have in the schedule.
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Shopping List
About the Shopping List
The shopping list, when created by Master Chef, is a
complete list of all the ingredient items needed to
make every recipe scheduled.
When Master Chef creates the list, it reads each day of
the schedule, and then reads each recipe scheduled for
each course of each meal of that day. With each recipe,
it reads each ingredient and computes the quantity of
that ingredient needed to make that recipe based on the
number of servings the recipe calls for, and the number
of servings scheduled for that recipe. Each ingredient,
once the quantity is computed, is added to the shopping
list.
Master Chef includes the ability to add other items to
the shopping list that you may need (See the chapter on
Common Items) for that shopping trip. Master Chef also
allows you to edit the list and change the quantities
and store information so that it reflects your specific
needs for that shopping trip.
If you recall from the chapter on the Ingredients, each
ingredient contains information about the store from
which it can be purchased. That information is used
here, in the shopping list, in order to provide the
pricing information needed, and to organize the list
according to the stores from which the items will be
purchased, and the item locations within each store.
When printed, the cost at each store is provided, as
well as the overall shopping cost. Of course, in order
for this to be accurate, you must make sure the store
information for each ingredient item is accurate. The
store information shown in each of the shopping list
items comes directly from the information contained in
the ingredient.
Creating a Shopping List
When you select the List | Create option from the main
menu (or the Create Shopping List button in the
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Schedule | Edit main menu option), you will first be
greeted with a message box that warns you that you will
be creating a new shopping list and will at the same
time be deleting any existing shopping list. If you
answer YES (by pressing the YES button or the RETURN
key) Master Chef will then display a dialog box in
which you can select the starting date and the period
of the existing schedule to be used. If you answer NO
(by pressing the ESC key or the NO button in the dialog
box), you will cancel the process and return to the
main menu without creating a new shopping list. All
existing list items will be unchanged.
The date initially presented in the date input line of
the Start Date and Period dialog box is the first date
in the schedule, and the period initially presented
represents the length of the schedule. If you wish to
create a shopping list from the entire schedule, just
press the Done button, or press the RETURN key. If you
wish to create a shopping list from just a portion of
the schedule, enter the starting date (must be
somewhere within the existing schedule) and the number
of days to use (must be less than or equal than the
number of days in the schedule from the starting date
selected).
For example, if the schedule started on 1/12/93 and was
14 days long, but you wanted to use only 4 days of the
schedule starting with the 19th, just select the 19th
in the date line, and enter 4 in the period line. If
you entered a 14 in the period line, that would result
in dates outside the existing schedule, and so would
not be allowed.
When the date and period are to your liking, press the
Done button. Or, if you decide to cancel the shopping
list creation, just press the Cancel button or press
ESC.
When the Done button is pressed, Master Chef will
automatically remove ALL existing items from the
shopping list and start over by scanning the selected
days in the current schedule, reading all the recipes
scheduled, reading all the ingredients in each of those
recipes and adding them to the shopping list.
Creating a new shopping list may take a bit of time
depending on how many days are in your schedule, how
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many recipes you have in each day's schedule, how many
ingredients you have in each recipe and how fast your
computer and disk drive are. Be patient! It may take a
while, but it is doing a lot more work than you could
do in the same amount of time.
Editing the Shopping List
When you select the List | Edit, option you will be
presented with the Edit Shopping List dialog box that
has a list box and several buttons in it.
All of the shopping list items used in Master Chef are
contained in a file on the disk. When it is necessary
to select an ingredient either for editing, or to put
into a recipe, a dialog box is used. This dialog box
contains a few buttons and a list box. The list box
will show a portion of the list of names of shopping
list items in the file.
The buttons on the right of the dialog box show what
you can do with a highlighted shopping list item. They
are:
Edit
Press this button to change the information for the
highlighted item. You will be taken to the Edit
Shopping list item dialog box to enter the new
information. See the "Editing a Shopping List Item"
section for details.
Add
Press this button to add a new item to the list. You
will be taken to the Edit Shopping list item dialog box
to enter the new information as described for the Edit
button.
Delete
Press this button to delete the item highlighted. You
will be warned before the item is deleted.
Done
Press this button when you are all done working with
the Shopping list items. You will be returned to the
Main Menu.
Save Item to Common List
Press this button to copy the item highlighted in the
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list box to the list of common items. This is a
convenient means to add to the list of common items an
ingredient that shows up in your shopping list. This
item in turn will be available to be added to future
shopping lists, even if it is not in the scheduled
recipes.
Editing a Shopping List Item
When you press either the Edit or Add buttons in the
Shopping List Items dialog box, the Edit Shopping List
Item dialog box will appear.
This dialog box provides you the means to edit all of
the pertinent information about the item.
The input lines that appear depend on where the item in
the shopping list came from. If you added the item
using the Add button in the Shopping List Items dialog
box (described in the previous section), then you will
see input lines for the Name, and the store
information. If the item was put into the list by
Master Chef when it created the shopping list, you will
see an additional two input lines for the Recipe
quantity and measurement. The recipe information is
provided to show what the total quantity of the item is
in the recipes used in the schedule. If you later add
an item to the list, it makes no sense to include these
lines, since the item is not associated with any of the
recipes in the schedule, or may not be an ingredient at
all (such as something from the common list that is not
an ingredient, like Water Softener Salt Pellets).
The Edit Shopping List Item dialog box also includes
three buttons that allow you to select items from the
common list or ingredient list, and to finish editing
the item.
All of these input lines and fields are described
below:
Name
This is an input line where you enter the name of the
Shopping List Item that you wish to add or change to.
Examples:
MILK
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FLOUR
EGGS
Recipe Quantity
This input line is where you can change the quantity of
the recipe measurement needed for this Shopping List
Item. This input line along with the Recipe Measurement
input line only appear for items that are added to the
shopping list by Master Chef when creating the list.
Numbers are entered either in a fractional form (3 1/2)
or a decimal form (3.5) depending on how you have the
system configured using the Utilities | Configure |
Special Options main menu option.
Recipe Measure
This pick line is used to select the desired measure
for the recipe measurement for this Shopping List Item.
The measures available are shown when you press any key
except the TAB, SHIFT-TAB, ESC, and BACKSPACE key or
double-clicking the mouse on it. When you do this, a
pop-up selection list will appear. Select the desired
measurement from the list. This input line along with
the Recipe Quantity input line only appear for items
that are added to the shopping list by Master Chef when
creating the list.
Store Quantity
This input line is where you enter the quantity of the
store measurement needed for this Shopping List Item.
Enter this either in a fractional form (3 1/2) or a
decimal form (3.5) depending on how you have the system
configured using the Utilities | Configure | Special
Options main menu option.
Store Measure
This pick line is used to select the desired measure
for the store measurement for this Shopping List Item.
The measures available are shown when you press any key
except the TAB, SHIFT-TAB, ESC, and BACKSPACE key or
double-clicking the mouse on it. When you do this, a
pop-up selection list will appear. Select the desired
measurement from the list.
Store Name
This pick line is used to select the name of the store
from which you normally purchase this Shopping List
Item. The names available are shown when you press any
key except the TAB, SHIFT-TAB, ESC, and BACKSPACE key
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or double-clicking the mouse on it. When you do this, a
pop-up selection list will appear. Select the desired
store from the list. This will be used when printing
the shopping list, so that all the items purchased from
the same store will be grouped together in the list.
This will make shopping more efficient by showing what
items you need to get from each store.
Examples
Krogers
Safeway
Meijers
Grocery Warehouse
Item Location
This input line is where you enter the location within
the store that you can find this Shopping List Item.
This may be an aisle number, department name, grid
number, or any other way to describe the location of
the item in the store. This will also be used when
printing the shopping list, so that similarly located
items will be grouped together in the list. This will
make shopping more efficient by showing what items you
need to get from each area in the store.
Examples
B1
Meats-Beef
Aisle 5
Store Price
This input line is where you can enter the price of
this Shopping List Item. The price entered will be the
cost of the quantity shown in the Store Measure.
For example, if the store measure is 1 Box Unit, and
one box of this Shopping List Item costs $2.45, then
you would enter 2.45.
The following buttons are also available:
Common Items
Pressing this button will bring up the Common Item
selection list, allowing you to select one of the
common items and copy the information from it into this
shopping list item.
Ingredients
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Pressing this button will bring up the Ingredients
selection list, allowing you to select one of the
ingredient items and copy the information from it into
this shopping list item.
Done Button
Press this button when you are done editing this item.
The new information will be saved in place of the old,
and you will be returned to the selection list.
Cancel Button
Press this button to go back to the selection list
WITHOUT keeping the changes made to the item.
Printing the List
When you select the List | Print option from the main
menu, you will first be presented with a dialog box
with three buttons in it. These buttons allow you to
select the type of shopping list to print, either a
brief or a detailed list. You will also have a Cancel
button to allow you to cancel the print option and go
back to the main menu.
Print Style
The two styles of list printouts are:
Brief Style
The brief style takes up less room on the paper and
includes only the names of each shopping list item. It
is designed to just list all of the items needed.
Detailed Style
The detailed style takes up more room on the paper and
includes all of the Shopping List information for each
item.
Once you select the desired style to print, printing
will begin. A dialog box showing the printing progress
will appear while the list is being printed.
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Common Items
What is a Common Item?
Common Items are simply items that you repeatedly need
to remember to purchase when you go shopping, but may
or may not show up in the shopping list. By keeping
frequently purchased items in a Common List, you can
easily add them to the shopping list when you edit it,
rather than having to reenter the information if it
doesn't happen to show up in the automatic shopping
list creation.
A common item can be anything you want, but would
normally be something that is not in the ingredient
file. Common Items would be things like plastic bags,
or dishwasher detergent. Such items don't need to be
included in the ingredient file since people don't
normally cook with them, but need to be replaced
periodically when going shopping.
Common items can also be ingredient items that have
been added from a shopping list. Why would you want to
have an item in the ingredient list and in the common
item list? The common items allow you to have different
store information. This would be handy if you wanted to
have an alternative source for a particular item that
could be placed easily into the shopping list when
desired.
Examples:
Plastic Bags
Dishwasher Detergent
Shampoo
Selecting Common items
All of the common items used in Master Chef are
contained in a file on the disk. When it is necessary
to select an ingredient either for editing, or to put
into a recipe, a dialog box is used. This dialog box
contains a few buttons and a list box. The list box
will show a portion of the list of names of common
items in the file.
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The buttons on the right of the dialog box show what
you can do with a highlighted common item. The buttons
that appear depend on what you are doing at the time.
If you are editing a shopping list item, and press the
Common Item button, then there will only be two buttons
available:
Select
This button allows you to select the highlighted common
item to be copied to the shopping list item.
Cancel
This button allows you to exit from the selection
dialog box without selecting a common item, and without
changing the shopping list item before opening the
box.
If you select the List | Common Items option from the
main menu, then the following buttons will appear:
Edit
Press this button when you are ready to change the
information for the highlighted item. You will be taken
to the Edit Common item dialog box to enter the new
information. See the "Editing Common Item" section
below for details on how to edit a common item.
Add
Press this button when you are ready to add a new item
to the list. You will be taken to the Edit Common item
dialog box to enter the new information as described
for the Edit button.
Delete
Press this button when you are ready to delete the item
highlighted. You will be warned before the item is
deleted.
Done
Press this button when you are all done working with
the Common items. You will be returned to the Main
Menu.
Editing a Common Item
The Edit Common item dialog box allows you to enter the
important information needed for each common item. It
is filled mostly with input lines, and has two buttons.
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The information in each common item is in two different
sections. The first is the name of the common item.
Second is the store information. The store information
shows not only the measurement unit and size that the
common item would be found in the store, but
information about where it can be found, and for how
much.
The different input lines and buttons are described
below:
Name
This is an input line where you enter the name of the
item
Examples:
Contact Lens Cleaner
Plastic Bags
Dishwasher Detergent
Shampoo
Store Quantity
This input line is where you enter the quantity of the
store measurement needed for this ingredient.
Enter this either in a fractional form (3 1/2) or a
decimal form (3.5) depending on how you have the system
configured using the Utilities | Configure | Special
Options main menu option.
Store Measure
This pick line is used to select the desired measure
for the store measurement for this common item. The
measures available are shown when you press any key
except the TAB, SHIFT-TAB, ESC, and BACKSPACE key or
double-clicking the mouse on it. When you do this, a
pop-up selection list will appear. From it, select the
needed measurement.
Store Name
This pick line is used to select the name of the store
from which you normally purchase this common item. The
names available are shown when you press any key except
the TAB, SHIFT-TAB, ESC, and BACKSPACE key or double-
clicking the mouse on it. When you do this, a pop-up
selection list will appear. Select the desired store
from the list. This will be used when printing the
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shopping list, so that all the items purchased from the
same store will be grouped together in the list. This
will make shopping more efficient by showing what items
you need to get from each store.
Examples
Krogers
Safeway
Meijers
Grocery Warehouse
Location
This input line is where you enter the location within
the store that you can find this common item. This may
be an aisle number, department name, grid number, or
any other way to describe the location of the item in
the store.
This will be used when producing the shopping list, so
that similarly located items will be grouped together
in the list. This will make shopping more efficient by
showing what items you need to get from each area in
the store.
Examples
B1
Meats-Beef
Aisle 5
Store Price
This input line is where you can enter the price of
this common item. The price entered will be the cost of
the quantity shown in the Store Measure.
For example, if the store measure is 1 Box Unit, and
one box of this common item costs $2.45, then you would
enter 2.45. (Do not enter the $ symbol.)
Available Buttons:
Done
Press this button when you are done editing this item.
The new information will be saved in place of the old,
and you will be returned to the selection list.
Cancel
Press this button if you decide that the changes you
have made to the common item should not be saved. You
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will be returned to the common item selection dialog
box, with all changes lost.
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Ingredients
Selecting Ingredients
All of the ingredients used in Master Chef are
contained in a file on the disk. When it is necessary
to select an ingredient either for editing, or to put
into a recipe, a dialog box is used. This dialog box
contains a few buttons and a list box. The list box
will show a portion of the list of names of ingredients
in the file.
The buttons on the right of the dialog box show what
you can do with a highlighted ingredient. The following
is a description of what each of the buttons do:
Select
This button shows up only if you are working in the
ingredients section of a Recipe. This button allows you
to select the highlighted ingredient to be included in
the recipe ingredients list.
Find
This button allows you to search for the first
ingredient that matches a portion of text that you
enter. A text entry dialog box will open for you to
enter the text you wish to search for. When you have
entered the text, press the RETURN key or press the
Done button. If the text is found, the first ingredient
that has that text will be highlighted.
Find Next
This button allows you to find the next occurrence of
the text you entered with the Find button.
Edit
Press this button when you are ready to change the
information for the highlighted item. You will be taken
to the Edit Ingredient dialog box to enter the new
information.
Convert
Press this button if you wish to convert the
highlighted item into a recipe.
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When an ingredient is converted into a recipe, a blank
recipe is created with the name of the recipe being the
same as the ingredient name. This new recipe will have
the selected ingredient as it's only ingredient. Once
an ingredient is converted to a recipe, it will be
inserted into the current recipe file, but you will
still need to go to the Recipes | Edit option and fill
in other details for the recipe, like the meals and
dishes it fits in, the category, and the serving
information. This is handy since there may be food
items that you would want to treat like recipes, and
have them show up in the meal schedule and shopping
list.
(Fast foods fit into this category, ie. Double
Cheeseburgers for example.)
New
Press this button when you are ready to add a new item
to the list. You will be taken to the Edit Ingredient
dialog box to enter the new information.
Delete
Press this button when you wish to delete the item
highlighted. You will be asked to verify by a message
box before the item is deleted.
Done
Press this button when you are all done working with
the Ingredients. You will be returned to the Main Menu.
Editing an Ingredient
The Edit Ingredient dialog box allows you to enter the
important information needed for each ingredient. It is
filled mostly with input lines, and has two buttons.
The information in each ingredient is in four different
sections. The first is the name of the ingredient.
Second is the nutrient information pertaining to the
ingredient, from (Protein to Linoleic Acid). The third
is recipe measurement information, where the basic unit
of measurement used in recipes for the ingredient is
kept. Finally, there is the store information. The
store information shows not only the measurement unit
and size that the ingredient would be found in the
store, but information about where it can be found, and
for how much.
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How Recipe and Store Measurements Relate:
These two field combinations are used to form an
equivalency to let Master Chef know how to create the
shopping list, based on the recipes scheduled in the
meal schedule. This relationship is necessary since
many times ingredients are sold with different
measurement types than are used for making recipes.
For example, most recipes call for CUPS of flour, but
most of us buy BAGS of flour measured in POUNDS. The
relationship between the recipe measure (CUPS Dry
Volume) and the store measure (LBS Weight) allows
Master Chef to accurately compute how much of an item
you actually need to buy, IN THE MEASUREMENT USED BY
THE STORE. In the case of white flour, there is about 4
CUPS Dry Volume in 1 LB Weight.
This ability to define relationships between recipe
measurements and store measurements allows you to
configure Master Chef to your way of shopping for
things. Take the flour example. If you normally buy
your flour in 5 LB bags, you could have the store
measurement be in BAGS. You would enter your recipe
measurement in CUPS Dry Volume ( since Dry Volume is
the measurement type used in recipes). In this case,
you would enter 20 CUPS Dry Volume as the complete
recipe measurement. Then you would select 1 BAG Unit as
the store measurement. Now, when Master Chef computes
the amount of flour needed for your scheduled recipes,
it can compute how many bags of flour you need to
purchase. If you needed 20 or less cups of flour,
Master Chef would determine that you need to purchase 1
bag of flour. If it was greater than 20 and less than
or equal to 40, you would need 2 bags, etc.
Remember, the nutrient quantities entered for an
ingredient need to reflect the content for the recipe
quantity specified. In the above example, the nutrient
quantities entered would need to be for 20 Cups.
Below is a description of the various input lines and
buttons.
Ingredient Name
This is an input line where you enter the name of the
Ingredient.
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Examples:
MILK
FLOUR
EGGS
Nutrient Information
These input lines allows you to enter the different
nutrient item content for the quantity and measure
specified in the Recipe Measure.
For example, suppose this ingredient was Flour, and the
recipe measure was 1 Cup Dry Volume. You would enter in
the input line the number of grams (or milligrams, IU,
etc) of that item contained in that quantity of flour.
NOTE:
It is VERY important that you enter the
nutrient quantity for the quantity specified
in the Recipe Measurement! Sometimes you may
need to do some arithmetic to come up with
the correct number since the content figure
you may get from a book may be for some other
amount. Check this!
The nutrients tracked for each ingredient are:
Calories, Protein, Fat, Carbohydrates, Sodium,
Potassium, Cholesterol, Fiber, Calcium, Iron, Niacin,
Thiamin, Riboflavin, Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Phosphorus,
Ash, Saturated Fatty Acids, Oleic Acid, and Linoleic
Acid.
Recipe Quantity
This input line is where you enter the quantity of the
recipe measurement needed for this ingredient. Enter
this either in a fractional form (3 1/2) or a decimal
form (3.5) depending on how you have the system
configured using the Utilities | Configure | Special
Options main menu option.
Recipe Measure
This pick line is used to select the desired measure
for the recipe measurement for this ingredient. The
measures available are shown when you press any key
except the TAB, SHIFT-TAB, ESC, and BACKSPACE key, as
well as double-clicking on the line with the left mouse
button. When you do this, a pop-up selection list will
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appear. From it, select the needed measurement.
Store Quantity
This input line is where you enter the quantity of the
store measurement needed for this ingredient. Enter
this either in a fractional form (3 1/2) or a decimal
form (3.5) depending on how you have the system
configured using the Utilities | Configure | Special
Options main menu option.
Store Measure
This pick line is used to select the desired measure
for the store measurement for this ingredient. The
measures available are shown when you press any key
except the TAB, SHIFT-TAB, ESC, and BACKSPACE key. When
you do this, a pop-up selection list will appear. From
it, select the needed measurement.
Remember...
It is very important to enter a store
quantity and measurement that EQUALS the
recipe quantity and measurement. See the
section above called "How Recipe and Store
Measurements Relate."
Store Name
This pick line is used to select the name of the store
from which you normally purchase this ingredient. The
names available are shown when you press any key except
the TAB, SHIFT-TAB, ESC, and BACKSPACE key or double-
clicking the mouse on it. When you do this, a pop-up
selection list will appear. Select the desired store
from the list. This will be used when printing the
shopping list, so that all the items purchased from the
same store will be grouped together in the list. This
will make shopping more efficient by showing what items
you need to get from each store.
Examples
Krogers
Safeway
Meijers
Grocery Warehouse
Location
This input line is where you enter the location within
the store that you can find this ingredient. This may
be an aisle number, department name, grid number, or
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any other way to describe the location of the item in
the store. This will be used when producing the
shopping list, so that similarly located items will be
grouped together in the list. This will make shopping
more efficient by showing what items you need to get
from each area in the store.
Examples
B1
Meats-Beef
Aisle 5
Note:
Many stores have maps of their stores showing
the location of the major items in the store.
Look for one of these, or ask for on at the
information or managers office. It will
assist you greatly in entering the locations
of items.
Store Price
This input line is where you can enter the price of
this ingredient. The price entered will be the cost of
the quantity shown in the Store Measure. For example,
if the store measure is 1 Box Unit, and one box of this
ingredient costs $2.45, then you would enter 2.45. (Do
not enter the $ symbol.)
Available Buttons
Done
Press this button when you are done editing this item.
The new information will be saved in place of the old,
and you will be returned to the selection list.
Cancel
Press this button if you decide that the changes you
have made to the ingredient should not be saved. You
will be returned to the ingredient selection dialog
box, with all changes lost.
Scale
Press this button if you wish to scale the ingredient
to a new recipe measurement. When you do this, a dialog
box will appear and allow you to enter a new recipe
measurement.
The difference between doing this and just entering a
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new recipe measurement in the ingredient dialog box is
that the normal recipe measurement line is used to just
enter a measurement which represents the size of the
ingredient, but using the Scale button allows you to
enter a new recipe measurement which is then used to
automatically recompute all the numbers in the
ingredient. This is done by comparing the new recipe
measurement to the existing recipe measurement and
computing a scale factor, which is then multiplied by
all the nutrient quantities to determine what they
should be at the new recipe measurement size.
For example, suppose you have an ingredient which has a
recipe measurement of 1 cup liq vol, and you have
already determined what the nutritional content of that
ingredient is for 1 CUP. Now if you wish to change the
recipe measurement to 1 OZ LIQ VOL, you can't just
enter that into the recipe measurement line since the
nutrient values are set for 1 CUP. If you did just
enter a new recipe measurement, you would have to
compute what the new nutrient quantities would be for
that measurement. Master Chef does this for you when
you use the Scale button. It computes the new values
for you. It's not too hard to see in this example that
the new nutrient values would be 1/8 of their old ones
if you went from 1 cup to 1 oz.
New Recipe Measurement
When you press the Scale button, a dialog box comes up
with the following input lines and button:
Recipe Quantity
This input line is where you enter the quantity of the
new recipe measurement needed for this ingredient. This
new quantity will be used to scale all the numbers in
this ingredient. Enter this either in a fractional form
(3 1/2) or a decimal form (3.5) depending on how you
have the system configured using the Utilities |
Configure | Special Options main menu option.
Recipe Measure
This pick line is used to select the desired measure
for the new recipe measurement for this ingredient. The
measures available are shown when you press any key
except the TAB, SHIFT-TAB, ESC, and BACKSPACE key, or
when you double-click the left mouse button on this
line. When you do this, a pop-up selection list will
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appear. Select the needed measurement from the list.
Done
Press this button when you are done entering the new
measurement. The new information will be used to
compute the scaling factor for the ingredient numbers
and will be put into the Recipe Measurement in the
ingredient.
Cancel
Press this button if you decide you do not wish to
scale the ingredient. You will be returned to the
ingredient edit box with the information unchanged from
when you pushed the scale button.
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Categories
All of the categories used in Master Chef are contained
in a file on the disk. When it is necessary to select a
category either for editing, or to put into a recipe, a
dialog box is used. This dialog box contains a few
buttons and a list box. The list box will show a
portion of the list of names of categories in the file.
The buttons on the right of the dialog box show what
you can do with a highlighted common item. The buttons
that appear depend on what you are doing at the time.
If you are editing recipes, then there will only be two
buttons available:
Select
This button shows up only if you are working in the
categories section of a Recipe, or the recipe filter.
This button allows you to select the highlighted
category to be included in the recipe categories list.
Cancel
This button allows you to exit from the selection
dialog box without selecting a category, and without
changing what was in the recipe Category field before
opening the box.
If you select the Misc | Category option from the main
menu, then the following buttons will appear:
Edit
Press this button when you are ready to change the
information for the highlighted item. You will be taken
to the Edit Category dialog box to enter the new
information. When editing a category, another dialog
box will open with an input line available to enter the
name of the Category that you wish to add or change.
Examples:
Soups and Stews
Candies
Meat Dishes
Foreign Dishes
Add
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Press this button when you are ready to add a new item
to the list. You will be taken to the category item
dialog box to enter the new information as described
for the Edit button.
Delete
Press this button when you are ready to delete the item
highlighted. You will be warned before the item is
deleted.
Done
Press this button when you are all done working with
the Categories. You will be returned to the Main Menu.
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Courses
All of the courses used in Master Chef are contained in
a file on the disk. When it is necessary to select a
course either for editing, or to put into a recipe, a
dialog box is used. This dialog box contains a few
buttons and a list box. The list box will show a
portion of the list of names of courses in the file.
The buttons on the right of the dialog box show what
you can do with a highlighted course. The buttons that
appear depend on what you are doing at the time. If you
are editing recipes, then there will only be two
buttons available:
Select
This button shows up if you are working in the courses
section of a Recipe or in the meal plan, meal schedule,
or recipe filter. This button allows you to select the
highlighted course to be included in the recipe
courses.
Cancel
This button allows you to exit from the selection
dialog box without selecting a course, and without
changing what was in the recipe Course field before
opening the box.
If you select the Misc | Course option from the main
menu, then the following buttons will appear:
Edit
Press this button when you are ready to change the
information for the highlighted item. You will be taken
to the Edit Course dialog box to enter the new
information.
When editing a course, another dialog box will open
with an input line available to enter the name of the
Course that you wish to add or change.
Examples:
Main Dish
Side Dish
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Dessert
Add
Press this button when you are ready to add a new item
to the list. You will be taken to the course item
dialog box to enter the new information as described
for the Edit button.
Delete
Press this button when you are ready to delete the item
highlighted. You will be warned before the item is
deleted.
Done
Press this button when you are all done working with
the courses. You will be returned to the Main Menu.
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Meals
All of the meals used in Master Chef are contained in a
file on the disk. When it is necessary to select a meal
either for editing, or to put into a recipe, a dialog
box is used. This dialog box contains a few buttons and
a list box. The list box will show a portion of the
list of names of meals in the file.
The buttons on the right of the dialog box show what
you can do with a highlighted meal. The buttons that
appear depend on what you are doing at the time. If you
are editing recipes, then there will only be two
buttons available:
Select
This button shows up if you are working in the meals
section of a Recipe, or in the meal plan or meal
schedule, or recipe filter. This button allows you to
select the highlighted meal to be included in the
recipe meals.
Cancel
This button allows you to exit from the selection
dialog box without selecting a meal, and without
changing what was in the recipe Meal field before
opening the box.
If you select the Misc | Meal option from the main
menu, then the following buttons will appear:
Edit
Press this button when you are ready to change the
information for the highlighted item. You will be taken
to the Edit Meal dialog box to enter the new
information.
When editing a meal, another dialog box will open with
an input line available to enter the name of the Meal
that you wish to add or change.
Examples:
Breakfast
Supper
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Snack
Add
Press this button when you are ready to add a new item
to the list. You will be taken to the meal item dialog
box to enter the new information as described for the
Edit button.
Delete
Press this button when you are ready to delete the item
highlighted. You will be warned before the item is
deleted.
Done
Press this button when you are all done working with
the meals. You will be returned to the Main Menu.
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Food Exchanges
About Food Exchanges
Food Exchanges are a system of measurements devised to
help plan balanced diets. Each Food Exchange is a
measurement of calories and nutrient values which
include Protein, Fat, and Carbohydrates. Calories are
computed (that's why you don't need to enter them in
the Exchange dialog box) from the Protein, Fat, and
Carbohydrate numbers.
All foods are generally divided into a number of
Exchange groups, typically defined as:
Bread
Milk
Meat (low fat)
Meat (medium fat)
Meat (high fat)
Fruit
Vegetable
Fat
Free
Any food defined to be in a particular Exchange group
will contain similar amounts of Protein, Fat, and
Carbohydrates.
The foods which fit into a particular Food Exchange may
not always be the type of food described by the name.
For example, foods that are defined to be in the Bread
exchange are not always breads. They could be a
tortilla, cereal, peas, etc.
In order to get an equivalent nutritional value between
foods in any particular Exchange group, the serving
size is adjusted. For example, one slice of white
bread has the same Protein, Fat, and Carbohydrate
content (and thus the same calorie content) as one
tortilla, one-half cup of peas, or one cup of puffed
cereal. Because of this, they are interchangeable on a
menu. That's why they are called "Exchanges."
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Master Chef allows you to define the names of each of
the Exchanges, up to 10 of them. Each Exchange defined
in Master Chef needs to have the content of Protein,
Fat, and Carbohydrates identified. These values are
used throughout Master Chef for computing nutrient
content of Recipes and Meal Schedules.
Editing Food Exchanges
Master Chef comes with a predefined list of Exchanges,
based on customary usages in a variety of dietary
manuals. But, because there are many different names
for the same basic group of Food Exchanges, Master Chef
allows you to customize the Exchange names to your
liking, and to make the arrangement of them in the list
changeable for your needs.
The order that you see them listed in the Food Exchange
Info dialog box is the order that you will see them
elsewhere in Master Chef. The quantities that are
defined for Protein, Fat, and Carbohydrates here are
used throughout the rest of Master Chef as well to
compute the nutritional value based on exchanges.
Below are descriptions of the four items that you can
edit for each of the exchanges:
Name
This is an input line where you can enter the name of
the Food Exchange that you wish to define. You have a
maximum of 10 characters in which to define the
exchange name.
Examples:
Milk
Vegetable
Meat [LF]
Protein
This is an input line where you can enter the protein
content defined for the exchange. Enter this either in
a fractional form (3 1/2) or a decimal form (3.5)
depending on how you have the system configured using
the Utilities | Configure | Special Options main menu
option.
Fat
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This is an input line where you can enter the Fat
content defined for this exchange. Enter this either in
a fractional form (3 1/2) or a decimal form (3.5)
depending on how you have the system configured using
the Utilities | Configure | Special Options main menu
option.
Carbohydrate
This is an input line where you can enter the
Carbohydrate content defined for this exchange. Enter
this either in a fractional form (3 1/2) or a decimal
form (3.5) depending on how you have the system
configured using the Utilities | Configure | Special
Options main menu option.
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Measurement Types
About Measurement types
Why are types necessary? To answer this, just think
about the ounce. You can have liquid ounces, dry
ounces, and ounces of weight. Each means something
different with the different types of items it is
measuring. The measurement type is how Master Chef
keeps these different but similarly-named measurements
straight. A measurement type is always associated with
a measurement unit in Master Chef.
Examples:
Liq Vol
Dry Vol
Weight
Unit
All of the measurement types used in Master Chef are
contained in a file on the disk. When it is necessary
to select a measurement type, a dialog box is used.
This dialog box contains a few buttons and a list box.
The list box will show a portion of the list of names
of measurement types in the file.
The buttons on the right of the dialog box show what
things you can do with a highlighted measurement type.
They are:
Select
This button appears if you are selecting a measurement
type for a measurement (in the Measurement Unit Edit
dialog box). This button allows you to select the
highlighted measurement type to be used.
Cancel
This button allows you to exit from the selection
dialog box without selecting a measurement type.
If you select the Misc | Measurement Type option from
the main menu, then the following buttons will appear:
Edit
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Press this button when you are ready to change the
information for the highlighted item. You will be taken
to the Edit Measurement type dialog box to enter the
new information.
When editing a Measurement type, another dialog box
will open with an input line available to enter the
name of the Measurement type that you wish to add or
change.
Examples:
Liq Vol
Dry Vol
Weight
Unit
NOTE:
Measurement types are the fundamental unit of
the measurement system used in Master Chef.
Changing or deleting any measurement type
could cause some confusion for you if you
later edit an ingredient, shopping list item,
or serving size, since it will not be
available.
Add
Press this button when you are ready to add a new item
to the list. You will be taken to the measurement type
dialog box to enter the new information as described
for the Edit button.
Delete
Press this button when you are ready to delete the item
highlighted. You will be warned before the item is
deleted.
Done
Press this button when you are all done working with
the measurement types. You will be returned to the Main
Menu.
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Measurement Units
Selecting a Measurement Unit
Why are types necessary? Just think about the ounce.
You can have liquid ounces, dry ounces, and ounces of
weight. Each means a different thing with the different
type of item it is measuring. The measurement type is
how Master Chef keeps these different but
similarly-named measurements straight. A measurement
type is always associated with a measurement in Master
Chef.
All of the measurement units used in Master Chef are
contained in a file on the disk. When it is necessary
to select a measurement type, a dialog box is used.
This dialog box contains a few buttons and a list box.
The list box will show a portion of the list of names
of measurement units in the file.
The buttons on the right of the dialog box show what
you can do with a highlighted measurement unit.
Select
This button shows up only if you are selecting a
measurement unit for a measurement (in the Measurement
Unit Edit dialog box). This button allows you to select
the highlighted measurement unit to be used.
Cancel
This button allows you to exit from the selection
dialog box without selecting a measurement unit.
If you select the Misc | Measurement Unit option from
the main menu, then the following buttons will appear:
Edit
Press this button when you are ready to change the
information for the highlighted item. You will be taken
to the Edit Measurement Unit dialog box to enter the
new information.
When editing a measurement unit, another dialog box
will open with an input line available to enter the
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name of the Measurement unit that you wish to add or
change.
Add
Press this button when you are ready to add a new item
to the list. You will be taken to the measurement unit
dialog box to enter the new information as described
for the Edit button.
Delete
Press this button when you are ready to delete the item
highlighted. You will be warned before the item is
deleted.
Done
Press this button when you are all done working with
the measurement units. You will be returned to the Main
Menu.
Editing a Measurement Unit
NOTE: Measurement units are a fundamental
unit of the measurement system used in Master
Chef. Changing or deleting any measurement
unit could cause some confusion for you if
you later edit an ingredient, shopping list
item, or serving size, since the measurement
unit will not be available.
Name
This is an input line where you enter the name of the
measurement unit.
Examples:
CUP
QUART
POUND
Measurement Type
This pick line is used to select the measurement type
to be associated with this measurement unit. The types
available are shown when you press any key except the
TAB, SHIFT-TAB, ESC, and BACKSPACE key. When you do
this, a pop-up selection list will appear. See the
measurement type chapter for more information.
Include in Table Of Equivalents?
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This radio button allows you to indicate to Master Chef
whether or not this measurement is to be included in
the table of equivalents. This is only done if it will
be equivalent to some other measurement unit. See the
chapter on Equivalents to get a better understanding on
how this works.
There are two available options with this radio button.
They are:
Do NOT Include in Table
If you mark this radio button, this item will NOT
be included in the table of equivalents.
Include in Table
If you mark this radio button, this item will
automatically be included in the table of
equivalents.
Note:
As a result of making changes to the
Measurement Units, or marking a new
measurement unit for inclusion in the
equivalency table, new additions to the table
will be made. You will need to edit the
equivalency table (using the Misc |
Measurement | Equivalents option) in order
to make sure these new equivalents have the
proper relationships.
The new equivalencies added will have '9999' as
quantities. These are the ones you will need to edit.
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Equivalencies
About Conversions and Equivalencies
Conversions are necessary since many times it is
necessary to convert measurements to different units.
For example, in scaling recipes, it is necessary to
know how many of one measurement will fit in another
measurement. Imagine scaling a recipe up from 5
servings to 100 servings. If the original recipe called
for 2 tsp of vinegar, the new number of servings would
call for 200 tsp! This is somewhat difficult to measure
when preparing the recipe. It would be nice to reduce
that measurement to something that had a smaller
quantity. This is where the Equivalencies come into
play. If they are set up properly, Master Chef will be
able to convert 200 tsp to .96 Quart, or more
practically, rounded to 1 quart.
How Master Chef Makes Conversions
Master Chef keeps a list of all of the relationships
between different measurements necessary to make
conversions. This list is called the equivalency list,
or equivalency table. To make an entry in the table,
there needs to be at least two measurement units which
have the same measurement type. For instance, TBSP Dry
Vol, and TSP Dry Vol. These two have the same
measurement type (Dry Vol) and thus can have some
relationship that can be defined by a number. In this
case, the number is 3, and the entry in the equivalency
table would show 3 TSP Dry Vol equal to 1 TBSP Dry Vol.
Now, in order to provide the necessary equal but
opposite conversion capability (From TBSP to TSP),
there needs to be an opposite entry in the table. So
you would see an item in the table that says 1 TBSP Dry
Vol. is equal to 3 TSP Dry Vol. This is a duplication
of information in the table, but it speeds up the
conversion process.
As described above, each equivalency table entry
consists of two measurement entries, the Base Measure
and the Equivalent Measure. These equivalencies are
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created by Master Chef when new Measurement Units are
added. Master Chef automatically adds the equivalents
in pairs, to provide both entries required as described
above. You need to make the appropriate changes to the
quantities. The following section describes how to make
those changes.
Selecting Equivalencies
When you select the Misc | Measurement | Equivalents
option, the Equivalents dialog box will appear with the
list of equivalents showing in a standard list box.
This list box allows you to select any equivalency of
interest that you may wish to edit, or to browse
through the list.
Also available are two buttons. They are:
Edit
This button allows you to change the quantities for the
two measurements in the equivalency. You will be taken
to the Edit Equivalent dialog box to enter the new
data. See below for details on how to edit an
equivalency.
Done
Press this button when you are all done working with
the Equivalents.
Editing an Equivalency
Master Chef comes with the equivalency table completely
configured for use with the recipes and ingredients
that are included, and SHOULD NOT NEED TO BE CHANGED
FOR NORMAL USE. The ability to make changes exists,
however, for those with special needs and who wish to
customize Master Chef to those needs.
PLEASE NOTE:
If you are not sure of what you are doing,
you could adversely affect the accuracy of
the program in making these changes. That
would affect the accuracy of many other
related calculations, such as the nutritional
information, proper recipe scaling, meal
scheduling, shopping lists, etc.
The edit dialog box shows both the base
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quantity/measurement and the equivalent
quantity/measurement. The measurement type and unit are
fixed but the quantities need to be defined. Please
note that when you edit the first of the pair of
equivalency entries in the table, the other one of the
pair is automatically completed for you. With the
example above, there would be a pair of entries in the
table one showing TBSP Dry Vol on the left side and TSP
Dry Vol on the right side. There would also be the
companion entry with TSP Dry Vol on the left side and
the TBSP Dry Vol on the right side. When you edit one
of the entries in this pair (say the one with 9999 TBSP
Dry Vol = 9999 TSP Dry Vol), the other one would
automatically be completed with the numbers you have
entered.
Note:
When new equivalents are added to the table
as a result of adding a new measurement unit
using the Misc | Measurement | Units menu
option, the Base and Equivalent quantities
will be 9999 to mark those that need to be
edited.
Below is an explanation of the items in the dialog box.
Base Quantity
This input line is where you enter the base quantity of
the measurement needed for this Equivalent. This is the
number portion of the base measurement of this item.
Enter this either in a fractional form (3 1/2) or a
decimal form (3.5) depending on how you have the system
configured using the Utilities | Configure | Special
Options main menu option.
Note:
When new equivalents are added to the table
as a result of adding a new measurement unit
using the Misc | Measurement | Units menu
option, the Base quantity will be 9999 to
mark those that need to be edited.
Base Measure
The base measure appears to the right of the quantity,
and shows the base measurement for this Equivalency.
Again, this is already defined and does not need to be
edited.
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Equivalent Quantity
This input line is where you enter the quantity of the
equivalent measurement needed for this Equivalent. This
is the number portion of the store measurement of this
item. Enter this either in a fractional form (3 1/2) or
a decimal form (3.5) depending on how you have the
system configured using the Utilities | Configure |
Special Options main menu option.
Note:
When new equivalents are added to the table
as a result of adding a new measurement unit
using the Misc | Measurement | Units menu
option, the equivalent quantity will be 9999
to mark those that need to be edited.
Equivalent Measure
The equivalent measure appears to the right of the
quantity, and shows the equivalent measurement for this
Equivalency. Again, this is already defined and does
not need to be edited.
The two buttons in the dialog box are the standard Done
and Cancel Buttons which do the following:
Done
Press this button when you are done editing this item.
The new information will be saved in place of the old,
and you will be returned to the selection list.
Cancel
Press this button when you are done editing this item,
but you do not wish to keep the changes you have made
to this item. The new information will NOT be saved in
place of the old, and you will be returned to the
selection list.
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Measurement Calculator
About the Measurement Calculator
The measurement calculator is a convenient means of
looking up the measurements that would be equivalent to
a measurement in question. This calculator uses the
Master Chef equivalency table.
This calculator uses a simple dialog box with 5 basic
parts in it. They are described below.
Base Quantity
This input line is where you enter the base quantity of
the measurement that you wish to have converted to
other measurements. This represents the number portion
of the base measurement. Enter this either in a
fractional form (3 1/2) or a decimal form (3.5)
depending on how you have the system configured using
the Utilities | Configure | Special Options main menu
option.
Base Measure
This pick line is used to select the desired measure
for the base measurement. The measures available are
the shown when you press any key except the TAB,
SHIFT-TAB, ESC, and BACKSPACE key or double-click the
mouse on it. When you do this, a pop-up selection list
will appear. Select the one desired from the list.
Equivalent Measurements
These measurements are those that are equivalent to the
quantity and measurement shown in the Base Qty and
Measurement lines above. These measurements appear
after entering the base quantity and measurement, and
pressing the Calc button.
If you have entered a small measurement as the base
measure, you may see some measurements that have 0
(zero) as the quantity. This is because these
measurements would be so small as to be unmeasurable in
practical terms.
For example, if you entered 1 pinch dry vol as the base
measure, you would see 0 cups in the list since in
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reality it would be 1/2400 of a cup, which is too small
to display (or to be practical) here.
You can see the reverse of this by entering a large
measurement (like 1 Gallon) as the base measure, and
you will see the large quantities of the small
measurements that are equivalent. (1 Gallon = 46080
Drops).
Calc Button
Press this button to display the list of measurements
which are equivalent to the measurement you displayed
in the base quantity and measure.
Done Button
Press this button when you are done using the
measurement calculator.
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Special Options
Selecting the Utilities | Configure | Special Options
main menu option will enable you to configure some
items that affect the way Master Chef handles certain
pieces of information throughout the program. The
Special Options dialog box that appears has the
following items in it:
Data Path
This combination input line/pick line will allow you to
define the data path to be used by Master Chef to know
where to look on your disk for the data it uses.
You can open up the Select Path box which will allow
you to select the desired path from the existing ones
by pressing the down arrow key, double-clicking on the
line with the left mouse button or clicking on the down
arrow in the small box to the right of the input line.
NOTE:
Changes made to the data path will not take
effect until the next time you run Master
Chef.
Reduce Recipe Measurements
This is a radio button that allows you to tell Master
Chef whether or not to reduce large measurement
quantities computed when scaling recipes. When the
recipes are scaled, the quantities of each individual
ingredient change and sometimes the quantities may get
quite large. You may or may not want the quantity (and
measurement unit) to be reduced to one of a smaller
size. You can indicate that with this radio button as
described below.
Reduce Recipe Measurements - No
Selecting this radio button will keep Master Chef
from automatically trying to reduce large
measurement quantities in the Recipe ingredients
to measurements with smaller quantities when
scaling a recipe.
For example, if your recipe had computed a total
of 128 ounces of Milk for the recipe ingredient
while scaling it, it would leave it at that, and
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NOT convert it to 1 gallon.
Reduce Recipe Measurements - Yes
Selecting this radio button will allow Master Chef
to automatically reduce large measurement
quantities in Recipe ingredients to measurements
with smaller quantities.
For example, if the item was milk and had computed
a total quantity of 128 ounces when scaling the
recipe, it would be converted to 1 gallon.
Reduce Shopping List Measurements
This is a radio button that allows you to tell Master
Chef whether or not to reduce large measurement
quantities in shopping list items. When the shopping
list is created, the quantities of various items in the
list may get quite large when they are added up. You
may or may not want the quantity (and measurement unit)
to be reduced to one of a smaller size. You can
indicate that with this radio button as described
below.
Reduce Shopping List Measurements - No
Selecting this radio button will keep Master Chef
from automatically trying to reduce large
measurement quantities in Shopping List items to
measurements with smaller quantities.
For example, if your shopping list had computed a
total of 128 ounces of Milk for all the recipes,
it would leave it at that, and NOT convert it to 1
gallon.
Reduce Shopping List Measurements - Yes
Selecting this radio button will allow Master Chef
to automatically reduce large measurements
quantities in Shopping List items to measurements
with smaller quantities.
For example, if your shopping list had computed a
total of 128 ounces of Milk for all the recipes,
it would convert it to 1 gallon.
Filter Selections
When the recipe selection dialog box opens to allow you
to select a recipe for a meal schedule, Master Chef can
list only the recipes that are defined to fit the
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particular meal and course for which you are selecting
the recipe. This is called filtering.This radio button
allows you to tell Master Chef whether or not to do
this.
Filter Selections - NO
Selecting this radio button will prevent Master
Chef from automatically limiting the names you see
in the recipe selection list when selecting
recipes for a particular course while editing a
meal schedule. You will see all recipes in the
file.
Filter Selections - YES
Selecting this radio button will enable Master
Chef to automatically limit the names you see in
the recipe selection list when selecting recipes
for a meal schedule. You will see only recipes
that have meals and courses that match those of
the particular meal and course that you are
editing at the time.
For example, in the Schedule | Edit option, while
editing the meal schedule for BREAKFAST for a
particular day, suppose you wish to select a
recipe for the MAIN DISH course in that meal. The
recipe selection list will appear when you press a
key or double-click on the recipe field. The list
will show all recipes that have BREAKFAST defined
as a MEAL [AND] MAIN DISH defined as a COURSE.
This limits the list to those recipes that make
sense (in most cases) to select for this course.
Filter Method
The filter method determines how the various criteria
in the recipe filter will be applied to the recipes
when making the recipe list.
Filter Method - ANY
Selecting this radio button will allow Master Chef
to display all recipes that match ANY of the
selected filter criteria when using the Recipe |
Edit or Recipe | Print options.
For example, if you have selected Meal and Course
as filter items, and you have selected Breakfast
for the meal filter and Beverage as the course
filter, the recipes listed will include all
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recipes that are defined EITHER as a Breakfast
recipe, OR a Beverage recipe. Understand that you
could wind up with Breakfast Side Dish recipes and
Lunch Beverage recipes (or other such
combinations).
Filter Method - ALL
Selecting this radio button will allow Master Chef
to display all recipes that match ALL of the
selected filter criteria when using the Recipe |
Edit or Recipe | Print options.
For example, if you have selected Meal and Course
as filter items, and you have selected Breakfast
for the meal filter and Beverage as the course
filter, the recipes listed will only the recipes
that are defined BOTH as a Breakfast recipe, AND a
Beverage recipe. Understand that you could wind up
with no recipes listed, since there may not be a
recipe that is defined as a Breakfast Beverage
recipe.
Quantity Format
This radio button allows you to define how Master Chef
will display measurement quantities throughout the
program. You have a choice of either a Decimal or
Fraction format as described below.
Decimal Format
Selecting this radio button will allow Master Chef
to handle quantities in a decimal format. This
means that quantities will be entered and
displayed in a format with decimal numbers in
them. Decimal numbers look like this: 1.5, .75,
12.675, etc.
Fraction Format
Selecting this radio button will allow Master Chef
to handle quantities in a fraction format. This
means that quantities will be entered and
displayed in a format with fractions in them.
Fractions are numbers like this: 1 1/2, 3/4, 12
5/8, etc.
Fraction Rounding
These radio buttons allow you to control how Master
Chef handles fractions when applied to measurement
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quantities. There may be some situations where you do
not want to see the exact measurement quantities, since
they can be rather non-standard (like 273/289).
Fraction Rounding - NO
Selecting this radio button will keep Master Chef
from automatically trying to round fractions.
Fraction Rounding - YES
Selecting this radio button will allow Master Chef
to automatically try to round fractions. The
quantity that fractions will be rounded to is
defined in the Round To Nearest option.
Round To Next
These radio buttons allow you to control how Master
Chef rounds fractions. Rounding occurs when the
fraction rounding is enabled and the Quantity Format
option is set to Fraction.
Round To Next - WHOLE
Selecting this radio button will allow Master Chef
to round fractions to the next highest whole
number.
Round To Next - HALF
Selecting this radio button will allow Master Chef
to round fractions to the next highest half (1/2).
Round To Next - THIRD
Selecting this radio button will allow Master Chef
to round fractions to the next highest third
(1/3).
Round To Next - FOURTH
Selecting this radio button will allow Master Chef
to round fractions to the next highest fourth
(1/4).
Round To Next - EIGHTH
Selecting this radio button will allow Master Chef
to round fractions to the next highest eighth
(1/8).
Round To Next - TENTH
Selecting this radio button will allow Master Chef
to round fractions to the next highest tenth
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(1/10).
Round To Next - SIXTEENTH
Selecting this radio button will allow Master Chef
to round fractions to the next highest sixteenth
(1/16).
Scaling Method
These radio buttons allow you to control how Master
Chef scales recipes.
Multiple of Servings
Selecting this radio button will allow recipes to
scale in increments of the number of servings
defined for the recipe. This prevents "strange"
measurements from begin generated by the scaling
process. With this option enabled, downward
scaling (less that the number of servings) will
not be allowed.
For example, if the recipe being scaled is defined
to produce 6 servings, it will be able to be
scaled to 12, 18, 24, etc. servings. It could NOT
be scaled to 5 or less servings. If a number of
servings greater than 6 were requested (such as
10) it would be scaled to the next highest
multiple of 6, which would be 12 in this case.
Any Number
Selecting this {radio button:radiobuttons} will
allow recipes to scale to any number of servings,
no matter what the current number of servings may
be. Scaling both upward and downward is possible
with his option selected.
For example, if the recipe being scaled is defined
to produce servings, it can be scaled to any
other number of servings, such as 7, 2, 45, 123,
etc.
NOTE:
With this type of scaling, it is
possible to produce ingredient
measurements with very strange
measurement quantities, since the new
measurement quantity is produced by
multiplying the existing quantity by the
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ratio of the old and new number of
servings. For example, an ingredient
could result in measurements like 7/271
or 45/46. This condition can be somewhat
alleviated by the use of the Fraction
Rounding option.
Date Format
These radiobuttons will allow you to define how Master
Chef will display dates used throughout the program.
You have three different formats as described below.
MM/DD/YY Date Format
Selecting this radio button will allow Master Chef
to handle dates in a MM/DD/YY format. The MM
denotes the month, the DD denotes the day of the
month, and the YY denotes the last two digits of
the year.
DD/MM/YY Date Format
Selecting this radio button will allow Master Chef
to handle dates in a DD/MM/YY format. The DD
denotes the day of the month, the MM denotes the
month, and the YY denotes the last two digits of
the year.
YY/MM/DD Date Format
Selecting this radio button will allow Master Chef
to handle dates in a YY/MM/DD format. The YY
denotes the last two digits of the year, the MM
denotes the month, and the DD denotes the day of
the month.
Done Button
Press this button when you are done editing the special
options. The new information will be saved in place of
the old, and you will be returned to the selection
list.
Cancel Button
Press this button to exit and NOT save the changes
made to this item.
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Printers and Printing
Selecting Printers
Selecting the Utilities | Configure | Printer | Select
Printer main menu option will allow you to select the
printer you wish to use from the list of printers
supported by Master Chef. If you cannot find your
printer in this list, then look for a printer that
yours emulates (works like). If you can't find one of
those, then select Utilities | Configure | Printer
Codes and enter the codes for your printer directly. If
you need to enter printer codes, see the section below
on how to do that.
All of the information for printers used in Master Chef
is contained in a file on the disk. When it is
necessary to select a printer, a dialog box is used.
This dialog box contains two buttons and a list box.
The list box will show a portion of the list of names
of the pre-defined printers in the file.
The buttons on the right of the dialog box show what
you can do with a highlighted common item. The two
buttons that appear are described below.
Select
This button will select the highlighted printer for use
in Master Chef. The proper printer codes will be loaded
for use in the various printouts.
Cancel
This button allows you to exit from the selection
dialog box without selecting a printer, and without
changing the existing printer information elsewhere in
the program.
NOTE:
If, when you select the Utilities | Configure
| Printer | Select Printer option and do not
get the above dialog box, but instead get a
message saying "No Printer List!", then that
is because Master Chef could not find the
printer data file needed. This may be because
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the data path under Utilities | Configure |
Special Options main menu option is not set
correctly. Check this and make sure it is
correct. Also make sure that the PRINTERS.DAT
file is in that directory.
Changing the Printer Codes
Selecting the Utilities | Configure | Printer | Printer
Codes allows you to change the printer codes that
Master Chef uses to control your printer. You should
only need to make changes/entries here if you wish to
make Master Chef do special things, or if you have a
printer that cannot be found in the list of printers
supported by Master Chef. This option brings up a
dialog box with an input line for each of the items
necessary to properly set up the printer. This dialog
box is titled "Configure Printer Codes."
This dialog box allows you to change a number of
features which are common to most of the various
reports available.
The features that you can configure are:
Normal Characters Code
Normal Characters Per Inch
Narrow Characters Code
Narrow Characters Per Inch
Normal Line Spacing Code
Normal Lines Per Inch
Narrow Line Spacing Code
Narrow Lines Per Inch
Turn On Bold Characters Code
Turn Off Bold Characters Code
Form Feed Code
Reset Code
Enable IBM Box Characters
About Printer Codes
Before describing each of the items that require
printer codes, it is important to understand what
printer codes are and how they are entered into Master
Chef.
Printer codes are nothing more than characters that are
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sent to a printer to cause it to change the way it
prints or to do something with the paper. Very often
these characters are unprintable, and will not show up
on the screen. Most of them cannot be directly typed in
from the keyboard. Because of this, we have to use a
somewhat roundabout way to enter them by using
characters which are printable and displayable and can
be entered in with the keyboard.
Each special character used as a print code is
represented in the computer as a number. For example,
the letter A is represented in the computer with the
number 65. The ESC key is represented in the computer
with the number 27.
Knowing this, we can enter the special characters by
typing in the number of the character, and let the
computer convert that number into the special character
required by the printer.
The various input lines used by the program understand
this relationship, and will accept as input the numbers
that represent the various special characters required
by the printer.
For example, most Epson compatible printers use the ESC
character followed by the @ character to reset. Since
the ESC character is used by the program to control the
windows and dialog boxes, it cannot be typed directly
into the input line. Therefore, since the number 27
represents the ESC character and since the number 64
represents the @ character, these two numbers can be
entered into the input line to tell the computer to
send ESC @ when it needs to reset the printer.
In addition to the numbers, we also need some type of
separator character to tell Master Chef where one
number ends and the other begins. This is done with the
slash character: (/).
This then would be the entry for the RESET code for
this sample printer:
/27/64
Where do you get the printer codes for your printer?
This is where you will have to dig into your printer
manuals and locate the "Printer Commands" or "Printer
Control Codes" table. It may have some other title but
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it will be somewhere in your manual and will list all
the different code sequences needed for the various
features for your printer. Some printer manuals list
these both as decimal values or Hexadecimal values.
Make sure you use the DECIMAL values. The Hexadecimal
values can be recognized by the fact that they will, in
many cases, include one or more of the letters A-F in
the number. The printer code input lines will only
accept the letters 0-9 and the slash (/) character.
The input lines can accept up to 255 characters, so you
can enter quit a long sequence of printer codes if
necessary.
Dialog box layout
Notice that everything dealing with Line Spacing is
organized at the top of the box. The codes and number
of lines per inch for normal printing is on the left
side, and those for narrow printing is on the right
side. The printer code lines are the codes that are
actually sent to the printer to do what is necessary.
The Lines Per Inch input lines tell Master Chef what
the code actually does so that it knows how to use it.
For example, if you enter a code in the Normal Line
Spacing Printer Code line that will tell the printer to
print at 6 lines per inch, you need to tell Master Chef
that by entering a 6 in the Lines Per Inch input line.
Again, the printer code line is used to command the
printer to print a certain way, the Lines Per Inch line
tells Master Chef what that printer code means so it
knows how to use it. The section below it for Character
Width works the same way. Doing it this way makes it
flexible for you if you wish to customize Master Chef
to print in a special way.
Descriptions of each of the entry lines follow:
Line Spacing Setup
Printer Code for Normal Line Spacing
This input line allows you to enter the printer code
necessary to cause the printer to print normal spaced
lines. This is commonly 6 Lines Per Inch (LPI).
Lines Per Inch (Normal)
This input line allows you to enter a number which
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defines the number of lines per inch that the code
above it represents.
For example, if you have entered the printer code for 6
LPI printing, then you would enter a 6 here. Think of
it this way. The "Printer Code" line tells the PRINTER
how many lines per inch to print, and the "Lines Per
Inch" line tells MASTER CHEF how many lines per inch
the printer is printing. That way, Master Chef can know
how to control the printer.
Printer Code for Narrow Line Spacing
This input line allows you to enter the printer code
necessary to cause the printer to print narrow line
spacing. This is commonly 8 Lines Per Inch (LPI).
Lines Per Inch (Narrow)
This input line allows you to enter a number which
defines the number of characters per inch that the code
above it represents.
For example, if you have entered the printer code for 8
Lines Per Inch (LPI) printing, then you would enter an
8 here. Think of it this way. The "Printer Code" line
tells the PRINTER how many lines per inch to print, and
the "Lines Per Inch" line tells MASTER CHEF how many
lines per inch the printer is printing. That way,
Master Chef can know how to control the printer.
Character Width Setup
Printer Code for Normal Character Printing
This input line allows you to enter the printer code
necessary to cause the printer to print normal sized
letters. This is commonly 10 or 12 Characters Per Inch
(CPI).
Characters Per Inch (Normal)
This input line allows you to enter a number which is
the number of characters per inch that the code above
it represents. For example, if you have entered the
printer code for 10 CPI printing, then you would enter
a 10 here.
Printer Code for Narrow Printing
This input line allows you to enter the printer code
necessary to cause the printer to print narrow letters,
many times referred to as compressed print. This is
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commonly 16 or 17 CPI, but you may decide to enter a
code which causes your printer to print smaller
characters, such as 20 CPI. This would make your
printouts more narrow.
Characters Per Inch (Narrow)
This input line allows you to enter a number which
defines the number of characters per inch that the code
above it represents. For example, if you have entered
the printer code for 16 Characters Per Inch (CPI)
printing, then you would enter 16 here.
Other Codes
Printer Code To Turn On Bold Characters
This input line allows you to enter the printer code
necessary to cause the printer to print bold
characters, sometimes called enhanced characters.
Although BOLD is specified, you could decide to enter
codes which causes the printer to use some other
feature, such as underlining.
Printer Code To Turn Off Bold Characters
This input line allows you to enter the printer code
necessary to turn off the printer mode that was turned
on with BOLD ON code.
Printer Code For Form Feed
This input line allows you to enter the printer code
used by the printer to advance to the next page. This
is typically called Formfeed.
Printer Code For Printer Reset
This input line allows you to enter the printer code
used by the printer to reset itself to the initial
power-on condition. This should reset all aspects of
the printer, just as if you turned the printer off and
then back on.
Select IBM Box Character Set
This is a single Check Box which tells the program
whether or not to send the IBM Box Characters to the
printer. These are sometimes referred to as the
extended ASCII character set. These characters include
those that are used to form boxes and other items on
the screen. Some printers can print these characters,
some can not.
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The two buttons that appear in this dialog box are:
Done
Press this button when you are done editing. The new
information will be saved in place of the old.
Cancel
Press this button when you are done editing, but you do
not wish to keep the changes you have made to this
item. The new information will NOT be saved in place of
the old.
Setting Up Forms
The options available under Utilities | Configure |
Forms allow you to do special setup for whichever form
you wish. The forms are
Recipe Cards
Recipes Full Page
Recipe List
Brief Meal Plan
Detailed Meal Plan
Brief Schedule
Detailed Schedule
Brief Shopping List
Detailed Shopping List
Selecting the desired one will bring up a dialog box
that contains setup input lines to configure that form.
The dialog box for each of the forms contains the same
items as described below:
Initialization Code
This is a printer code which will initialize your
printer to whatever mode you wish it to be in to print
this form.
This initialization code could set the printer up for a
particular type style or perhaps set it to draft mode
or letter quality mode.
This is also where you could put the printer codes to
tell the printer what size paper you have in the
printer if it is not the standard 8 1/2" X 11" size.
Line Spacing
The line spacing radio button set allows you to select
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which type of line spacing to use in this form.
Normal Line Spacing
This radio button allows you to select the normal
line spacing as defined in Lines Per Inch (Normal)
in the Utilities | Configure | Printer | Printer
Codes.
Narrow Line Spacing
This radio button allows you to select the narrow
line spacing as defined in Lines Per Inch (Narrow)
in the Utilities | Configure | Printer | Printer
Codes.
Character Width
The character width radio button set allows you to
select which character width to use in this form.
Normal Character Width
This radio button allows you to select the normal
character width as defined in Characters Per Inch
(Normal) in the Utilities | Configure | Printer |
Printer Codes.
Narrow Character Width
This radio button allows you to select the narrow
character width as defined in Characters Per Inch
(Narrow) in the Utilities | Configure | Printer |
Printer Codes.
Page Width
This is an input line which allows you to enter the
width of the page in inches. If you are using an 8
1/2" X 11" paper, then you would enter 8.5 here. Enter
this either in a fractional form (3 1/2) or a decimal
form (3.5) depending on how you have the system
configured using the Utilities | Configure | Special
Options main menu option.
Page Length
This is an input line which allows you to enter the
length of the page in inches. If you are using an 8
1/2" X 11" paper, then you would enter 11.0 here. Enter
this either in a fractional form (3 1/2) or a decimal
form (3.5) depending on how you have the system
configured using the Utilities | Configure | Special
Options main menu option.
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Top Margin
This is an input line which allows you to enter the
number of inches that will be used for the top margin
of the page. Enter this either in a fractional form (3
1/2) or a decimal form (3.5) depending on how you have
the system configured using the Utilities | Configure |
Special Options main menu option.
Left Margin
This is an input line which allows you to enter the
number of inches that will be used for the left margin
of the page. Enter this either in a fractional form (3
1/2) or a decimal form (3.5) depending on how you have
the system configured using the Utilities | Configure |
Special Options main menu option.
Bottom Margin
This is an input line which allows you to enter the
number of inches that will be used for the bottom
margin of the page. Enter this either in a fractional
form (3 1/2) or a decimal form (3.5) depending on how
you have the system configured using the Utilities |
Configure | Special Options main menu option.
Print To
This is used to select where this report is to be sent
(either to the printer itself or to a disk file).
Print To: Printer
Selecting this button will send the report
directly to the printer (at the time you tell
Master Chef to print).
Print To: Disk File
Selecting this button will send the report to the
disk file specified in Disk File To Print To (at
the time you tell Master Chef to print).
Disk File To Print To
This combination input line/pick line will bring up a
File Select Dialog Box. This will allow you to either
enter or select a file to use to send the report to.
If you enter a filename that includes a path that does
not exist, it will tell you to prevent you from
entering an invalid filename. It will also tell you if
you are using filenames or extensions reserved for use
by Master Chef.
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The filename will be used if you select the Print To:
Disk File radio button. If you do not enter anything in
this box, and you select disk file as the destination
of this report, it will be sent to a file called
"PRINT.OUT."
To activate the File Select Box, press the down arrow
key, double-click the left mouse button while the mouse
cursor is on the line or click on the down arrow in the
small box to the right of the input line.
Remember:
A valid filename consists of a drive letter
followed by a colon, a subdirectory name(s),
a filename (8 characters or less), and an
extension ( a dot followed by up to 3
letters).
For example:
c:\mc\data\cardfile.prt
────┬──── ──┬─
┬─ │ ─────┬── │
│ │ │ └──── Extension
│ │ └───────── Filename
│ └─────────────────── subdirectory
└───────────────────────── Drive Letter
WARNING:
DO NOT USE THE FOLLOWING FILENAMES:
CON
AUX
COM1
COM2
COM3
COM4
PRN
LPT1
LPT2
LPT3
NUL
CLOCK$
DO NOT USE THE FOLLOWING EXTENSIONS:
.REC
.SCH
.SST
.RST
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.TPL
.EXE
.$$$
.BAK
.BAS
.BAT
.COM
.CPI
.EXE
.SYS
DO NOT USE THE FOLLOWING CHARACTERS IN
FILENAMES OR EXTENSIONS:
< > = , ; : . ? [ ] ( ) / \ + *
Form Advance Type
This radio button set allows you to tell Master Chef
how to handle advancing the printer to the next page.
In most cases, you will want to use the Form Feed
Advance, since this is quicker and more accurate. It is
also necessary if you have a page printer, such as a
laser or HP Deskjet printer. In some cases, it will be
necessary to move the paper to the next page with a
series of line feeds. This button determines which will
be used for this form.
Form Feed Advance
This tells Master Chef to send the Form Feed code
to the printer to advance the paper to the next
page. This will work for your printer if you have
defined the paper size to be exactly what you have
in the printer using the Initialization Code line.
Line Feed Advance
This tells Master Chef to compute and send a
series of Line Feed codes to the printer to
advance the paper to the next page. This is handy
to use if you do not know how to setup your
printer to work with a particular page size other
than the standard 8.5" X 11" size. Master Chef
will use the size defined in the Form Length lines
above to compute how many line feeds are necessary
to advance the paper to the next form.
Forms Per Page
Depending on the size of the page and the items you are
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printing, you may want Master Chef to print more than
one form (the thing you are printing) on the page (the
paper or card in the printer). In most cases this will
be one, but if you are printing recipe cards and are
using standard 8.5" X 11" paper, you may want to set
this to 2 or 3 to get more use of the paper. 3 is the
default number set by Master Chef for Recipe Cards.
The buttons available in the dialog box are described
below:
Done
This button is used when you are done editing and you
wish the new information you have entered saved in
place of the old.
Cancel
Press this button when you are done editing, but you do
not wish to keep the changes you have made. The new
information will NOT be saved in place of the old.
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The User Interface
This program is built with many user features that make
using them simple. These features are part of what is
called the "user interface" because they work between
you the user, and the program. In other words, it
"interfaces" you with the program to allow information
to flow. Among these user friendly features are:
An uncomplicated pull down menuing system
A "windows" based screen display
Mouse Awareness
Dialog Boxes
Message Boxes
A program Status Line
A simple-to-use but informative HELP system
Each of these features provide the means to get the
information you need simply and to allow you to enter
information efficiently and effortlessly.
This part of the document will give you a brief
introduction to each of these features and get you
familiar with how to use them.
Using The Mouse
The user interface is made simple and powerful by the
use of a mouse. The mouse provides the mechanism to
rapidly point to something on the screen and tell the
program to perform certain operations.
When the mouse is available to use, (by having the
proper mouse driver installed and the mouse connected
properly) a rectangular square will be visible on the
screen. This rectangle is called the "mouse cursor" and
moves around on the screen as you move your mouse.
Moving this mouse cursor to the points of interest on
the screen is your way of telling the program what you
are interested in. Pressing the left button on the
mouse tells the program to do something, depending on
what is visible on the screen and where the mouse
cursor is when you press the button. Other areas of
the on-line help describe what will happen when you
use the mouse in particular ways with particular things
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on the screen. (The middle and right mouse buttons are
not used.)
Throughout the program documentation and these help
screens you will see references to the use of the
mouse, but may not refer specifically to the mouse
cursor or the buttons on the mouse. Instead, you will
be told to " click on ...". This always means to
position the mouse cursor to the position (whatever it
is) on the screen by moving the mouse until it is on
top of the item of interest, then press the LEFT mouse
button. This is the major method of using the mouse to
interact with the program.
Double Clicking
This is a way of using the mouse to indicate to the
program that you wish to both select and activate
whatever item it is on (if that item understands double
clicks). This is done by rapidly pressing the left
mouse button twice. Just what "rapidly" means depends
on your computer and can be determined by
experimentation. Double clicking works on some data
entry lines (those that bring up selection list boxes
and in the list boxes themselves).
Using the MENU system.
The menu system provides a convenient and simple way to
get to each of the different options available. Please
note that the menu system is only available when
there's nothing else happening in the program. For
example, If you are in the middle of editing recipes,
the menu system won't work because there are no main
menu options available to use while you are editing a
recipe. You must be completed with any of the options
available before selecting another one.
There are a number of ways to access the options in the
menu system. Let's explore them:
SHORTCUT KEYS
First of all, notice that each of the options at the
top of the screen has one of its letters displayed in a
different color. That letter is known as the "shortcut"
letter. This letter is kind of a "hot" letter which
will access that particular option when you use the ALT
key along with that shortcut letter. For example, to
access the List option, you would press the ALT key at
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the same time you press the L key. This will open up
the Edit sub-menu with all of its options.
F10 KEY
By pressing the F10 key, you gain access to all of the
menu options shown on the top line of the screen. One
of the options shown will become highlighted. To access
that option, just press the RETURN key. You will then
see the sub-menu options that are available from that
option.
If however, you desired to access one of the other
options, you may use the left or right arrow keys to
change the highlighted option. You may also press the
shortcut key as described above.
Once you have the sub-menu options displayed, you may
again press the appropriate shortcut key to select the
desired option. You may also use the up and down arrow
keys to highlight the option and then press the RETURN
key to select it.
MOUSE
Finally, you can simply click the left mouse button
while the mouse cursor is on top of the desired option.
Working with windows.
All of the work done in the program is done in one form
of "window" or another. Windows (not to be confused
with Microsoft Windows (R)) have a few features in
common which make them easy to work with. Most windows
have the ability to be moved around on the screen and
be closed. Some, such as the help window, are
resizable.
Windows are simply boxes on the screen which contain
groups of related information. They have a double line
frame around them and usually show a shadow over any
window or text beneath them. This gives a visual effect
which is pleasing to the eye and organizes information
into easy-to-use chunks.
A typical window looks like this:
Close Zoom
box box
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│ │
V V
╔═[■]═════ Title Bar ════[|]═╗
║ ▒
║ ▒
║ ▒
║ ■
║ ▒
║ ▒<────┐
║ ▒ │
╚═▒▒■▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒══╝ │
^ │
└─────────────────┤
│
Scroll Bars
CLOSING WINDOWS
Closing a window means to stop whatever the window was
doing and make it disappear from the screen. Most
windows can be closed by clicking on the little block
positioned at the upper left corner of the window frame
(seen as the " close box" in the above diagram). A
window can also be closed by pressing the ESC key or
one of the other buttons in the window ( such as the
Done or Cancel buttons, as covered in more detail
below). Some windows are designed not to be closeable
since they have information which is important to
remain displayed (such as the Print Manager message
box). These will not have the close box displayed in
the upper left hand corner of the window frame.
MOVING WINDOWS
Most windows are designed so that you can move them
around on the screen. This is done with the mouse. To
move a window, just position the mouse cursor somewhere
along the top frame of the window (not on the close
block though) and press AND HOLD the left mouse button
down. While holding it down, move the mouse. The window
will move with the mouse. When it is in the desired
position, release the left button. In most cases moving
windows is not necessary, but there may be some
situations where you wish to see what was underneath
the window and this will enable you to do this.
RESIZING WINDOWS
Most of the windows used in this program are not
resizable, since it would not make sense to do so. But
at least in the case of the help window, resizing is
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sometimes helpful, since the help system is basically a
text display system and some of the text displays are
wider than the standard help window. You can tell if a
window is resizable or not by looking for a little "up
arrow" in the upper right corner of the window frame
(seen as the "zoom box" in the above diagram). This is
your clue that the window can be resized. You can make
the window full screen size by clicking on that arrow.
If you desire to again make it the original smaller
size, just click on the double arrow which shows in the
same spot. You can also resize it by positioning the
mouse cursor on the very lower right corner of the
window (─┘) and then pressing AND HOLDING the left
mouse button. Then as you move the mouse, the window
size will follow. When the window is the desired size,
release the mouse button.
Working with Dialog Boxes
Dialog boxes are simply specialized types of windows
used to display and input information. A dialog box
consists of a variety of different parts(including
those described above in windows) which make this
possible. These parts include:
Buttons
Input lines
Date Lines
Pick Lines
Static Text
Labels
Text Editor
Scroll Bars
List Boxes
Radio Buttons
Check Boxes
Each of these items, when used in a dialog box, can be
selected for use by one of several methods.
MOUSE
One method is to click on the item with the left mouse
button when the mouse cursor is positioned somewhere on
the item.
SHORTCUT KEY
Each item shown in a dialog box has a label associated
with it. You will notice that there is a different
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colored letter within the label. This is the shortcut
letter. You can select a desired item by pressing
either ALT and the shortcut letter or the letter alone.
You will need to use the ALT key with a shortcut letter
if you have something that is expecting regular letters
to be input (such as an input line).
TAB
Finally, you can select different items in a dialog box
by pressing the TAB key or the SHIFT and TAB keys. This
will step the focus (item of interest) or the one that
will operate with the RETURN key, from one item to the
next in the dialog box.
Once the item desired is highlighted by using one of
these methods, you are ready to use that item.
NOTE:
You may be tempted to press the RETURN key
when you are done entering information into
an input line or using one of the other items
in a dialog box. This will probably result in
more than you expected. Not only will you be
indicating to the program that you are done
inputting this line, but you will also be
indicating that you wish to take the default
action defined by one of the buttons in the
dialog box (the next section talks about the
"default" button). In some cases, this may be
to Edit whatever is selected. In other cases,
it will be to indicate that you are done with
the dialog box and it will close on you
because the default button was the DONE
button.
The bottom line is, don't press the RETURN
key unless you want to perform the default
action of the dialog box. This is probably
the biggest difference between the way the
windows and dialog boxes work and the way
older programs worked.
Below are descriptions of the major items used inside
dialog boxes to assist you in your work:
Buttons
Buttons are used primarily to allow you to tell the
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program to do some preprogrammed action, such as Edit,
Delete, Convert, or some such thing. Each button
consists of a small box with a text label on it and a
shadow around it. In each dialog box, there is usually
one "default" button and other "normal" buttons. A
default button is one which is automatically selected
when you press the RETURN key if you have not selected
some other button.
Like the menu and other parts of the program, buttons
can be selected (highlighted) by any of the three
methods described above (shortcut key, TAB, or mouse).
To "press" a button, you can press the ALT key along
with the shortcut key shown on the button. You can
press RETURN with the appropriate button selected.
Finally, you can position the mouse cursor on the
button and press the left mouse button. Notice that
while using the mouse to press the button, if you press
and hold the mouse button down, the button "shadow"
goes away, along with the button position shifting to
the right, giving the effect of having depressed the
button. When the mouse button is released, the dialog
box button action will take effect. If you have pressed
a button and have not yet released the mouse button,
and for some reason do not wish to continue with that
action, you can move the mouse cursor off of the button
BEFORE RELEASING THE MOUSE BUTTON. This will cancel the
button press.
Input Lines
Input lines are used to allow you to enter information
directly from the keyboard. If an input line is
selected and there is existing information, it will be
displayed as "selected text". This means that if you
press any key except the HOME, END, left arrow, or
right arrow, the existing text will be deleted and you
will be able to reenter new information from scratch.
If, however, you wish to just edit what is there, just
move the cursor with the arrow keys to the point you
wish to edit. You will notice that the color changes to
the normal text color and you can now add to or delete
characters from what is there.
In some cases, the length of the information you can
enter into an input line will be longer than the box
displayed on the screen. When this occurs, a triangle
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will appear at either end of the input box indicating
the information in the box is longer than what is
displayed. If you position the mouse cursor on that
triangle and press the left mouse button, the text will
scroll across the box. You may also use either the left
or right arrow keys to position the cursor to the
proper point in the text to continue editing.
When you are done using an input line, you can move to
the next item in the dialog box by one of the methods
described above (shortcut keys, TAB, mouse, etc.).
Static Text
Static Text is simply text that does not have any
"action" attached to it and is used to just display
information in the dialog box.
Labels
Labels are used to make it possible to select the
various items (except buttons) that may appear in a
dialog box for use. They are "attached" to these items
so that you can select them using the methods described
in the Dialog Box section.
For example, Input Lines (described above) usually have
a label associated with them. Within the label is the
shortcut key which can be used to select the desired
input line for use. The label can also be used to
select the desired item with the other two selection
methods (TAB key and the mouse).
Scroll Bars
Scroll bars are devices used to allow you to select or
identify one item out of many. Sometimes it is used to
change a value of some piece of information. A scroll
bar is made up of three basic parts: the slider bar,
the slider, and the direction arrows.
They will look something like this:
▒▒▒■▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒
│ │ │
Slider───┘ │ │
Slider Bar───────────┘ │
Direction Arrow─────────────────┘
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The direction arrows are attached to each end of the
slider bar, and the slider moves along the slider bar.
There are several ways to move the slider (and thus
control the item the scroll bar is attached to).
One way is to use the arrow keys (up and down for
vertical scroll bars, and left and right for horizontal
scroll bars). Pressing either the PGUP or PGDN key will
make the slider move in larger increments.
You may also move the slider by positioning the mouse
cursor on one of the direction arrows at the ends of
the scroll bar and pressing the left mouse button. The
slider will move in the direction selected (and will
change the associated item). Release the mouse button
when the slider and information are in the desired
position.
If you position the mouse cursor on the slider bar
(between the slider and the direction arrow) and press
the left mouse button, the slider will move in greater
increments (the same as pressing the CTRL and arrow
keys).
You may manually position the slider by positioning the
mouse cursor on the slider and while PRESSING AND
HOLDING the left mouse button, moving the mouse (and
thus the slider) to the desired position.
Pick Lines
Pick lines are a special kind of input line. They look
somewhat like an input line in that they contain text
and have an associated label. Once selected and
activated, (by pressing any key) however, an additional
feature is revealed, which is a list box. (List Boxes
are described below.) This list box contains all of the
choices available to be placed into that associated
input line.
Instead of typing the information directly into the
input line, you select from the list box. The list box
closes when you select the desired item from the list
or press ESC or click on the close box ( ═[■]═ ).
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Text Editors
The text editor box provides the means to edit, like a
small word processor, a piece of text that is larger
than will fit in a standard input line. It allows you
to move around within the text, insert new text, delete
old text, and generally make changes you need to.
There are special keys that provide the means to do
this work. Here is a list of the various special keys
available and what they do:
Key Action
═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════
TEXT EDITING KEYS:
RETURN Insert new line.
BACKSPACE Remove the character that is to the
left of the cursor.
DELETE Remove the character that is at the
cursor position.
CTRL Y Removes the entire line that the
cursor is on.
CURSOR MOVEMENT KEYS:
LEFT ARROW Move cursor one character to the
left.
RIGHT ARROW Move cursor one character to the
right.
UP ARROW Move cursor up one line.
DOWN ARROW Move cursor down one line.
CTRL RIGHT ARROW Move cursor one word to the right.
CTRL LEFT ARROW Move cursor one word to the left.
HOME Move cursor to the beginning of the
line.
END Move cursor to the end of the
line.
PAGE UP Move cursor up one page (height of
the editor box).
PAGE DOWN Move cursor down one page.
CTRL PAGE UP Move cursor to top (beginning) of
text.
CTRL PAGE DOWN Move cursor to bottom (end) of text.
INS Change between insert and overwrite
modes.
CTRL INS Block Copy
SHIFT DEL Block Cut (delete)
SHIFT INS Block Insert (after Block Cut
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or Copy)
The text editor includes an automatic word wrap
feature. This will cause the lines to be limited to
less than or equal to 70 characters. This makes it
convenient to type in large amounts of text without
having to worry about a text line being too long.
The mouse may be used to easily position the cursor by
moving the mouse cursor to the desired point in the
text and pressing the left mouse button. Text may then
be inserted or deleted as described in the chart above.
A block of text may be "selected" by positioning the
mouse cursor to the beginning point in the text and
while PRESSING AND HOLDING the left mouse button, move
the mouse cursor to the desired end point. You may now
delete the text as described in the chart above.
You will notice a scroll bar on the right side of the
text box. This also will facilitate using the mouse to
scroll the text to where the desired portion is
visible.
List Boxes
A list box is a box that contains a list of items,
usually sorted, which are used to select one of the
items within the list. The list box is "smart" and has
several methods available to make it simple to select
one of the items in the list.
One of these methods is to use the scroll bar
associated with the list. Moving the slider will change
the selected item in the list.
Another method is to use the up and down arrow keys or
the HOME or END keys. HOME will select the top item in
the list. END will select the last item in the list.
You may also just type the letters in the item that you
wish to find. For example, suppose the list is a list
of recipe ingredients, and contains the following
items:
Apples
Bread
Butter
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Eggs
Milk
Yogurt
If you press the 'b' key (either upper or lower case,
it doesn't matter) the 'Bread' entry will be
highlighted. The cursor will be underneath the 'r' in
'Bread', indicating that it is waiting for the second
letter to be pressed. If you press the 'u' key, the
'Butter' entry will be highlighted. So you can see that
you can get to the desired item very quickly just by
pressing a few keys. Once the desired item is
highlighted, you can select it by pressing the Return
key (or the appropriate dialog box button). This
technique works for any item in the list, whether
visible or not.
Finally, you can select an item that is visible in the
list box by moving the mouse cursor somewhere on the
line that contains the desired item and double-clicking
with the mouse.
Radio Buttons
Radio Buttons are devices organized as short lists of
text items with parentheses () next to them. A group of
radio buttons is known as a "cluster." They act
together. Within one cluster of radio buttons, only one
of the buttons can (and will) be selected. For example,
suppose the following choices of ice cream were
available: vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, and cherry.
A radio button cluster with those choices would look
like this:
( ) Vanilla
( ) Chocolate
(∙) Strawberry
( ) Cherry
Your choice of ice cream would be one of those. Your
selection would be represented by a "∙" in one of the
boxes.
If you change your mind, and select Chocolate, the (∙)
by Strawberry would be removed and the (∙) would appear
next to Chocolate.
( ) Vanilla
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(∙) Chocolate
( ) Strawberry
( ) Cherry
To change selections, you can click on the desired
choice with the mouse, or press the appropriate
shortcut key.
Remember that radio button clusters have a label
associated with them which makes it possible to select
it before working on it. Pressing the ALT key along
with the shortcut key will also work.
Check Boxes
Check Boxes work exactly like radio buttons except that
you may select any, all, or none of the items in the
cluster. Check boxes look like this:
[ ] Vanilla
[X] Chocolate
[X] Strawberry
[ ] Cherry
Date Lines
Date lines are a special breed of input lines. They
look somewhat like an input line in that it has text
within the text box, and it has a label attached to it.
But it is a very special input box because the only
text it contains is a date. You cannot edit this date
with the keyboard like you can edit the text of a
normal input line.
To change the date, you must first make sure that the
date line is selected by using one of the three methods
available to select items within a dialog box (shortcut
key, TAB, and mouse click).
Once selected, you may change the date by pressing any
key except TAB, F10, or RETURN. You may also
double-click the left mouse button on the date or click
on the down arrow in the small box next to the date
line. When you do this, a small calendar appears in a
dialog box, with the date highlighted in that box.
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The calendar is a visual method of selecting a date.
Much confusion is avoided by allowing you to look at a
standard calendar display and simply pick the desired
date, rather than have you type a date in and hope that
you did it in the right format. With the calendar
method, you have no doubt as to what day you are
selecting.
The calendar appears as a box with the current month in
the upper left-hand corner, followed by the year. Below
that are the names of the days of the week, followed by
the days of the month. One of those days will appear in
a different color or shade of gray, which will denote
the currently selected day of the month. To change the
currently selected date, you have a number of methods
available, depending on whether you use the keyboard or
the mouse.
Changing A Date Using the keyboard:
Changing the Year
Pressing the CTRL key along with the PAGE UP key will
cause the current year to increase by one.
Pressing the CTRL key along with the PAGE DOWN key will
cause the current year to decrease by one.
Changing the Month
The PAGE DOWN key will cause the PREVIOUS month to be
displayed. If the current month is January when the
PAGE DOWN key is pressed, the month will change to
December.
The PAGE UP key will cause the NEXT month to be
displayed. If the current month is December when the
PAGE UP key is pressed, the month will change to
January.
Changing the Week
UP ARROW will cause the currently selected day to move
to the same day of the PREVIOUS week. If that is not
possible within the current month, then the 1st of the
month will be selected.
DOWN ARROW will cause the currently selected day to
move to the same day of the NEXT week. If that is not
possible within the current month, then the last day of
the month will be selected.
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Changing the Day
RIGHT ARROW will cause the currently selected day to
move to the next day. If that is not possible within
the current month, the current day will move to the 1st
of the month.
LEFT ARROW will cause the currently selected day to
move to the previous day. If that is not possible
within the current month, the current day will move to
the last day of the month.
Summary:
CTRL-PGUP Next Year
CTRL-PGDOWN Previous Year
PGUP Next Month
PGDOWN Previous Month
UP ARROW Previous Week
DN ARROW Next Week
LEFT ARROW Previous Day
RIGHT ARROW Next Day
Finishing up
When the desired date is highlighted, press the RETURN
key or the ESC key.
Pressing RETURN will select the highlighted day.
Pressing ESC will not select the highlighted day.
Changing the Date Using the Mouse
Changing the Month/Year:
Next to the year display at the top of the calendar box
are two triangle shaped characters, one pointing up,
and one pointing down.
Clicking the left mouse button on the triangle pointing
up causes the current month to move to the next month.
If the current month is December, the next month
displayed will be January of the next year. Holding the
left mouse button down will cause the months to
continuously increase.
Clicking the left mouse button on the triangle pointing
down causes the current month to move to the previous
month. If the current month is January, the next month
displayed will be December of the previous year.
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Holding the left mouse button down will cause the
months to continuously decrease.
Changing the Day:
Just move the mouse button to the desired day of the
month and click the left mouse button on it. That day
will become highlighted. If you double-click on the
desired day, the box will close and that date will be
selected as your new date.
Summary:
Click on up triangle Next month/year
Click on down triangle Previous month/year
Click on desired day Current day of month
Double-Click on a day Select Current day of
month and close box
Finishing up with the calendar
When the desired date is highlighted, press the close
box (═[■]═ ) located in the upper left hand corner of
the calendar box.
Other Items
Other items you will see in this program will be:
Message Boxes
Message Boxes are used simply to advise you of some
condition which needs attention or to inform you of
some situation which has occurred and needs a decision
made. Usually, a message box will have several simple
buttons associated with it. Those buttons could be YES,
NO, OK, or Cancel. These buttons are usually provided
for your response to a question or "message" stated in
the box.
Program Status Line.
The program status line is the bottom line of the
screen and presents brief help messages or a few
available hot keys. This is a method of providing just
a bit more information to you as you are working in
order to provide a good understanding of what is
happening or where you are in the program. Hot keys
may be used by either pressing the displayed key, or
clicking on the item with the mouse, or using the
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shortcut key shown.
File Dialog Box
The file dialog box is used where it is necessary to
enter or select a DOS file for use in the program. The
File Select Box dialog box contains the following items
to assist you in selecting files:
■ an input box with a history list
■ a list box to browse the directory
■ the standard Cancel button
■ Open action button
■ an information panel that describes the
selected file
You may exit the File Open command by pressing the ESC
key or clicking the mouse on the CANCEL button.
Name Input Box:
┌─ Name ──────────────────────────┐
│ │
└─────────────────────────────────┘
The Name input box is where you enter the name of the
file to load, or the file-name mask to use as a filter
for the Files list box (for example, *.*).
If you are entering a filename, it must be entered as a
valid MSDOS filename. A valid filename has 8 characters
(case does not matter). The filename can be followed by
an optional part called an "extension" separated by a
period ".". Any letter or number may be used in
filenames and extensions..
WARNING:
DO NOT USE THE FOLLOWING FILENAMES:
CON
AUX
COM1
COM2
COM3
COM4
PRN
LPT1
LPT2
LPT3
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NUL
CLOCK$
DO NOT USE THE FOLLOWING EXTENSIONS:
.REC
.SCH
.TPL
.EXE
.$$$
.BAK
.BAS
.BAT
.COM
.CPI
.EXE
.SYS
DO NOT USE THE FOLLOWING CHARACTERS IN
FILENAMES OR EXTENSIONS:
< > = , ; : . ? [ ] ( ) / \ + *
If you enter *.*, then all files in the current
directory will be shown in the Files List box.
Files List Box:
┌ Files ──────────────────────────┐
│ │
│ FILENM01.DOC │ FILENM09.DOC │
│ FILENM02.DOC │ FILENM10.DOC │
│ FILENM03.DOC │ FILENM11.DOC │
│ FILENM04.DOC │ FILENM12.DOC │
│ FILENM05.DOC │ .. │
│ FILENM06.DOC │ \MOREFILE │
│ FILENM07.DOC │ \DATA │
│ FILENM08.DOC │ \DOCUMENT │
│ ▒▒▒■▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │
└─────────────────────────────────┘
The Files List box lists the names of files in the
current directory that match the file-name mask in the
Name input box, plus the parent directory and all
subdirectories.
File Information Panel:
┌──────────────────────────────────────────┐
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│ C:\SE\FILES\*.DOC │
│ HELLO.DOC 1432 Jan 11,1991 12:32pm │
└──────────────────────────────────────────┘
The File information panel shows the path name, file
name, date, time, and size of the selected file. None
of the items on this information panel are selectable.
They are for information purposes only.
The buttons available are:
Open
The Open button picks the highlighted file and places
the full path and filename in the filename line.
Cancel
If you choose Cancel, nothing changes and no action
occurs, and the dialog box is put away. (ESC always
cancels a dialog box, even if a Cancel button does not
appear.)
Messages
Messages you may encounter when selecting and entering
filenames are:
"Too Many Files"
This message box is telling you that there simply are
too many files in the current directory to list in the
list box. This will not harm anything, it's just
telling you that the list box can't show you all the
files that there are.
"Invalid Drive or Directory"
You have entered the name of a disk drive or a
subdirectory that doesn't exist on the system. You will
have to go back and enter a correct one.
"Invalid File Name"
You have entered the name of a file using characters
that are not allowed in a file name or you have entered
a path that does not exist on your system. You will
have to go back and enter a correct one.
Characters that are not allowed in DOS files are:
; , = + < > | " [ ] \
The space character is also not allowed.
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"Invalid Directory"
You have entered the name of a subdirectory that
doesn't exist on the system. You will have to go back
and enter a correct one.
Path Dialog Box
The Select Path dialog box consists of an input box, a
list box, the standard Select, Chdir, Revert, and
Cancel buttons. It is used whenever it is necessary to
select a DOS path for use in the program.
Directory Name Input Box
┌ Directory Name ─────────────────────┐
│ │
└─────────────────────────────────────┘
The Directory Name input box is where you type in the
path of the new directory.
Directory Tree List Box
┌ Directory Tree ─────────────────────┐
│ Drives │
│ └─┬C:\ │
│ └─┬DOS │
│ └──UTILITIES │
└─────────────────────────────────────┘
The Directory Tree list box enables you to navigate
directories by using the selection bar and pressing
Enter.
Buttons available in the Select Path dialog box:
Select
The Select button exits the dialog box with the new
path that is currently showing in the Directory Name
input box.
Chdir
The Chdir button puts the path that is highlighted in
the Directory Tree list box into the Directory Name
input box.
Cancel
The Cancel button exits the dialog box without making
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Using the HELP system.
The help system is designed to get you the help you
need on whatever topic you wish. The help system takes
you directly to the topic of interest just by pressing
the F1 key from wherever you are in the program. If
there are related topics which might be of interest to
you, the help system provides the means to easily jump
to that topic and see that information.
To get help, just press the F1 key. Appropriate
information will be given for the topic you are on. If
there is no specific topic to be addressed (such as
from the opening screen), the main Table of Contents
will be presented, from which you may select any of the
topics listed for further information.
The help will appear in a window in the middle of the
screen. Most of the text will wrap around in the window
so all of it is visible. Some specially formatted text
may be outside the window. In this case, just use the
scroll bars at the bottom or right side of the help
window to scroll the text until it is visible.
You may also make the help screen appear full size by
clicking the left mouse button while the mouse cursor
is on the little up arrow positioned on the frame in
the upper right hand corner of the help window.
When you are done with the help, it can be removed by
simply pressing the ESC key or clicking the mouse on
the little block (═[■]═) positioned at the upper left
of the window.
To view the next highlighted topic in a help window
(one that is a different color than the rest of the
text) just press the TAB key or the SHIFT and TAB keys
to make the desired topic highlighted. When it is, just
press the RETURN key. You may also select a desired
topic by double-clicking on it with the left mouse
button.
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Changing Screen Colors
The Colors dialog box (found in the Utilities |
Configure | Colors) consists of two list boxes, a text
display area, the standard OK, Cancel, and Help
buttons, and one of the following:
On color and black-and-white systems, it also
contains two color palettes.
On monochrome systems, it contains a set of radio
buttons instead of the palettes.
This dialog box is where you can change the colors of
different parts of this program.
Group List Box:
┌─ Group ─────────────┐
│ Background │
│ Menus ■│
│ Editor ▒│
│ Dialogs ▒│
│ Help Window ▒│
│ ▒│
│ │
└─────────────────────┘
The Group list box contains the names of the different
regions of the program that you can customize.
Item List Box:
┌─ Item ──────────────┐
│ Color │
│ ■│
When you select a group from the Group list, the Item
list box displays the names of the different views in
that region.
Color Palettes:
┌ Foreground ┐ ┌ Background ┐
│ ░▒▓░▒▓░▒▓░ │ │ ▓░▒▓░▒▓░▒▓ │
│ ▓░▒▓░▒▓░▒▓ │ │ ░▒▓░▒▓░▒▓░ │
│ ▒▓░▒▓░▒▓░▒ │ └────────────┘
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└────────────┘
On color and black-and-white systems, you use the
Foreground and Background palettes to modify colors.
Monochrome Palettes:
┌ Colors ──────────────┐
│ (∙) Mono low │
│ ( ) Mono high │
│ ( ) Mono underscore │
│ ( ) Mono inverse │
└──────────────────────┘
On monochrome systems, you use the Colors set of radio
buttons systems to modify the character attributes.
Sample Display:
┌────────────────┐
│ Text Text Text │
│ Text Text Text │
└────────────────┘
On all systems, the display text (above the Help
button) shows the current color or attribute settings.
Changes do not take effect on the desktop until you
close the Colors dialog box by choosing OK.
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Error Codes
The following are error codes you (hopefully will
never) see in Master Chef.
Code Meaning 154 CRC ERROR IN
DATA
========================== 155 BAD DRIVE
======== REQUEST STRUCTURE LENGTH
2 COULDN'T FIND THE 156 DISK SEEK ERROR
FILE 157 UNKNOWN MEDIA
3 COULDN'T FIND THE TYPE
PATH 158 SECTOR NOT FOUND
4 TOO MANY OPEN 159 PRINTER OUT OF
FILES PAPER
5 FILE ACCESS
DENIED
6 INVALID FILE
HANDLE
12 INVALID FILE
ACCESS MODE
15 INVALID DRIVE
NUMBER
16 CANNOT REMOVE
CURRENT DIRECTORY
17 CANNOT RENAME
ACROSS DRIVES
100 DISK READ ERROR
(READ PAST END OF FILE)
101 DISK WRITE ERROR
(USUALLY DISK FULL)
102 FILE NOT
ASSIGNED
103 FILE NOT OPEN
104 FILE NOT OPEN
FOR INPUT
105 FILE NOT OPEN
FOR OUTPUT
106 INVALID NUMERIC
FORMAT
150 DISK IS WRITE
PROTECTED
151 UNKNOWN UNIT
152 PRINTER IS NOT
READY
153 UNKNOWN COMMAND
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Code Meaning
==========================
========
160 PRINTER
PROBLEM...CAN'T PRINT
161 DEVICE READ
FAULT
162 HARDWARE FAILURE
(REAL PROBLEMS)
200 DIVISION BY ZERO
201 RANGE CHECK
202 STACK OVERFLOW
203 HEAP OVERFLOW
204 INVALID POINTER
OPERATION
205 FLOATING POINT
OVERFLOW
206 FLOATING POINT
UNDERFLOW
207 INVALID FLOATING
POINT OPERATION
208 OVERLAY MANAGER
NOT INSTALLED
209 OVERLAY FILE
READ ERROR
210 OBJECT NOT
INITIALIZED
211 CALL TO ABSTRACT
METHOD
212 STREAM
REGISTRATION ERROR
213 COLLECTION OUT
OF RANGE
214 COLLECTION
OVERFLOW ERROR
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