Diving Log Blog

In the last 2 weeks I’ve integrated the logbook window and the iPhone / Windows Mobile sync function into the main project. Now only the importers and downloaders have to be integrated in order to complete the project, which should be straightforward. I’ve written already a lot about the logbook window back in March, but some features were not fully completed at that time. Now most of the things for the first alpha release are done and functional.

Main- and logbook window

The integrated instant search function is now working and offers the same great functionality you can see already in the Diving Log Viewer application. Now you can filter your dives in many ways, for example to see only dives deeper than 60 meters, like in the screenshot below:

Dives deeper than 60m

Due to the ribbon, there is one possible “issue”. You may have to click 2 times, where it took only one click in Diving Log 4.0, because you would have to click the content tab, and then the ribbon tab to get the controls if you want to edit this data. To avoid this two-click issue, I’ll automatically switch the content tab if you click the ribbon tab. For example, if you want to edit the dive profile, you only have to activate the “Profile” ribbon tab and the dive profile is automatically displayed. If you click the profile content tab, the ribbon will not switch the tab, because you probably only want to view the data.

For those of you, who don’t like the Office 2007 styles, do not fear, there are also 2 basic styles for the main window:

Windows 2000 style

To link a dive to detailed entries like countries, cities, dive sites and buddies, you can select now both types of entries in the drop down. So in order to link to an existing entry you only have to select the entry with the chain icon and don’t need to go into the detailed dialog. The entries with the pencil are normal items without additional information. This replaces the blue and black color display in Diving Log 4.0.

Easier linking

So, there’s a good chance that I can release a first alpha version mid of October. 🙂

Tags: Diving Log 5.0, Logbook, Main Window

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