Selecting a Food/Exercise

This dialog is used to either select a food or an exercise (depending on which one you are adding to the diary).

Search

Start typing into this field, and the food/exercise list below will only show those items that contain the text that you types. For example, typing "corn" in here will show everything with "corn" in the name.

Clearing this field will show everything.

If there is nothing shown in the list, that means that it couldn't find anything that matched. If you are searching for food, the search dialog will automatically switch to the food database if it couldn't find the food in My Foods (this does not happen for exercise).

The Food/Exercise List

This shows the matching foods for the search. To use a food, click on it in the list.

Add

This adds a brand new food (or exercise) - Use this if you can't find what you are looking for. It opens the Food Edit Dialog.

Web

This works almost the same as "Add New Food/Add New Exercise", with a slight twist... Your web browser will pop up with your favourite search engine or an online calorie counter that you are signed up to...

The first time you use this:

  1. You will be prompted to use your web browser to go to the place you usually search for foods/calories online. This could be:
    1. Google/Bing/Your favourite search engine.
    2. An online calorie database.

    Go to the place where you usually search for foods (but don't actually start a search).

  2. Copy the URL from the address bar in your browser, and paste it into the field supplied by JXCirrus CalCount...

From now on, when you select "Search Internet", it will open up your browser at that page...

Now...

  1. Do the search online.
  2. Once you have found the food, highlight the section of the web page that lists all of the values (calories and the like) and press Ctrl-C.
  3. Flip back to JXCirrus CalCount - You should now be able to see the Food Edit Dialog, but there will be a large empty field with text telling you to paste the text from web page. Click on this field and press Ctrl-V to paste in the values that you just found on the internet.
  4. You don't have to copy the values - This field is there so that you can copy the values over and be able to see them without needing to flip between your browser and CalCount. If you have 2 screens or can see your browser and CalCount at the same time, then skip steps 2, 3 and 4.
  5. Copy the values from the web page into the various calorie fields.