There are just a couple of application-wide settings you can change. To adjust settings for the app:
When you select a food from the Food Database, the system will make a copy of that food in the My Food list. Often the foods in the food database have very long names, or be in an odd group of foods. Often you will find yourself editing the foods in My Foods to make the name into something more meaningful (and under 100 words). Rather than having to do this manually each time, the system can open up the food edit dialog as soon as you select the food from the food database - that way you can change the name before it goes into My Foods, and save yourself a bit of bother.
This lets you set a URL to search from when you press "Search Web" on the Food Select dialog.
This lets you load in a different database to the NUTTAB for the
Food Database. See Using Another Food Database.
Clearing this field will cause the system to use the NUTTAB again.
This opens the Details dialog
after entering a one off exercise.
This is the number of hours before the app will remind you to
update your day so far data.
This lets you configure aspects of the Home page.
Tick any entries that you want to show in the targets list (even
if that target is within the right range).
Ticking the entries in this list lets you select which targets
are shown on the history graph. The last entry ticked
will be shown with a "*" in the list, which means that will be be
first entry on the graph (and will have the graph
scale). To switch to a specific target, click that
target off then on.
The number of days for the history graph. You can use
any number with the Diary+ add on, or up to 7 in the basic
version.
The number of suggested foods/exercises to show under missing
targets. With the Diary+ add on, you can set any number, but only
1 in the basic version.
Tick this if you want the Missing Records list to show the
targets you have yet to achieve.
This lets you control how dates and numbers are displayed.
Lets you select which day the week starts on.
Lets you choose how dates are displayed (which order for
day/month/year, as well as separator).
Lets you display week day and month day names in the local system
language.
NOTE: This feature is slightly experimental, and hasn't
been tested for all languages. If you find the app
cannot understand dates you type in, then switch this off.
Display all times in 24-hour time.
The currency symbol that appears before currency values.
When numbers are greater than 1000, then split the digits into
groups of 3. For example, if this is ',', then "1010"
will be shown as "1,010". If this is '.', then "1010"
will be shown as "1.010".
What symbol is used as a decimal point.
This button sets the values on this form to match what is set for
your computer.
This just shows the full path to the database file that the system has opened.
This lets you choose whether you want to have the system save
your changes automatically, or whether you want to choose when to
save.
If you happen to be very nervous about losing any data because
you software or your computer crashes (badly) a lot, then you can
get JXCirrus Calcount to keep the last few sessions worth of data
as backups. These backup files will be stored in the app temporary
files location, but will have the extension ".bk0", ".bk1", ".bk2"
etc. "bk0" will be the most recent file. Rest assured,
JXCirrus is (so far) very good at not losing your data. If your
computer has the power disconnected most of the way through
several days of typing in everything you have eaten, the system should
remember just about everything you entered - When it starts up
next time, it will restore your partly saved session. Not saying
that things could never go wrong, especially if you have a flaky
computer, in which case, by all means, turn on the backups.
There are two buttons here:
You can put anything you like in here. You don't have to put
anything in here.
Lets you save the calorie diary file to iCloud - This control is
only available on iOS and OSX. Refer to cloud for more information.
Lets you select a different data file from you iCloud data
store. You can use this function if you have several
data files that you use, and all of them are saved to iCloud.
Lets you save the calorie diary file to a cloud share - This is
only available on Windows, Mac and Linux. Refer to cloud for more information.
Lets you select a different data file from your cloud
share. You can use this function if you have several
data files that you synchronise using your cloud share.