Birdie
Count on it
v1.4 (coming soon):
- Added Swedish localization (thanks to Robert Lindholm).
- It's now possible to backup Birdie's data to your computer and restore the data later if necessary. Please download BirdieConnect (for Mac) or JBirdieConnect (for Windows/Linux) for free here.
- Fixed a crashing bug on the scorecard view.
- Fixed a rounding problem in course handicap calculations.
- Several minor bug and memory leak fixes.
v1.3 (09/30/08):
- Dutch localization added (thanks to Werner Van Mook).
- It's now possible to change games' names and dates.
To change a game's name or date, press the blue arrow button next to the game's name in the "Games" view. - Rotating the device to landscape now rotates a game's score card to fullscreen landscape mode.
- Improved the e-mail version of score cards. The date of the game is now included in the email's subject. The played course's name is now included in the mail. If a game has a custom name, this name is displayed in the email's subject.
- Fixed a bug which caused the "Check for Updates" button to stay in sight, even after leaving the Courses view's edit mode.
- Fixed a GUI glitch with the Par button in "On-The-Go" games.
- Fixed a rounding problem with .5 values when calculating course handicaps.
- Several minor bug and memory leak fixes.
v1.2 (09/07/08):
- Italian localization added (thanks to Antonio Damanti).
- Counter switchs now support autorepeat.
Hold the switch in position to count continuously. During autorepeat, the speed (and direction) of counting is adjustable by the switch's position. - The columns in Game Score Cards are now customizable (switch on/off, reorder).
Click on the setup button in the score card view (next to the "send by mail" button in the upper left) to open the "Score Card Setup" view. To change the order of the enabled columns in the score card, reorder the rows in the setup table. - More result option for game score card and players' summary.
There are now 8 different options:- Sco - Gross Score
- Sco - Gross Score (relative to par, e.g. -1, E, +1...)
- AGS - Adjusted Gross Score (ESC)
- CHcp - Course Handicap
- Net - Net Score
- Stb - Netto Stableford Points
- Brut - Brutto Stableford Points
- Won - Won Holes
- The players' summary (shown as text below each player's counter switch) is now customizable: It shows the results of the first four columns in the score card (as configured in the score card setup view). CHcp excluded.
- Birdie is now able to calculate "localized" course handicaps, depending on a course's location (country, continent etc.).
I.e. Birdie now calculates course handicaps on US and Mexican golf courses correctly (USGA), while still calculating according to EGA rules in Europe. - Uncompleted holes are now marked with "X" instead "--" in score cards.
- In score cards for games with more than one player, the score of a player is now automatically set to "X" if no score is set for this player and at least one other player has a score.
- When at least one score is "X" (uncompleted hole), a the sums of "Sco" and "Net" columns on a player's score card are marked as "invalid" (displayed in braces). A "X" doesn't change Sco or Net besides marking it as invalid.
- 0 Stableford points are now displayed as "-" instead of "0"
- Changed the character for "won hole" from "x" to "✓" in the "Won" column on score cards.
- An uncompleted hole can be manually set to "X" by switching the counter switch to "-" once on unchanged counters (i.e. it's not necessary to count on stroke up and then down again to 0, as before).
- The Counter on the counter view is now displayed on the left side for better usability.
- The range finder is now aware of the iPhone's current orientation.
- Improved Send score card by email: Score card table is now created with lines between rows/columns.
- Course-Updates: When searching for course data, already imported courses are marked with "Update available" if newer data is available. Select a marked course to import the updated data.
- Course-Updates: To check all imported courses for available updates, enter edit mode in the "Courses" view ("Edit" button in the upper left) and tap on the "Check for Updates" button.
- Improved localization: Standard text in course descriptions (such as "Phone" or standard tee colors) are now also localized.
- Fixed a bug which caused Birdie to allow entering scores for the second 9 holes of a 9 hole variant.
- Fixed a bug which caused a crash when trying to open games saved with v1.0.
- A bug concerning calculation of "Hole won" and canceled holes was fixed.
- Several minor bug and memory leak fixes.
v1.1 (08/05/08):
- French localization added (thanks to Robert P. Olbrechts).
- Option to manually set a player's course handicap (overwrites the automatic course handicap calculation for the player). This also comes handy in On-The-Go games where no automatic course handicap calculation is available.
To set a player's course handicap manually, click the blue arrow button on the right side of a selected player when creating a new game. Switch "Automatic Handicap" to "off" and set the manual course handicap. - Option to create an On-The-Go game based on a previously saved On-The-Go game. This copies the par and hcp data from the old game to the new.
To copy data from another On-The-Go game, click the blue arrow button on the "On-The-Go" entry when creating a new Game ("+" on the "Games" view). If there is no blue arrow button, Birdie didn't find any previously saved On-The-Go games. - Entries in the "Games" view now also display the create time (not only the date)
- Improved results sorting when searching for course data. Foreign courses are always sorted behind domestic courses.
- Birdie now also displays the country in search results.
- Fixed a bug causing the display of the wrong country in a course's address field.
- Fixed a bug causing ambiguous game names in some circumstances.
- Birdie can now display more colors. "Green" added plus "Ladie" variants for all 7 available display colors.
- Improved game score card: When automatic course handicap calculation is enabled, the player's handicap index is displayed next to his/her name in the table header.
- Improved game score card: Birdie now calculates a sum for the "Stb" column.
- Improved game score card: Birdie now always calculats results for 18 holes on 9 hole courses which solves problems with handicap calculations. The second 9 holes are calculated automatically with 2 Stableford points/hole.
- Several minor bug fixes. Improved stability in low memory situations.