1.)
I only put in $2 worth, and this thing thinks that's the "per gallon" price!
2.)
No, I swear. Gas is more than $5 a gallon right now.
3.)
Wait, it's a new car. I have less than 1000 miles, for real. That's not how many miles I've gone on this tank. It's the odometer reading! (Aren't you getting tired of these?)
4.)
Aren't you getting tired of these weird edge cases?
1.)
I only put in $2 worth, and this thing thinks that's the "per gallon" price!
There's a really easy way to fix this. When your tank runs you less than, for now, about seven bucks, just enter the price per gallon here instead of the total tank price. Sound fair? So if gas is $3.20 a gallon, and you put in $1.75 because you forgot your wallet and managed to find seven quarters rolling around on the floorboard, put $3.20 on the price line for price per gallon, and .547 for your gallons, like you would anyhow. Sound good?
PumpPro is trying to make data entry easier. Too many of these apps have different text boxes for each of these values when, with a little work, you can often figure it out yourself. This is one of the nastier "holes" in that logic, but, ultimately, I hope you'll find this is a more elegant solution than the wacky UIs you see in other apps.
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2.)
No, I swear. Gas is more than $5 a gallon right now.
Well, you've got me again. That's hard-coded in version 1 of PumpPro. If the price per gallon is over $5, you're in trouble unless it gradually crept up to that amount. If you start cold, $5 is PumpPro's rule of thumb.
So if you're finding it's telling you that's a tank worth of fuel but you want it to be a unit of volumne, I'm sorry. Enter in how much the total cost was and the proper volume of your fill-up, and when you hit five tanks, PumpPro will finally believe you and stop yelling. Honest!
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3.)
Wait, it's a new car. I have less than 1000 miles, for real. That's not how many miles I've gone on this tank. It's the odometer reading! (Aren't you getting tired of these?)
You got me again. If you've got less than 1000 miles on your car, you're probably going to have problems having PumpPro guess if you're entering one tank's worth of distance or your odometer reading. Once you're safely over 1000 miles, it should let you enter your odometer reading directly.
If you wouldn't mind, email us when this happens too, just for fun.
PumpPro@rufwork.com
Oh, and congrats on the new car, you lucky dog!
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4.)
Aren't you getting tired of these weird edge cases?
Not really. This is what makes programming interesting, even with an app that initially seemed as sweet, inoculous, and innocent as this one. Fooled me.