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by Brant
Sat Apr 05, 2008 11:17 am
Forum: BeerTools Pro General Topics
Topic: Synchronizing BTP Between Two PC's
Replies: 9
Views: 9660

Re: Synchronizing BTP Between Two PC's

With version 1.0, I carefully synced recipe files between my desktop and laptop by using the date stamps on the files to know which I needed to copy. I was just careful to not modify a recipe on one computer if I knew it had been modified on the other, but not resync-ed. That mild chaos wasn't the s...
by Brant
Sat Apr 05, 2008 11:03 am
Forum: BeerTools Pro Feature Requests
Topic: Ready to talk about inventory feature a bit.
Replies: 22
Views: 43557

This guy had it right. Hey, I thought that quote you posted sounded familiar to me. ;) What I think you are desiring is a temporary way to alter the inventory amounts in the ingredients list as based on the recipes you plan to make. I will give this more thought. It may make sense to add another co...
by Brant
Wed Feb 14, 2007 8:22 am
Forum: BeerTools Pro General Topics
Topic: Help changing gravity.
Replies: 13
Views: 19569

Re: That's not petty ...

... it is very frustrating to not at least receive a simple acknowledgment There are a lot of things that have come up here that seem to have fallen between the cracks. Sometimes I feel like I/we/all of us should post a reminder or two, but I also don't want to be an asshole about getting things fi...
by Brant
Tue Feb 13, 2007 11:20 am
Forum: BeerTools Pro General Topics
Topic: decoction mashing
Replies: 13
Views: 25584

Fixed!

Cool, Jeff. I literally had just typed the following, and hit the Preview button and noticed your post a second ago. FYI for the archives, the problem discussed in this thread have been fixed in v1.0.20. Thanks, Jeff! I tested it, and it works for me now. Thanks again for fixing this pretty minor, b...
by Brant
Sat Feb 03, 2007 9:33 pm
Forum: BeerTools Pro General Topics
Topic: decoction mashing
Replies: 13
Views: 25584

Thanks for looking into this to confirm that I'm not crazy -- or at least, if I am crazy, then I'm not alone! ;) I don't think we want to document the work-around to a bug in the long-term wiki docs. But just in case it still isn't clear to anyone setting up a decoction, in order for the remainder o...
by Brant
Sat Jan 27, 2007 8:41 am
Forum: BeerTools Pro Feature Requests
Topic: Feature Requests Archive A
Replies: 267
Views: 859006

From a message Lathe posted last night, it looks like Inventory and Session recording are being actively worked on, which is really cool! I'd definitely make use of those features, and I look forward to seeing them. I think they will have more appeal to more users than my requested decoction (or tur...
by Brant
Sat Jan 27, 2007 8:17 am
Forum: BeerTools Pro General Topics
Topic: Ingredient Browser looses focus when item is added
Replies: 6
Views: 8787

I'm using XP, and it's worse that you describe on my PC. The Ingredient Browser windows does *not* lose focus when I click the Add button. However, it shuffles behind the BTP session window. Press the Tab key a few times and notice which window the "active" button goes through -- the Ingre...
by Brant
Fri Jan 26, 2007 10:35 pm
Forum: BeerTools Pro Feature Requests
Topic: Feature Requests Archive A
Replies: 267
Views: 859006

Re percentages: That wasn't one of my better feature suggestions. It has a lot of whiz bang, but probably not enough usefulness to be worth it. I guess the best feature it would provide is a quick way to drag the mass of a grain higher and lower quickly, but without much usefulness for entering grai...
by Brant
Thu Jan 25, 2007 9:06 pm
Forum: BeerTools Pro Feature Requests
Topic: Feature Requests Archive A
Replies: 267
Views: 859006

Re: Just a thought on percentage grists ...

That's what I was thinking. The amounts (in mass) of all of the other grains would remain unchanged, while the amount (in mass) of the one your sliding would go up/down accordingly. That would result in proportionally lower percentages as you increase the slidebar, and higher as you decrease it. Now...
by Brant
Thu Jan 25, 2007 8:30 am
Forum: BeerTools Pro Feature Requests
Topic: Feature Requests Archive A
Replies: 267
Views: 859006

Re: Just a thought on percentage grists ...

Wouldn't it be cool if we could just click the bar graph in the Proportion column, and slide the end right or left to raise/lower the percentage of that grain? Jeff is probably calling me nasty names right now. ;)
by Brant
Wed Jan 24, 2007 7:32 pm
Forum: BeerTools Pro General Topics
Topic: decoction mashing
Replies: 13
Views: 25584

Yes, it is a very good article, and attaching the example file was genius! But I read it and loaded your example file before I re-posted my questions. Your sample file has the same problem as mine. Your Mashtun and Decoction Pot vessels' "Heat Transfer Coefficients" aren't as far apart as ...
by Brant
Sun Jan 21, 2007 5:36 pm
Forum: BeerTools Pro General Topics
Topic: decoction mashing
Replies: 13
Views: 25584

Bump -- I want to revisit this unresolved problem, because I'm trying to setup another decoction recipe, and my #1 above is still bugging me. Is it a bug that the vessel becomes the decoction kettle instead of my cooler mash tun for the rest of the mash? Or am I setting up the decoction step incorre...
by Brant
Sat Jan 20, 2007 9:53 pm
Forum: BeerTools Pro General Topics
Topic: Equipment Profile and Calibration
Replies: 8
Views: 11930

The good news is that the probe was ruined during the calibration, rather than during a mash. Imagine mashing at 20* cooler than you thought you were -- and yes, I very nearly did that once before I quit using that type of thermometer.
by Brant
Sat Jan 20, 2007 5:56 pm
Forum: BeerTools Pro General Topics
Topic: Equipment Profile and Calibration
Replies: 8
Views: 11930

I hate to say it, but I think you have fried the probe wire on your digital thermometer. If you aren't using such a device, then I'm wrong. But if you are, then the steam in the tun has allowed too much moisture to enter the junction where the wire enters the metal probe. Speaking from several insta...
by Brant
Wed Jan 17, 2007 8:36 am
Forum: BeerTools Pro Feature Requests
Topic: What do you want to see in an inventory feature?
Replies: 41
Views: 108748

What I've been trying to say is that I think the inventory db and the default delivery db should be totally separate, regarding both the user interface, and possibly (depending on the db's architecture), the internal storage. So, there would be only one Amarillo entry in the delivery database at any...