I think this would be an easy to implement improvement to BeerSmith, but also high value considering how easy it would be to change - make the input fields, especially the Notes field on recipes, bigger.
Right now it looks like BeerSmith was designed in 1999 for an 800x600 resolution monitor. On my 1600x1200 monitor, the screen real estate used by BeerSmith in the recipe view is only about 60% of the screen. The Notes and Taste input boxes only fit 2 to 4 lines of text (2 for Taste, 4 for Notes) before you have to scroll. This is annoying because I often write 10+ lines of text in Notes, and sometimes 4+ in Taste. Makes it hard to review recipes quickly. The Preview view of recipes doesn't solve this problem because I often need to be able to review my notes when I'm in the recipe view tweaking recipe parameters and stuff.
Seems like increasing these field sizes would just be a tweak of a few constants in a resource file, and BeerSmith could be modernized into the 21st century My monitor is actually 5 years old, so it's not even that large anymore. New monitors today are often at 1920x1200 or larger. If you do decide to make them bigger, let me know! Thanks for a great beer program. The fact that this is the only nit-pick I have about it is a testament to its usefulness.
Right now it looks like BeerSmith was designed in 1999 for an 800x600 resolution monitor. On my 1600x1200 monitor, the screen real estate used by BeerSmith in the recipe view is only about 60% of the screen. The Notes and Taste input boxes only fit 2 to 4 lines of text (2 for Taste, 4 for Notes) before you have to scroll. This is annoying because I often write 10+ lines of text in Notes, and sometimes 4+ in Taste. Makes it hard to review recipes quickly. The Preview view of recipes doesn't solve this problem because I often need to be able to review my notes when I'm in the recipe view tweaking recipe parameters and stuff.
Seems like increasing these field sizes would just be a tweak of a few constants in a resource file, and BeerSmith could be modernized into the 21st century My monitor is actually 5 years old, so it's not even that large anymore. New monitors today are often at 1920x1200 or larger. If you do decide to make them bigger, let me know! Thanks for a great beer program. The fact that this is the only nit-pick I have about it is a testament to its usefulness.