Modal item edit frames
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 12:00 pm
Dunno if the lingo has changed in the last ten years, back when I was learning about this stuff, we called them "modal dialog boxes"- when they are open, you cannot click anywhere else in the window.
The item edit boxes (what you get if you double-click an ingredient or vessel) are modal. When the item edit box is open, you cannot click anywhere else. That's pretty annoying for two reasons:
1- I cannot read the extended ingredient description text any other way (mousing over doesn't seem to make a tooltip with the long description)
2- I cannot "fudge" the heat calibration data on my vessels by changing the numbers in the editor and watching the schedule change in a recipe (since I have to be on the "vessels" tab to open the editor). I've definitely noticed that my brew day reality (as measured with a good thermometer) does not match the predicted behaviors indicated by the calibration routine. Rather than worry about that, I just fudge the heat capacity and bleed off values so that the schedule hits my expectations in terms of strike temperature and temp after a 60 minute rest.
The item edit boxes (what you get if you double-click an ingredient or vessel) are modal. When the item edit box is open, you cannot click anywhere else. That's pretty annoying for two reasons:
1- I cannot read the extended ingredient description text any other way (mousing over doesn't seem to make a tooltip with the long description)
2- I cannot "fudge" the heat calibration data on my vessels by changing the numbers in the editor and watching the schedule change in a recipe (since I have to be on the "vessels" tab to open the editor). I've definitely noticed that my brew day reality (as measured with a good thermometer) does not match the predicted behaviors indicated by the calibration routine. Rather than worry about that, I just fudge the heat capacity and bleed off values so that the schedule hits my expectations in terms of strike temperature and temp after a 60 minute rest.