Presenting Brewer's Aid

[tikidays]

Kia Ora!

Wanted to share my very first application after discovering Purebasic back in November last year. Very much enjoying Purebasic and it gave me my programming bug back.

The app is called Brewer's Aid. I am still testing it and ironing out some bugs, it looks pretty in MacOS, and once released I will work on the Windows version, this will need a little work to tidy up the GUI where MacOS uses transparency natively, it appears windows doesn't.



A new simple tool for the beginner or intermediate all grain home brewer. Brewer's Aid will allow you to create your brew recipe in a easy chronological order of tasks. You can set alarms at each step and when you start the brew, Brewer's Aid will count down and alert you to the next task in your All Grain or Extract brewing process. A Pale Ale All Grain example recipe is included. You can also select to use Imperial or Metric units of measure. Enjoy brewing with the peace of mind you haven't missed a step.

You can view screenshots and details here. https://www.tikidays.co.nz/home/brewer-s-aid

[Mindphazer]

Hi,
your app looks nice !

Just remove the final point in the URL you gave, or it will lead to a 404 error

[idle]

cheers

[tikidays]

So many things are broken compiling for Windows it's a bit overwhelming, for some reason PANELGADGET isnt working the same, no GADGETS added to them shows, all the transparency in images are replaced with black, TEXTGADGETS dont support transparency nor do IMAGEGADGETS. This will take weeks to sort out.

[jacdelad]

Be aware that at least your TextGadget and ImageGadget are caused by Windows itself. TextGadgets generally don't support transparency without subckassing and ownerdrawing. Look at ChrisR's ObjectColor module for a fabulous solution.

[tikidays]

Be aware that at least your TextGadget and ImageGadget are caused by Windows itself.

I do understand that, it just means I have to put additional effort it to get it on par with the MacOS build, thanks for the tip with ChrisR's ObjectColor module I will check it out and see if I can rescue the situation.

[Fred]

We didn't want restrict built in transparency on macOS, but yes usually Windows app doesn't have this, so the easiest is probaly to disable for Windows apps. Having pixel perfect apps accross OS is hard to achieve unless you use an OS independent UI renderer like WebViewGadget().

[ChrisR]

Be aware that at least your TextGadget and ImageGadget are caused by Windows itself. TextGadgets generally don't support transparency without subckassing and ownerdrawing. Look at ChrisR's ObjectColor module for a fabulous solution.

Thanks a lot jacdelad to show it
But if you don't mind, it's probably better to use the last one ObjectTheme, rather than ObjectColor, ObjectTheme is more accomplished, customizable and it performs better.

[ChrisR]

We didn't want restrict built in transparency on macOS, but yes usually Windows app doesn't have this, so the easiest is probaly to disable for Windows apps. Having pixel perfect apps accross OS is hard to achieve unless you use an OS independent UI renderer like WebViewGadget().

I haven't had a chance to play with WebViewGadget() yet.
Does anyone have a little more complete example than the one shared for 6.10 beta1 (string, radio, checkbox..), such as a Bootstrap example, with html, css and JavaScript? To give us a good starting point.

[jacdelad]

Thanks a lot jacdelad to show it
But if you don't mind, it's probably better to use the last one ObjectTheme, rather than ObjectColor, ObjectTheme is more accomplished, customizable and it performs better.

Yes, yes, of course I meant ObjectTheme. It's great, but unfortunately limited to windows, which is not ChrisR's fault.

[ChrisR]

Cheers and by the way Brewer'aid looks great, I hope you'll be able to port it to Windows.