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Meanwhile, the source icon files are designed with an alpha channel that supports a full spectrum of partial transparency (translucency) from 0% to 100%. For some as-yet-unknown reason, the list and tree widgets only support full transparency (i.e., a pixel is either solid or invisible). Let’s investigate…Īfter some experimentation, I realized this was an issue with transparency support. That’s the joy of customization! More to the point, in most cases within BeerSmith, it’s not a question of the icons’ quality, but with how they’re displayed or how they scale to smaller sizes. It’s a real possibility that my taste is horrible and I’m making everything objectively worse. So, what else is there to do but spend hours customizing its look? Modding is Life!īefore I get into the details, I do want to be clear that I’m not out to disparage BeerSmith’s stock icons. For many of BeerSmith’s icons, it’s obvious that time and care went into designing them, but some compounding issues with the overall implementation can unfortunately detract from a very capable tool.īut, I was happy with BeerSmith otherwise. While a flashy interface is secondary to what’s under the hood, there’s still something to be said for user experience and how icon design can help or hinder a software’s workflow. If you’ve heard two things about BeerSmith, the second is probably a criticism of its outdated UI. If you’ve heard one thing about BeerSmith, it’s probably that it’s powerful. My first impression was one that I’ve seen echoed elsewhere: I had always heard good things about its capability, I liked its one-time licensing option, and its local installation / local recipe storage guaranteed that I could keep everything around for as long as I wanted to use it (Note: BeerSmith does have cloud storage options for convenience, as well).
As a casual brewer, I was averse to anything subscription-based, but I was also hesitant to spend time porting recipes into a free service that could go the way of BrewToad and … well, croak.Įnter BeerSmith.
Since the demise of BrewToad last December, I’ve been in the market for a new brewing software. See the list at the bottom of this page for more information on which artists helped make BIER possible. Note: Many of the icons in the BIER Add-On are either from or inspired by The Noun Project, a creative commons resource for royalty free icons. Please let me know if you try it out on additional platforms with success or failure!
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(Thanks /u/SlayterDevAgain from reddit for Mac install instructions!)Ĭompatability: BIER was designed for the Windows version of BeerSmith 3 and has been tested on Windows 7 and Windows 10. Backup the current “icons” folder there, then copy the icons folder you downloaded to this location.
You’ll need to replace the existing “icons” subdirectory in the process, so you may wish to back them up first to give you the option of easily returning to the stock UI.
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For Windows, extract the “icons” folder in the zip file to your BeerSmith directory (which is usually located at “C:\Program Files (x86)\BeerSmith3\icons\”).Follow the directions below according to your platform:
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I’ve organized them by major topic, and they are all available for free to enjoy:
So I spent the weekend indexing the roughly 360 articles from my blog over the last 12 years. With so many of us in some form of lock-down, I thought I might offer my fellow brewers some light reading to pass the time.
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