Re: [Bluemusic-users] Re: Line object in 0.94.0 beta 14

[steven yi <ste...@cs...>]

Hi Mario,

Glad to hear you're enjoying blue!  It's always nice to know other 
people are finding blue useful in their own musical work.  ^_^

As for the bug, it is my fault; I have the code set to technically set 
the value as float, but because I made an error in setting up the Object 
type for the column as an Integer, it won't allow anything but 
integers.  I have published a beta 14a to fix this bug (uploading now, 
should be available in the next ten minutes).  Thanks very much for the 
bug report and apologies for not testing this soundObject well enough!

As for line/curve/random features, it should be possible, just a matter 
of spending time to implement it. I'll try to get it in the next 
release; if you could, it'd be great if you could report it as a RFE 
(Request for Feature Enhancement) on the Sourceforge page for blue 
(accessible from the help menu as "Request a Feature".  You'll need a 
SourceForge account to add a request (they're free!), so no worries if 
you don't want to do that, but it's very helpful for me to keep track of 
what I should prioritize.  (The LineObject itself was a RFE by Andres 
Cabrera!)

Editing cecilia code is feasible but with some reservations; I had 
worked it out in my head to allow this, but I had not yet implemented.  
The idea is that it would behave like the BlueSynthBuilder in that there 
would be an edit mode toggle.  If you edit, then switch back, it'd parse 
to see if the input was valid for the interface, if so, to see what 
objects may have been removed and remove values stored for those 
objects, and then add default versions of new objects.  Hopefully I will 
be able to spend more time on CeciliaModule in the next week or two, so 
I will keep this request in mind when working on it.

Thanks for reporting the bugs and for the feedback!
steven

Mario Pantin wrote:

> Hi Steven,
>
> I have been using Blue for some time now, and find it an amazing 
> composition environment, thanks so much for your work!
>
> I was very happy to see that the new beta was posted yesterday. As 
> Peiman already mentioned (hi peiman!) in beta 13 it was not possible 
> in the new line object to edit the max and min values of the lines, 
> nor their names. I found myself having to manually edit the .blue 
> generated code in a text editor in order to edit these values. I am 
> using Blue in a WinXP pc.
>
> Unfortunately, the problem persists somehow in beta 14. It is now 
> possible to edit the line name and the max and min values, but only if 
> you enter integer values. Blue would not let me input floats in these 
> fields.
>
> A request: would it be possible to incorporate some line, curve and 
> random generating functions into the line object, a la Cecilia?
>
> Also, It would be great if it was possible to directly edit cecilia 
> code withi n Blue. Is this feasible?
>
> Again, thanks so much for your work developing this amazing program.
>
> Regards,
> Mario Pantin
>
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